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This class will explore vocal and audition techniques, expand your repertoire, and build connections by connecting students with industry professionals from Broadway and beyond! In-person in NYC. Open to those who speak both English and Spanish. Currently in progress! 
Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue
$8 Donation — ALL LEVELS WELCOME
IAN HERSEY IS BACK! Come “brush up your Shakespeare!” Whether you’ve worked with Ian in the past or you’ve never studied Shakespeare before, this is the perfect class for you. Ian will cater to wherever you are in your journey with The Bard, and his fun, excellent technique can be applied to ANY text, not just Shakespeare.
Ian Hersey is a renowned actor, director, and educator who has been part of the RL familia for over a decade. His acting work spans theater, film, TV and commercials, most recently playing Bottom the Weaver in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to rave reviews at The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. He has directed over a dozen productions of Shakespeare, including a self-adapted, twenty-five minute version of Othello for the Jose Limón Dance Company. He served as the Assistant Director for both the Tony Award-winning director Dan Sullivan on Cymbeline at The Delacorte and Obie-winning director James MacDonald on the star-studded King Lear at The Public. Also at The Public, Ian worked as the Associate in the Shakespeare Initiative where he helped to start The Mobile Unit and developed/ran many educational programs, including the hugely successful A Midsummer Day’s Camp and The Shakespeare Lab. He has a Masters in Education from Harvard.
Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue | $8 Donation | ALL LEVELS WELCOME
The amazing Andrew Sotomayor may be music directing the national tour of ANNIE at Madison Square Garden right now, but he has made time for us Monday, December 16! Come try out new material, visit old material, and raise your voices in song to celebrate familia for our final Vocal Salon of 2024!
Andrew Sotomayor is a fabulous Music Director whose recent credits include: Tick…Tick…BOOM! (George Street Playhouse) El Otro Oz (Atlantic For Kids) Sound of Music, Tootsie (Ogunquit Playhouse) Rent (Broadway at Music Circus); Sweet Charity (Maltz Jupiter Theater); On Your Feet, Some Enchanted Evening (Paper Mill Playhouse). First Nat’l Tours: Tootsie, Escape to Margaritaville. Off-Broadway: Curvy Widow (premiere). Regional:Man of La Mancha (Westport Country Playhouse); Disney’s Newsies, West Side Story (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); The Will Rogers Follies (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), Cutman: A Boxing Musical(Goodspeed). As a composer, Andrew has provided music and lyrics for the original musicals 50 Shades of F****d Up and Committed, as well the score for the audiobook The Influential Voice. He is a proud graduate of Stetson University, Florida. Endless love and gratitude to his wonderful husband, Bart. For more, visit soto.fun
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