54 Below Internship Dinner
Some of our interns’ incredible dinner dates posing for a picture after the amazing show at 54 Below!
Interns and mentors sharing their professional and personal assets, aspirations, and boundaries while enjoying a delicious dinner at 54 Below’s Women’s History month event: “Songs from Women at the Table.”
Interns from the CENTER BAE program, a partnership with The LGBT Center, taking turns with working with Amanda from 54 Below to learn about the sound and lighting boards, how to prepare for and produce an event, create stage plots, communicate with talent, and more!
Our team of 10 young interns from the LGBT Center recently participated in a hands-on workshop with the production and A/V crew of 54 Below - Broadway’s Living Room - on the afternoon of March 4. Afterwards, they were each paired with a generous mentor who treated them to dinner and show, and introduced them to a professional dinner experience.
The event was not only a great opportunity to introduce our interns to various elements of theatrical production, but also gave them a chance to put the skills they’ve been learning in their internship to use: leading “asset-forward” in their everyday interactions, even with people they have just met! In today’s world, many adults have falsely caricatured young people as phone-obsessed zombies who are unable to maintain eye-contact and keep a conversation going. However, these interns busted that stereotype with flying colors, jumping right in to conversations, shared stories, and lots of laughter. Everyone left the evening on high, but none more so than the teaching artists and program coordinators, gushing with pride at how their interns behaved, and gratitude for the incredible mentors who made the evening possible!
Learn more about the event, taken from 54 Below’s website: In celebration of Women’s History Month, acclaimed women musical theatre writers who are Council members of the Dramatists Guild of America will gather to share stories and introduce some of the songs they’ve written from Broadway and beyond. The night will feature performances by some of the theatre’s brightest voices.
The Dramatists Guild has been advocating for the rights of theater writers for over 100 years and its elected leadership includes award-winning and legendary songwriting women such as Lynn Ahrens, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Kirsten Childs, Gretchen Cryer, Amanda Green, Christine Toy Johnson, Julia Jordan, Lisa Kron, Helen Park, Rona Siddiqui, Georgia Stitt, and Shaina Taub who have brought us such musicals such as Ragtime, Once on This Island, Disney’s Frozen, Fun Home, The Color Purple, Hands On A Hardbody, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Broken Ground, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road, Suffs, KPOP, and more!
Co-hosted by President of the Guild, Amanda Green and Treasurer of the Guild, Christine Toy Johnson.
Produced by Jen Sandler.
Music Direction by Anna Ebbeson.
Performances by:
Sherz Aletaha (Merrily We Roll Along)
Tony Award® nominee Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!, Big Fish, Finnian’s Rainbow)
Jasmine Forsberg (Six, Here Lies Love) – 9:30pm only
Andrea Frierson (Disney’s The Lion King, Once On This Island)
Taylor Iman Jones (Six, Hamilton, Head Over Heels) – 7pm only
Ashley D. Kelley (Shucked)
Jo Lampert (Joan of Arc: Into The Fire)
Curtis Moore (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Patti Murin (Disney’s Frozen, Wicked, Lysistrata Jones)
Ben Thompson (Waitress, American Idiot)
Tony Award® nominee Elizabeth Stanley (Jagged Little Pill, On The Town, The Bridges Of Madison County)
Kuhoo Verma (Octet)”
