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Artistic Collaboration in Film and Beyond Creative Associates and in Conversation Moderated by Creative Associate Raja Feather Kelly

Sunday, December 13, 6pm ET

Composer, pianist, producer, and Creative Associate Nicholas Britell (Pre-College ’99, piano) joins actor, director, playwright, producer, and Creative Associate Colman Domingo in a conversation about artistic process and creative collaboration. Britell and Domingo will discuss their work on projects such as If Beale Street Could Talk, Euphoria, The Underground Railroad, Succession, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Moonlight, and more. The conversation will be moderated by dancer, director, choreographer, and Creative Associate Raja Feather Kelly.

The program may include excerpts from the following works:

Euphoria (2019-Present) Sam Levinson, Creator Colman Domingo, Actor (Ali)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) , Director Nicholas Britell, Composer Colman Domingo, Actor (Joseph Rivers)

Juilliard Fall Benefit (2019) Succession Concert Suite Nicholas Britell, Composer and Pianist Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra

Moonlight (2016) Barry Jenkins, Director Nicholas Britell, Composer

Succession (2018-Present) Jesse Armstrong, Creator Nicholas Britell, Composer

The Creative Associates program, a president’s initiative created in 2018 by Damian Woetzel, brings to Juilliard an expanding group of artists in residence whose work exemplifies collaborative and interdisciplinary innovation. Each Creative Associate spends time at Juilliard engaging collaboratively with the Juilliard community as as with their fellow Creative Associates through workshops, performances, coachings, public discussions, and other special projects. Building on the rich history of Juilliard’s composers, choreographers, and playwrights, the Creative Associates program affirms that creative practice is an essential part of the educational excellence that is the hallmark of Juilliard and champions the unique opportunity for interdisciplinary work between Juilliard’s divisions of music, dance, and drama.

Juilliard’s Creative Enterprise programming, including the Creative Associates program, is generously sponsored by Jody and John Arnhold.

Special thanks to Kate Andrews from Edith Productions; Kevin Anthenill; Cahleb Derry and Christopher Ruskis from Lake George Entertainment LLC; Brandi Holt from the feath3r theory; and the many members of the Juilliard community who helped bring this program to life.

Panelists Nicholas Britell Juilliard Creative Associate and pianist Nicholas Britell (Pre-College ’99, piano) is known for his critically acclaimed scores, including those for Barry Jenkins’ films If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and Academy Award-winning best picture Moonlight (2017). Britell received Academy Award nominations for both of those films as well as BAFTA and Critics Choice nominations for If Beale Street Could Talk. He received Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominations as well as the 2016 Music in Media Award for best original score (dramatic feature) for Moonlight. The year prior, he wrote the score for Adam McKay’s film , which marked the start of his collaboration with the Academy Award-winning writer-director-producer. In 2018, he wrote the score for McKay’s Vice, starring and Amy Adams. Britell’s most recent film work is the score for Netflix’s The King, starring Timothée Chalamet. In 2019, Britell was honored by the with the film composer of the year award for his scores for If Beale Street Could Talk and Vice. For television, Britell scores HBO’s Succession, for which he won the 2019 Emmy for outstanding original main title theme music and the Hollywood Music in Media Award for best original score. In 2020, the World Soundtrack Awards honored Britell for a second year running, this time with the TV composer of the year award for Succession. Britell is a Steinway Artist. In 2018, it was announced that Britell would be part of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s newly formed creative collective "brain trust" when Salonen took the reins as music director of the Symphony. Britell’s recent public performances have included concerts at Alice Tully Hall, London’s Barbican Hall, Los Angeles’ Million Dollar Theatre, and ’s Ravinia Festival. His upcoming projects include Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad series for Amazon, season three of Succession, and McKay’s Don’t Look Up for Netflix.

Colman Domingo Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, and -nominated actor, director, writer, and producer Colman Domingo recently received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Ursinus College. He is a Juilliard Creative Associate whose plays and musicals include Dot (Samuel French), Wild With Happy (Dramatist Play Service), A Boy and His Soul (Oberon Books), the Tony- nominated Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Lights Out: Nat King Cole. His work has been produced by , Vineyard Theater, , Humana Festival of New American Plays, New York Stage and Film, American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Tricycle Theater in London, and Brisbane Powerhouse in Australia, among others. He has starred in some of the most profound films in recent years: Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Lee Daniels’ , Ava DuVernay’s Selma and Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation. He stars in such upcoming films as ’s Candyman, Janicza Bravo’s Zola and George Wolfe’s Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. He is the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Obie, Audelco, and GLAAD awards for his work. Domingo also has two television series in the works for AMC and HBO, which he will executive produce and write. He stars in AMC’s and HBO’s Euphoria. His production company, Edith Productions, has a first-look deal with AMC for which he is developing television, film, theater, and animation projects. He is writing a new musical for The in London and hosting his digital series, Bottomless Brunch at Colman's, which is now in its second season on AMC.com.

Moderator Raja Feather Kelly Juilliard Creative Associate Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, a director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory. He is a three-time Princess Grace Award winner. In 2020, he was the -winner and Outer Critics Circle Award honoree for choreography for the Pulitzer- winning musical A Strange Loop. In 2019, he was an SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award finalist for both the Pulitzer-winning musical A Strange Loop and the Pulitzer-winning play Fairview. Kelly is also the 2019–20 Randjelović/Stryker resident commissioned artist at New York Live Arts, an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and a 2019 Creative Capital award recipient. Over the past decade, Kelly has created 15 evening-length premieres with his company the feath3r theory as well as directing and choreographing extensively for Off-Broadway theaters. His choreography has also garnered a 2018 Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and the Solange MacArthur Award for new choreography, and he was Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award recipient. Kelly was born in Fort Hood, Texas, and holds a BA in dance and English from Connecticut College.