Inwood Art Works On Air

A Montreal native, Jason Huza and his wife Denise moved to the city simply to live amidst great theater. Shortly thereafter, he tried his hand at writing a play. Then a musical. Then they had twins. Then they had one more. And several years of chaos later, he wrote the book and lyrics for the new musicals: It Happened in Key West  is set for US Premier in January 2024 at the Fulton Opera House,  T...

Recording live from the Inwood Film Festival in Inwood in NYC on May 25, 2023, welcome to this very special edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live! Inwood Art Works Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms had the pleasure of speaking with the man who made “the run” - Inwood’s own John “Chick” Donohue, and producer of “THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER”, Andrew Muscato. We recorded the podcast on loc...

Recording live from the Inwood Film Festival in Inwood in NYC on May 25, 2023, welcome to this very special edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live! Inwood Art Works Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms had the pleasure of speaking with local Inwood resident, playwright, and screen writer of the "The Whale", Samuel D. Hunter. We recorded the podcast on location for the first time in front o...

This is our 2023 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 1.  It’s where we take a pause at this midway point, look back at the first part of 2023, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcat that has appeared throughout the first half of the fourth season of our On Air podcast. This Seasonal Sampler is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pick. A curated...

Enjoy this special Live N' Local concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing “Mostly French” – a chamber concert, featuring the arrangements of Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean, recorded live at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood NYC on June 4, 2023.  Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture Claude Debussy - Petite Suite ·        En bateau ·       ...

Luciannys Camacho is a Dominican filmmaker, illustrator and sequential artist based in the NYC with a passion for comics, storytelling, and all things colorful. She is continuing her journey through comics and is currently pitching her first graphic novel based on her short film “Check Yes!” called Heroes Circle. She has done work for clients like IDW, Hasbro, Tapas Media, and Wacom. She currently...

Carla López-Speziale is a mezzosoprano with experience in opera, oratorio, as well as symphonic and chamber repertoire. Some of her most notable roles include Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen, Dalila (Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah), Azucena (Verdi’s Il trovatore), the Old Lady (Bernstein’s Candide) and Bloody Mary (Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific), among many others. Her symphonic performances...

Jestin Pieper is a New York City based pianist, vocal coach, organist, conductor, and educator. As a performer, Mr. Pieper has appeared in major venues across the country and abroad including guest appearances on the Discovery Channel, WNYC and WNPR and performances across the country including Carnegie Hall and The Bruno Walter Auditorium. He has a solo piano album titled “Humoreske” and is a pia...

Stephen Cole is a prolific award winning musical theatre writer whose shows have been recorded, published, and produced from New York City to London to the Middle East. His works include: After the Fair, which was nominated for the Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Musical, The Night of the Hunter, The Road to Quatar!, Merman’s Apprentice, and many others. He is also the author of five publishe...

Gregory Hernandez is a filmmaker and video producer. Since 2017, he has worked on a feature length documentary called “1.5 million” which centers around the literacy crisis in The Bronx. He is the founder and owner of "Green Canvas Productions," a video production company that produces commercials and explainer videos, and is the co-host of "Uptown Films," a 30-40 minute weekly podcast created to:...

Suzanne Russo is a NYC based artist and illustrator. She is inspired by her love of the city & walks around her neighborhood, Washington Heights. Influenced by working 20 years as a fashion designer, she is drawn to interesting mixes of color, pattern, and texture. She looks to capture the beauty of her neighborhood & surroundings in a real way using primarily marker & inks. Follow on...

Josh Liveright is a writer, director, and producer. In 1991 he co-founded Zena Group, a not-for-profit theater and film collective based in New York City. As Zena Group's artistic director Josh produced New York premieres of plays by Mark O'Donnell, Jose Rivera, Neena Beber, Steven Dietz, among many others. As a filmmaker, Josh has produced several short films including Let Go, nominated for best...

Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living, which debuted this past fall on Broadway. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages. Keep up with her projects at www.martynamajok.com

Emmanuel Abreu is a New York City based photographer who has been collaborating with his Uptown community of Washington Heights/Inwood since the start of his career. His images tend to capture the raw joy in almost any situation, and this is why his work led him to become a professional wedding photographer. His travel photography focuses on landscape, street, and sometimes portraiture, just like...

Max Pollak is pictured on the US Postage Stamp honoring Tap Dance and has recently been awarded a NY State Artist Grant for his musical compositions and choreography. Seamlessly combining body percussion, tap dance and singing, he has performed worldwide with top artists in jazz, Latin, and classical music. He spent his formative years learning from and working with his mentors Carnell Lyons, Heat...

Originally from Overland Park, Kansas, Hayley Podchun has been working consistently as a professional actor since the age of 10 and on Broadway since the age of 12. With eight Broadway shows, two national tours, film/television/voiceover work, and a guest host on QVC, she is a true triple threat. From 2013-2014 she was seen touring the country by bubble in the smash hit musical, Wicked, where she...

Louis Carrasco is a filmmaker and photographer from the Bronx, NY. He has worked in the media industry for close to 10 years. Having graduated from CUNY-Lehman College with a BA in media studies. He recently moved back from LA, working on many settings. His last directed short was a two episode series title Famished Artists. He is also a recipient of the Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund Award f...

Daniel Bonilla is an artist that lives in Washington Heights/Inwood. Through his art, her “strives to reflect the movement of the times in a bright and impactful way.”  During the early days of the pandemic, he had the opportunity to bring the neighborhood to life with vivid and compelling street art. Through his handle “Art Man Dan” he continues to display his talent on window panels during the v...

Hillary Carrigan is an award-winning Producer/Editor known for her contributions in post-production for feature-length film (You Hurt My Feelings, Jerry and Marge Go Large, Marriage Story, among others). She values projects that are uniquely human and foster creativity, a love of storytelling, equality and change. Her digital work for politics and nonprofits has been viewed online over fifty-milli...

Robert Silverman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. and has been playing jazz piano, trumpet, singing and composing for about 50 years. Mr. Silverman was first mentored by the great Jackie McLean in Hartford, and then moved on to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston where he was fortunate to work with George Russell, Jaki Byard, Fred Hersch, Jimmy Guiffre, Ran Blake and many others and...

Annette A. Aguilar is a multi-percussionist, recording artist, producer and bandleader. She was born in San Francisco into a family from Nicaragua and currently resides in New York City. She began playing music at the age of 11 and by the time she turned 16, she was sitting in and performing with renowned Latin artists Santana, Cal Tjader and Sheila E. She has led her Latin Brazilian Jazz group An...

“A monumental force of ideas and energy” (Saxophone Journal), James Noyes has performed with the Long Island Philharmonic, Juilliard Symphony, Argento New Music Project, New York Arts Ensemble, David Amram, Rosemary Clooney, the Doobie Brothers, and many more. His articles are published in The Musical Quarterly, Saxophone Symposium, and Saxophone Today. He is currently completing Elise Hall: La Da...

Frank Rapkiewicz is a musician born and raised in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He has been playing music, Guitar, Bass and Piano, for 50 years. He has worked with the likes of Dion and the Belmonts, Chuck Berry, and James Brown to name a few. He comes from a Broadcast Engineering background and has worked at Sony, NBC, CNN and Lifetime Television. He currently works in higher education and lives with his...

Jeffrey Hardy trained at LAMDA and has had an international career as an actor. He was a member of New Shakespeare Company of San Francisco, has worked in London’s West End, in repertory theatre in the UK, Off-Broadway and toured in the US, Austria, Germany, Sweden and his native Australia. With Dame Judi Dench, he was a founding Director of The Royalty Theatre Company. In the Noel Coward world, h...

Called the “Yo-Yo Ma of the harp,” by Vogue Senior Editor Corey Seymour, Bridget Kibbey is in demand for her innovative, virtuosic performances that expand the expressive range of the harp. Kibbey has received a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Salon de Virtuosi SONY Recording Grant. She is the winner of the Premiere Prix at the Journées de les Harpes Competition in Arles, France, the C...