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Long Island High School Performers to Hone Their Skills at Adelphi's 'A Day with the Arts'

Garden City, NY (09/22/2022) — On Friday, October 7, over 200 aspiring actors, dancers and musicians from fifteen high schools across Long Island will spend the day at Adelphi University crafting their skills through intensive hands-on workshops led by the University's faculty. Adelphi's Day with the Arts, will run from 8:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in the University's Performing Arts Center.

The workshops will cover acting, music and theatre with specific focus on areas such as acting with accents, make-up for the stage, stage combat, theatre games, college audition prep, creating stage props, scenic painting, puppet making and artivism. The workshops will also include broadway song coaching, classical song coaching, fun with ukuleles, creating music digitally and dance for musical theatre.

Keynote Speaker Blaine Alden Krauss

After the workshops, students will hear from keynote speaker Blaine Alden Krauss. A Broadway performer and actor, Krauss was most recently seen on stage starring in the National Tour of "Hamilton" as the stand-by for both Hamilton and Burr. He was also part of the second season of "Pose" while performing in "The Cher Show" on Broadway. Prior to that he starred as Lola in "Kinky Boots" shortly after making his Broadway debut in the musical "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812." He has traveled the world as 'Simba' in "The Lion King" and starred in the Radio City Summer Spectacular. Krauss regularly performs with symphonies around the world and is a regular performer at Feinstein's/54 Below. He is a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Participating high schools include:

  • Elmont Memorial High School
  • Floral Park Memorial High School
  • Garden City High School
  • George W. Hewlett High School
  • H. Frank Carey High School
  • Island Trees High School
  • New Hyde Park Memorial
  • Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School
  • Sacred Heart Academy
  • Sanford H. Calhoun High School
  • Schreiber High School
  • Sewanhaka High School
  • Elizabeth(Bizy) Jacobs from Hempfield High School
  • Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School
  • West Babylon High School

To learn more about A Day with the Arts, visit adelphi.edu/events/a-day-with-the-arts

About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning

Adelphi University, New York, is a highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training, with particular strength in our Core Four: Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.

Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves more than 7,500 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York -- just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities -- and at dynamic learning hubs in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.

More than 118,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities and the world.

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Adelphi’s Day with the Arts, will run from 8:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in the University's Performing Arts Center.

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