Global Potential Celebrates 10th Anniversary with a Gala Concert Featuring Patina Miller

Global Potential, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in New York, NY, announced today that it will mark the 10th anniversary of their transformative program with a gala concert celebration featuring special guest, Tony Award winner, Patina Miller.

Date: Friday, March 17th Time: ?8:00pm (doors open at 7:30pm)

Location: NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts Performer:? Patina Miller (Tony Award Winner, CBS' Madam Secretary, PBS' Mercy Street)

"We are thrilled to have the wonderfully talented artist Patina Miller as our featured guest to celebrate in this momentous occasion. Over the last 10 years, this organization, along with its dedicated staff and volunteers, and in partnership with over 30 NYC high schools and community based organizations, have unleashed the brimming potential of our youth, who have become vehicles for change in their own communities, blossoming into activists, leaders, artists, community organizers, filmmakers, mentors and social entrepreneurs," said Peter Maugeri, CEO & Co-Founder of Global Potential.

"Now more than ever, the work that Global Potential is doing empowering youth in NYC and around the world is so essential. I understand personally the necessity of having a supportive learning environment and a positive community, to be able to emerge from challenging conditions to become ourselves, in a world that needs us," said Patina Miller.

GP youth and their families, as well as guests from our partner high schools will be in attendance at this great event! Tickets for the event, which starts at 8:00 pm can be purchased online at nyuskirball.org/calendar/globalpotential. NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts is located at the 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012.

About Global Potential

Global Potential (GP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in New York, NY. Founded in 2007, GP transforms youth from underserved communities through education, service learning and cultural exchange into globally competitive leaders of positive change in their lives and communities. Over the past decade, GP has brought life-changing leadership and service learning experiences to over 4,000 youth, of which more than 400 have traveled internationally. Our competitively-selected Leaders have a 100% High School Graduation rate and an 87% College-entry rate-88% agree that GP made them more motivated to finish high school and go to college and 92% of our students are active in their communities after Global Potential.

Learn more about Global Potential by following us on Twitter (@globalpotential), Facebook (/globalpotential) and YouTube, and join the conversation about youth leadership at #ReachYourPotential.

About Patina Miller

Patina Miller can currently be seen starring as press coordinator Daisy Grant in the third season of CBS' hit drama series, "Madam Secretary," starring Tea Leoni, Bebe Neuwirth and Tim Daly.

Patina will next appear as Charlotte Jenkins on the upcoming second season of PBS' Civil War-era drama, "Mercy Street" in 2017. The series, which stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Josh Radnor, among others, marks PBS' first original drama in more than a decade.

Miller made her feature film debut as 'Commander Paylor' in Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Also starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman, the first part of the famous trilogy's finale was released in November 2014. Patina then reprised her role in the final installment of the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, which was released in November 2015.

Miller starred as the Leading Player in the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's famous 1972 musical, Pippin. Directed by Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus, and also starring Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin and Terrance Mann, Pippin received the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical at the 67 th Annual Tony Awards. Patina successfully put a contemporary twist on a role originated by award-winning actor Ben Vereen and mastered the Fosse movements that the show relies so heavily on. Patina earned a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical as well as Drama League, Fred and Adele Astaire Award and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award nominations for her performance. She previously performed the role of Leading Player in the American Repertory Theater production of Pippin from December 2012 to January 2013.

Miller made her Broadway debut in the 2011 Broadway season as the gutsy nightclub-singer-turned-nun Deloris Van Cartier in the stage adaptation of Sister Act, which earned her first Tony nomination as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for her performance. Miller originated the role of Deloris in the West End production of Sister Act at the London Palladium, where she received an Olivier Award nomination and a WhatsOnStage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

Additionally, Miller starred in multiple Off-Broadway productions including Ragtime at Avery Fisher Hall, City Center Encores! production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars, and the Manhattan Theatre Club's Romantic Poetry. Patina also appeared in The Public Theater's pre-Broadway revival of Hair during its 2008 run at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, also under the direction of Diane Paulus. Among her regional theatre credits include First You Dream, a Kander and Ebb revue at the Kennedy Center, Sister Act at the ALLIANCE THEATRE and Pasadena Playhouse and the Philadelphia Theater Company production of Being Alive. She has participated in workshops for Book of Mormon, Nightingale and American Idiot. Prior to her numerous theater credits, Patina appeared in the renowned daytime soap opera All My Children.