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Ovation TV, America’s premiere arts network, is thrilled to debut The Green Room with Nadia Brown, a five-part original comedic journalism series celebrating and exploring the creative economy. Hosted by Broadway actor Nadia Brown (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). The series will premiere on Ovation TV on Wednesday, March 23 at 11 p.m. ET. The full season will also be available and free to all via the Ovation NOW app.
Tackling serious topics with humor, songs, animations, and tongue-in-cheek graphics, The Green Room with Nadia Brown is a new series about the issues surrounding the creative economy and the impact of Arts & Culture on every aspect of society. The Arts & Culture sector contributes $919 Billion to the U.S. economy, and is comprised of over 5.2 million workers. With exclusive interviews featuring powerful players (New Mexico Representative Leger Fernández, Hadestown director Rachel Chavkin, NIVA President Reverend Moose, and more) in the political, economic, and creative sectors, The Green Room with Nadia Brown explores complex issues surrounding the Creative Economy and reveals the creative and innovative solutions to the problems facing our nation today.
Episode One: “Who Wants to Be A $919 Billionaire?”
Episode Two: “2020 Vision: The Covid Crisis”
Episode Three: “How did the Arts Become Partisan?”
Episode Four: “A Secretary of Arts & Culture”
Episode Five: “The Creative Solution to Everything”
By John Patrick Shanley
The Duo Theater, NYC
Directed By Bryan Close
Starring:
Robert Bray
Brooke Delaney
Jenny Grace
Rebecca Whitehurst
Henry Zebrowski
Stage Manager:
Set Design: David Bengali
[PICTURED: Henry Zebrowski, Jenny Grace, and Robert Bray.]
By Nicholas Gray
Soho Theater
Directed By Marc Stuart Weitz
Starring:
Dana Berger
Arturo Castro
Gideon Glick
David J. Goldberg
Kathryn Kates
Jon Krupp
Maggie Low
Shonda Leigh Robbins
Garret Zuercher
Stage Manager:
Set Design: Amanda Hagy
Video Design: David Bengali
Lighting Design: David Bengali
[PICTURED: Gideon Glick]
By Michael Aronov
The Clurman, Theater Row, NYC
Directed By David Travis
Starring
Tony Award Winner
Michael Aronov
Stage Manager: Samantha Flint
Lighting Design: David Bengali
[PICTURED : Michael Aronov]
The Barrow Group Theater, NYC
THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING
by Christopher Fry
THE SOUND AN O MAKES
by Jenny Grace
A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY
by Tony Kushner
THE SQUIRREL
by Alex Moggridge
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
By Rebecca Whitehouse
SUBURBAN MOTEL
By George F. Walker
[PICTURED: Brooke Delaney, Ari Brand, Jenny Grace, Marc Stuart Weitz, Natalie Kotman, Anne Bates, and Donovan Patton.]
The Barrow Group Theater, NYC
GUARANTEED SECOND BASE
by Michael Puzzo
THE DISAPPEARING MAN AND OTHER SAD SONGS
by Jahn Sood
directed by Brendan Shea
WHAT A WAY TO GO
by David Bar Katz
POPULATION 8
By Nicholas Gray
Dir. Marc Stuart Weitz
OR,
A Post-Modern Restoration Comedy
By Liz Duffy Adams
Dir. Bryan Close
FAITH IN HUMANITY
By Jen Makholm
Dir. Patrick McNulty
SEAGUTS
By Michael Aronov
[PICTURED: Kathryn Kates, Bryan Close, Halley Zien, and Tovah Close.]
The WorkShop Theater, NYC
GENTLEFUCKNATION
by johnmichael rossi
dir. Marc Stuart Weitz
THE DYING WORDS OF EDISON STRANGE
by Nicholas Gray
dir. Braden LuBell
RELENT
an indie musical
by Jennifer Makholm
music by Ian Wherle
THE ART ROOM
by Billy Aronson
dir. Bryan Close
[PICTURED: Craig muMs Grant]
Official Selection, NY Indie Theatre Film Festival 2019
A short film.
Based off the musical "Relent."
Starring: David J. Goldberg and Shonda Leigh Robbins.
Written and directed by Jenny Grace
Produced by David J. Goldberg and Jenny Grace
Official Selection, NY Indie Film Festival, 2018
Official Selection, Chain NYC Film Festival 2018
Official Selection, NY Indie Theatre Film Festival 2019
Short Film.
On the worst day of his life, at the height of the financial crisis of 2008, a Bear Stearns banker buys an hour with the stripper he's in love with.
Starring: Bryan Close, Jenny Grace, and Kathryn Kates.
Written and Directed by: Jenny Grace
Produced by: Jenny Grace and Robert Vornkahl
The Process Group, NYC Produced in 2012-2013.
A Web Series.
Equal parts The Newsroom and The Colbert Report, Lady Business News mockuments the making of a satirical women's news show (airing monthly, for biological reasons), while offering hilarious and scathing socio-political commentary through the actual broadcast show: "Lady Business: News On The Rag."
Emmy Award winner Michael Cervieri is the executive producer of Lady Business, in association with the Future Journalism Project. Rebecca Whitehurst and Jenny Grace co-produce and co-write the series.
Written by Jenny Grace Makholm and Rebecca Whitehurst.
Starring: Arturo Castro, Jenny Grace, Kathryn Kates, Erik Liberman, Maggie Low, Sarah Steele, Lindsay Strachan, Rebecca Whitehurst, Ashley C. Williams, and Henry Zebrowski.
Executive Producers: The Future Journalism Project and Michael Cervieri
Co-Producers: Jenny Grace, and Rebecca Whitehurst
Madeline Zima (Twin Peaks), Helen Hong (Inside Llewyn Davis), and Rob Belushi (How I Met Your Mother) star in this podcast adaptation of Emily Schultz’s satirical, sci-fi horror novel, The Blondes.
Set two years after SHV has infected blonde women with a rabies-like illness, a fictional podcast examines how the "Blond Fury" has changed our culture: from fashionable new fever bracelets, to empowerment pop songs for the infected, to an entirely new understanding of women, gender, and beauty.
What begins as the story of Hazel Hayes — the unlikely, eight-months-pregnant hero who reveals government abuses at evaluation centers — turns much thornier when her personal life and role in the outbreak is churned into the mediascape. Angry, funny, and with dark turns into body horror, The Blondes is an unflinching look at what happens when beauty becomes, literally, deadly.
Starring: Madeline Zima, Helen Hong, Rob Belushi, Cecilia Corrigan, Yvonne Zima, Dana Berger, Jenny Grace, Carson Elrod, and Bree Elrod.
Music for the series composed by Oldfather, and songs by Dawn Lewis and Michael Hussey.
In summer 2020, The Blondes podcast will be available in French and Spanish language versions, produced with Sybel and available on their platform.