playwright Archives • Maestra

The Count 3.0 Has Arrived

Congratulations to our friends at The Lillys on their third incarnation of this work, an ongoing study of gender, race, and nationality of the creators of produced plays and musicals.

Women Who Wow Us: Spotlight 20 (Angelica Chéri)

Women Who Wow Us: Spotlight 20. We interviewed Angelica Chéri, a playwright, musical theatre bookwriter/lyricist, screenwriter and poet. Angelica and collaborator Ross Baum received the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award for their musical Gun & Powder, which was also selected for the 30th annual NAMT Festival of New Musicals.

Women Who Wow Us: Week Six (Masi Asare)

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.