“Defying Gravity” with The Arkansas Repertory Theatre Annual Gala, Ovation

Defying gravity with The Arkansas Repertory Theatre throughout their annual gala, Ovation. 

Hosted by Myron and Stephanie Jackson, and Dr. Rys Branman and his spouse Leslie Branman. Honoring Arkansas artists Jana L. Beard, proprietor and director of Shuffles & Ballet II; and Steve H. Broadnax III, Broadway director, actor, educator and author.

Jana has taught dance within the Central Arkansas space for over 45 years and has been the proprietor and director of Shuffles for 38 of these years. She has carried out in productions at The Rep, together with “Candy Charity,” “Guys and Dolls,” “Chicago,” “Good Girl of Setzuan,” “A Soldier’s Story,” “Evita,” and “Into the Woods.” She has served over 20 years as director and choreographer for the native biannual spoof “The Gridiron Present” and labored alongside Maestro David Itkin because the stage director for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas Spectacular. In 2015, she was honored to obtain the Arkansas Arts Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award within the Arts.

Steve’s directing credit embrace the world premiere of Katori Corridor’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize successful “The Scorching Wing King,” in addition to Broadway’s “Ideas of a Coloured Man.” He additionally directed Susan Lori Parks “Sally & Tom,” Lee Edward Colston’s “The First Deep Breath,” Dominique Morisseau’s “Sundown Child,” and “Blood on the Root,” which received the Kennedy Heart’s Hip Hop Theatre Creator Award. He’s a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, serves because the affiliate arts director at Individuals’s Gentle Theatre and is theatre professor at Penn State College. Along with performing and directing a number of productions at The Rep, Steve offered his unique award-winning play “The Hip Hop Undertaking” right here, and most lately, directed The Rep’s manufacturing of “Marie & Rosetta.”

This occasion is held on Thursday, Might 9, on the Arkansas Repertory Theatre the place cocktails, dinner and a stay efficiency would be the night’s leisure. To buy your tickets, go to: https://www.therep.org/ovation-tickets/ and for extra data of this occasion and the sponsors, go to:  https://www.therep.org/ovation/

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