2026-01-17T16:41:30-07:00 2025-06-30 990 2024-07-01 611732369 LEVIATHAN LAB INC LEVI 3475813047 425 West 18th Street 11F New York NY 10011 Ariel Estrada President 3475813047 2026-01-04 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Ariel Estrada 425 West 18th Street 11F New York NY 10011 125310 0 X https://leviathanlab.org/ X 2009 NY Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian and Asian American (A/AA) performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of A/AA artists' words, and the presentation of A/AA bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established A/AA artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve. Under the direction of Founder and Producing Artistic Director Ariel Estrada, Leviathan's programs for AAPI theatre artists include DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PLAYS through commissions, workshops and readings. 7 7 0 0 0 0 76000 124310 0 1000 0 0 0 0 76000 125310 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75000 120000 75000 120000 1000 5310 0 5310 0 0 0 5310 X Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of AANHPI artists' words, and the presentation of AANHPI bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established AANHPI artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve. Under the direction of Founder and Producing Artistic Director Ariel Estrada, Leviathan's programs for AANHPI theatre artists include DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PLAYS through commissions, workshops and readings. 1 0 40000 15000 500 THERE WERE LIGHTS Book, music, lyrics, and choreography Albert Guerzon (B'way: INTO THE WOODS, MAMMA MIA) Music arrangements and direction by Christian Almiron Direction and co-choreography by Monica Kapoor Rehearsals: 3/17/25-3/28/25 Performances: 3/28/25 at 12:00 noon and 3:30 p.m. Pay-as-you-are ticketing Two in-person, public workshop presentations of THERE WERE LIGHTS, a new dance musical that follows three people-one lapsed Catholic, Filipino actor, an atheist, widowed Filipina young mother, and a deeply religious, elder, widowed, and Black cemetery caretaker-brought together by a young boy searching for his loved ones in the afterlife. Together, they face their collective grief in the wake of the pandemic and learn to celebrate both their found community and the diversity of their beliefs. Artists engaged: 21. Audience members: 74. 35000 5000 0 3 | FULL CONTACT A New Solo Work by Ariel Estrada Directed by Leslie Ishii Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska Performances: December 6-22-2024 Leviathan Lab provided partial playwright compensation, room & board, and per diem for Perseverance Theatre's regional National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of the new solo work that interrogates Estrada's experiences as a survivor of a brutal martial arts cult. Artists engaged: 22. Audience members: 635. 15000 2500 0 GOTHIC LOLITA By Penny Pun (Associate Director of Civic Alliances, Perelman PAC) Directed by Eugene Ma Pearl Studios NYC Rehearsals: 12/5/24-12/9/24 Reading: 12/9/24, 2:00 p.m. Pay-as-you-are ticketing One, in-person, public staged reading of a new play by playwright, dramaturg, and advocate for Disability justice Penny Pun (Assoc. Director of Civic Alliances, Perelman PAC). Artists engaged: 9. 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RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part III, Line 2 Leviathan Lab's 2024-25 Performance Season celebrated the work of early and mid-career Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) theatre artists through a 12-month series of in-person, public events with pay-as-you-are pricing in ADA-compliant, under 99-seat rehearsal venues in Manhattan or Brooklyn. The season was curated and facilitated by Producing Artistic Director Ariel Estrada in collaboration with Director-in-Residence Nicholas Polonio (Artistic Fellow, NYTW 2050), and Dramaturg-in-Residence Gaven Trinidad (Rising Leader of Color, TCG). The season included three events, including a staged reading of a new play, and a book-in-hand workshop of a new musical. Leviathan's FY25 project events, in chronological order, included: 1 | GOTHIC LOLITA By Penny Pun (Associate Director of Civic Alliances, Perelman PAC) Directed by Eugene Ma Pearl Studios NYC Rehearsals: 12/5/24-12/9/24 Reading: 12/9/24, 2:00 p.m. Pay-as-you-are ticketing One, in-person, public staged reading of a new play by playwright, dramaturg, and advocate for Disability justice Penny Pun (Assoc. Director of Civic Alliances, Perelman PAC). Artists engaged: 9. Audience members: 11. 2 | THERE WERE LIGHTS Book, music, lyrics, and choreography Albert Guerzon (B'way: INTO THE WOODS, MAMMA MIA) Music arrangements and direction by Christian Almiron Direction and co-choreography by Monica Kapoor Rehearsals: 3/17/25-3/28/25 Performances: 3/28/25 at 12:00 noon and 3:30 p.m. Pay-as-you-are ticketing Two in-person, public workshop presentations of THERE WERE LIGHTS, a new dance musical that follows three people-one lapsed Catholic, Filipino actor, an atheist, widowed Filipina young mother, and a deeply religious, elder, widowed, and Black cemetery caretaker-brought together by a young boy searching for his loved ones in the afterlife. Together, they face their collective grief in the wake of the pandemic and learn to celebrate both their found community and the diversity of their beliefs. Artists engaged: 21. Audience members: 74. 3 | FULL CONTACT A New Solo Work by Ariel Estrada Directed by Leslie Ishii Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska Performances: December 6-22-2024 Leviathan Lab provided partial playwright compensation, room & board, and per diem for Perseverance Theatre's regional National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of the new solo work that interrogates Estrada's experiences as a survivor of a brutal martial arts cult. Artists engaged: 22. Audience members: 635. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Leviathan's board of directors meets on a quarterly basis and as a collective approves the organization's annual budget. Annual Disclosure Statements Prior to initial election and annually thereafter, all Directors shall complete, sign, and submit to the Secretary a written statement identifying, to the best of the Director's knowledge, any entity of which such director is an officer, director, trustee, member, owner, or employee, and with which the Corporation has a relationship, and whether there is a conflict of interest. The disclosure of a relationship shall not, by itself, constitute a conflict of interest. The governing Board may require the same submission to be made by officers and Key Employees. The Secretary shall provide a copy of all completed disclosure statements to the chairperson of the Audit Committee. Oversight/Administration This policy shall be overseen and administered by the Board including the adoption of any amendments to this policy. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c All board members are required to fill out an annual disclosure form. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 This is available to the public upon request and is also a requirement of New York State funding to provide its Statewide Financial System with these documents. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Outside Professional Services: Actor, Director, Designer and other artist fees. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e Production Expenses (Sets, Costumes, Electrics, Equipment Rental, Supplies) We are a very small nonprofit organization with an all-volunteer staff. The organization's equivalent Executive Director had a major surgery and was in ill health at the beginning part of the year and was only now able to conduct the tax filing.