The Spark File

Today, we are shining the light on ILLUME member, seasoned film-and-television producer, content creator, documentary filmmaker, and Managing Partner at One Bowl Productions, Janice Doskey. Janice is sharing her work on her Big Creative Goal at our ILLUME Showcase in NYC this month!
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Janice has spent much of her career helping A-list talents like Wes Anderson, John Waters, Jennifer Aniston, and Blue Man Group, bring their unique creative visions to life. During her time in ILLUME, Janice’s Big Creative Goal has been to welcome her writing of poetry back into her life. In the poem she is sharing live on stage, called “Map to Unmarked Places,” Janice explores her journey back home to pen, paper, and her singular creative voice.
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We love it, Janice! Keep going!
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Do you have a creative project that needs nurturing?Schedule a no-pressure call with Laura and Susan today via the link in our bio or on our website to find out more about The Spark File Creative Community.
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We are ready for your next chapter. Are you?
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Today, we are shining the light on ILLUME member, theater maker, educator, and arts leader Julia Cuppy! Julia’s work connects professional theater, educational spaces, and communities, and she is giving a sneak peek of her ILLUME Big Creative Goal at our ILLUME Showcase in NYC this month!
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About Julia: Julia is the founder and president of a nonprofit theatre incubator called “The Loop,” and their mission is to expand the canon of Young Adult Theatre by fostering the development of new works by skilled writers. And at The Loop, these new works are developed not just FOR young people, but WITH them! Young people are active consultants and participants in the development of these new plays and musicals, infusing them with authenticity, credibility, and nuance.
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Julia says: “We’re building stories that young people want to perform, audiences want to see, and the industry has real reason to invest in.”
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We love it, Julia! Keep going!
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Do you have a creative project that needs nurturing? Schedule a no-pressure call with Laura and Susan today via the link in our bio or on our website to find out more about The Spark File Creative Community.
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We are ready for your next chapter. Are you?
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Today, we are shining the light on ILLUME member and beekeeper, music director, performer, tenured professor, and writer Bradley J. Behrmann! Bradley is sharing a sneak peek of his new book and musical lecture “The Pulitzer Project” at our annual ILLUME Showcase in NYC on May 18th!
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Bradley J. Behrmann has been behind the table, at the piano, at the podium, at the head of the class, AND downstage center. His ILLUME Big Creative Goal is “The Pulitzer Project,” an exploration of the ten Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals in history. Through a forthcoming book and musical lecture, this entertaining-and-scholarly endeavor asks what these 10 shows have to tell us about being American. And Bradley’s lecture-performance style will bring this relevant research to life on his future book tour.
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We love it, Bradley! Keep going!
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Do you have a creative project that needs nurturing? Schedule a no-pressure call with Laura and Susan today via the link in our bio or on our website to find out more about The Spark File Creative Community.
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We are ready for your next chapter. Are you?
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Today, we are shining the light on ILLUME member and writer, educator, and actor Scott Barnhardt. Scott is sharing a sneak peek of his new book “The Creative College Journey,” which is coming out this fall, at our annual ILLUME Showcase in NYC on May 18th!
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Scott is best known for his work in the original Broadway company of “The Book of Mormon,” and the Tony-honored Broadway revival of DeafWest’s “Big River.”
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As an educator, Scott ran the musical theatre departments at Orange County School of the Arts and Hussian College in California; In 2022, during a BLAZE Creativity Share, he was dared to build a business proposal for what became his successful consulting firm The Creative College Journey. With The Creative College Journey, Scott counsels students - and the parents who love them - throughout the creative college admissions process.
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During his time in this cohort of ILLUME, Scott has literally written the book on navigating the best-possible educational path for young creatives!
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We love it, Scott! Keep going!
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Do you have a creative project that needs nurturing?Schedule a no-pressure call with Laura and Susan today via the link in our bio or on our website to find out more about The Spark File Creative Community.
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We are ready for your next chapter. Are you?
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Today, we are shining the light on BLAZE alums Lu Chekowsky and Amanda “Wheels” Wheeler (two of the most powerfully creative humans we know!) as they are teaming up to have an important conversation and you are invited!
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Join Lu and Wheels this Monday, May 11th at 7pm for a live Zoom where they’ll discuss “How Your Body Image Got F*CKED ... and What You Can Do About It.”
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RSVP today to join the conversation via the link in bio on Instagram.
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Wheels, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, says: “Join me for a candid conversation about body image with Emmy-award winning former advertising creative director and author Lu Chekowsky. We’ll cover the secret and not-so-secret ways ads plant ideas in your head that grow into deeply held beliefs about your worth. We’ll also be workshopping the 4 Pillars of Body Image together, and the simplest action you can take to start shifting how you feel about your body.”
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Lu’s book, which she worked on in The Spark File’s BLAZE program, “Don’t Buy What I’m Selling: On Breaking Up With Advertising and Finally Learning to Love My Whole, Fat Self,” is available now for pre-order and will be published this June. To order your copy today, check out Lu’s bio at on Instagram.
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We love it, Lu and Wheels! Keep going!
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Do you have a creative project that needs nurturing? Book a free, no-pressure call with us today via our bio/website to see if our programming is the right fit for you.
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We are ready for your next chapter. Are you?
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