Photo Flash: THE BROBOT JOHNSON Experience Thrills Brooklyn Audiences

All For One Theater is thrilled to collaborate with Bushwick Starr (207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY between Irving and Wyckoff) in presenting The Brobot Johnson Experience, which received rave reviews including a "Critic's Pick" by Ben Brantley of the New York Times. This Afrofuturism transmedia piece is written by and stars award-winning solo performer, actor, and poet, Darian Dauchan, who has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and abroad. Directed by Andrew Scoville, The Brobot Johnson Experience the show is playing a limited engagement through March 17th.

At its core, Afrofuturism is about reimagining what the African American experience was and what it could be, and the show is designed to inspire both contemporaries and young people of color to tell outside-of-the-box-stories like Brobot Johnson. Tickets are $25 and are available at www.bushwickstarr.org

One hundred years from now, a race of Hip Hop androids known as Brobots will form a unit, The Tribe Called Space Quest, to spread their message of peace, love, and dopeness all over the universe. Through live looped vocals, rhymes, and beat-boxing, they perform the origin story of the first of their kind. They call it The Brobot Johnson Experience, a Sci-Fi Hip Hop solo concert that defies both space...and time.

The Brobot Johnson Experience is written and performed by Darian Dauchan and directed by Andrew Scoville. Scenic design is by Raul Abrego, with lighting design by Sarah Johnston, sound design by Matt Stine, costume design by Asa Benally, wig Design by Elizabeth Printz, properties design by Casey Alexander Smith, projection design by Katherine Freer, and dramaturgy by Jesse Alick.

About Darian Dauchan:

Darian Dauchan is AFO's current Artist in Residence. He is an award-winning solo performer, actor, and poet who has appeared on both Broadway (Twentieth Century) and Off-Broadway Theatre (Jean Cocteau Rep., Classical Theatre of Harlem). TV and Film credits include "Law and Order", Nickelodeon's "Bet the House" as Darian the "SoundFX" Guy, and the Lionsgate feature film "Things Never Said". His band The Mighty Third Rail were 2015 American Music Abroad Finalists for the U.S. State Department, and in 2014 performed at SPKRBOX, the first Hip Hop Theater Festival in Norway. He is the 2016 Loop Station Vice Champion of the American Beatbox Championships and is currently developing The Brobot Johnson Project, a Sci-Fi Hip Hop transmedia piece, with the support of All For One Theater. The web series "The New Adventures of Brobot Johnson" recently won for Outstanding Score, Theme Song, and Comedy Series at the 2017 LA Web Festival, BEST music at the Toronto Web Fest, and BEST soundtrack at the Escape Velocity Festival sponsored by the Museum of Science Fiction. The album Brobot Johnson: Bionic Boom Bap is now available on iTunes. www.darianduchan.com

Brobot Johnson Award History: LA WEBFEST: Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Score; Toronto Web Fest: Best Music; Global Webisode Competition: Excellence in Original Concept and Excellence in Original Song; Harlem International Film Festival: Best Webisode; Brooklyn Web Fest: "Diverse as Fu*k" Award; Escape Velocity Festival: Best Soundtrack.

The playing schedule for The Brobot Johnson Experience is as follows: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8PM, with an additional performance on Tuesday, March 13th. Tickets are $20 and $25. For tickets please visit www.bushwickstarr.org

Directions:

Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right.

For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS

Photo Credit Maria Baranova

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