Christine Toy Johnson, Thom Sesma, Ali Ewoldt, Jose Llana, Ann Harada, Telly Leung and More Set for The Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre on May 19, 2013

In celebration of Asian Heritage month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee of Actors’ Equity Association and ReImagined World Entertainment will present the debut of “The Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project”, an evening of works created and sung by Asian American theatre artists. The free 90-minute concert will take place on Sunday, May 19 at 8 p.m. at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42 St. in New York.
Featuring original words and music by Adam Gwon, Timothy Huang, Christine Toy Johnson, Leon Ko, Felice Kuan, Robert Lee, Yan Li, and Jason Ma, the event will be directed by Alan Muraoka and emceed by Ann Harada (CINDERELLA).

Singers will include Jose Llana (HERE LIES LOVE, SPELLING BEE), Ali Ewoldt (THE FANTASTICKS, LES MISERABLES), Telly Leung (GODSPELL, RENT), Christine Toy Johnson (THE MUSIC MAN, HELLO, DOLLY!), Thom Sesma (THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’, THE LION KING), Joshua dela Cruz (HERE LIES LOVE), Ann Sanders (AVENUE Q), Daniel J. Edwards (ANYTHING GOES), Raymond J. Lee (ANYTHING GOES), Cindy Cheung, Brooke Ishibashi, Brian Jose, Karl Josef Co, Jaygee Macapugay, Marc de la Cruz, Joanne Javien, Gyu Jin Lim, Helen Park, Diane Phelan and Hansel Tan.

Tickets are free, but seating is limited. Please RSVP to EEO@actorsequity.org before Friday, May 17.

The Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project was founded by librettist/lyricist/actor Christine Toy Johnson in 2012 as an ongoing initiative to increase the visibility of Asian American theatre artists, putting to rest the misconception that we do not exist. The artists taking part in this event have collectively performed in over 40 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, have had their works produced around the world, and have been participants in The BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, The Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU.

This performance of the Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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Lia Chang

Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. She is a Signature Theatre alumni who was in the cast of Sam Shepard’s Chicago, during his Signature 1996-1997 Playwright-in-Residence Season. Lia is headed for the National Black Theatre Festival this summer to reprise her role as Carole Barbara in Lorey Hayes’ Power Play with Pauletta Pearson Washington, Roscoe Orman, Lorey Hayes, Marcus Naylor and Penwah.
All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2013 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachangpr@gmail.com

Composer/Lyricist Timothy Huang Launches Rockethub.com Crowd Funding Project for New Musical ‘Costs of Living’

Award-winning composer/lyricist Timothy Huang (The View from Here, And the Earth Moved) has launched a Rockethub.com crowd funding campaign for a workshop of his latest passion project, a new musical called Costs of Living.

Huang was inspired to create Costs of Living after reading Night and Day, an article which appeared in the New York Times in 2009, that tells the story of two immigrant cab drivers who take opposite shifts off the same medallion. While the day shift driver (Eng) encounters successes, his night shift partner (Chin) continues to encounter obstacles until the two find themselves on opposite sides of an ever widening gap and in a dangerous escalation that leaves one dead and the other brutalized. It is, at its heart, a human story, an American story and a cautionary tale lending voice to the unspoken dangers of freedom without social consciousness or oversight. It is a story of love and country, resilience and responsibility, the price of freedom and the costs of living.

Timothy Huang

“The last ten years of my career have been about finding ways to make the things that move me move other people,” said Huang. “And with tremendous support and feedback from the Asian American community and the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop (where this project originated) I feel like Costs of Living has found a unique balance. It is a musical that isn’t afraid to tell a story of social significance, or allow music to transcend language, but most of all it is unafraid to tell an American story employing people who look like me that isn’t necessarily about people who look like me.”

A finalist for the 2012 American Harmony Prize, Huang’s Costs of Living was invited to participate in the 2012 ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, hosted and juried by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical, Once on This Island) and Andrew Lippa (Wild Party,Charlie Brown, John & Jen), and was featured in the New York Times Cityroom Blog in March.

Huang shared, “My producing team and I hope to develop Costs of Living with two readings, the first on September 19th, behind closed doors and at the table, to get feedback from my performers and my director. With these notes I will go back and do a second round of rewrites and present them to you at the second presentation, which will be public, in either October or November. The money I’m raising now will fuel both presentations so that I can present the best possible version to you.”

Costs of Living – a musical, is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Costs of Living – a musical must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Click here to learn more about Huang’s exciting new work and how you can be instrumental in taking it to the next level.

Timothy Huang is a composer, lyricist, and playwright living in New York City. His full length musicals include Costs of Living (2012 American Harmony Prize finalist) And the Earth Moved (Finalist, NMTN’s New Voices Prize), Death and Lucky (MacDowell fellowship), LINES: A Song Cycle (NYMF 2008). Huang is the composer/lyricist of the award winning one-person musical The View From Here (cast album recorded by Shonn Wiley and available on iTunes). Other works include: Timothy Huang: Chinese or Crazy? (NYTB at the D-Lounge), Crossing Over (National Asian Artists’ Project “Discover: New Musicals”), 2 to Wakefield (York 4@15 with UC Irvine), Short Story Long: The Songs of Timothy Huang (York Theater, NEO Spotlight Series), Missing Karma (Prospect Theatre) and A Relative Relationship (BMI Musical Theater Workshop).

