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Women Who Wow Us: Spotlight 10

Women Who Wow Us: Spotlight 10. We interviewed Rona Siddiqui, an award-winning composer/lyricist and music director based in NYC. Her show Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, an autobiographical comedy about growing up bi-ethnic in America, will be receiving a workshop in the fall of 2019, and she is the recipient of this year’s Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award.

Women Who Wow Us: Summer Sum Up

Women Who Wow Us: Summer Sum Up. At the conclusion of our planned timeline, we look at what the women who wow us have in common…and we make an announcement.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Nine

Women Who Wow Us: Week Nine. This week, we interviewed Emily Grishman, a music copyist who specializes in providing music for the theatre and has been the music preparation supervisor for over 125 Broadway productions. She has worked on countless not-for-profit and regional shows and also prepares music for film and television recording sessions.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Eight

Women Who Wow Us: Week Eight. This week, we interviewed Jennifer Isaacson, a two-time Tony Award winning producer. Jennifer is the Executive Producer of WalkRunFly, a Broadway production company co-founded by Warren Adams and Brandon Victor Dixon.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Seven

Women Who Wow Us: Week Seven. This week, we interviewed Britt Bonney, an award-winning music director and composer. Britt’s vocals can be heard on 2017’s Beauty and the Beast film as well as Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame cast album, which Britt mixed and mastered together with Stephen Schwartz. Britt is an accomplished copyist, having served as a music assistant to Alex Lacamoire, Alan Menken, Shaina Taub, and Kelli O’Hara. Britt’s vocal arrangements have been featured on The Weather Channel, the Fox network, WPIX11, at Lincoln Center, and in Broadway houses.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Six

Women Who Wow Us: Week Six. This week, we interviewed Masi Asare, the first-ever recipient of the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award. Masi is a composer/lyricist, playwright, singer, and voice coach with a PhD in Performance Studies. This past April, she received an Emerging Artist Grant from the Theater Hall of Fame, and this past May, she received the Stacey Mindich “Go Write a Musical” award at The Lilly Awards.