| Broadway Performers Unite To Raise Awareness And Create Action To Ensure Art’s Education Is For All | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:50 am EDT 08/13/20 | |
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| Liberate Artists BROADWAY PERFORMERS UNITE To Raise Awareness And Create Action To Ensure Art's Education Is For All New York City - Art's education must be accessible for every child. Liberate Artists Inc. creator Geri Brown and composer, arts educator, and frequent collaborator with Brown, Brett Macias are breaking the economic barriers to access that keep kids out. In less than 7 days, Macias and Brown wrote an original song and gathered a team of Broadway artists and students of dance, from around the country, to record a music video, from their homes. This music video is a greater call for support from artists, lawmakers, philanthropists, and corporate givers to create equity and inclusion in the professional industry by ensuring arts education is equitable and inclusive for all. Titled, Forward Movement, the video features an array of theatre and Broadway performers. Including Tony Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner Liz Callaway and Broadway performers, Tamar Greene from "Hamilton" , Cicily Daniels from "Once on This Island", "The Little Mermaid" , Victoria Huston-Elem from "Finding Neverland" , Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert from "Six the Musical" , Sarita Rachelle Lilly from The Gershwin's' Porgy & Bess, Kelly McIntyre from "A Night With Janis Joplin" , Ben Roseberry from "The Lion King," and Pearl Rhein from "The Great Comet of 1812." Additionally, the theatre creators and performers include Amelia Follett, Brandon Contreras, Cheeyang Ng, Dwelvan David, Lisa C.M. Lamothe, Nkrumah Gatling, Samantha Joy Singh, Shannon Agnew, Taylor Broadard, and Whitney Winfield. Liberate Artists student dancers and Apprentices include Aisha Olemba, Avery Nasta, Bailey Schals, Briana Keenan, Briana Prillerman, Bryson Tomita, Chelsea Prillerman, Giavanna Castelle, Hailey Stuart, Jackie Poznanski, Jasmine King, Jazmyn Nicole Cox, Kaitlyn Dee Snyder, Liliana Patracuolla, Maddi Paulauski, Madison Jackson, Maggie Fitzpatrick, Makana Chong, Melody Cauley, Natalia Gajdzik, Rayna Tyler, and Shayden Tomita. View the music video at www.liberateartists.online/moveforward "The biggest conversation, right now, is how can we make Broadway and theatre more inclusive," says Geri Brown, Liberate Artists CEO and co-creator of Forward Movement music video "The beginning to this change, in the professional industry, is through art's education. When art's education is accessible to all, by breaking the economic barriers to access that keep kids out, then the professional community will transform into spaces filled with a colorful (diverse) array of artists from different races, genders, body shapes, abilities, and economic levels of access. This is the start of this fight, and all of us must contribute to ensure art's education is for all. Support organizations, like Liberate Artists, that are doing this work, write to your congressman, and follow our actionable steps at www.liberateartists.online/moveforward ." This music video also points to direct action that Brown is taking through her organization, Liberate Artists Inc. After the successful launch of the free digital dance event, of the same name (Forward Movement), with over 900 registrants from around the world, Brown and her team awarded over $370,000 in scholarships including two $40,000 scholarships to AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in New York City and Los Angeles. As part of this work, they also created a free equity and inclusivity training program to support educators in developing actionable steps to ensure their arts educational spaces are for all. Additionally, as a musical theatre writing duo Brett Macias and Geri Brown are currently working on an original musical based on race, gender, and mental health through the lens of late civil rights and LGBTQIA activist Marsha P. Johnson. For more information visit us at LiberateArtists.online/moveforward and find us on Instagram at @LiberateArtists . # # # ABOUT GERI BROWN Geri Brown is a CEO and Storyteller. Founder of Liberate Artists INC., Dance Education Equity Association, and 501c3 (pending) Always, Enough Foundation, Geri's work is structured in creating art's education spaces founded in equity and inclusivity. As a storyteller, Geri is one half of the writing team M & B (Macias and Brown) who are currently in the process of writing an original musical based on race, gender, and mental health through the lens of late civil rights and LBGTQUIA activist Marsha P. Johnson. Geri is a member of Actor's Equity Association. ABOUT BRETT MACIAS Brett Macias has composed music for Webster University, Encores! (NYC), the St. Louis Gateway Men's Chorus, Stephens College, the Cockeyed Optimists, Prospect Theater Company, Repertory Theater of Saint Louis and Masterworks' Off Broadway Production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Brett wrote the music for the musicals: FISHING THE MOON, THE LAVATORY, and BENEATH THE SURFACE. TUESDAY (written with Caroline Murphy), credits include: 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (finalist), 2014 New Horizons Music Festival, 2016 Musical Theater Factory (workshop). and Coastal Carolina University (workshop). He and Caroline Murphy were featured in American Theater Magazine as a writing team to watch. Concerts: Lincoln Center (2012), Vitello's (2014), and The Cutting Room (2016). GUMBO (book & lyrics by Christina Quintana) selection by the Grand Jury for the New York Musical Festival Next Link Project, Musical Theater Factory, The PiTCH at Fingerlakes Musical Theater Festival, ASCAP Grow a Show, and Yale Institute for Musical Theatre. He is currently working on N.B.C., Marsha P., and Me with storyteller/spoken word artist Geri Brown and Craft Show with Fred Sauter. brettmacias.com |
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| Link | http://www.liberateartists.online/moveforward |
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