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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.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Four

Women Who Wow Us: Week Four. This week, we interviewed Erin McKeown, a multi-talented musician, writer, and producer. Her Off-Broadway musical “Miss You Like Hell”, written with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, opened at The Public Theater in 2018. It was nominated for 5 Drama Desk Awards including Best Lyrics, Best Music, and Best Orchestrations, and The Wall Street Journal named it Best Musical of 2018.

A First for Broadway: The Trombonists of KING KONG

Jennifer Wharton writes about being half of the first all-female trombone section on Broadway.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Three

Women Who Wow Us: Week Three. This week, we interviewed Elise Frawley, an accomplished viola player and an Executive Board member of Local 802, the New York metro area union for musicians. Elise has played viola in many venues and on television, from Carnegie Hall and Rockwood Music Hall to Saturday Night Live and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Two

Women Who Wow Us: Week Two. This week, we interviewed Anessa Marie, the co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of The Art Garage, a new NYC-based theatre company dedicated to producing Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming work. This year, Anessa was awarded the New York Musical Festival’s first-ever Artist Fellowship.