Panel Discussion with Theatre Experts Monday, November 18, 6 – 8 PM, at Southampton Cultural Center FREE Admission for High School Students
(Riverhead, NY) East End Arts’ Teeny Awards Program welcomes Broadway theatre professionals for a panel discussion and talk – an inside look at a profession in theatre for this special event: “Listen Carefully… Is Broadway Calling?” moderated by Broadway Producer Thomas Farrell. The discussions will address key questions high school students, young professionals and theatre enthusiasts have regarding a career in theatre. The event will be held Monday, November 18, from 6 PM to 8 PM at the Southampton Cultural Center, located at 25 Pond Lane in Southampton, NY.
High school students get FREE ADMISSION to the event (must present high school student ID for free admission at the event) and adult tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
To register in advance, visit http://www.eastendarts.org/calendar/events.html/event/2013/11/18/listen-carefully-is-broadway-calling-panel-discussion-with-theatre-experts or call East End Arts at 631-727-0900.
Speakers include:
- TINA ANDREWS, Award-Winning Playwright, Screenwriter and Director – best-known for writing and Executive Producing the CBS miniseries Sally Hemings, An American Scandal, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and the Warner Brothers film Why Do Fools Fall In Love;
- NICK DEMOS, Award-Winning Theatre Producer and Director – Artistic Director of ONE Healing Arts COMPANY in New York City, former Artistic Director for Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and his company, Demos Bizar Entertainment, produced Memphis on Broadway (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical);
- KYLE ROSENBERG, Stage Manager, Lighting Designer, Production Tech – tech, lighting designer, or stage manager for over 100 plays, musicals, and other productions and events, and has worked in theaters ranging from Black Box productions to large performing arts centers seating 1,500;
- KIM SHERMAN, Composer – is equally at home in musical theatre and opera, her incidental music has been heard on Broadway (“I Hate Hamlet”) and in many regional theaters throughout the United States, including The Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.), Center Stage (Baltimore), The Acting Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, and The Guthrie.
Pat Snyder, Executive Director of East End Arts notes: “We are thrilled to be providing this opportunity to local high school students as well as young theatre professionals and theatre lovers to get a deeper look at a career in professional theatre. It’s not every day that you get to hear directly from the mouths of award-winning Broadway professionals on their experiences! We are lucky to have the one and only Broadway right in our backyard really, being on Long Island, for us to draw from for this panel series, and East End Arts is even luckier to have Broadway producer Thomas Farrell as such a strong supporter of the Teeny Awards program, who without which this panel discussion event never would have come to fruition.”
This event is part of East End Arts’ Teeny Awards program, the East End high school theater recognition program, founded and run by East End Arts since 2002. For more information about the Teeny Awards program, visit http://www.eastendarts.org/programs/teeny-awards.html.
East End Arts, established in 1972, is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization, and operates a School of the Arts, an Art Gallery, and presents a variety of events and programs to promote the arts year-round. Proceeds from all events, sales, classes, donations, and memberships benefit the mission and commitment to building and enriching our community through the arts by way of education, support, advocacy, and inspiration.
