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Aspire Performing Arts Company
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Disney’s The Lion King Jr.., Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical Jr. (pilot production), Mamma Mia! and Once on this Island Jr.
Tribe from Indian Township, Maine,
a Master Basketmaker, a drag queen, an activist, an educator and
a two-spirit – an indigenous cultural, spiritual and gender role that holds the sacred space between masculine and feminine energies. These three recipients join the 12 artists who
Orlando Hernandez
The New England Foundation for the Arts has announced the 2019 awardees of the Rebecca Blunk Fund. Each of
have received Rebecca Blunk Fund awards since the first awards were made in 2015. The fund was established
in memory of Rebecca Blunk (1953-2014),
the three recipients will receive an award
of $3,000 in unrestricted support for the creation of new work and for professional development.
The awardees are: ORLANDO HERNANDEZ of Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, an interdisciplinary performer working primarily in tap dance as a touring and teaching artist; TOBY MACNUTT, a queer, nonbinary trans, and disabled dancer/choreographer, author
and teacher living in Burlington, Vermont; and GEO NEPTUNE, a member of the Passamaquoddy
Geo Neptune
celebrating her 29 years of service to NEFA and her abiding passion for the arts.
APAP mourns the passing of two seminal figures in the performing arts: HAROLD “HAL” PRINCE, a 21- time Tony Award winner who was considered one of the 20th century’s most prominent stage directors,
and ELLEN WILKES IRMISCH of the Tartan Terrors.
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ASPIRE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: LISA BETH VETTOSO
