Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Derrick Adams (Trustee) featured in The New York Times
- Sachi Clay (2026 Visual Arts) featured in The Dispatch
- Zakiriya Gladney (2023 Photography & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) profiled in The Harvard Crimson
- Raymond Pinto (2009 Dance) named a Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography
- Lauren Robie (2010 Visual Arts) featured in PBS WGCU News segment, “Alternative Ways to Remember Loved Ones,” as co-founder of Hope Eternal Gardens
- Laila Wilson (2019 Writing) featured in Deadline as top 10 finalist in ATX TV Festival Pitch Competition for original TV series, King Senior High
Kudos
- Will Bundon (2024, 2025 Theater) added to the cast of Netflix series, All The Sinners Bleed
- Micaela Diamond (2017 Theater), Tarell Alvin McCraney (1999 Theater), Julia McDermott (2014 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Ben Levi Ross (2014, 2016 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and Michael Thurber (2006 Classical Music) nominated for 2026 Drama Desk Awards
- Brandon Goldberg (2022, 2023, 2024 Jazz) and Brahm Sasner (2022 Jazz) named finalists for 2027 American Piano Awards Jazz Competition
- Nyah Hadmon (2019 Writing) won 3rd place in O, Miami, SWWIM and Elevate Miami’s “Sonnet Boom: Love Poems for Miami” contest
- Sydney Kassekert (2024 Voice) will join Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250 tour to debut her original song “Imagine,” accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Cristian Măcelaru and professional orchestras throughout the east coast
- Oliviana Marie (2021 Voice) chosen as a fellow for the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive at Sony Pictures Studios
- Dylan James Shaw (2026 Jazz) released “Above the Clouds”, a pop jazz composition honoring Herbie Hancock
- Evan Wang (2024, 2025 Writing) released an award-winning debut chapbook, Slow Burn
On the Calendar
- Gabi Campo (2013 Theater), Mia Pak (2016 Theater) and King Princess (2015 Voice) to star in Girl, Interrupted at The Public Theater in New York, NY from May 13-June 21
- Emmet Cohen (2008, 2009 Jazz) is bringing Live From Emmet’s Place to the Knight Concert Hall in Miami, FL on May 8
- Tymothee Harrell (2018 Theater) and Blaine Alden Kraus (2010 Theater, Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) starring in Ain’t Too Proud at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, ME from May 14-June 13
- Oliviana Marie (2021 Voice) was selected as a composition winner for the Music for Unity competition; her composition will be performed at the Grand Finale concert at Glendale Presbyterian Church in Glendale, CA on May 16
- Fiona Robberson (2012 Theater) to star in Private Lives at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison, NJ from May 16-June 7
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