Biography
Tiffany J. Johnson is a television director. She trained in the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women, where she directed the short film Marabou. Her first short, Ladylike, a collaboration with Nicholas P. Williams, screened at multiple festivals and won the Director’s Choice Award at the Diversity in Cannes showcase.
Johnson has directed episodes of Poker Face (2023), Wonder Man (2026), Hunters (2020), Dear White People (2017–2021), Black Monday (2019–2021), Mike (2022) and The Big Cigar (2024). She also directed the short series Girls Room (2020) and the film The Beauty of Blackness (2022).
She received the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for an episode of How to Die Alone (2024) and was nominated for the same award in 2022 for an episode of Black Monday.
