16 Jun KSF Artists of Choice: US Musical Theatre Selection Panel
Today we had the pleasure of meeting the shortlisted applicants for KSF Artists of Choice: US Musical Theatre Category. We were thrilled to be working alongside some of the top New York-based musical theatre industry professionals who had kindly agreed to be on our selection panel. Read more about them below.
Warren Carlyle is a New York based English director and choreographer. He has directed and choreographed ten Broadway shows. Warren is a winner of the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award and the prestigious Astaire Award for choreography.
Laura-Michelle Kelly is currently playing Sylvia Llewelyn Davis in Finding Neverland at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre on Broadway. Other credits include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC and South Pacific at The Muny, in St Louis USA. Other theatre credits include reprising her Oliver Award-winning role as Mary Poppins on Broadway and Anna in The King and I at The Muny, in St Louis. She played Karen, along side Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum in Speed The Plow at the Old Vic.
Ted Sperling is a director and musical director. He is the artistic director of the Collegiate Chorale, Principal Conductor of the Westchester Philharmonic, a consultant to the Public Theatre, and a Creative Director of the 24-Hour Plays. He received the 2006 Ted Shen Family Foundation Award for leadership in the musical theatre, and won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his orchestrations of The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also music director. He is currently conducting The King and I at Lincoln Centre Theatre.
KSF Artists of Choice is a pioneering funding and mentoring initiative for UK and US based emerging artists working in theatre, musical theatre, music, dance or film. Epitomizing KSF’s aim of ‘sending the elevator back down’ it will provide funding, year-round support and mentoring by industry heavyweights. Once we’ve completed shortlist interviews in the UK and the US, we hope to announce our award recipients by early July.