Mykal Kilgore, Kenita Miller, Jonathan Raviv, and More to Join Rona Siddiqui at the Kennedy Center

New York based composer and lyricist, Rona Siddiqui will be joined by Mykal Kilgore (Motown), Kenita Miller (Once on this Island), Samia Mounts (We Live in Cairo workshop), Jonathan Raviv (The Band's Visit), Sherz Aletaha (Disaster!), and Waseem Alzer (We Live in Cairo workshop) at The Kennedy Center in a concert, Rona Siddiqui: Halfghan on a Mission, featuring her original music on November 15 at 6 PM.

The concert will be music directed by Rona Siddiqui, co-directed by Rona Siddiqui and Andrew Garrett, and will feature musicians Brian Shankar Adler, Maddie Ballard, Wesley Barnes, Rob Jost, Susan Mandel and Mike Rosengarten.

Halfghan feminist Rona Siddiqui brings both her unique pop- and Middle Eastern-infused grooves and her Muppet-esque sense of humor to a myriad of topics-from being a bi-ethnic brown person in America, to raising awareness around mental health issues, to getting out the vote.

Rona Siddiqui is a NYC-based composer/lyricist. Musicals: Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, One Good Day, The Tin, Treasure in NYC. Commissions: 24 Hour Musicals, Prospect Theater Company, The Civilians, the NYC Gay Men's Chorus, 52nd St Project. Original scores: The Vagina Monologues, Middletown, The Good Person of Szechuan. Awards: ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the ASCAP Foundation/Max Dreyfus Scholarship. www.ronasiddiqui.com

This performance is featured as part of the Kennedy Center's free daily performance series in collaboration with the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers:

http://www.kennedy-center.org/video/performance/67477

We regret that as the theater reaches capacity, seats cannot be saved for patrons who have not arrived or are not next in line. No free parking is provided for this event. For more information about directions and parking, please visit http://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/visitor/directions

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