Broadway: Waitress, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Waiting for Godot with Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen, Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time (Associate). Along with her mother, Jodi Picoult, she wrote the novels Between the Lines and Off the Page. She is currently pursuing a Masters at Simmons College with a dual certification in Elementary Education and Special Education, while doing her student teaching in Brookline, MA. She was awarded Vassar’s Edith Glicksman Neisser Prize for excellence in child study/child development. SAMANTHA VAN LEER recently graduated with honors from Vassar College, with a degree in psychology and a minor in human development. She and her husband Tim and their three children live in Hanover, New Hampshire with two Springer spaniels, two rescue puppies, two donkeys, two geese, ten chickens, a smattering of ducks, and the occasional Holstein.
She is also is the founder and executive producer of the Trumbull Hall Troupe, a New Hampshire-based teen theater group that performs original musicals to raise money for local charities to date their contributions have exceeded $120K. She is on the advisory committee of the New Hampshire Coalition Against the Death Penalty. She is part of the Writer’s Council for the National Writing Project, which recognizes the universality of writing as a communicative tool and helps teachers enhance student writing, and is a spokesperson for Positive Tracks/Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth, which supports youth-led charity fundraising through athletics. Jodi serves on the advisory board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, a research-driven organization whose goal is to increase critical attention to contemporary women’s writing and to foster transparency around gender and racial equality issues in contemporary literary culture. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Dartmouth College in 2010 and another from the University of New Haven in 2012. My Sister’s Keeper was a big-screen released from New Line Cinema, with Nick Cassavetes directing and Cameron Diaz starring, which is now available in DVD. Four – The Pact, Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle, and Salem Falls - have been made into television movies. Her books are translated into thirty four languages in thirty five countries.
She wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her last nine novels have debuted at number one on The New York Times bestseller list, including her most recent work, Small Great Things. Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of twenty-four novels, including : Songs of the Humpback Whale, Keeping Faith, My Sister’s Keeper, Leaving Time, and the YA novels Between The Lines and Off The Page, co-written with her daughter, Samantha van Leer. Librettist credits include Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach (with Academy Award winning songwriters Pasek and Paul), Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (with Academy Award winning songwriter Paul Williams and directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli) Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (with Academy Award winning songwriter Leslie Bricusse) and Between The Lines (based on a book by Samantha van Leer and New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult). Tim is the executive producer of the Junior Theater Festivals which are produced annually in Atlanta, and Sacramento and the Junior Theatre Celebrations held annually in Newcastle Australia, Auckland New Zealand and Leicester United Kingdom.
iTheatrics has ongoing educational initiatives with New York City’s Department of Education, and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and released the world’s first-ever musical theatre textbook in January of 2017 with GIA Publications. An estimated 36 million people attend performances of these musicals annually. Tim is the Founder and CEO of iTheatrics which creates educational adaptations of musicals for Music Theatre International’s Broadway Junior Collection, Tams-Witmark’s Young Performer’s Editions, Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Getting to Know Collection, and Samuel French’s 101 Collection. What's not to love? Everyone is talking about the revival of A Chorus Line, which first changed Broadway in 1975, so get tickets to see the show in Kansas City.Is a leading authority on musical theatre education and an award winning musical theatre librettist. Alamy A Chorus Line Kansas City Tickets A Chorus Line Tickets - Kansas City - A Chorus Line is Back!Ī Chorus Line first took the Broadway scene by storm in 1975 and now a revival of this classic show is coming to Kansas City! Dance the night away when you see A Chorus Line live! Just be sure to hurry up and get your A Chorus Line Kansas City tickets today because they are going fast and you can't miss out on the show! A Chorus Line Tickets - Kansas City - A Chorus Line in Kansas City!Ī Chorus Line has one of the most memorable scores, the highest kicks in any choreography and an all-star cast.