Emerging Artists Celebration 2022

T. ADAMSON is a Texas-raised writer and theater artist of Anglo/Mexican ancestry. As a playwright, T. has developed new work with Playwrights Horizons, Great Plains Theater Commons, Clubbed Thumb, JACK, Cutting Ball, The Mercury Store, Spring Street Social Society, Fresh Ground Pepper, and many others. Plays include No Nothing (GPTC), The Straights (JACK, Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist), and Usus (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks). He is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup, Exquisite Corpse Company’s Fall Writers’ Lab, and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group. Awards include Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, and a Falco/Steinman Commission from Playwrights Horizons. Proud alumnus of Annie Baker, Branden Jacobs-Jenkens, and Brighde Mullins’s MFA Playwriting program at Hunter College.

Judy Kuhn most recently appeared in the critically acclaimed Trevor Nunn directed production of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for which she received her second Olivier Award Nomination. On Broadway she starred as Helen Bechdel in Fun Home (Tony & Drama League Award Nominations) a role she created in the original Public Theater production for which she won the 2014 Lucille Lortell Award. Other Broadway includes the 2016 revival of Fiddler on the Roof; the Roundabout’s hit revival of She Loves Me (Tony Nomination); and the original Bway productions of Chess (Tony & Drama Desk Nomination); Les Misérables (Tony & Drama Desk Nomination); Rags (Drama Desk Nomination); Two Shakespearean Actors(Lincoln Center Theatre), Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David; and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.  Other select theater includes: The Visit by John Kander, Fred Ebb & Terrance McNally at The Williamstown Theater Festival; Fosca in the much-lauded production of Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine’s Passion directed by John Doyle at the Classic Stage Co. (Drama League Award nomination); the inaugural season of Encores! Off-Center in The Cradle Will Rock directed by Sam Gold;  Three Sisters adapted by Craig Lucas and directed by Bartlett Sher (Intiman); U.S. premiere of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles; Ricky Ian Gordon’s Sycamore Trees (Helen Hayes Award/Signature Theater); Eli’s Comin’  (Vineyard Theatre/Obie Award); The Ballad of Little Jo  (Steppenwolf Theatre Co./Jeff Award Nomination); As Thousand’s Cheer (Drama Dept.); Tina Landau and Ricky Ian Gordon’s Dream True (Vineyard Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (McCarter Theatre), Martin Guerre(Hartford Stage), and Martha Clarke’s Endangered Species (BAM). ). In London’s West End she starred in Metropolis (Olivier Award Nomination).

Judy sang the title role in Disney’s Pocahontas as well as the in the sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World. Other film and television appearances include: Enchanted, “Elementary” (CBS) “Hope & Faith” (ABC), “Law & Order” (NBC), “All My Children” (ABC), “The Secret Life of Mary Margaret…” (HBO), “My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies” (PBS), “The Kennedy Center Honors” (CBS), “The Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Concert” (PBS), “In Performance at the White House” (PBS), and the independent feature Day on Fire in which she co-starred and performed the soundtrack with John Medeski.

 Judy has performed on concert stages around the world, including appearances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Feinstein’s at The Regency, The Hollywood Bowl, The Philly Pops Orchestra as well as The Royal Albert Hall and The Hippodrome in London. She can be heard on numerous original cast recordings as well as four solo CD’s: Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel (PS Classics); All This Happiness; Serious Playground:The Songs of Laura Nyro (Sh-K-Boom) and Just In Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne.