Theatre Journalist Guest Blogger: Alyssa Sileo has written 22 articles for BroadwayWorld since 2016, covering New Jersey theatre.
Alyssa Sileo believes art is a verb. A joy-jiver and proud attendee of a performing arts high school (her second home), Alyssa has spent her 16 years with an avidity for words, music notes, and script pages. She's happiest while listening through the soundtracks of emotional operettas. (That is partially her writing strategy: Get worked up; Do something about it.)
Saturday competitions and the short film festival, I grabbed my friend Mady by the hand, rushed downstairs from our Troupe 5480 corner on the second floor, and asked as many New Jersey Thespians as I could the most polarizing question you could whip out on any East Coaster.
As juniors & senior students from the School of Performing Arts at Gloucester County Institute of Technology and proud members of International Thespian Society Troupe 5480, we're embarking on a theatre advocacy project, and we need your help!
About a month ago, my voice made its local television debut as I stood on the Philadelphia Art Museum steps, in an aquamarine sweater and polka dot skirt, and sang twenty seconds of 'You're The One That I Want.
Merry December, Drama Kids! This is the month in which we replace our mugs of throat coat with mugs of hot chocolate and sit in Holiday Cabaret techs for hours.
This is a craft of coexistent community and individuality, which conglomerates all previously-existent tints, genres, and attitudes into a tellable community of players.