Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Ian Boone (2013 Film), Isabela Dos Santos (2011 Film & U.S. Presidential Scholar) and Maya Erskine (2005 Theater) are among the cast and crew who worked on Wildwood, the upcoming stop-motion animated feature from LAIKA Studios, featured in The Hollywood Reporter
- Gabi Campo (2013 Theater), Mia Pak (2016 Theater) and King Princess (2015 Voice) featured in Vogue for roles in Girl, Interrupted
- Jaiden Geolingo (2025 Writing) named 2026 Georgia Poet Laureate’s Prize winner, featured in Atlanta Magazine
- Ethan Hsu (2026 Classical Music) featured on CBS News for premiere of orchestral work by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
- Christian Lee (2022 Photography) was selected by The New York Times for their 2026 Portfolio Review
- Shamel Pitts (2003 Dance) presents new multidisciplinary performance work SORE, a documentary screening Touch of RED: RECOLLECTION, and the movement workshop In-Practice with arts collective TRIBE, featured in Broadway World
- Keshav Srinivasan (2021, 2022 Classical Music) joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Paine Resident Fellowship program, featured in Broadway World
Kudos
- Jessie Baldinger (2015 Design) graduated with a MFA in Set Design from Yale School of Drama
- Callie Chae Pyken (2024, 2025 Voice) will be attending Carnegie Mellon University for Drama/Musical Theatre in the fall
- Santiago Del Curto (2026 Classical Music) named a Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School, where he will pursue undergraduate studies in clarinet performance beginning Fall 2026
- Sage Duke (2026 Voice) awarded Outstanding Vocalist at 31st Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Competition
- Mara Jill Herman (2003 Theater) is a consulting producer and actor for the new short film, Jewface
- Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (1997 Classical Music) and Peaches composed score for Dan Levy’s new crime comedy, Big Mistakes, on Netflix
- Ben Levi Ross (2016 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical
- Jackie Liu (2021 Visual Arts) won the Winsor & Newton International Art Prize 2026
- Becca McCoy (1996 Theater) is the May 2026 Artist of the Month for the “you are beautiful” international sticker club
- Raditya Muljadi (2024, 2025 Classical Music) won 2026 Colorado State Music Teacher Association Concerto Competition and Lakewood Young Artist Concerto Competition
- Evan Ozer (2021 Theater) was cast in the Chicago premiere of the Pulitzer-finalist play The Ally at Theater Wit in Chicago, IL which was nominated for a Jeff Award
- Mason Alexander Park (2013 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) cast in Much Ado About Nothing on Broadway
- Tyrone Reese (2020 Dance) joins Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Julian Sol Jordan (2020 Film) released new single, “2005,” for his band’s, Sunrise Academy, upcoming album, Don’t Miss the Field Trip
- Emily Sun Li (2014 Writing) published debut picture book Mr. Chow’s Night Market with Penguin Random House
On the Calendar
- Catherine Camargo (2017 Visual Arts), Fharid LaTorre (2018 Visual Arts), Sue Helen Montoya (2009 Photography) and Destiny Moore (2020 Visual Arts) will be in conversation about their residency experience at the YoungArts Gallery in Miami, FL on June 5
- Stéphane Clément (2018, 2019 Jazz) and Nicolaus Gelin (2019 Jazz) of Ressonnance have several upcoming performances throughout New York, NY, June 17-28
- Sophie Da Silva (2025 Writing) will be recognized as the National Student Poet of the US Southwest at the Scholastic National Ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY on June 10
- Santino Fontana (2000 Theater, Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and Steven Pasquale (1995 Theater) cast in Are You Now or Have You Ever Been at New York City Center Stage in New York, NY, opening June 2
- James Hosking (2002 Writing) has a new wall-size installation of interconnected collages made of LGBTQIA+ archival material featured in “Voices Embodied: Prognostication” at the Design Museum of Chicago in Chicago, IL, with an opening reception on June 26
- Shay Lari-Hosain (2016 Photography) showing new work in group exhibition at the Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, CA, with an opening reception on June 13
- Andrew Nemr (1997 Dance) will host Tap Legacy Foundation’s first annual Teacher Training Event in Eagle, ID, June 19-21
- Alexzandra Sarmiento (2011 Dance) will be premiering a new choreographic work, “A Life in Four Seasons,” at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London, UK, showing from June 11-14
- Asia Stewart (2014 Theater) will present a new commissioned performance, “after air,” at the South Street Seaport in New York, NY as part of The Flea’s 2026 Juneteenth Festival on June 18
- Conrad Tao (2011 Classical Music & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) performing in Mazes and Portals at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY on June 3
- Caleb Teicher (2011 Dance) performing in Summer for the City: Swing Dance Party at Lincoln Center in New York, NY on June 10
- Gabo Vitollo (2008 Visual Arts) has a new public sculpture installed indefinitely in the lobby of Building B at Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with an opening reception on June 4
- Daniel J. Watts (2000 Dance) hosting “Process of Saying Yes,” a painting performance residency at the East Village Basement in New York, NY from June 2-14 featuring several YoungArts alumni including Jake Goldbas (2007 Jazz), Alphonso Horne (2005 Classical Music), Lucas Kadish (2014 Jazz), Mïrändä (2013, 2014 Voice) and Michael Thurber (2006 Classical Music)
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