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Christine
Toy Johnson
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| Professional Profile | |||||
| Over twenty years experience as a professional Actor, working in all venues of the industry including Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours, regional theatre, film, television, commercials, concert stage. Award-winning screenwriter, playwright, published journalist. Producer. Public speaker and activist for diversity and inclusion. | |||||
| Screenwriting/Playwriting |
Screenplays: |
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| Journalism |
Regular
columnist and Co-Chair/Advisory Committee for EQUITY NEWS, the national
publication for the membership of Actors’ Equity Association. Features
have ranged from interviews with Actors and Casting Directors to articles
about working under different contracts, diversity issues and human interest
stories connected to theatrical experiences. Contributing writer to STAND
BY, the publication for the New York local of AFTRA, and aMAGAZINE, a
national publication subtitled “Inside Asian America”. Features have included diversity and inclusion issues, the power of the media in influencing tolerance, Asian American images on television. |
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| Producing
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Co-founder and President of REIMAGINED WORLD ENTERTAINMENT, a new production company dedicated to telling stories of the underdog. www.reimaginedworldentertainment.com Community outreach initiatives to include forums for Artists struggling with discrimination, workshops to train newcomers, documentary filmmaking chronicling the stories of Artists overcoming obstacles of prejudice. Other ventures have included co-producing and co-starring in A TRIBUTE TO JULIE AND CAROL AT CARNEGIE HALL at NYC’s Triad Theatre. | ||||
| Affiliations
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Associate
member of the Dramatists Guild Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). Board Member of the Non-Traditional Casting Project. Voter for the Tony Awards since 1992. |
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| Diversity Panels and Roundtables | |||||
| Participant
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Asian
Pacific American Law Students Association, Chinese American Intercollegiate
Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, American Theatre Critics Association,
AAJA National Convention, Philadelphia Theatre Conference, Non-Traditional
Casting Project (NYC), BackStage Actor Fest (NYC), Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS. Subjects have included Non-traditional Casting, Diversity
in Casting, Asian American Images on Television, Being a Working Actor. |
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| Producer
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SAG/AFTRA/AEA Day of Diversity Event, NYWIFT, AEA. Topics have included Issues of Inclusion of Asian Americans on television, increasing attendance of Actors of Color to auditions, obstacles to Non-traditional Casting, Non-traditional Casting success stories. | ||||
| CSW
Associates |
Participated in interactive improvisational diversity training for corporate employees in the USA and the Pacific Rim. Clients included JPMorganChase, NYU Stern’s School of Business, Morgan Stanley, and Moody’s Investment Services. | ||||
| Elected Principal Councillor for the National Membership of AEA since 1992 | |||||
| Co-Chair
of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee |
Responsibilities involve evolving and approving EEO language in all contract rule books, consulting business reps on EEO conflicts in all contract areas, developing diversity initiatives. Projects have included the first “Cultural Celebration” event to be inclusive of the entire membership and a “UniDiversity Initiative” to create a dialogue with college level students in arts disciplines before commerical pressures might alter their perspective on diversity and the dedication of the first Non-Traditional Casting map (celebrating non-traditional casting in all regions of the U.S.) in the National Office of AEA's Audition Center. | ||||
| Joint
EEO Committee between AEA and the League of American Theatre Producers |
Responsibilities include developing initiatives to tackle exclusion in the commercial theatre (primarily Broadway and national tour productions). Was instrumental in developing an industry wide survey intended to target realities and perceptions of Non-traditional Casting during the past ten years in order to find proactive means for progress. | ||||
| Education and Honors | |||||
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BA degree - Sarah Lawrence College • Certificate of Screenwriting Program, NYU. • Listing in "Who's Who of American Women" • Semi-Finalist for the 2001 Ford Foundation LEADERSHIP FOR A CHANGING WORLD AWARD honoring leadership in social justice • National Conference of Editorial Writers - Minority Writers Seminar - 2001 Class • 2000 & 2001 aMedia Award Nominations - Best Performance by an Asian American Actress in a Televised Production, for ONE LIFE TO LIVE |
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