WITH APPRECIATION
A special thank you to James Monroe Iglehart, Linda Cho, Brandon Victor Dixon, Treshelle Edmond, Amelia Hensley, Nikki M. James, Zachary Noah Piser, and Stephen Schwartz. To Logan Culwell-Block and Playbill for their generous and complimentary support of this Festival event Playbill program. To Matt Polk and Kelly Stotmeister from POLK & CO, Todd Rappaport, Amy Dorfman Wine, Stephen Webber, Ian Kagey, Glenn Forsythe, Ryan Nava and our colleagues at the Powerstation at BerkleeNYC.
Thank you to Chancellor Meisha Porter and DOE colleagues including Linda Chen, Lawrence Pendergast, Lucius Young, Jennifer Alburg, Nancy Baes, Kate Blumm, Christian Williams Fernandez, Victoria Fullard, Chantell Griffith, Mary Wall, Lucius Young. 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. To Dylan Geil, Amy Meckler, and Jina Porter from the Office of Sign Language Interpreting Services.
Additional thanks to Averil Carr, Lianne Davidoff, Lear DeBessonet, Michael Finke, Margarita Herrera, Marjorie LeWit and Quixote Studios, Lizzie McGuire, Keeshon Morrow, Daniel Rader, Kristen Rathbun, Jesse Warren-Nager, and Joyelle Watkins.
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 high school students.