Happy Opening to Christine Toy Johnson in Warrior's Journey's TOUGH TITTY by Oni Faida Lampley

Written By Ariel Estrada

Congratulations to actor, playwright, activist and National Library of Congress inductee Christine Toy Johnson for her upcoming opening on Sunday, April 27th of Emmy-award winner Andre Braugher, Ami Brabson, and Warrior's Journey LLC's production of the New York premiere of TOUGH TITTY by the late, award-winning playwright Oni Faida Lampley at the Paradise Factory!

$2 of each ticket sold at PREVIEW PERFORMANCES APRIL 23-26 benefits Susan G. Komen Greater NYC. Komen CEO Linda Tantawi will participate in a POST-SHOW TALKBACK on APRIL 26. Komen Greater NYC is working to save lives and eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by funding local breast health programs for medically underserved women and research to find the cures.

For tickets, show times, and more information about the show, visit their SmartTix website at http://tinyurl.com/lo2u8ol.

ABOUT THE SHOW
Directed by Awoye Timpo, the New York premiere of award-winning playwright Oni Faida Lampley's TOUGH TITTY is poignant and funny exploration of what comes next for a Brooklyn mother diagnosed with breast cancer. Eat healthy, workout and think positive thoughts! When Angela's routine cannot keep breast cancer at bay, she must learn to face the disease, her family and her community with equal doses of tenacity and humor. Richly emotional, TOUGH TITTY is a boisterous exploration of one woman's willful search for grace. 

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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