Jessica Schechter is an award-winning director, actor, performer, and producer in New York City. She has an MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School, and a Bachelor’s degree in Educational Theatre from NYU. Jessica is a certified theatre teacher in New York State and has …
Yona Lavie is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer from Queens, NY. Having artistic family roots, Yona started out as a visual artist before she decided to pursue dance at age 16. After completing an associate degree in dance from Queensborough Community College, Yona transferred …
I have a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from California State University, Sacramento, and I’m a Certified Vocal Coach through Modern Vocal Training. I’ve also studied in the Institute of Vocal Advancement program where I achieved a Level 1 Certificate. I’m committed to helping singers develop …
Chaya Bracha is an accomplished speaker, singer songwriter and educator and has been singing professionally for over 15 years. She is a published author and has won numerous awards and scholarships for her poetry and writing. She has composed more than fifty original songs and performed …
Now Partner Emeritus of Schaffer Consulting, Ron is a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders across industries- with a current focus on nonprofits, startups, and healthcare. He has helped leading organizations achieve dramatic performance improvements while also helping CEOs and senior executives to strengthen …
Mark Finkel has been deeply involved in early stage entrepreneurial enterprises for the past 25 years. Over that time, Mark has worked as an executive or active board member of numerous high-growth technology companies on the East Coast, in Silicon Valley, and in Israel. Mark …
Born in Israel and raised in Arizona, Shaked has been dancing since she was 3 years old and has never stopped. After becoming baalat teshuva in her first year of college in Arizona and finishing her degree in education for the arts, she made aliyah …
Robyn Shrater Seemann is a multi-hyphenated theatre artist: playwright-performer-producer. She is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Artists Circle (www.artists-circle.com), an all-female professional performing arts company in the Greater Washington, DC area dedicated to creating opportunities and breaking down barriers for Jewish women in …
Henya Storch is a registered nurse with a Master’s degree in nursing. She is CEO of The Storch Agency International, specializing in healthcare, business and talent coaching, publicity, PR and communal outreach. Henya is a trained Performing Arts Medicine expert who has worked with artists …
Toby Klein Greenwald has founded, co-founded or directed more than 12 theater companies or educational theater projects. She is the artistic director of Raise Your Spirits Theatre (www.raiseyourspirits.org), in which capacity she has co-authored (lyrics) and directed musicals on Esther, Noah, Ruth, Deborah and the …
Esther Leah (Aviva) Marchette is a singer, songwriter and former cantor (before becoming a baalat teshuva in her early 20’s) with a B.A. in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music in Boston, and plays piano, guitar and percussion. Professionally, she has been working in the …
Miriam Leah (Droz) Gamliel is a thought leader with a doctorate in Educational Innovation residing in Montreal, Canada. In her early career, she studied musical theatre and performed principal roles before adopting religious observance. Once observant, she became a producer and arts administrator, instrumental in …
Annie has been producing shows for women in the arts since 2007. She is the cofounder of Spotlight On Women and is the host of Spotlight On Women Radio which is aired weekly in Israel, featuring music by women for women as well as other …
Darcie (Davida Giborah) Nicole is a vocalist, songwriter, music business consultant, and publicist in the R&B/Soul idiom. Compared vocally to the likes of Chaka Khan, Teena Marie, Ann Wilson, Etta James, and Mary J. Blige, Davida Giborah is a classically trained coloratura soprano, her earliest …
Sarah Spielman is originally from London and made Aliya to Israel 17 years ago. When she made Aliya, she earned the “Outstanding Artist” award, the highest ranking award for a new immigrant granted by the Ministry of Absorption. Sarah received her vocal training at some …
Gayle as Deborah the Prophetess/ Photo by Rebecca Kowalsky Gayle Berman is an internationally recognized soprano, having performed as soloist throughout North America and Europe. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, where she was a Metropolitan Opera Auditions Winner, she went on to perform …
Bracha Daniel has been performing since she was 10, when she made her first debut in the Raise Your Spirits Theatre production of Joseph. Since then has been onstage for every RYS production and in various shows all over Jerusalem, including ones held in Beit …
Judy Winegard was classically trained in the performing arts at Ithaca College having been awarded her BFA in Drama. She has performed in musical theater for over 25 years having performed in such productions as Jekyll and Hyde, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, …
Rachel Vernon has been training and performing in modern dance since the age of four, and over the past 20 years has had the privilege of working with many of Toronto’s leading modern dancers and choreographers. Rachel has performed in various Canadian cities, including Calgary, …
