#TheSummitNYC: A Do-Over, hosted by Rising Circle Theatre Collective

SPECTRUM SERIES PRESENTS
#TheSummitNYC

A DO-OVER

Hosted by Rising Circle Theatre Collective
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WHEN: Monday, April 21st @ 7pm
WHERE: Shetler Studio Penthouse I – 244 West 54th St NYC 10019
WHO: Join NYC's artists and artistic leaders at this Industry Mixer as we come together to celebrate Diversity, Art and Community. 
Representatives from the NY Theater community include Classical Theater of Harlem, 2G, New York Theater Workshop, Asian American Arts Alliance, AAPAC-Asian American Performers Action Coalition, Theatre 167, Leviathan Lab, Jewish Plays Project, Hybrid Theatre Works, Luna Stage, and Young Jean Lee's Theater Co.
WHY: We are hearing a lot about why there is a seeming lack of diversity in the American Theater today, most recently at the The Summit in DC. Here in New York City, we have a plethora of incredibly talented and diverse artists. Let's engage in conversation together, brainstorm solutions based on our current challenges together, celebrate who we are together. There is strength in numbers. Let's use that strength to deepen our work, engage our audiences, and foster community. As is tradition, there will be food and drink!

Ariel Estrada
Actor | Producer | Graphic Designer | Grant Writer Ariel is an actor, singer, producer, and Executive Director of Leviathan Lab, a creative studio for Asian American performing artists. Under Leviathan Lab, he has produced acting and writing salons, cabarets, fundraising events, staged readings, showcase productions, and short films – including a critically acclaimed 2011 production of TWELFTH NIGHT, starring Obie-award winning actor Jojo Gonzalez, and directed by Nelson T. Eusebio III (Assistant Director under Daniel Sullivan, The Public/NYSF 2011; Lincoln Center Directors Lab), with music by Jason Ma (Broadway: MISS SAIGON, THE SLY FOX, SHOGUN THE MUSICAL). In 2012, Ariel served as Executive Producer for Leviathan Lab’s multiple-award winning short film TWO WEEKS (Featured Film, 2013 Screen Actors Guild Shorts Showcase; Winner, 2013 Film Festival Flix Short Film Competition; Winner, Best Ensemble, 2013 Asians on Film Festival; Award of Merit: Asian American, Best Shorts Competition (December 2013); and Official Selection, 20th Annual Filipino American Cine Festival, (December 2013). As Executive Director, Ariel has secured two consecutive grants (2012, 2013) from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for his work with Leviathan Lab, as well as for the international award-winning men’s barbershop chorus Voices of Gotham (2013) and for Empire City Men’s Chorus (2013). Ariel served as both a performer and Executive Producer of Leviathan Lab's first LMCC-supported project, MIGRATION NATION, which took ten new short plays inspired by the experiences of Filipina overseas contract workers, and assembled them into a three day, site-specific, immersive theatre event at the Tribeca brownstone/artists collective Space on White. For Leviathan's second LMCC-supported project in 2013, Ariel served as Executive Producer, Assistant Teaching Artist, and Performer for their Chinatown Kids' Playbuilding Project (JOURNEY TO THE WORLD OF PLAYWRITING), which took plays created through a 10-week workshop with the 5th grade students of P.S. 124, and produced them using the adult professional actors and directors of Leviathan Lab. Leviathan was also a 2011 resident artist at Space on White, and was recently selected for the 2013 Artists-in Residence program at University Settlement. As an actor and singer, Ariel has performed on television, film, commercials, industrials, new media, and on, Off, and Off-Off Broadway. You can visit his IMDB page here. Ariel is also an accomplished, Fortune 500 level graphic designer. To view his design portfolio, please visit arielestradadesign.com.
www.arielestrada.com
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