Trevecca alum makes it to the Saturday Night Live Stage
By Grace Beckner
James Austin Johnson, pictured fourth from left, during the opening of "Saturday Night Live"
When Zachary Swafford, a senior vocal performance major, first heard the news, he was rehearsing for Trevecca’s production of the musical Freaky Friday.
“We were at rehearsal, and they had announced that [James Austin Johnson] was going to be a new face on SNL,” said Swafford.
One of Swafford’s professors told the group there was going to be a Trevecca alumni on Saturday Night Live, but Swafford had no idea that alum would be the first person he would see when the show opened--doing an impression of President Joe Biden, no less.
Johnson starred in the opening sketch of his SNL debut on Oct. 2. He co-starred in three other sketches that night.
“We just thought th...