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thread of nonwhite woman & nonbinary musical theater composers you should support + song examples (feel free to add people when I& #39;m done)
Jeannette Bayardelle
known as an actress for her performances in The Color Purple and Girl from the North Country
wrote & starred in the one-woman show "Shida" which played in London last fall and was at Ars Nova in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04X1pY_BP5E">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
known as an actress for her performances in The Color Purple and Girl from the North Country
wrote & starred in the one-woman show "Shida" which played in London last fall and was at Ars Nova in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04X1pY_BP5E">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Maimuna Memon
known for her performances in Jesus Christ Superstar, Ghost Quartet, and Lazarus
here& #39;s a song she wrote about her Irish grandma called "growing Older" which is part of a show she is writing about being mixed-race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAuMqz8a-zw">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
known for her performances in Jesus Christ Superstar, Ghost Quartet, and Lazarus
here& #39;s a song she wrote about her Irish grandma called "growing Older" which is part of a show she is writing about being mixed-race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAuMqz8a-zw">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Vidya Makan
known for playing Parr in Six Australia
currently working on a song-cycle called My Home Too examining questions of identity for aboriginal people and immigrants in Australia
here& #39;s a song from that called "Hugh Jackman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5cgBjAZv8c&feature=emb_title">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
known for playing Parr in Six Australia
currently working on a song-cycle called My Home Too examining questions of identity for aboriginal people and immigrants in Australia
here& #39;s a song from that called "Hugh Jackman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5cgBjAZv8c&feature=emb_title">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Melissa Li
with Kit Yan, one half of the queer Chinese-American musical theater writing team behind Interstate, a showabout their experiences in the early as a spoken word poet/ singer-songwriter duo. Here& #39;s Sushma Saha singing her song "I don& #39;t look" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUAKmUaKW8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
with Kit Yan, one half of the queer Chinese-American musical theater writing team behind Interstate, a showabout their experiences in the early as a spoken word poet/ singer-songwriter duo. Here& #39;s Sushma Saha singing her song "I don& #39;t look" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUAKmUaKW8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Melissa also scores video games and I think that& #39;s neat http://melissali.com/games ">https://melissali.com/games&quo...
to be fair to everyone else on this list here& #39;s Jeannette singing a second song from Shida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWsgdKOe3Z0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Maimuna also cowrote a play called Electrolyte you can read about here https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/p/64473/electrolyte">https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/p/64473/e...
here is another song from My Home Too called "Stolen" performed by Bree Langridge and Sherry Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTG4TsitBAQ&feature=emb_title">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
also I how could I forget Rona Siddiqui, who is currently working on a show called "Salaam Medina: tales from a Halfghan" which I believe is a semi-autobiographical show
here& #39;s her song "Your Kiss" from Measure for Measure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvH8YJ6UE0&feature=emb_title">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
here& #39;s her song "Your Kiss" from Measure for Measure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvH8YJ6UE0&feature=emb_title">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
also here& #39;s Kuhoo Verma singing Rona& #39;s song "Annie O" from Letters to the President, a multi-composer song cycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGyA6e3VuoA&feature=emb_title">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
ok those are all the main people whose work I have listened to
