Agent Red has been performing and directing theater and video since a young age, and studied video and film arts through college in Los Angeles, CA. While attending film school, Red took up hip-hop dancing and competed at local and regional events, becoming the first female member of the outrageous hip-hop comedy group, DC Juicy, performing at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, Studio 54, and 40 Duece in LAs Vegas. She realized it was much closer to her heart to persue forms of media and performance outside of the Hollywood Media Industry. Creative and resourceful by nature, Agent Red soon began collaborating with other highly talented artists after college, garnering valuable experience in Performance Art, and Event Production, as well as further endeavors in Creative Direction and Media. As a founding member of the Lucent Dossier Experience, her first instinctive pairing was to team Lucent up with Director Shane Drake's crew for the Panic! at the Disco "I write Sins, Not Tragedies" video. The video earned MTV video of the year in 2006 and was a major achievement for the Band, the Director, and the Performers. It was one of the first of what is now a wave of theatrical music and performance tours. She performed internationally and in the States for the next few years, styled and created costumes, performed as a dancer, aerialist and singer, and assisted in creative direction. Red's creativity was one of the driving forces behind the interactive nature of the Lucent Dossier interactive experience, a style that is now seen across the globe. Perpetually ahead of the game, Agent Red always has new tricks and ideas up her sleeve In 2009, Agent Red left her Los Angeles home to join forces with Art Seen Alliance and re-invent Art Outside: a small event then held at the beloved Enchanted Forest in Austin, Texas.
Today, Art Outside is the largest and most diverse festival in Texas, transformed into a full weekend of camping, art, music and mind-blowing performance with Agent Red as one of the producers and the main music and performance buyer and curator for the last three years.
Since splitting her time in Austin and LA, Agent Red has collaborated with C3, SXSW, Transmission, The Art Department, and Art Seen Alliance, cultivating an impressive portfolio of clients, projects and events, both as a breath-taking performer and unstoppable producer. A nearly fatal accident during an aerial performance at the end of 2010 decisively led her to further pursue her talents as a creative producer and artist representative (donate to medical here). Her first-hand experience affords invaluable insight as she began representing a truly unique group of artists unlike anyone else.
Authentic communication and a down-to-earth-but-bigger-than-life personality naturally puts this seasoned performer in the seat of instructor, facilitator, mentor; applying her skills in choreography and production in scenarios of all kinds. Crash Alchemy, Viva Variety, Smirnoff "Be There" Austin, Chroma, and her newest experiential endeavor, Clever Maven.
 Sarah Johnston, aka Agent Red, has been a performer since as early as the age of 8, when she began performing in schools and at county fairs. After winning Best Student Director in her High School Theater Department, she went on to earn 4 degrees in the field of Arts & Entertainment:
She hopes to help empower individuals to their own potential by encouraging them to interact with and experience art. Creation. Entertainment becomes inspiration. Benevolent Propaganda :)
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