Chana Shavelson received her vocal training from Elizabeth Coss, a former principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera; Mark Aliapoulios, at the Boston University School for the Arts; and Miriam Meltzer, at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music. Chana has attended the Tanglewood Institute and appeared …
Peninnah Schram, well-known storyteller & author, is Professor of Speech and Drama at Yeshiva University’s Stern College. Vibrantly elegant in her storytelling, she tells Jewish stories of wisdom and wit. Her latest book is an illustrated anthology, THE HUNGRY CLOTHES AND OTHER JEWISH FOLKTALES (Sterling …
Ashira Morgenstern composed/released the first recording of original music by and for Jewish women in 1983 under the guidance of Rav Sheinberg of Torah Ohr and Rav Nachman Bulman. A close student of Rebbetzin Chaya Sara Freifeld, a”h, she was the founding director of Tapeynu, …
Leah Levy is a new up and coming filmmaker. Her films capture her struggles, adventures and fears as she journeyed into frumkite. After receiving a Bachelor’s of Art’s in Sociology from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, she came to New York and worked in music. …
Marilyn Lechtman began ballet training at Les Grand Ballet Canadienne in Montreal and continued studies in jazz and modern dance. She taught and performed for a number of years before turning her artistic expression to clothing and costume design. In 2005 she debuted her one-woman …
Tziporah Miriam Halperin, Mezzo-soprano, has appeared in concert and in a wide range of opera roles with companies around the U.S. including the Caramoor Festival, West Bay Opera in Palo Alto, Opera Theater of Connecticut, and the Sanibel Festival. Noted especially for her dramatic flair …
Ariella Goldberg is a singer-songwriter originally from Beverly Hills, California. She tours communities in Canada and the US performing a dramatic musical program From 90210 to 613, a musical rendition of her odyssey from secular Beverly Hills to life as a Chassidic woman. As she …
Chanale Fellig is a singer, songwriter, recording artist and performer whose melodic and moving songs open the hearts and touch the spirits of women in communities everywhere. Her powerful performances excite and inspire all-female crowds in places as far as China, South America, Alaska and …
Rachel Factor is a Kollel wife and mother who makes her home in Eretz Israel. Her journey from Hawaii, where she was born, to Los Angeles and then New York as a singer, dancer and actress and finally to her home in Yerushalayim is chronicled …
Chava Schneider was born and grew up in Chelsea. Both her parents were involved in music professionally- her father taught high school music and her mother played in orchestras locally. From an early age, Chava studied choir and piano, but immediately loved guitar. She was …
Katia Bolotin, a pianist, composer, arranger and vocalist, is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Music. She holds a Master’s degree in musicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lectures and performs both nationally and internationally. She is …
Phyllis Blackman comes from a musical family and has always been in chorales and musical groups, receiving honors for her vocal performances. She has been part of the recording groups Blue Spectra and Dubie Duke and the Duchess. Phyllis composes and sings her own music …
Chana Leah Yerushalmi, JUNIOR (2012) Age 12. Chana Leah’s beautiful and inspirational songs came streaming though her a week and a half before her bas mitzvah last spring. She recorded an album in a mere week and a half with original lyrics that she composed …
Malka Russell, JUNIOR (2012) loves to act, sing, and play her guitar. She had a role in the play Oliver when she was 9, and played the leading role as Joseph in an original musical school play, when she was 14. She played the evil …
Natali Polonsky, JUNIOR (2012) is a 7th grader at Yavne High School. Natali has been singing and dancing since the age of 3. Natali has been studying Ballet, jazz, and hip hop at the Creative Learning Institute of Dance and has studied voice with Katia …
Tzippa Marchette, JUNIOR (2012) is an 8th grader at New England Hebrew Academy in Boston. Involved with music from a very young age, Tzippa sings and plays piano and guitar. She has studied piano and voice with Melody Michaelson and songwriting with Esther Leah Marchette, …
Hannah Laskow, age 14, from Agouti Hills, California has been performing on stage from the age of four. Since then she has held major roles in dozens of musicals through school, camp and community theater, including Class Act and Kol Neshamah. What she loves most …
Rebecca is a 12 year-old singer, actress and dancer from Great Neck, New York. Her performance credits include the title role in the 2011 Great Neck Public School Summer Musical Theater Production of Cinderella. Additionally, she has performed in following Sid Jacobson JCC community theater …
Tziona lives in Northern Israel, where she performs her moving original compositions and teaches singing, Torah, and prayer. She is a mulit-instrumentalist who plays guitar, piano, riq (a Middle Eastern tambourine), harmonium, and the Persian santur. After living in California, performing improvised music with free …
Through dance, music and Chassidism, Miriam Yerushalmi has been using art to help fix our souls. Her movements echo deep teachings from Kabbalah and Tanya, inspiring children, teenagers, and adults. She deals with themes such as serving G-d with joy, as a bride or an …
Dutch-born Yona Verwer’s paintings and photos feature Kabbalah inspired imagery. Besides solo shows in the Netherlands and New York, her work has been exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and the Mizel Museum. Her murals are on view at the S.A.R. High School …