Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Abigail Barlow (2016 Voice) and Anna Uzele (2014 Theater) join Six: The Musical on Broadway beginning February 16
- Jolie Demesmin (2025 Voice) performed as a solo jazz vocalist with Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra, featured in Springfield News-Sun
- Denyce Graves (1981 Voice) penned op-ed for The New York Times on retiring from her opera career and her new chapter with the Denyce Graves Foundation
- Allegra Goodman’s (1985 Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) short story, “Deal-Breaker,” published in The New Yorker
- Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (2010 Voice) to star in the Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show beginning March 26
- Joy Sunday (2014 Film) featured in Vanity Fair for role in TV series, DTF St. Louis
Kudos
- Rosemary Dietz (2021 Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) received the Princeton University Joyce Carol Oates Award for her senior poetry thesis
- Linsday Liebro (2022 Voice) released new song, “Pretty Boy,” available on streaming platforms
- Shamel Pitts (2003 Dance) named a 2026 United States Artists Fellow
- Asia Stewart (2014 Theater) featured as an exhibiting artist in the 2026 AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum in The Bronx, NY through June 29
- Spencer Vazquez (2018 Film, 2019 Photography) selected as the 2026 YoungArts x BAXTER ST exhibition recipient
On the Calendar
- Kyreeana Breelin Alexander (2013 Dance) presents We Cool, an interdisciplinary solo performance, in partnership with YoungArts and CAP UCLA at The Nimoy in Los Angeles, CA on February 21
- Are you a YoungArts winner? Learn how to get free tickets to this performance on YoungArts Post.
- Benny Benack III (2009 Jazz) and Robbie Lee (2014 Jazz) on Great American Crooners tour throughout the United States, starting February 5
- Brandon Goldberg (2022, 2023, 2024 Jazz) performing with the Brandon Goldberg Trio at Mezzrow in New York, NY on February 6 and 7
- Sofia Gomez (2022, 2023 Voice) and Lindsay Liebro (2022 Voice) performing at the Grammy U Soundstage Music Festival: Indigo Stage at Grammy House in Los Angeles, CA on January 30
- Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s (2008 Visual Arts) solo exhibition gwisin baljaguk (ghost prints) opens at Boston City Hall Galleries in Boston, MA on February 16
- Samora Pinderhughes (2009, 2010 Jazz) presents exhibition and performance series, “Call and Response” on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY through February 15
- Zoe Schweiger’s (2018 Visual Arts) first solo exhibition, Sun-Kissed, on view at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL through February 28
- Zuzanna Szadkowski (1997 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) starring in Seagull: True Story at The Public Theater in New York, NY, starting March 22
- Daniel J. Watts (2000 Dance) presents The Jam, a spoken word/storytelling experience, in partnership with YoungArts at Joe’s Pub in New York, NY on February 16
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