Gavi Savit (PTG '06, UM Musical Theatre '10) will be featured in the new musical AMAZING GRACE, which will have its pre-Broadway preview in Chicago this fall and then move to Broadway early in 2015. Gavi also just signed a major book contract with Knopf (Books for Young Readers): Anna and the Swallow Man is set to be the lead Young Adult/Crossover book for their Spring 2016 releases. YA/Crossover is the hottest area in publishing now, with successes of books such as Hunger Games and The Fault in Our Stars.
Read more about AMAZING GRACE at its official website (click here!) and Anna and the Swallow Man in Publisher's Weekly (click here!).
Zack Pearlman's (PTG '06) next project will be "The Intern," a movie starring Anne Hathaway, Robert DeNiro, Rene Russo, Andrew Rannells, Anders Holm, Nat Wolff, Linda Lavin, and Christina Scherer. In the workplace comedy, Pearlman will play a new intern that DeNiro's character takes under his wing. Pearlman will return to the TV comedy "Mulaney" after shooting "The Intern," and he's just finished reshoots on a Lorne Michaels/John Goldwyn movie called "Staten Island Summer."
Read more in The Hollywood Reporter (click here!) and Mlive (click here!).
Jimmy Mero (PTG '08) has been working as a staff writer on the AMC show "Hell on Wheels" since December. "Hell on Wheels" is a drama centering around the Union Pacific Railroad's greed and corruption, the experience of immigrants in the old west, and the plight of the newly free African Americans.
Read more about the show on AMC's website (click here!).
Ashley Park (PTG '09, UM Musical Theatre '13) made her Broadway debut in January in the ensemble of the musical MAMMA MIA, based on the music of ABBA. In October, she will be joining the cast of the National Touring Company of Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA, playing Gabrielle.
Read more about CINDERELLA on broadwayworld.com (click here!).
Congratulations, everyone, on all of the exciting new projects!
