Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
Unfortunately the movie The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is not yet available on HBO Max.
Production | Mark Blane | Associate Producer |
Writing | Mark Blane | Writer |
Writing | David France | Writer |
Directing | David France | Director |
Camera | Adam Uhl | Director of Photography |
Art | James O'Donnell | Production Design |
Camera | Tom Bergmann | Director of Photography |
Editing | Tyler H. Walk | Editor |
Sound | Bryce Dessner | Original Music Composer |
Directing | Mark Blane | Second Unit Director |
Production | Andrew Tobias | Associate Producer |