Alex Newell, Ryann Redmond to Headline BROADWAY DREAMS SING DREW FORNAROLA at Green Room 42

Broadway Dreams and writer Drew Fornarola (STRAIGHT, Claudio Quest) will team up to present an evening of songs from Fornarola's musicals at the beautiful new Green Room 42 on 42nd Street. The event will be held on June 12th at 8pm and will help kick off the Broadway Dreams New York City Musical Theatre Intensive. Tickets are $20.

Scheduled to appear are Broadway Dreams faculty members Alex Newell (GLEE), Ryann Redmond (Bring It On), Craig D'Amico (Annie Get Your Gun), Greg Kamp (Catch Me If You Can), and MiMi Scardulla (Gigantic). They will be joined by program alumni and students including John Battagliese, Andrew Berlin (A Christmas Story), Hannah Hustad, Leigh Ellen Jones, Troy Lebane, Matthew Liu, Jonathan Moussett, Paris Nesbitt (Book of Mormon), and Brooke Singer. Additional casting will be announced soon. The evening will be music directed by Jason Wetzel and produced by Greg Kamp.

Tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10173354 or http://www.greenfignyc.com/thegreenroom42/

Broadway Dreams (Annette Tanner, Founder and President), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization established in 2006, provides youth and young adults of all socioeconomic backgrounds with performance training, life skills building, and mentorship opportunities from the entertainment industry's most distinguished talents. Program intensives are offered nationally and internationally throughout the year. To date, more than 11,000 students have been served, with more than one million dollars ($1M) in scholarship funding awarded. For more information, visit broadwaydreams.org.

Drew Fornarola is a playwright and songwriter from New York City. His play STRAIGHT was a 2016 New York Times Critics' Pick, and his musical Claudio Quest won six 2015 NYMF Awards for excellence. Fornarola co-wrote the songs for Dreamworks Animation's Veggietales: Noah's Ark, and is currently developing a stage show for DreamWorks. Other credits include an adaptation of actress Molly Shannon's children's book Tilly the Trickster (Atlantic Theatre Company), COLLEGE The Musical (mtvU Award), Thucydides (Winner, Samuel French Play Festival), and Vote for Me (London Theatre Workshop). Drew has been a member of the Broadway Dreams faculty since 2014. BA Princeton, JD Fordham, alumnus BMI Workshop. For more information, visit drewfornarola.com.