Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists. In the News Derrick Adams (Tr

Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists. In the News Derrick Adams (Trustee) featured in The New York Times Sachi Clay (2026 Visual Arts) featured in The Dispatch Zakiriya Gladney (2023 Photography & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) profiled in The Harvard Crimson Raymond Pinto (2009 Dance) named a Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography Lauren Robie (2010 Visual Arts) featured in PBS WGCU News segment, “Alternative Ways to Remember Loved Ones,” as co-founder of Hope Eternal Gardens Laila Wilson (2019 Writing) featured in Deadline as top 10 finalist in ATX TV Festival Pitch Competition for original TV series, King Senior High Kudos Will Bundon (2024, 2025 Theater) added to the cast of Netflix series, All The Sinners Bleed Micaela Diamond (2017 Theater), Tarell Alvin McCraney (1999 Theater), Julia McDermott (2014 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Ben Levi Ross (2014, 2016 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and Michael Thurber (2006 Classical Music) nominated for 2026 Drama Desk Awards Brandon Goldberg (2022, 2023, 2024 Jazz) and Brahm Sasner (2022 Jazz) named finalists for 2027 American Piano Awards Jazz Competition Nyah Hadmon (2019 Writing) won 3rd place in O, Miami, SWWIM and Elevate Miami’s “Sonnet Boom: Love Poems for Miami” contest Sydney Kassekert (2024 Voice) will join Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250 tour to debut her original song “Imagine,” accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Cristian Măcelaru and professional orchestras throughout the east coast Oliviana Marie (2021 Voice) chosen as a fellow for the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive at Sony Pictures Studios Dylan James Shaw (2026 Jazz) released “Above the Clouds”, a pop jazz composition honoring Herbie Hancock Evan Wang (2024, 2025 Writing) released an award-winning debut chapbook, Slow Burn On the Calendar Gabi Campo (2013 Theater), Mia Pak (2016 Theater) and King Princess (2015 Voice) to star in Girl, Interrupted at The Public Theater in New York, NY from May 13-June 21 Emmet Cohen (2008, 2009 Jazz) is bringing Live From Emmet’s Place to the Knight Concert Hall in Miami, FL on May 8 Tymothee Harrell (2018 Theater) and Blaine Alden Kraus (2010 Theater, Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) starring in Ain’t Too Proud at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, ME from May 14-June 13 Oliviana Marie (2021 Voice) was selected as a composition winner for the Music for Unity competition; her composition will be performed at the Grand Finale concert at Glendale Presbyterian Church in Glendale, CA on May 16 Fiona Robberson (2012 Theater) to star in Private Lives at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison, NJ from May 16-June 7 Share Your News If you are a YoungArts past winner, guest artist or panelist, fill out this form to be included in an upcoming spotlight.