Darian Dauchan's Announces Brobot Johnson Launch Party

Award winning actor, writer and musician, Darian Dauchan unveils his Sci Fi Hip Hop transmedia piece

Brobot Johnson at the legendary Nuyorican Poet Cafe at 236 E. 3rd St., New York, NY 10009 on Wednesday, September 21st at 7pm. The Brobot Johnson Project exists in three parts as an album, a web series and a theatrical production. The story follows the adventures of Brobot Johnson, an android newly invented by a scientist named Professor Toussaint and his quest to learn the basic fundamentals of how to be a little more human one mundane but miraculous experience at a time. The event is both an album release party and sneak peek screening of the web series that will air on September 23rd. Special guest includes the sultry sounds of P. Murray and Grace Galu and DJing by Rico Frederick. This also marks Dauchan's first solo Hip Hop album and foray into the web series content. The theatrical production is currently being developed with the "All for One Theater" company where he's the Artist in Residence and will have its first workshop in October, directed by Andrew Scoville, who was the Associate Director of the hit show "Here Lies Love" at the Public Theater. For more info on the project go to www.brobotjohnson.com and for tickets go to: http:/www.nuyorican.org/event/1304337.

.DARIAN DAUCHAN is an award winning solo performer, actor and poet who has appeared on both Broadway (Twentieth Century) and Off-Broadway (Jean Cocteau Rep., Classical Theatre of Harlem), TV and Film credits include Law and Order, Nickelodeon's Bet the House as Darian the "Sound FX Guy" and the Lionsgate feature Film Things Never Said. He was a member of the 2006 National Poetry Slam Team for the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe and crowned the 2007 Urbana Grand Champion for the Bowery Poetry Club, was a 2008 Nuyorican Grand Slam Finalist and was the 2009 New Word Artist for Urban Word NYC in conjunction with the Dance Theatre Workshop now known as New York Live Arts. He was also the 2012 winner of the Jerome Foundation's Stakeholder's Choice Award and one of his most recent shows Death Boogie, A Hip Hop Poetry Musical was the 2012 winner of two Edinburgh Fringe Festival Musical Theatre Matters Awards for BEST New Music and BEST

Innovation of a Musical. Black Sheep, his fifth solo piece was commissioned by the Kitchen Theatre Company (Ithaca} with the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts and placed 3rd for Best Play at the 2015 Downtown Urban Theater Festival. His band The Mighty Third Rail are 2015 American Music Abroad Finalist for the U.S State Department and in 2014 performed at SPKRBOX, the first Hip Hop Theater Festival in Norway. Death Boogie, the album, along with their debut album Classic is now available on iTunes.

For more information on Darian go to: http:/ www.dariandauchan.com.

Over the last 40 years, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has served as a home for groundbreaking works of poetry, music, theater and visual arts. A multi-arts institution that gives voice to a diverse group of rising poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians. The Cafe champions the use of poetry, jazz, theater, hip-hop and spoken word as means of social empowerment for minority and underprivileged artists. The community of spectators, artists and students is a reflection of New York City's diverse population, Allen Ginsberg called the Cafe "the most integrated place on the planet." http:/ www.nuyorican.org.