Attention: Broadway Bound Performers!
Tara Rubin, an elite New York City casting director, has joined the faculty for The Broadway Artists Intensive to be held this summer at the Raymond F.Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
In addition, a few spots remain available for the July 6-25 program, designed for local young people dreaming of making it big on Broadway. Video auditions can be submitted at www.thebroadwayartistsintensive.com/florida/video-audtions.Rubin, owner of Tara Rubin Casting, and her firm have cast the Tony-winning Broadway productions of Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and Aladdin, to name a few. Her staff has also served as casting directors for Yale Repertory Theater for the past 11 seasons and has worked with many regional theaters, including La Jolla Playhouse, The Williamstown Theater Festival and the Dallas Theater Center.
Rubin is a graduate of Boston University and serves on the board of the Casting Society of America.
The Broadway Artists Intensive at the KravisCenter is a one-of-a-kind program in our community, allowing selected performing arts students the rare opportunity to train with some of Broadway’s most celebrated names. Several local students have been cast in Broadway productions as a result of their participation in The Broadway Artists Intensive.
KRAVIS CENTER TO HOST THE BROADWAY ARTISTS INTENSIVE
TO PROVIDE ADVANCED MUSICAL THEATER TRAINING FOR SOUTH FLORIDA STUDENTS
(West Palm Beach, FL) – Start spreading the news! South Florida students hoping to make it in the “Big Apple” can do more than give their regards to Broadway when the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts hosts The Broadway Artists Intensive, a three-week, advanced musical theater training program to be presented by award-winning faculty who have all done multiple Broadway shows.
A few spots remain for The Broadway Artists Intensive, and are filled by audition only. A limited number of students between the ages of 12 and 20 will be selected for the program, which immerses them in the three major musical theater disciplines: acting, voice and dance. The Broadway Artists Intensive will be held July 6-25, 2015, at the KravisCenter, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The cost to participants is $1,500. To submit a video audition, please visit www.thebroadwayartistsintensive.com/florida/video-auditions or call 561-651-4376.
Created by venerable Broadway performers Jason Gillman, Jackie Bayne Gillman and Greg Graham, The Broadway Artists Intensive classes will be taught by an all-Broadway faculty, including “special guest artists.” Previous guest artists have included famed Director/Choreographer Jerry Mitchell, who has received multiple Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, and TV star and Tony winner Christian Borle of NBC’s Smash.
Other guest artists have included Tony-nominated actress Laura Bell Bundy, Emmy Award-winning and Broadway choreographer Josh Bergasse (On the Town, So You Think You Can Dance), Broadway casting director Nora Brennan (Matilda, Billy Elliot) and TV/film/Broadway casting director Justin Huff of Telsey and Company (Newsies, Kinky Boots).
Gillman, a graduate of the University of Florida, starred opposite John Lithgow and Jonathan Pryce in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway and has also performed in such Broadway productions as Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Never Gonna Dance, Annie Get Your Gun, Hello Dolly and Legally Blonde The Musical. Gillman relocated to Jupiter, FL, with his wife and Broadway veteran actress Jackie Bayne Gillman, who most recently was seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning revival of South Pacific at LincolnCenter.
Ms. Bayne Gillman’s additional credits include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ragtime, White Christmas and performing the starring role of Sugar in Some Like It Hot opposite screen legend, Tony Curtis. She has worked at Goodspeed Opera (Connecticut), Pioneer Theater in Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, the El Portal in Los Angeles, ArtPark (Buffalo), Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theater (Chicago), Virginia Musical Theater, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Favorite roles include Amneris in Aida, Z’s Favorite in The Will Rogers Follies, and Charity in Sweet Charity.
For more than 20 years, the nonprofit KravisCenter for the Performing Arts has helped students of all ages fuel their imaginations and expand their lives through comprehensive arts education programs. Last season, more than 60,000 children from Palm Beach, Broward, Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties attended numerous performances through the Kravis Center S*T*A*R (Students and Teachers Arts Resource) Series. More than 3,000 adults attended ArtSmart continuing education classes and lectures – with topics ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Cuban folklore music.
“We are very pleased to be collaborating with the Artistic Directors of The Broadway Artists Intensive to offer a high caliber performing arts summer program here at the KravisCenter for our career-track young artists,” said Tracy C. Butler, Kravis Center Director of Education.
Centrally located in West Palm Beach, the RaymondF.Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is one of the premier performing arts centers in the Southeast with a renowned national and international reputation. Established as a leading force in the social fabric of the community, its many outreach programs are as broad and varied as the community itself. To date, the Center has opened the door to the performing arts for approximately 2 million school children.