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New York Women in Film & Television is excited to share that 4 of our members are involved in theater, television, and films that have been nominated for the 40th Artios Awards.
Nominations for Theatrical Film (for projects January 1 – December 31, 2024) will be announced December 16, 2024. Click here for the current line up.
Winners will be announced in events held in Los Angeles (Beverly Hilton), New York City (Edison Ballroom), and London (White City House), on February 12, 2025.
TELEVISION SERIES: COMEDY
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Only Murders in the Building(S3)
Series Casting – Destiny Lilly
Follows three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. As they record a podcast of their own to document the case, the three unravel the complex secrets of the building which stretch back years. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another. Soon, the endangered trio comes to realize a killer might be living amongst them as they race to decipher the mounting clues before it’s too late.
LIMITED SERIES
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True Detective: Night Country
Location Casting – Deborah Schildt
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
ANIMATED PROGRAM FOR TELEVISION
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Dee & Friends in Oz (S1)
Series Casting – Angela Mickey & Liz Lewis
When a mysterious key transports her to the land of Oz, a regular kid named Dee goes on a musical journey to save magic – and be the hero of the story.
BROADWAY: COMEDY OR DRAMA
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Purlie Victorious
Casting – Destiny Lilly
Purlie Victorious is set in an era when Jim Crow laws still were in effect in the American South and focuses on the traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save the community’s church and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on an oppressive plantation.
NEW YORK THEATER: COMEDY OR DRAMA
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The Pianist
Casting – Destiny Lilly
The Pianist, is a play adapted by Emily Mann from Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman’s memoir. The work recounts Szpilman’s experience of The Holocaust while living in Warsaw during World War II and the role that music played in his own miraculous survival.
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The Welkin
Casting – Destiny Lilly
Rural England, 1759. As the country awaits the return of Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to death. When she tries to escape the noose by claiming she is pregnant, twelve ordinary women are gathered to decide whether she is telling the truth. A dark, fierce, funny play about democracy and housework.
NEW YORK THEATER: MUSICAL
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Casting – Destiny Lilly
We joyously welcome you to nicHi douglas’ (pray)! Channeling the energy and vitality of a Sunday Baptist Church service, this kinetic and vibrant choreopoem celebrates and confronts the complexity of spiritual inheritance. Join this multigenerational congregation of Black womxn and femmes for an evening of song, dance, fellowship and the opportunity to reflect on your own beliefs.
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The Lonely Few
Casting – Destiny Lilly
Lila and her band, The Lonely Few, have a standing gig at Paul’s Juke Joint in their small Kentucky town. When an established musician, Amy, gives them a chance to join her on tour, they take it. Love blossoms between Lila and Amy on the road, but can it endure?
REGIONAL THEATER
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A Strange Loop
Casting – Destiny Lilly
Hell-bent on breaking free of his own self-perception, Usher, a young, gay, Black writer who hates his day job, writes a musical about a young, gay, Black writer who’s writing a musical about a young, gay, Black writer…a strange loop. Usher grapples with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes, all brought to life on stage by a hilarious, straight-talking ensemble.
SPECIAL THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE
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Chess
Casting – Destiny Lilly
Before Mamma Mia!, members of the pop group ABBA teamed up with Sir Tim Rice to create a dynamic drama, Chess, centered around the world chess championship; mirroring the 1980s Cold War tensions of USA vs. Soviet Russia. The dazzling and beautiful pop-rock score became a worldwide smash, including the hit single One Night in Bangkok.
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Jelly’s Last Jam
Casting – Destiny Lilly
This vivid, impressionistic portrait of legendary jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton features Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winner Billy Porter (Pose) as the Chimney Man and Tony Award winner Joaquina Kalukango (Paradise Square) as Anita in a cast led by visionary director Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun). Written by George C. Wolfe (Shuffle Along) and set to Morton’s iconic music, Jelly’s Last Jam tells a fable of American history, legacy, and truth. In this production, original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams, reprise their roles as the Hunnies.
This wildly imaginative show interrogates Morton, the self-declared “inventor of jazz,” in a purgatorial afterlife, accusing him of denying and denigrating his cultural legacy. Crafting showstopping numbers and piercing ballads alike from Morton’s own music, lyricist Susan Birkenhead (Working) and composer Luther Henderson create a uniquely compelling musical backdrop for a show that brilliantly utilizes two of this country’s most potent forms of storytelling—jazz and musical theater.
COMMERCIALS
Still from Reborn.
Reborn
Casting – Liz Lewis
Reborn tells the story of a female police officer of the NYPD who experiences a traumatic event but decides to take control of her life and not let her past trauma define her future. She is able to transform her life by joining the Boulder Crest Foundation program and achieve Posttraumatic Growth.
The Neymarc Brothers developed this brand film for the NPO Boulder Crest Foundation based on real-life examples of police, veterans and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) who experienced traumatic events in the line of duty.
