Clear your calendar - It's going down! You're invited to take part in the festivities! Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This networking and artistry event is going to be epic! Join us for an evening celebrating women in business and the arts - hear from some guest speakers, laugh at some jokes, sing along to a song, express yourself on the Artist Wall - this will be a fun and empowering evening you won't forget!
Managing Editor at Global Glam Magazine
Amber Lynette Lyons is an NYC-based fashion blogger, managing magazine editor, and wardrobe stylist. She is an alumna of the University of North Alabama with a degree in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing. Her blog is MademoiselleLyons.com where she shares fashion and lifestyle content. She believes, The way you dress plays a huge role in how you feel about yourself, and the pantsuit is bound to make you feel powerful, fierce, and fabulous!
Dan Kilian is a songwriter, producer and essayist living in Sunnyside NY. His collaborative team recently brought their musical Waste Fraud and Abuse to a successful run at the 13th Street Repertory theatre. His last album “L” won the coveted 2016 Foster Berlin award. He recently released a new collection of love songs titled Your Love Is All I Can Stand. He's hard at work on a new musical for the stage, “Space Chick” or “Chandelier of Stars” or something like that, and a musical animated film “Pigeon With A Vision.”
Amy Marie Stewart is an actor, voice teacher, and founder of TheoryWorks, which teaches music theory to professional actors online. As a teacher, Amy's students have appeared on Broadway, in the national tours of The King and I and The Wizard of Oz, on cruise ships (Norwegian, AIDA, Disney), and danced with the Rockettes and the Joffrey Ballet. As a singer, she's appeared with the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, freeFall Theatre in Florida, the Utah Festival Opera Company, Disney Cruise Lines, and most recently performed in Opera America's annual showcase of new works at the Town Hall in Times Square. www.theory-works.com, www.amymstewart.com
Nancy Magarill is an actress, singer, songwriter and composer and has performed in clubs and theaters in New York City, the US and Europe. She most recently appeared as Mrs. Herriton in THML’s production of “Where Angel’s Fear to Tread”. Her record, "the Carousel" is available on iTunes . For more information visit www.nancymagarill.com.
Dana Aber is collaborator and muse within the emerging musical theatre community. As the helm of Big Theatre NYC Productions, she curated, compiled, and created a concert of songs around the #YesAllWomen twitter movement, producing 2 concurrent bi-coastal shows (one in NYC and one in San Francisco) with site-specific casts and teams. In light of the political environment & the recent #metoo movement, Big Thunder is once again beginning to rumble out a new concept concert to give voice to the shifting social sands around a pervasive societal problem. Dana will speak on challenging the limits and the labels of being a creative artist in(spite of) today’s society.
Elinor T Vanderburg is a playwright, performance artist, voice actor, designer, and a founding member of underlords. She has collaborated with Exit Art, Built For Collapse, Non Grata, Theater Mitu, Panoply Performance Lab, Title:Point, and Fresh Ground Pepper, where she is an Artist-in-Residence and an associative director for their 2017-2018 Playgroup. Her first musical, co-written and composed with her partner Drew Vanderburg, debuted this year at the SheNYC Theater Arts Festival, and she is launching a workshop of her next piece, Bloodshot, later this year. She can currently be heard as the voice of Aisha on the animated series, World of Winx, currently on Netflix. Elinor moonlights as an illustration agent with Art Department and was born in Washington, D.C.
Gabrielle Levy left South Florida in 2010 to attend Syracuse University. After graduating with a B.S. in Photography from The S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications and a minor in Political Science, she moved to New York City where she currently resides. Gabrielle first pursued an editorial career, working in the photo department of various publications under the Meredith Corporation umbrella. After almost three years, she changed course and decided to enter the world of advertising. She is currently a Producer at McCann NY, as well as the co-creator and photographer for the fashion and lifestyle blog, Twinseperable. She is extremely passionate about music, animals, and public policy, and enjoys spending her free time with her twin sister (and roommate), and their long-haired Chihuahua, Archibald.
Natalie Maneval covers the fabulous world of wellness as the managing editor of American Spa magazine. She oversees the monthly print production cycle and writes the medical spa and new product sections in the print edition. Previously, Natalie served as the online editor for Luxury Travel Advisor magazine and has written for various publications including Travel Agent, Elite Traveler, Southwest: The Magazine, and phillyfamily.com. Natalie graduated from Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in magazine journalism