MASI ASARE

Masi is named in the 2021 list of rising female leaders in the theatre from the  Broadway Women's Fund, Broadway's first impact investing fund. The theatre professionals  on the list were selected by the Broadway Women's Fund leadership and advisory board, which includes Rachel Chavkin, Lynn Ahrens, Chita Rivera, Alia Jones Harvey, Theresa Rebeck, and Rachel Sussman, among others. 

"Vocal Colour in Blue: Early Twentieth-Century Black Women Singers as Broadway's Voice Teachers" by Masi Asare has been published in the academic journal Performance Matters in a special issue  on Sound Acts curated by Patricia Herrera, Marci R. McMahon, and Caitlin Marshall. 

Delighted to co-host this distinguished panel with Pulitzer prize winning composer/writer Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop), Northwestern School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson, Professor Miriam Petty, and director Lili-Anne Brown. 

Masi was a guest speaker on The Visceral Voice podcast, hosted by Christine Schneider and Kimberly Doreen Burns, in a dedicated episode on "The Voice of the Dramatist."

The virtual Literary Festival at St. Mark's School in Dallas, Texas welcomed Masi as a Guest Writer over two days in January, alongside distinguished writers and artists including Lauren Groff, Bob Hass, Rhett Miller, and Calvin Watkins.

New York Theatre Barn's December New Works Series features 2 songs from the new musical-in-progress Garden of Starflowers (book, music, lyrics by Masi Asare), about a virtual pop star who takes holographic form. Songs performed by Isabelle McCalla (The Prom) and Jaime Cepero (Smash).