Richard Skipper Celebrates Self-Discipline In Our Art

Описание: Self discipline is essential for artists because it turns passion into steady progress. It helps you cultivate skills, finish projects, and express yourself authentically instead of waiting for inspiration. To build it, set clear goals, break them into small steps, practice on a schedule, and protect your work time from distractions. Over time this creates a sustainable path, greater creative autonomy, and more meaningful work.

Joining us are Brady Amoonclark, Artistic Director for Childrens Shakespeare Theatre in Rockland County. Recent directing with CST includes Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Henry IV, Loves Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, Henry VIII, Macbeth, and Anouilhs Antigone. Learn more at childrensshakespeare.org

Barb Bailey owns Barb Bailey Entertainment, an artist booking and management company in Chicago. She represents singers and musical acts in Chicago, New York, Savannah, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Barb is also a sought after vocalist with twenty years onstage. She received an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and often says that how we start does not define where we go. This year she opened the new Hollywood Casino with two shows titled Hollywood Out of the Box and Around Sinatras Piano Bar, establishing her nationally as That Girl Who Sings Sinatra. In November she brings the Sinatra program to Herb Alperts Vibrato Nightclub in Beverly Hills and hopes to return to Dont Tell Mama in New York, where she previously made her New York debut. She has kept a full schedule around Chicago and is in pre production on a pilot for her own television show slated to shoot in Chicago after Thanksgiving.

Artemisia LeFay is a New York based cabaret resurrectionist, chanteuse, and composer. Raised behind the scenes of opera productions, she studied in Florence with support from the Anthony Quinn Foundation and continues classical work with Teatro Grattacielo. Discovering the music of the Weimar era sparked her acclaimed show Ghosts of Weimar Past, seen at Dont Tell Mama, Adelaide Fringe, the Triad, Birdland Jazz Theater, and more. The show earned a 2021 Broadway World Cabaret nomination for Best Show and later sold out at Rochester Fringe. Critics praise her as an authentic interpreter of Weill, Hollaender, Spoliansky, and others, including rare Spoliansky songs shared by his family archives. Phantoms of the Cabaret debuted at the Laurie Beechman Theater in 2023. Her original set Wasted Girl premiered at the Triad in 2024, marking her as a rising composer, with a debut album planned for 2025. She is a 2024 Broadway World Cabaret nominee for Best Show, Best Original Song, and Best Vocalist. Learn more at artemisialefay.com

Donna Miele is a freelance editor and writer of fiction and nonfiction based in Rockland County, New York. Recent projects include work for the University of Illinois Press across American history with a focus on Black American history and feminist history, as well as sports history and cookbooks. She also edits literary fiction and creative nonfiction. She welcomes inquiries via the editing services page on her site. Outside of work she is happily immersed in orchid growing and loves hearing from fellow enthusiasts. Visit donnamiele.com

Gina Zollman was born in Long Beach and grew up in Garden Grove, California, three miles from Disneyland, where the nightly fireworks were visible from her backyard. She began singing at age six at a packed PTA meeting and continued through choirs from fourth grade through college and beyond. Learn more at ginazollman.com