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(NEWTON, NJ) — The newly established Alpha Arts Institute at Sussex County Group School will maintain its inaugural Artist Lecture Collection as a part of its interdisciplinary initiative, that includes skilled artists within the visible, performing and literary arts. The Alpha Arts Institute welcomes Broadway actress Charissa Bertels, who will share her experiences as an expert artist.  

Professor James Jeffreys, Coordinator for the Alpha Arts Lecture Collection, will host the lecture sequence that may function a Q & A session following the lecture. The occasion is free and open to the general public. The lecture might be held on Monday, December 5 at 12:30pm, on the faculty’s Performing Arts Middle, positioned at One School Hill Street in Newton, New Jersey. A Grasp Class might be held at 10:30am previous to the lecture. To attend the Grasp Class or for additional inquiries concerning the lecture sequence, please contact Jeffreys at [email protected].

Charissa Bertels is a Broadway actress and champion of recent musicals. She has carried out on Broadway and at Madison Sq. Backyard in A Christmas Story and toured the nation within the first nationwide tour of If/Then, starring Idina Menzel, La Chanze, and Anthony Rapp. As a member of the singing ensemble for New York Metropolis Middle Encores’ productions of Gents Choose Blondes and Girl Be Good, her work may be heard on the following solid recordings, that includes Megan Hilty and the legendary Tommy Tune.  Charissa acquired rave evaluations for starring in her authentic one-woman musical, My 80-12 months-Outdated Boyfriend, at Merrimack Repertory Theatre (IRNE award for Finest Solo Efficiency), Arizona Theatre Firm, and the Human Race Theatre Firm (Finest Main Actress in a Musical). 

Bertels’ latest collaboration, The Uncivil Ones, options unheard feminine, non-binary, and BIPOC voices from the American Civil Battle and garnered the 2019 Particular Point out for the Girls in Arts & Media Coalition Collaboration Award. Along with her personal writing and producing initiatives, she is presently a professor at New York Movie Academy’s Skilled Conservatory of Musical Theatre, a current MFA recipient from the College of Idaho, and a proud member of Actors’ Fairness and SAG-AFTRA.  

“The Alpha Arts Institute at Sussex County Group School is a brand new imaginative and prescient taking form with plans to host artists and students in residence, together with strengthening our theater arts and gallery exhibitions, internet hosting an artist lecture sequence, and launching an annual movie pageant and an annual arts pageant,” remarked Daniel Cosentino, Assistant Professor and Coordinator for the Visible and Performing Arts at SCCC, and Director of the Alpha Arts Institute.