Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Hanna Ali (2016 Visual Arts), Tyné Angela Freeman (2012, 2013 Voice), Amanda Krische (2012 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Samora la Perdida (2015 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and joseph webb (1996 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) named 2024-2025 YoungArts Fellows
- Piper Bangs’ (2020 Visual Arts) debut show at Megan Mulrooney gallery featured in Artnet
- Roman Banks (2017 Theater) shares his professional training with Playbill
- Vivian Kao (2024 Classical Music) shares her journey with Pendred syndrome with the Hearing Health Foundation
- Jay Will (2016 Theater) stars as Young Denzel in new film, Rob Peace
Kudos
- Sabina Arcila (2020 Theater) premiered new play, Girls Just Wanna Commit Domestic Terrorism, at The Tank, marking Sabina’s directorial debut
- Declan Crowley (2009 Dance) started a new role as Cultural Programming Manager at the Irish Cultural Centre of Greater Boston
- Mara Jill Herman (2003 Theater) launched a Little Shop of Horrors parody music video
- Christian Lee (2022 Photography) selected to join Canon’s Eddie Adams Workshop Class of XXXVII
- Callie Chae Pyken (2024 Voice) named the Classical Voice Grand Prize Finalist for The Music Center Los Angeles’ annual Spotlight Awards
- Lucy Qian (2024 Dance) graduated from Akhmedova Ballet Academy
- Preethi Ramaprasad (2006 Dance) selected to participate in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Artist-in-Residence program at the San Francisco Public Library
- Eason Rytter (2022 Theater) received Yale’s J. Edward Meeker Prize for Freshman Fiction for his play, Exit Pursued by Bear
On the Calendar
- India Carney (2011 Theater, Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Lorna Courtney (2016 Voice) and Josh Groban (Guest Artist) performing at Josh Groban’s Find Your Light Benefit Concert for Arts Education taking place at Lincoln Center in New York City on October 29
- Micaela Diamond (2017 Theater) starring in Grotesquerie as Sister Megan Duval, premiering on FX on September 25
- Carlos Henriquez (1997 Jazz) performing with Highbridge Voices of the South Bronx at Dizzy’s Club in New York City on September 29
- Tyreek McDole (2019 Voice) hosting The Penny Sessions at Penny Jo’s in New York City every Tuesday night
- Mathis Picard (2014 Jazz) heading on a solo piano tour throughout the fall and performing at Joe’s Pub in New York City in partnership with YoungArts on October 16
- Emily Pogorelc (2014 Voice) performing as Violetta in La Traviata at Detroit Opera, October 19-27
- Talia Suskauer (2015 Theater) playing final performances as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine through September 21
- Angela Watson (2021 Dance) touring as a company member with San Francisco Ballet to perform Swan Lake at Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, October 15-22
- Nicole Zuraitis (2003 Voice) performing at Forte Jazz Lounge in Charleston, South Carolina on September 21
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