2025-26 BringAbout Cohort of Composers & Writers
This year’s BringAbout Cohort features award-winning and internationally recognized artists—including recipients of the Kleban Prize, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, Richard Rodgers Awards, Jonathan Larson Grants, and Dramatists Guild Fellowships. Their work spans Broadway premieres, Grammy-considered albums, DreamWorks commissions, cross-cultural storytelling, and genre-defying innovation across musical theater, folk, indie rock, orchestration, and pop.
2025-26 BringAbout Cohort of Creative Performing Artists & Musicians
A dynamic group of professional, collaborative artists—including original Broadway cast members and creators—bringing an international lens with artists from Argentina, France, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and across the United States. Cohort artists collaborate in BringAbout Studio Residences across the 2025-2026 cycle.
This year’s Cohort of Writers, Composers, Creative Performing Artists and Musicians was curated in alignment with the vision and innovation of BringAbout’s Artist Activation Committee: Liz Carlson, Erin Clemons, Scott Wasserman, and Saori Yokoo. Their insight and artistic leadership continue to shape a space where bold collaboration thrives.
BringAbout Alumni
BENJAMIN VELEZ
Whimsical swashbuckler
Pensive empath
Kiss My Aztec
Borderline
Afterland
Columbia University
JOCELYN MACKENZIE
Harmonious creator.
Mindful maker.
Pearl and the Beard
Hundred Days
The Stowaway
Maryland Institute College of Art
ZOE SARNAK
”I feel movement the second I'm writing a song. Sometimes we don’t think about movement in a codified way until it’s too late… Feeling like a hat on a hat instead of a conversation. The storytelling should be shared.”
NEXT WAVE INITIATIVE, DOUGLAS LYONS
“Programs like the BringAbout help you see the give and take between movement and music. It’s all about learning to trust and having the space to do so.”
JULIAN HORNIK
Queer-lit nerd.
Banjo novice.
Tenn
Deathbed Edition
Quiet No More
Yale University
JOEL PEREZ
Inquisitive clown.
Restless explorer.
Fun Home
In the Heights
Kiss My Aztec!
Upright Citizen's Brigade
ANGELICA CHERI
”The care, generosity, and energy of The BringAbout is palpable and electric. It is truly the best kind of theatrical playground. Daring. Enlightening. Profound.”
ADAM GWON
”The exploratory nature of The BringAbout always unlocks something new for me, and I’m able to build a vocabulary that I then weave into my storytelling as drafts evolve.”
Impassioned Troubadour.
Exuberant artist.
The Karate Kid
We Aren't Kids Anymore
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Planet Earth
SCOTT WASSERMAN
Musical chameleon.
Adventurous creator.
Hamilton
Diana
Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco
Carnegie Mellon University
JANE BRUCE
I wrote in a dance moment, and I don’t fully know what it is yet, but I would have never even thought that was possible if I hadn’t been in rooms like The BringAbout. I’ve learned, from a performance and writing standpoint, the possibilities of story and character through movement.
IAN MILLER
”I often get stuck just thinking about words instead of the three-dimensional character moving through space. This type of process helps me get out of the limitations of the page by building the physical design of the work, the vocabulary and language.”
ALUMNI PERFORMING ARTISTS
A fluid group of professionals who sing, speak, move and dance in collaboration to bring new works to life.
TAYLOR IMAN JONES
Actor, dreamer.
Curious teacher.
Head Over Heels
Tale of Despereaux
Scotland, PA
Self trained in Bay Area theater scene
MICHELLE VIENTIMILLA
Intuitive listener.
Wild magic-seeker.
Anne of Green Gables
The Baker and The Beauty - ABC
The Visit musical
Carnegie Mellon University
EDDY LEE
Insatiable learner.
Heartfelt communicator.
Hamilton
Pokémon
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Michigan State University
MORGAN MCGHEE
Fearless wanderer.
Faithful student.
Ain’t Too Proud
Jesus Christ Superstar
Chicago
American Musical and Dramatic Academy
ANDRE MALCOLM
Fluid wanderer.
Curious Spirit.
Bandstand
Finding NeverLand
In The Heights
American Musical and Dramatic Academy
GABRIELLE CARRUBBA
Fervent empath.
Decisive Libra.
Dear Evan Hansen
Burn All Night
The Shower
The Boston Conservatory
SARAH PARKER
Creative storyteller.
Movement artist.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Fiddler on the Roof
Camille A. Brown and Dancers
Master's from NYU
ALEX FINKE
Determined dreamer.
Tender friend.
Sweeney Todd
Come From Away
Gibson Fleck
University of Michigan
AVERY SOBCZAK
Avid traveler.
Loyal friend.
Hamilton
Anne of Green Gables
Cabaret
Ithaca College
HANNAH CRUZ
Intuitive creator.
Empathic actor.
1776
Hamilton
Bullets Over Broadway
New York City
MELISSA ROSE HIRSCH
Romantic multi-hyphenate.
Focused dreamer.
Bradical and the Pink Socks
The Bad Years
PHISH at Madison Square Garden
Marymount Manhattan College
SHAWN FISHER
Fearless flyer.
Champion of joy.
Anne of Green Gables
STREB Extreme Action
Fela!
Alvin Ailey School
IVAN OWENS
Cheerful soul.
Passionate being.
Passing
Tokyo Disney Sea
Good Morning America
Debbie Allen Dance Academy
Spontaneous soul.
Reliable partner.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Kinky Boots
Celine Dion’s...A New Day
Self made
Fluid adventurer.
Wandering builder.
The Tale of Despereaux
Twelfth Night or What you Will
Plano
The Juilliard School
KATHRYN ALLISON
”Usually going into a rehearsal process, we all introduce ourselves as dancers or actors… But here, we're all in this space to collaborate as artists together, and because of that, something beautiful and magical happens.”