A new take on the Apple Award

Join us for this free Apple Professionals Series! We’ll be chatting with Tony-nominated director and acclaimed Broadway actor, Michael Arden about his career.

Join us for this free Apple Professionals Series! Come chat with Alexander Dodge, recently represented on Broadway with the smash hit musical, Anastasia and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination, an Outer Critics Circle Nomination, and a Tony Award Nomination.

Join us for this free Apple Professionals Series! Hear from and talk with Joey Monda, a Broadway producer and general manger, currently running Hadestown (Tony Award) and Mrs. Doubtfire and the previous Broadway productions of The Inheritance (Tony nomination), Slave Play (Tony nomination), Mike Birbiglia’s The New One and The Cher Show.

Join us for this free Apple Professionals Series! Talk with Broadway Lighting Designer, Rui Rita, about his career and work on such acclaimed shows as The Velocity of Autumn starring Estelle Parsons, The Trip To Bountiful starring Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Condola Rashad at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and more.

Brittney Johnson made history in 2019 as the first person of color and first Black woman to play Glinda in Broadway’s Wicked. However, as the actor notes, she had already made Broadway history in 2015 as a cast member in Les Misérables—as the first Black woman to play both Eponine and Fantine, and as the first woman to play both in the same day—though it was not publicized or covered in the same way.

Beverly Jenkins has been a professional stage manager for more than 30 years. She is currently the production stage manager for the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Hadestown.

Costume Designer Montana Levi Blanco and Hair, Wig & Makeup Designer Cookie Jordan have collaborated on countless productions and they’ll come together to discuss their collaborative process and how they imagine a look for the stage.