[5] Salt Baby was Johnson's first play and focused on the story of an Indigenous women navigating the differences between 'rez life' and the city.
[8] This play is rooted in the history of the 1995 occupation of the Ipperwash Provincial Park and focuses on the relationship of two cousins and kinship ties.
[9] Ipperwash also marked Johnson's debut as a director and was created by working with member of the Stony Point Ojibway community.
[5] Johnson is currently working with Soulpepper Theatre on a play about the life of residential school survivor and artist Shirley Horn.
[10] Johnson co-hosts the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast, Secret Life of Canada with Leah-Simone Bowen.