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Jahleel E. Johnson is a young actor from Willingboro, NJ, who attends UNC School of the Arts (UNCSA). He has been acting since the age of three, and his expansive l passion for his craft is both authentic & personable. Having performed both on screen and on the stage, Jahleel loves to be out of his comfort zone and learn about himself as a person through his art. With the unlikely start as Travis in a community production of A Raisin In The Sun in 2010, Jahleel became infatuated with performing arts, especially storytelling in intimate spaces. From there, Jahleel went on to take on roles that showcased his talents in conveying the human experience in a variety of plays and films. Jahleel is particularly interested in burning generationally ingrained stereotypes by exposing the diversity of the human experience regardless of race, sexual orientation, or gender. Within this challenge, he finds his purpose. Jahleel works to be an artist of influence and strives to be an Artist that generations can look up to. Most recently, Jahleel was a lead in a feature film titled Unplugged, where he played a young, educated HBCU student named Che who aligns directly with Jahleel’s mission. This school year alone, Jahleel played Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and will play Pandarus in Troilus & Cressida, along with Pischik/Passerby in Cherry Orchard.