Huang has been a regular participant in TNT Music’s Are You Working On Something New concert series at Don’t Tell Mama and his song Everything I Do You Do, with (co-lyricist Sara Wordsworth) was recorded by Sutton Foster and Stephanie Bast for the album Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project (amazon.com, Barnes and Noble et al) Huang was listed as one of TaiwaneseAmerican.org’s “100 Passionate People,” holds an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU/Tisch GMTWP, is a member of the Musical Theater lab at BMI and a proud fellow of the MacDowell artist colony. www.timothyhuang.net

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Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist.
All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2012 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachangpr@gmail.com

Lia Chang: Christine Toy Johnson, Jaygee Macapugay, Jon Norman Schneider to perform in National Asian Artists Project: Discover: New Musicals at 47th Street Theatre on May 23

Christine Toy Johnson Photo by Bruce Alan Johnson

The National Asian Artists Project (NAAP) is presenting Discover: New Musicals on Monday, May 23 at the 47th Street Theatre, 304 West 47th Street in New York at 7pm.

The 3 one-act musicals to be presented are BIRTH DAY, written by J. Oconer Navarro and directed by Diana Glazer; CROSSING OVER written by Timothy Huang to be directed by Dev Bondarin; and THE TRAIN TO CHICAGO written by Tom Kenaston and Tom Paitson-Kelly directed by Michael Perreca. The projects were selected through the National Asian Artists Project’s inaugural Discover: New Musicals program, by a panel of industry professionals who chose from 21 projects submitted for consideration. Discover presents a forum for talented performers of Asian ancestry to gain exposure and experience; by having artists of Asian descent performing roles not strictly Asian, with the mission to expand casting.

Jon Norman Schneider

Cast members include Nathan Atkinson, Lori Tan Chinn, Nathaniel P. Claridad, Ryan Cusino, Kimiko Glenn, Christine Toy Johnson, Deborah Lew, Jose Llana, Kelvin Moon Loh, Jaygee Macapugay, Amanda Morton, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Jon Norman Schneider, Herman Sebek, and Hansel Tan. Casting is by Michael Cassara. The evening is produced by NAAP in association with Ellen Rusconi and Nikole Vallins.

Jaygee Macapugay

Reservations can be made by email to Discover@Naaproject.org. There is a suggested donation of $10 per ticket to defray some of the costs of production, payable in cash or by check at the door.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Discover: New Musicals
47th Street Theatre
304 West 47th Street
New York
7pm.

This project is supported by grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council through their programs Fund for Creative Communities and Manhattan Community Arts Fund.

About NAAP:
NAAP was founded by Baayork Lee, Steven Eng, and Nina Zoie Lam to be a leader in educating, cultivating, and stimulating audiences and artists—current and future—through showcasing exceptional work by vibrant artists of Asian descent. NAAP supports artistic growth of theatre artists of Asian descent; presents forums for them to gain exposure to industry professionals; expands opportunities for Asian theatre artists; cultivates new audiences to encourage arts patronage and involvement, including Asian communities unaccustomed to participating in the arts dialogue. http://www.naaproject.org/

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All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2011 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachangpr@gmail.com.

Lia Chang Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden. Lia currently plays Nurse Lia on “One Life to Live”. She has appeared in Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and “New York Undercover”.

Selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are now in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

Lia Chang: BD Wong and Adam Gwon Set to Headline CACF Benefit on October 4

BD Wong Photo by Lia Chang

On Monday, October 4, BD Wong (Pacific Overtures, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and composer Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days) will headline “Family Circles: A Celebration of Asian American Theater Artists to Benefit the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF)”, produced by Timothy Huang, at the Daryl Roth Theatre’s D-Lounge Cabaret at 8pm. Steven Eng (National Asian Artists Project) directs, with musical direction by Mark Evans, and features accompaniment by Marcus Baker.

The evening’s proceeds will support CACF, the nation’s only pan-Asian children’s advocacy organization which strives to improve the health and well-being of Asian Pacific American children and families in New York City. Tickets are $25 (advance), $30 at the door, and can be purchased at http://cacf.org/supportus_upcomingevents.html#FamilyCircles.

Wong will make a special appearance alongside performances by Aaron Albano, Anthea Neri, Bryna O’Neill, Cindy Cheung, Deborah Lew, Eric Bondoc, Liz Casasola, Marc De La Cruz, Mel Maghuyop, Michael Montalbano, and Whitney Kam Lee.

Composer Adam Gwon, who recently won acclaim with his musical Ordinary Days, lends his music to the evening, along with songs by Eric Kubo and Mark Evans, Felice Kuan and Hyun Suk Park, Hyeyoung Kim and Michael Cooper, J. Oconer Navarro, Jeff Tang, Joy Son and Kirsten Guenther, Kevin So and Jeff Yang, KyoungAe Kang and Will Aronson, Randall Eng and Donna DiNovelli, Robert Lee and Leon Ko, and Timothy Huang.

For more information on CACF, visit http://cacf.org.

The Daryl Roth Theatre’s D-Lounge is located at 101 East 15th St. in New York.

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Photo by Lia Chang

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.

This year, selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space will become part of newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.