Mark your calendar and do not miss the Inaugural 2024 Classroom Resources Grants Webinar on Thursday September 26, 5:15PM – 6:00PM EST where some of Broadway’s best designers will share insight on how to best equip your theatre space for success, and how to apply for support to fund it through ATW’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Classroom Resources Grants. Stay competitive and RSVP HERE.
✨ Why You Should Attend:
+ Face-time with some of Broadway’s top designers as they share their expertise on the best equipment choices for a variety of theatre environments;
+ Application tips on how to apply for support to help purchase equipment through ATW’s ALWI Classroom Resources Program;
+ Your specific questions answered through a live Q&A.
Moderated by President and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, Heather Hitchens, this webinar includes panelists Natasha Katz (lighting designer), David Zinn (costume and set designer), Alex R Donnelly (VP & General Manager for Broadway at PRG), Germán Martínez (Theatrical Sound Designer), and Jen Schriever (lighting designer).
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Heather A. Hitchens is a nationally recognized arts leader with nearly 30 years of performing arts administration, policy, and program development experience. Hitchens currently serves as President & CEO of the American Theatre Wing (ATW). As CEO, she is charged with maintaining its brand of excellence in the Tony Awards (founded by ATW in 1947) as well as overseeing and shaping the ATW’s other vital grant making, professional development, educational, and media programs. Since starting her work at ATW in 2011, she has tripled the Organization’s budget, and overseen an expansion of its programs that has resulted in a more than triple increase in the Organization’s investment in programs.
Natasha Katz is an American lighting designer for the theatre, dance, and opera. Natasha has 19 Tony nominations and has won 8 times for shows including Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, MJ, Aladdin, An American in Paris, and more. Natasha has more than 60 Broadway credits. She has also designed for operas and dance with the Royal Opera House, Dutch National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Opera.
David Zinn is a costume and set designer for theater and opera. On Broadway he’s designed Scenery for STEREOPHONIC, JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING, THE NOTEBOOK, KIMBERLY AKIMBO, FUNNY GIRL, THE MINUTES, DIANA, TORCH SONG, and THE HUMANS; scenery and costumes for SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, FUN HOME, CHOIR BOY, AMELIE, and THE LAST SHIP; and costumes for ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, A DOLL’S HOUSE PART 2, AIRLINE HIGHWAY, THE VIBRATOR PLAY and XANADU. Off-Broadway he’s designed at Playwright’s Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center, MCC, 2d Stage, Elevator Repair Service, Target Margin, and the Public.
Alex R Donnelly is the Vice President & General Manager for Broadway at PRG, the world’s leading provider of services and solutions in entertainment and live events. Alex manages the lighting, audio and video teams in New York. Outside of PRG, he owns and manages Fortress Productions where was involved with the productions of Stereophonic, Parade, Suffs, Alex Edelman’s Just For Us, Waitress, Oh, Hello, Sunday in the Park with George and the national tour of Hundred Days by The Bengsons. He was the Founding Executive Director of the Corkscrew Theater Festival, a multi-venue theatrical non-profit in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University.
Germán Martínez is an award winning freelance Theatrical Sound Designer based in NYC/NJ. He received his degree in Sound Design and Management from Montclair State University in May 2018. As a designer, he seeks original and enticing plays to help develop, and bring forward the stories of bold playwrights. He strives to provide his services to stories that explore the topics of, but are not exclusive to the LGBTQIA experiences, immigrant and first generation stories, and BIPOC narrative
Jen Schriever is an NYC-based lighting designer known for her work on live entertainment projects for Broadway shows as well as theatre and opera projects worldwide. Ms. Schriever is Tony Award nominated for her work on A Strange Loop on Broadway, and received the Obie Award Winner for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design and Obie Award Special Citation for A Strange Loop. She is also nominated for the Russian Golden Mask Award for Lighting Design of Britten’s Midsummer at the Mariinksy Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Ms. Schriever is also an adjunct professor in Theatre Design/ Technology at SUNY Purchase College, where she studied lighting.
