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Je' Caryous Johnson (born May 26, 1977) is an American stage and film producer, author, playwright and director known for his Off-Broadway stage productions in the urban theater circuit. He is also known for his work of adapting stage plays from various classic urban novels such as Michael Baisden's books Men Cry in the Dark (2002) and Maintenance Man (2003) and Eric Jerome Dickey's Friends and Lovers (2004). He has also adapted films such as Two Can Play That Game (2017), Set It Off (2018) and New Jack City (2022). Johnson is the author of the urban fiction novel Men, Money, and Gold Diggers, is a four-time national championship playwright, and became an honoree recipient of the NAACP Trailblazer Award in 2007.^[1]

Je'Caryous has also been acknowledged as the first producer to adapt an African-American romance novel into a stage theater production.^{[citation needed]}