Jose is beyond thrilled to be recognized as Broadway World's Regional 2021 Choreography Winner and 2022 Triangle Rising Stars Best Choreography Winner (Heritage High School- Tarzan the Musical.) His work has been featured at the National Black Theatre Festival and has won awards at the Junior Theatre Festival. Favorite performing credits include Mary Poppins (Neleus/ensemble), Spamalot, Kinky Boots (Angel,) and most recently On Your Feet (North Carolina Theatre). Favorite concert dance choreography credits include It’s A Hard Knock Life and Pride Land (The Pointe! Studio of Dance). Favorite musical theatre choreography credits include Songs for A New World (NC Theatre Regional Theatre,) Rock of Ages and Spongebob the Musical (UNCG,) Bring It On the Musical (NC Theatre Conservatory,) Mean Girls (Heritage High School,) Grease (Heritage High School,) Tarzan the Musical (Heritage High School,) Shrek the Musical (NC Theatre Conservatory,) The Lion King Experience, Hairspray Jr. Former students have performed professionally and in regional theatres, including Hamilton: An American Musical, Mean Girls, Alvin Ailey, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. As an administrator, Jose has worked with the Hayes Taylor YMCA and Samuel French, Inc. He is also proud to serve on the board of the Community Engagement Network and as a leader of the North Carolina Theatre Engagement Team. Jose currently serves as the Conservatory Director for the North Carolina Theatre, as Assistant Professor at UNCG in the Musical Theatre Department, and previously as the Assistant Director of The Pointe! Studio of Dance. A proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the Freddie G Class of 2015, Jose thrives on organization, creativity, and all forms of expression. has over fifteen years of experience as a teaching artist, administrator, and choreographer. "We think it's very important that the Clark Family Cultural Center, as they're going to name it, will be the center of the city.Jose Rondon Jr. "It will offer a view of the city at night in one direction and the water in the other direction," Clark said. So you've got all of this culture that's just permanently surrounding you."Ĭlark said the rooftop experience will add something unique to the city. "Or maybe you're just there to have a beverage and a good view, and suddenly you've got a live musician, a piano player or a guitar player. "Maybe you're there to see a show, maybe you're not, but the show is live streaming up there," Williams-Heath said. Want to stay up to date on the latest news? Click here to subscribe to pnj.com. The lounge will be open to the public, Williams-Heath said, and will provide a place where people can enjoy a cocktail while appreciating whatever is happening at the cultural center. The renovations will include new seats and lighting in the theater, as well as improvements to the theater's atrium, including a full-time bar, the addition of a fine arts gallery and the construction of a roof-top lounge. The building owned by the Pensacola Little Theatre also hosts organizations like Ballet Pensacola, West Florida Literary Federation and Liberty Church and such events as Pensacon, EntreCon, CivicCon and the Stamped LGBTQ Film Festival.ĭave and Cynthia Clark present the Pensacola Cultural Center with a $1 million check. Pensacola offers many, many things, but the arts are very important, especially when we have theater and dance and religious services in the theater." "That's why people like to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco, it's the arts and it's a lot of other things, too, of course. "In bigger cities, everything revolves around the arts," Clark said. Pensacola Little Theatre moved to its current home at the cultural center in the 1990s when the county donated the old jail and court of records building to the theater company.ĭave Clark has been on the board of the cultural center since 1995 and said his family felt it was important to step up to donate to the center to support the arts in Pensacola. Williams-Heath said he's grateful the community has rallied behind the theater for so long to support the arts, and now that donors are stepping forward, the experience has been moving. Sid Williams-Heath, executive director of the Pensacola Little Theatre, told the News Journal that the $1 million gift, along with other donations totaling $500,000, gets the theater halfway toward its goal of $3 million.
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