Sentences with phrase «career as a performer»

At Columbia Business School, Andrew Asnes helped develop a successful strategic marketing plan for Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance — where he had launched his career as a performer 25 years earlier.

In the middle of my sophomore year of college, I had a life - altering epiphany: I had spent the majority of my life thus far pursuing a career as a performer.

Her career as a performer and composer has taken off.

Debi realized early on that a career as a performer was in her blood.

Smith, whose work often explores feminist themes through depictions of the female body and women from history and mythology, is drawn to the complexity of Bakerʼs career as a performer / showgirl, and a social and political activist.

This exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of Dickens's famous reading tour of the United States in 1867, and will thus examine his later career as a performer.

Not exact matches

Originally an engineer, her career took a pivotal turn when she accepted a job as executive assistant to the then - president of marketing — a developmental role for high - performers.

You deserve a full career, whether as an athlete, a performer, dancer, anyone.

Makes sense, too as RR would be working with a comfortable group to keep growing as a performer while minimizing her chance to lay a dud early in her career.

«Entering his third year as the Bulldogs» free safety, Baker has more than 300 career tackles and is a consistent performer.

Matic is known for his intelligence on the field and reading of the game, he has been a consistent performer throughout his career and his combative style allows him to have a big advantage over his opponents as he sits deep at the base of the midfield to break down the oppositions play.

«My goal is to settle at CSKA and represent the club for as long as I can; to become one of CSKA's key performers and maybe spend my whole career here.

LL Cool J became the first hip - hop artist ever to receive the Kennedy Center Honors, the nation's highest distinction for performers, as artists ranging from Queen Latifah to Uniondale native Busta Rhymes paid tribute to his career last night.

I founded LVanHart Artist Productions in 1997, a company that manages the careers of world - class jazz musicians who travel the globe as performers, educators and ambassadors of this uniquely American art form.

Before his real estate career, Swezey was a competitive gymnast and worked as a stunt performer.

I started my career as a dancer and performer, the pressure to perform can do a lot to a young woman, mentally and physically, I battled with body image, injuries, and mental health.

I have spent most of my career as a Broadway performer, dancing on Broadway and all over the country.

As the parents, veterans Sam Waterston, Tess Harper and Gail Strickland lead these novice teen actors in setting standards that these young performers will spend the rest of their careers trying to emulate.

This time, her inherent likeability as a performer is all that's keeping Anastasia, a notionally independent career woman who veers between seething assertiveness and spineless compliance at the script's will, from sliding off the screen entirely.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

Eddy Waller's career moved along the same channels as most western comedy - relief performers: medicine shows, vaudeville, legitimate theatre, movie bit parts (from 1938) and finally the unshaven, grizzled, «by gum» routine.

Elliott began his show business career as a standup comic, but he first gained public attention as a writer and performer on Late Night With David Letterman, helping that show define a new age of ironic comedy, and winning two Emmys as part of Letterman's writing team.

A truly dynamic performer, she forged a lengthy career as one of Canada's most versatile, underrated character actors.

A versatile performer whose patrician features and keen intelligence have distinguished him in both leading and supporting roles, Colm Feore spent 13 seasons as a classical actor at the Stratford Festival before embarking on a successful screen career that has encompassed both art films and more populist fare.

Day, who began her show business career as a big band singer and musical performer, largely retired from acting after two decades of celebrated performances — including her role in the 1960 comedy Pillow Talk, which earned her an Oscar nomination.

From the start of his acting career he has been as a Shakespearean stage performer.

The Lonely Island honored Will Smith as the 2016 recipient of the MTV Movie Awards» Generation Award with a charming, surprisingly straight tribute to the performer's legendary music career.

How do you see them within your career as a writer and performer?

Such as it is, American is less about his professional career than his personal life, insofar as one can separate the two when considering so personally honest and hardworking a performer, and sans pandering to docu - hungry audiences, the film works equally well as an introduction for newcomers, a family reunion for longtime fans, and a miniature greatest - hits package for both.

