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) makes her Broadway debut as Katherine Howard in SIX: The Musical, featured on Broadway Buzz
- Starla Breshears (2024, 2025, 2026 Classical Music) joins San Francisco Symphony as Section Cello at 18 Years Old, highlighted in San Francisco Chronicle
- Liisi LaFontaine (2013 Voice) will star in Wanted musical on Broadway, featured in Playbill
- JJ Mazza’s (2022 Jazz) quartet, Mahakala, received four-star review in Downbeat Magazine for debut album, Things of This Nature
- Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (2010 Voice) featured in Vogue ahead of Broadway debut in The Rocky Horror Show
Kudos
- Sam Fine (2023 Dance), Andres Jimenez (2024, 2025 Dance) and Keira Redpath (2025 Dance) featured in Gap x Young Miko “Sweats Like This” campaign
- Gabriel Kahane (2018 Film) released new film, Benji’s Hour
- Emma Lenderman’s (2015 Theater) new film, Cold Call, premiered at SXSW
- Julia McDermott (2014 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in Weather Girl
- Bhavika Pasuparthi (2026 Voice) named a 2026 MetroArts Young Artist Debut! winner and will be performing at The Reser in Beaverton, OR on April 24
- Sophie Pollono (2021, 2022, 2023 Theater) made West End debut in concert for Jo: The Little Women Musical
- Valentina Shelton (2018 Voice) released new single, “California Dreamin”
- Kevin Sherwin (2012 Classical Music) conducted The American Romantics orchestra for album and concert film, Goldmark’s The Queen of Sheba Suite, available on streaming platforms
- Immanuel Wilkins’s (2015, 2016 Jazz) performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
On the Calendar
- Mara Jill Herman (2003 Theater) starring in Lucky Stiff at Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, MI through April 4
- James Patrick Nelson (2004 Theater) performing new solo show, Late Onset, at A.R.T./New York Theatres Mezzanine Theatre in New York, NY on April 2
- Violetta Norrie (2014 Classical Music) performing with Cape Symphony Orchestra at Barnstable Performing Arts Center in Hyannis, MA on April 11 and 12
- Eliana Pipes’s (2013, 2014, 2015 Writing, 2014 Theater) educational theater piece, SÍ SE PUEDE, is touring schools and community centers in Los Angeles, CA this spring through April 18
- Spencer Vazquez (2018 Film, 2019 Photography) presents “Glue Traps,” a solo exhibition at BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York in partnership with YoungArts, opening at 6 PM on April 16 and on view through June 3
- YoungArts community is invited to an early walkthrough of the exhibition with the artist on April 16 from 11 AM – 12:30 PM. Learn more on YoungArts Post.
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