Q&A lead dancer Gabrielle Hamilton, actor Patrick Vaill, producer Eva Price & music director Nathan Koci with moderator Dori Berinstein
Sunday, Jun. 23 2019, 7:30
Gabrielle Hamilton is a Harlem native who is ecstatic to be reprising her role in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!. In addition to her Chita Rivera Award-winning performance, Gabrielle also models for campaigns such as the Aerie Real and Sabika Jewelry. A 2018 Point Park graduate with a BFA in dance, her training also includes the Martha Graham School, Uptown Dance Academy, and the Bolshoi Academy.
Patrick Vaill currently stars as Jud in Oklahoma! His previous credits include Broadway: Macbeth; Off-Broadway: Oklahoma!, Peter Pan, Edward the Second, and When in Disgrace, as well as a National Tour of Cabaret and regional performances in Camelot, Othello, Henry IV Parts 1&2, Henry V, Richard II, As You Like It. He's worked with Bay Street Theatre, Capital Rep, among others. Patrick was the recipient of the Laura Pels Award for Acting in the NYU Graduate Acting Program.
Eva Price is a Tony Award-winning producer, member of The Broadway League’s Board of Governors, and was named one of Crain’s NY 40 Under Forty Rising Business Stars. Recently, she joined the producing team at Level Forward, a new entertainment enterprise started by Killer Content and Abigail Disney to create story-driven/impact-minded properties across platforms; focusing on work, by and for, marginalized communities. Credits include Oklahoma!, Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, Angels in America, Dear Evan Hansen, On Your Feet!, Peter and the Starcatcher, Colin Quinn: Long Story Short, Annie, The Addams Family, Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking, among many more.
Nathan Koci is a Brooklyn-based musician originally from Charleston, South Carolina. He enjoys a diverse career as a music director, conductor, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, playing the accordion, piano, and french horn. MD/Conductor credits include: Oklahoma!, Electric Lucifer, Hadestown, The Source, Promenade, Much Ado About Nothing, Mother Courage and Her Children. Performer credits include: The Head and the Load, The Principles of Uncertainty, War Horse, Trillium J, The Hands Free.
Dori Berinstein is a four-time Tony-winning Broadway producer and an Emmy Award-winning director, producer and writer of film and television. Her newest Broadway musical The Prom (directed by Casey “Book of Mormon” Nicholaw) was nominated for seven Tony Awards, and is currently being adapted into a Netflix Original film by Ryan Murphy, a young adult novel for Penguin Young Readers' Viking Children's Books, as well as starting a national tour in 2021 . Broadway credits include: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Tony Award); Legally Blonde: The Musical (Olivier Award), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award). Her documentary films include, amongst others: Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love (Emmy Award) and Carol Channing: Larger than Life.
