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Through the Songs in the Key of Me (SITKOM) program, Broadway Inspirational Voices connects the heart and talent of the Broadway community with brave and courageous young people facing life-altering challenges such as illness or homelessness. Through customized and engaging music collaborations that give voice to their unique experience, Songs in the Key of Me provides access to hope, inspiration, and transformation.
““Your story is what you have, what you will always have...When we share our stories we are reminded of the humanity in each other.””
Program Coordinators
Danielle K Thomas-Banks
Danielle K Thomas-Banks is currently in the North American Touring cast of "Come From Away" (Hannah). Broadway/Off Broadway: "Avenue Q", 1st & National/European Tour: "Avenue Q", "Hair", "Cinderella", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Jesus Christ Superstar". Regional: 15th Anniversary cast of "CROWNS", written and directed by the award winning Regina Taylor in a co-production at The McCarter Theatre & the Long Wharf Theatre. Regional: Papermills "Mary Poppins", "Caroline or Chage", "Little Shop of Horrors", NYMF 2011: "This One Girl’s Story".
Film/TV: "Crooklyn" A Spike Lee Film", "Rescue Me," "Smash," "NYC 22", and "The Michael J Fox Show", Showtime's "The Affair", Hulu's "Deadbeat", Netflix's "Jessica Jones", IFC's "Benders", and "The Last OG". Proud new wife, soprano & Outreach Director of Michael McElroy's Tony nominated choir, Broadway Inspirational Voices. "Always, for my Mommy & Daddy (RIP)"
Angela Grovey
Angela Grovey is a stage and screen actor who has a deep love for Covenant House and Broadway Inspirational Voices. Grovey is a member of the CH Sleep Out Stage and Screen Executive Team and the Broadway Inspirational Voices CH Outreach Programs. Grovey has volunteered and visited 13 of the houses in the US and Canada. Angela is excited to be returning to Broadway with a show she thinks will bring a smile to many faces when it is safe. Follow Angela and get to know more about her @angelagrovey.
COMPOSERS AND TEACHING ARTISTS
TOM KITT (Composer/Arranger/Orchestrator/Music Supervisor) received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal. He is also the composer of If/Then (Tony Nom); High Fidelity; Bring it On, The Musical (co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda); Almost Famous (written with Cameron Crowe); Superhero; Disney’s Freaky Friday (Stage Production and Original Disney Channel Movie Musical); Dave; and The Winter’s Tale, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Cymbeline (The Public’s NYSF). As a music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator, credits include The SpongeBob Musical (Tony Nom); Jagged Little Pill; Head Over Heels; Grease Live!; Rise (NBC); and American Idiot. His work with Green Day also includes additional arrangements for their Grammy Award-winning album 21st Century Breakdown and their album trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! Tom received an Emmy Award as co-writer (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) for the 2013 Tony Awards opening number, Bigger. Other Television Songwriting credits include the 2019 Tony Awards Opening Number, Live!, a musical episode of Royal Pains, and songs for Penny Dreadful, and Sesame Street. As a musical director, conductor, arranger and orchestrator, credits include the Pitch Perfect films, 2Cellos featuring Lang Lang (Live and Let Die), The Kennedy Center Honors, 13, Debbie Does Dallas, Everyday Rapture, Hair, Laugh Whore, Pippin (Deaf West), and These Paper Bullets. Upcoming projects include The Visitor (Public Theater, Spring 2020), and Flying Over Sunset (Lincoln Center Theater, Spring 2020). Tom is also now a recording artist at Sony Masterworks and will begin recording his debut album in the summer of 2020.
GEORGIA STITT is an award-winning composer, lyricist, music producer, and pianist. She has two original musicals that premiered recently: Snow Child (Arena Stage) and Big Red Sun (11th Hour Theater, NAMT). Her children’s musical, Samantha Spade, Ace Detective, (TADA Youth Theater) won “Outstanding New Musical” from the National Youth Theatre and is now licensed by Concord Theatricals. Other shows include The Big Boom (with Hunter Foster), The Water (winner of the 2008 ANMT Search for New Voices in American Musical Theater), and Mosaic (commissioned for Inner Voices, starring Heidi Blickenstaff). Georgia has released four albums of her music: A Quiet Revolution, My Lifelong Love, Alphabet City Cycle, and This Ordinary Thursday. She is currently at work on a collection of theatrical art songs and an oratorio. Georgia is in leadership at The Dramatists Guild and The Lillys, and she is the Founding Director of Maestra, an organization for the women who make the music in the musical theater. www.georgiastitt.com
TIMOTHY HUANG is a New York based composer/lyricist/librettist. His musical American Morning (Prospect Theater, 2016 Village Theater Festival, 2015 NAMT Festival, 2012 BMI Master Class hosted by Stephen Sondheim, 2011 ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop) was the winner of the 2015 New American Musical Award, and 2016 Richard Rodgers Award, making its author the first and only Asian American to win the latter as a triple-threat composer/lyricist/librettist. Studio album available on Apple, Spotify etc. Other works include Peter and the Wave, Death and Lucky, The View From Here, (NYMF 06) And the Earth Moved (NYMF 04), LINES: A Song Cycle (NYMF 08), A Relative Relationship (SoundBites Festival, Bite-Sized Bway) Missing Karma (City Theater of Miami, Theater Elision, National Asian Artists Project) and Koi Story (Sam French OOB SPF).
Timothy has taught/lectured at Brown, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and for the Lincoln Center SISP. He is a Dramatists Guild Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, NYSCA/NYFA Grant recipient for Playwriting, BMI workshop. Proud husband to Laura and father to Haven. www.timothyhuang.net
JULIANNE WICK DAVIS (composer) 2012 Jonathan Larson Award; 2018 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award for Outstanding Female Musical Theater Composer. TREVOR (music) with Dan Collins (book and lyrics) world premiere at Writer’s Theatre, Chicago (Jeff Award for Outstanding New Musical); off-Broadway 2021. SOUTHERN COMFORT, The Public Theatre (NY Times Critic’s Pick, Lortel and Outer Critics Circle), developmental production at CAP21, (GLAAD Media Award, TimeOut NYC and NY Times Critic’s Pick). THE PEN, Inner Voices with Collins, NY Times Critic’s Pick. WHEN WE MET (music & lyrics), O’Neill Musical Theater Conference, York NEO Development Series, developmental production at CAP21. THE WILLARD SUITCASES (book, music, & lyrics) American Shakespeare Center 2019 (Washington Post’s Top 10 2019 Theatre). LAUTREC AT THE ST. JAMES (music) with John Dietrich (book and lyrics), NAMT 2019 Conference. Broadway Women’s Fund 50 Women to Watch 2020, Dramatist Guild Fellow, Sundance Fellow at UCross. MFA Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program where she is now faculty.
CRYSTAL MONEE HALL - BIV Teaching Artist & Composer
Crystal Monee Hall is thrilled to be a part of SITKOM for the third time. A singer-songwriter and vocal arranger, Crystal works with many acclaimed artists including Ben Platt, Kristen Chenoweth, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Thomas Rhett. She is a music professor at NYU New Studio on Broadway, and a proud member of Broadway Inspirational Voices. Follow CMH @crystalmonee and crystalmoneehall.com!
TROY ANTHONY - BIV Teaching Artist
Troy Anthony is a composer, actor, and director based in NYC practicing Black queer joy. He has presented work at Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, O’Neill Theater Center, National Alliance of Musical Theater Conference, Prospect Theater Company, and the Musical Theater Factory (MTF). Commissions include the Atlantic Theater Company, the Civilians, and The Shed. Troy has been seen in the Public Theater’s Hercules, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It, as well as Prospect Theater Company’s Tamar of the River. He is the founding music director of the Public Theater’s Public Works Community Choir. He also focuses on the intersection between art and social justice serving as the director of legacy and internship programs at the DreamYard Project in the Bronx. Troy is a 2019 – 2020 MTF Maker. IG:@troyanthonymusic