| Broadway and Beyond TV Celebrates Black History Month | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 03:46 pm EST 02/24/21 | |
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| Broadway and Beyond TV Celebrates Black History Month Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey Paul Tazewell Colleen Jennings-Roggensack Starting Wednesday, February 24 At BroadwayandBeyondTV.com and ReachTV.com Hosted by Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer, Catherine Schreiber, the current Broadway and Beyond TV shows focus on leading Black theatre-makers. Each episode can be seen on BroadwayandBeyondTV.com and related Facebook, Instagram and Twitter social channels, ReachTV.com and CatherineSchreiberProductions.com The Broadway and Beyond TV series runs in over 90 major airports in North America and the UK on ReachTV. Premiere Dates for New Episodes of Broadway and Beyond TV: Wednesday, February 24 10:30 AM ET Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey (Part One) Catherine Schreiber talks with Olivier winning and four-time Tony nominated team who burst onto the Broadway scene with a starry revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2008. Meet the trail-blazing producers. Thursday, February 25 10:30 AM ET Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey (Part Two) Diversity and Inclusion 12 Noon ET Paul Tazewell (Part One) Catherine Schreiber interviews the Tony Award-winning costume designer of Hamilton. Friday, February 26 10:30 AM ET Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey (Part Three) Forging Ahead and Making a Difference 12 Noon ET Paul Tazewell (Part Two) The continuation of the interview with the Tony and Emmy Award-winning designer - Inspiring others. 2 PM ET Colleen Jennings-Roggensack Catherine Schreiber talks with an industry leader who has been a major force in the commercial theatre for more than a quarter of a century. Saturday, February 27 12 Noon ET Paul Tazewell (Part Three) A Man for all Mediums - What's up Next? West Side Story with Steven Spielberg Interview Credits: Executive Producer/Creator/Host: Catherine Schreiber Abigail Steckler: Director, Little Scorpion Studios Title Sequence: Dave Hagen Social Pages: Broadwayandbeyondtv.com @bwayandbeyondtv on Twitter @bwayandbeyondtv on Instagram Facebook Broadway and Beyond TV YouTube Broadway and Beyond TV Biographies: Catherine Schreiber. A Two-Time Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer, Catherine Schreiber received the Broadway Global Producer of the Year Award in 2017. Pre-Covid on Broadway, she was a Lead Producer on Company with Elliott & Harper. Producer: Inheritance. Upcoming: Lehman Trilogy . Off-Broadway: Lead Producer Play That Goes Wrong. Producer Pretty Woman (London). The King's Speech. Recent Broadway productions include - A Christmas Carol (Lead Producer), Network, Pretty Woman, Angels in America, and The Play That Goes Wrong. Recent UK productions include Company, The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (Co-Production with Elliott & Harper), Dreamgirls, Heisenberg, The Life (Offie Winner). Tony Winner for Clybourne Park, Angels in America. Olivier Winner for Company. Evening Standard Award Winner, Outer Critics' Circle Award for The Scottsboro Boys. As a producer, she has received Seven Tony nominations and Five Olivier nominations. She is most proud of bringing The Scottsboro Boys to London. Producer Documentary: Made in Kent (The Transformative Power of the Arts) Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey are the recipients of the 2019 Broadway Global Producer of the Year award from Broadway Global. The Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated producers are the founders of Front Row Productions, established in 2006, which has worked to employ diverse talent, creative teams, and management for all of their productions. Front Row Productions is currently represented on Broadway with Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, which was nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Last fall, the company co-produced Christopher Demos-Brown's American Son, starring Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, Eugene Lee, and Jeremy Jordan, and, in spring 2018, was behind the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh starring Denzel Washington. Other Broadway shows to have come out of Front Row include the first-ever African-American production Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by three-time Emmy winner Debbie Allen in 2008 and starring two-time Tony winner James Earl Jones, Tony winner Phylicia Rashad, Terrence Howard in his Broadway debut, and Tony winner Anika Noni Rose. The revival was the top-grossing play on Broadway that season and went on to transfer to the West End, where it won the 2010 Olivier Award for Best Revival. Byrd and Jones-Harvey were also behind the Off-Broadway and Broadway premieres of Danai Gurira's Eclipsed, starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o; the 2013 Broadway production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful; and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, that same year, directed by five-time Tony Award nominee David Leveaux and starring Orlando Bloom in his Broadway debut alongside two-time Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad. Byrd and Jones-Harvey are currently developing a Broadway-bound musical adaptation of Black Orpheus, based on both the original play by Vinicius de Moraes and the Oscar-winning film. Paul Tazewell has been designing costumes for Broadway, Regional Theater, Film, Television, Dance, and Opera for close to thirty years. He has designed over 18 Broadway shows including Hamilton, In The Heights, Ain't Too Proud, and The Color Purple. Tazewell also designed the costumes for the film Harriet starring Cynthia Erivo and the yet to be released West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg. He is the recipient of an Emmy Award for NBC's "The Wiz! Live" and a Tony Award for Hamilton . Other honors include two Lucille Lortel Awards, four Helen Hayes Awards, a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and The Princess Grace Statue Award. Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, arts leader and visionary is Vice President for Cultural Affairs for Arizona State University and Executive Director of ASU Gammage. She has artistic, fiscal and administrative responsibility for the historic Frank Lloyd Wright designed ASU Gammage, ASU Kerr Cultural Center, with responsibility for Sun Devil Stadium and Desert Financial Arena for non-athletic activities. She oversees the activation and transformation of Sun Devil Stadium into a year-round hub of cultural activity as ASU 365 Community Union. Colleen was also appointed by ASU President Michael Crow to co-lead the Advisory Council on African American Affairs. The council will enhance diversity, growth and opportunity for Black undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff. She serves on The Broadway League's Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Government Relations Committee, the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors, Labor Committee and co-chairs the Legislative Council and Road Presenters/Intra-Industry Committee and is Arizona's only Tony voter. Colleen is a founding and current member of the Creative Capital Board and Senior Advisor to Women of Color in the Arts, former Association of Performing Arts Professionals board president, served on the National Council on the Arts at the bequest of President Clinton and is a Life Director of the Fiesta Bowl. In 2020, she has served on multiple panels addressing human rights, justice, diversity, equity and inclusion and the future of Broadway; including interviews with W. Kamau Bell and Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon related to the pandemic of racism; and participated in the TheaterMakers Summit on getting Broadway touring productions back on the road. Former dancer and choreographer, Colleen is married to Dr. Kurt Roggensack, volcanologist at Arizona State University, and the proud mother of Kelsey, an All-American swimmer, a graduate of Williams College, two-time Fulbright Scholar, who earned a master's degree from Harvard University and currently pursuing a PhD at Cornell University. About ReachTV : ReachTV is the first Nielsen-rated, linear, self-distributed, short-form OTT entertainment network. ReachTV's ground-breaking in-airport linear short form channels can be seen in over 90 of the top airports in North America and are expanding globally. ReachTV airports see 100+ million travelers and generate over $1 billion in food & beverage/retail revenue every month. ReachTV delivers fresh daily content on the company's own patent pending delivery platform, which recreates the entire traditional television network ecosystem in the cloud. In addition to original programming produced in ReachTV's Hollywood studio, ReachTV channels feature innovative short form content from a broad range of content partners such as PlayersTV, A+E Networks, Bloomberg, Ovation, Live Nation, Business Rockstars, AMC, USA Today, and Overtime Sports. |
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