In the News
- Ethan Buck (2021, 2022 Jazz) and Daiki Nakajima’s (2021 Jazz) collective LOBE released debut album, was that on purpose? supported by a YoungArts Microgrant
- Misty Copeland (Guest Artist and 2025 Arison Awardee) highlighted in The New York Times for her final bow with the American Ballet Theater
- Lorna Courtney (2016 Voice) to join the cast of The Greatest Showman Stage Musical
- Tomás Matos (2016 Dance) and Samora La Perdida (2015 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) starring in Queens of the Dead, now in theaters
- Jordan Rice (2020 Theater) featured in the LA Times for her role in the Broadway Tour of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Kudos
- Michael Arden (2001 Theater, Voice, Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) to direct and Maria Wirries (2016 Theater) to star in The Lost Boys musical on Broadway
- Walker Bankson (2017, 2018 Photography) selected as a recipient of the Fountainhead Arts Residency in partnership with YoungArts
- Patrick Keedy Brown (2025 Writing) received two 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Silver Medals in Poetry
- Emily Drennan (1998 Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) charted #1 on iTunes and #7 on Billboard Traditional Classical Charts with “Requiem of Light” as Chorus Master and Producer
- Mario Layne Fabrizio (2014, 2015 Jazz) released his debut composition record, kostochki, supported by a YoungArts Microgrant
- Sam Lipsyte’s (1986 Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) short story, “Final Boy,” published in The New Yorker
- Mason Alexander Park (2013 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) to star in Oh, Mary!’s transfer to London’s West End
On the Calendar
- Michael Arden (2001 Theater, Voice, Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) directing The Queen of Versailles on Broadway based on a documentary by Lauren Greenfield (1983 Photography), now in previews at the St. James Theatre in New York, NY
- Tosh Arora (2019 Voice) starring in Spoons at The Studio Theatre in New York, NY, November 1-8
- Corinne Botz (1995 Photography & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Photography National Selection Panelist) presenting solo exhibition, “Ghosts, Mother’s Milk, and Other Stories,” at Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY through November 23
- Caleb Teicher (2011 Dance) and Nic Gareiss presented by Jacob’s Pillow at the Doris Duke Theatre in Becket, MA, October 24-26
- Michael Urie (1998 Theater) starring in Richard II at Red Bull Theater in New York, NY through November 30
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