Christine Toy Johnson is a multi award-winning writer, actor, director, filmmaker, and advocate for inclusion based in New York City. Her written works for the theatre have been produced and/or developed by the Roundabout, Village Theatre, Barrow Group, Prospect Theatre, Weston Playhouse, the O’Neill, National Women’s Theatre Festival, CAP 21, Ars Nova, Greater Boston Stage Company, Abingdon Theatre Company, Towne Street Theatre, and more, are included in the Library of Congress’s Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection (Playwrights Division) and published by NoPassport Press, Smith & Kraus, Rowman & Littlefield, and Applause Books. She is the co-director (with Bruce Johnson) and Executive Producer of the multiple award-winning documentary feature “Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story” and screenwriter/lyricist/executive producer of the multiple-award winning movie musical short (composed by Michael Mott), "Riding Out the Storm" and has written screenplays and lyrics for the short movie musicals "Winn