Performers such as Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone must know that issue all too well, each having created a coterie of legendary characters in their long careers.

Gregg not only wrote and directed the film, he also stars in it as Howard Holloway, a former child actor barely hanging on to his business as an agent specializing in building the careers of underage performers, and desperate to find a prospect who might become the Next Big Thing.

Below are seven theater companies that double as schools for early - career performers.

The career turnaround and newfound stardom couldn't happen to a more deserving talent; few performers would be able to render this reimagined Sherlock Holmes as charismatic and convincingly quirky, not to mention doing it while adopting an unassailable English accent.

As previously announced, the group chose George Takei as the recipient of its special Timeless star tribute, given to «an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit.&raquAs previously announced, the group chose George Takei as the recipient of its special Timeless star tribute, given to «an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit.&raquas the recipient of its special Timeless star tribute, given to «an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit.»

The real - life connection between Bayfield (a Brit, and a failed actor) and socialite / performer Jenkins was a fascinating one — he managed her career for decades — and Grant, as always, slyly leaves us wanting more of this smooth - voiced charmer.

It's been clear since The Perks of Being a Wallflower that Logan Lerman is an incredibly talented actor, and while the WWII - set Fury further showcased the actor's knack for sensitive, introspective performances, writer / director James Schamus» handsomely crafted Philip Roth adaptation Indignation finally gives Lerman a chance to show his range as a performer, and boy does he soar in what is a career - best turn.

A contemporary, potentially timely, Russian - centered espionage thriller (minus, alas, any recognizable thrills), Red Sparrow ends as it begins, as an unlikely, ultimately forgettable misfire unlikely to appear in career highlight reels for second youngest performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actress (Silver Linings Playbook).

People Places Things won't be the next career - defining gig for the Kiwi but it's such an affable film little doubt remains as to whether the Flight of the Conchords performer is multitalented as well as a genuinely good guy.

Given the fact that Hilary Duff is a performer who appears to be very cognizant of her career (as she made a smooth transition from a TV show to a singing career to movies), one would have to wonder why she would be involved in such a banal film.

The story is about their relationship — how a washed - up old comedian takes a despairing young performer under his wing and gives her the confidence to become a great artist, even as his own career fades into irrelevance.

John Waters — recently announced as GALECA's latest «Timeless Star,» the group's affectionate career - achievement honor that in the past has gone to performers — offered this statement: «A «Timeless Star»?

As previously announced, the group chose Lily Tomlin as the recipient of its special Timeless star tribute, given to «an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit.&raquAs previously announced, the group chose Lily Tomlin as the recipient of its special Timeless star tribute, given to «an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit.&raquas the recipient of its special Timeless star tribute, given to «an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit.»

In light of this frustrating trend, it is telling that one of the year's standout performers has forged a distinctive career as an expert supporting actor.

Linklater has received ample credit throughout his career as one of our best writers, but his work with performers still feels underrated.

Experiencing something of a career resuscitation herself as of late (performances in television's «Rescue Me» and Sidney Lumet's «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead» have been well - received), she is certainly one of the more underestimated performers of 2008.

Cam's singing career has included recording a children's album with Sonny «Enos» Shroyer from The Dukes of Hazzard, being a featured performer for the United States World Fair Pavillion, and performing on such shows as TNN's Nashville Now and The Grand Ole Opry.

Mitchell, selected for the scholarship through an essay submission as a top performer in Torrance High's automotive class, plans to pursue a degree in business and has the career goal of turning his hobby into something that he can enjoy every day.

But don't write him off as just a lapdog; the Havanese is trainable and surprisingly energetic, and has excelled in dog sports and canine careers ranging from circus performer to assisting the handicapped.

careened from careers as a theater troupe founder in the 1960s in San Francisco to experimental punk band performer in The Screamers in the 1970s in LA to multi-media artist living in Miami, Seattle and New Orleans.

Hermann NITSCH (b. 1938, Vienna, Austria) Viennese Actionist painter and performer, Nitsch began his career as a student at the Pedagogical and Experimental Institute for Graphics in Vienna.