Table Dish: Theater

Join Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) for the latest workshop of our professional development series, Table Dish, to help further the careers of AAPI in theater.

Table Dish: Theater is an “ask me anything” style career development roundtable event where professionals in the theater industry will meet with emerging to mid-career professionals to “dish” out advice and lead candid discussions about tips to succeed.

The career roundtable provides facilitators and participants the opportunity to network and build relationships with peers and mentors, offer a genuine way for AAPI community members to give back, engage arts leaders and professionals in a meaningful way, and help build a pipeline of AAPI artists, arts leaders, role models, and experts.

Table Dish: Theater will be composed of three 30-minute networking sessions. Individual participants rotate every 30 minutes to meet with a total of three different leaders. After the breakout sessions, we’ll come together to share with one another.

Participating Leaders:

• Miranda Gohh, producer and founder of Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC)
• Christine Toy Johnson, award-winning actor, playwright, and director, and the founder of The Asian American Theatre Artists Collective
• Jian Jung, set designer
• Conrad Ricamora, actor and advocate
• Nandita Shenoy, playwright and steering committee member of Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC)
• Mei Ann Teo, artistic director of Pink Fang

There is a $15 nonrefundable fee to register and hold your spot. If the fee presents an obstacle to your participation or if you have any accessibility needs, please reach out to programs@aaartsalliance.org at least one week before the event. We will try our best to make accommodations.

Registration is capped at 30 attendees. Please note that this is not a portfolio review session.

About Miranda Gohh
Named a “2022 Woman to Watch on Broadway” by the Broadway Women’s Fund, Miranda Gohh is a Tony Award-nominated producer. She is the Founder of Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC), an organization that empowers the next generation of BIPOC producers through education, training, and mentorship. She is also a co-founder of The Industry Standard Group (TISG), the first BIPOC-led commercial theatre investment and producing organization.

About Christine Toy Johnson
Christine Toy Johnson is a Tony and Obie honored, Rosetta LeNoire, JACL, Actors’ Equity Foundation, and A4 award winning writer, actor, and advocate for inclusion. Her written work has been produced and/or developed by the Roundabout, Village Theatre, O’Neill Center, the Abingdon, Greater Boston Stage Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Barrow Group, Prospect Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, and more, and is included in the Library of Congress’s AAPI Playwrights Collection. Published by NoPassport Press, Smith & Kraus, Rowman & Littlefield, Applause Books. Treasurer of the Dramatists Guild and host of the Guild’s podcast “Talkback” on Broadway Podcast Network. BMI, Writers Lab, Sarah Lawrence College alum, co-founder of AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition), founder of the Asian American Theatre Artists Collective. As an actor, Christine has appeared extensively on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theatres across the country and on television and film. Highlights include Season 2 of the Marvel/Netflix series “Iron Fist”, recurring as Linn Gaad on “The Americans”, the First National/North American tour of “Come From Away”, the Broadway revival of “The Music Man”, and “Sunday in the Park with George” at the Guthrie. Insta/Threads: @CToyJ Details: www.christinetoyjohnson.com

About Jian Jung
Jian Jung (정지안) is an Obie Award-winning set designer from Korea, based in New York City. While her productions range from classic masterpieces to new plays, her design always focuses on innovative delivery of the piece, provoking audience’s expectations. Jung’s design work has been acclaimed as “innovative”, “inventive”, “genius” and “spectacular” by major press such as The New York Times.

About Conrad Ricamora
Conrad Ricamora is a Tony-nominated, two-time Grammy-nominated actor across Broadway, television, and film. He recently earned a Tony nomination for his performance as Abraham Lincoln in the hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! and wrapped a prominent role in The Devil Wears Prada 2. On TV, audiences know him as Oliver on ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, and he most recently appeared in FX’s Dying for Sex. A dedicated advocate for AAPI representation, Conrad has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign and Equality California and supports emerging Asian artists through his scholarship fund The Right To Be There.

About Nandita Shenoy
Nandita Shenoy is an actor-writer in New York City. Nandita’s latest production was a commissioned play for young audiences from the Cleveland Play House called The Very Lonely Dinosaur, which went on tour in the summer of 2024. Earlier that year, her play Esspy premiered at the NJ Repertory Company, in Long Branch, NJ. The Future Is Female… received its world premiere at the Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, MI, in February 2023. Her Rage Play was in rehearsals for its world premiere by Flux Theatre Ensemble at the Abrons Arts Center when the coronavirus pandemic hit. As a result, the production was cancelled, but the play was named to the 2020 Kilroy’s List. During the pandemic, she pivoted to writing digital plays that have been produced by Mile Square Theatre, Live & In Color, Clutch Productions, Ars Nova, the Cleveland Play House, and Cherry Picking. As an actor, Nandita was most recently seen at Theatre Squared in Twelfth Night as the merry Maria. Nandita made her feature film debut opposite Marcus Ho in Love, Repeat (2020).

About Mei Ann Teo
Mei Ann Teo (they/them) is a queer immigrant from Singapore who is an artistic leader, theatre maker, and educator. Teo makes theater and film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, they create across genres, including music theatre, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theatre. They developed and directed world premieres of Jillian Walker’s SKiNFoLK: An American Show at the Bushwick Starr; Ruth Tang’s Building A Character with Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai at Wild Rice’s Singapore Theatre Festival; Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong at Shakespeare’s Globe, Woolly Mammoth, and national tour including The Public, Seattle Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Goodman, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Folger Shakespeare Library; and the North American premiere of Amy Berryman’s Walden at Theatreworks Hartford that swept the Connecticut Circle Critics Awards including Best Production and Director.

Accessibility:
ADA accessible entrances. Two gender-inclusive restrooms. Elevator in the building. If you have any questions or accessibility needs, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org.

Recordings:
This event will not be recorded.

Refund Policy:
All sales are final. No shows will not be issued a refund. We will do our best to match you up with your selected professionals, but we cannot guarantee specific meetings.