Broadway Bound Kids
Erin Glass, Founder and Executive Director
Hadley Cronk, Former Director of Education & Programs
Elizabeth McGuire, Director of Education & Programs
Samantha Parrish, Assistant Director of Education & Programs
ArtsConnection Production Advisors and Technical Support
Laura Borgwardt, Chris Dieman, Jojo Gonzalez, Kim Grier, Keith Herron, Gregory Kostroff,
T. Scott Lilly, Liza Miller, Kari Morris, Kimberly Olsen, Eric Mark Olson-Sánchez Padilla,
Anne Pasquale, Danilo Randjic-Coleman, Kevin Ray, Lisa Diana Shapiro,
and Rebecca Strimaitis
Broadway Bound Kids Production Advisors and Technical Support
Samantha Blain, Rob Brinkmann, Jessie Hooker-Bailey, Heather Hsieh, Natalie Jones,
Delia Kemph, Alison Kusmik, Taylor Marsh, Zachary Maxwell, Collin Meath, Stacie Moye,
Brett Radke, and James R. Whittington
Teacher Professional Development Workshop Instructors
Susan Fuller, Marty Johnson, Lindsay Weiner Lupi, Daniel J. Mertzlufft, and Jiana Odland
Finale and Event Production Team
Producer: Peter Avery
Production Manager: Katharine Strobel
Power Station at BerkleeNYC
Executive Director, Berklee NYC: Stephen Webber
Director of Operations, Berklee NYC: Ian Kagey
Video Editor: Simon Yu
WITH APPRECIATION
A special thank you to Amy Dorfman Wine and the Shubert Foundation. To Logan Culwell-Block and Playbill for their generous and complimentary support of this Finale event Playbill program. To Stephen Webber, Ian Kagey, and our colleagues at the Powerstation at BerkleeNYC for wizardry of virtual engineering. Thank you to the dedicated theatre artist educators at ArtsConnection and Broadway Bound Kids whose excellent work helped ensure schools could participate in joyful musical theatre, even virtually.
Thank you to Chancellor Meisha Porter and our DOE colleagues including Linda Chen, Lawrence Pendergast, and Lucius Young for your support. To Kate Alcorn, Alex Kim, and the Fund for Public Schools. To Maria Palma, Trenton Price, Shifat Jahreen and all our Office of Arts and Special Projects colleagues. Thank you to Katharine Strobel for her passion and hard work on behalf of our Shubert/MTI Broadway Junior program students and teachers—from virtual school interviews to coordinating PDs to finale performance videos.
A special recognition of the supportive principals, teachers, staff, and families of all 2021 participating schools for their commitment to excellence in theatre education for our public middle school students. Thank you!
