Cyd Sana Rasool has always moved through life with a heart open to beauty, expression, and creativity. Growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania she felt drawn…
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Laurie Lynn Rider’s journey through life has been rich with soundtracks, stories, and stages. Raised in a small Northern New Jersey town and now living…
Tiara Hughes remembers the first time she fell in love with performance. It happened in a theater arts class at Murray Middle School in Wilmington,…
Ada Cruz’s story begins before most of us can even walk. At just three years old, in daycare, she was handed the microphone and invited…
Janet Sprague always carried a quiet dream. Growing up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, she knew she wanted to act at the tender age of eight. She…
John Connolly has known the pull of performance for as long as he can remember. Growing up in Warwick, Rhode Island, he spent childhood creating…
Jessica Xiomara Harley knew early that her heart belonged to the stage and the lens. Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, she was drawn to fashion,…
Joanna Granowski never needed permission to dream. Raised in Warsaw, Poland, during the final years of Communist rule, she grew up with the kind of…
At 59, Cora Emilia Filipe radiates the kind of energy that can’t be taught. It glows through her smile, dances in her eyes, and comes…
Mugsy Blu is a woman of reinvention. Known professionally by her vibrant moniker but grounded in her roots as Megan Rywelski of Lindenhurst, New York,…