On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, we have a show devoted to music and visual arts. This week, Bliss expert and Life Coach Judy Librach is joined Nicky Phillips who is an award-winning composer and lyricist. Nicky is currently a member of the BMI-Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop where she was awarded the Jean Banks Award for outstanding achievement in Musical Theatre. An alumnus of the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, Nicky was mentored by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Craig Carnelia. Her work has been showcased at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, Don't Tell Mama, The Laurie Beechman Theatre and The New York Theatre Barn. She has had writing residencies at CAP21, the Human Race Theatre Company and she was awarded the artist in residence at the Margret and H.A.Rey Center. Her work with the Musical Stage Company in Toronto includes being a music supervisor on Launchpad 2020 and a participant in Noteworthy. As a musical theatre writer, Nicky's musical works include: In Between (available for licensing); The Last Party (Toronto Fringe Festival); The Curious Journey (ASCAP Stephen Schwartz Workshop, Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, CMTP); Stagefright (Prospect Theatre Musical Theatre Lab); Becoming Tussaud (In Development); she has contributed material to Touch Me: Songs for a (dis)Connected Age (Forte Musical Theatre Guild); In Flanders Fields (First commissioned and produced by Smile Theatre Company, additional productions at Golden Apple Theatre and Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary where it was nominated for a Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production). Nicky is proud to have two songs featured on the Wellsongs Project CD, available for purchase through Broadway Records. Most recently, Nicky has released a musical theatre songbook entitled "The Tweens ’N Teens Songbook, New Musical Theatre Songs for the Young (ish) Performer", written with collaborator Sarah Ziegler. As a composer for the theatre, Nicky has written music for the following plays: The Snow Queen (Theatre New Brunswick); Buyer and Cellar (Alberta Theatre Projects); Old Man And The River (Theatre Direct); Jane Eyre, The Penelopiad and The 39 Steps, (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). She is a proud member of ASCAP, where she was awarded an ASCAP Plus Award.

Sarah Ziegler is an advanced member of the BMI Workshop. In addition to creating the “Teens ‘n Tweens Songbook” together, Nicky and Sarah teamed up with librettist Steven Gallagher to write In BeTween, a musical for adolescent performers. Sarah is the co-lyricist and co-librettist of Just Between the All of Us, an audience-driven musical that was commissioned by PCLO. The show was the winner of the Reva Shiner Comedy Award and will have a production at Bloomington Playwright's Project. Theatre in Asylum and Piper Theatre in Brooklyn presented a workshop production of another musical of Sarah’s, The Bronte?s. This show is currently being workshopped at the University of East London and will have a production in 2022. Sarah's songs have been performed at cabaret spaces all across NYC including 54 Below (Lady Parts, Broadway Babylon, and MuseMatch), The Duplex (In the Works) and the New York Theatre Barn (Sarah vs. Sarah). Her other past productions include a short musical in Stage Fright, Prospect Theatre Company's Fall Musical Theatre Lab, and a short musical in UC Irvine's 4@15. Sarah has a holiday musical in the works, The Town That Sucked at Christmas, and she has just released a children’s album of original tunes (“Musical Muffins: Songs for Babies and Big Kids”). Sarah has a Masters in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and enjoys occasionally taking the stage as a performer herself.

To purchase "The Tweens 'N Teens Songbook: New Musical Theatre Songs for Young (ish) Performers" click the link below: http://www.thetweensnteenssongbook.com/

Also on the program, artist and art instructor Michelle Fish. Michelle Fish is the founder of Learn Art Online Toronto.

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