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Pix 11 News: Meeting the Founder of the Broadway Sinfonietta, Macy Schmidt is a first-generation Egyptian-American who recently became the first woman of color orchestrator in Broadway history.
The London Times: Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ticked many vocation boxes. But where was Conductor Barbie? No matter, she’s been found in the real world in the form of Macy Schmidt, a Tony award-winner who, at 23, founded an all-female sinfonietta in New York. Next month, she brings it to London to perform a live orchestrated screening of Barbie at the Royal Albert Hall. … Schmidt, now 28, is terrifyingly ambitious.
LA Daily News: Imagine this: a summer’s night out in Barbie land, where women of all ages and backgrounds are running the show. It’s a land for Barbie girls in a Barbie world, where pink-clad besties can enjoy a symphony made up (almost) entirely of women of color.
NBC New York: Ashley Bellman sits down with the female musicians breaking new ground in theater — Macy Schmidt and The Broadway Sinfonietta.
Forbes: Schmidt… became the Tonys’ first female arranger or orchestrator in its 76 year history Sunday night.” -Kristin Stoller & Sarah Eccleston for Forbes
Los Angeles Times: The audience will likely be a frothy sea of pink as the Barbie Land Sinfonietta takes the stage — an all-women, mostly women-of-color orchestra conducted by Tony Award winner Macy Schmidt.
“Orchestrator Macy Schmidt received a call from Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose asking if she would like to create the opening number to the 2023 Tony Awards — in three days’s time.” - Broadway News
By Gabriela Carroll for Backstage Magazine
By Alicia Ramírez for TheaterMania | Photo by Em Char Productions
“If women made Cowboy Bebop cool when it was being made, The Sinfonietta’s performance at The Town Hall cemented and pushed forward that legacy.” -Gabriel Serrano Dennis for the Beat
By Nicola Dall’assen for Allure Magazine
NBC Philadelphia: Meet Macy Schmidt founder of the Broadway Sinfonietta
‘…The events of spring and summer 2020—specifically the theatre shutdown and the industry’s racial reckoning—mobilized Schmidt to take action.” - Felicia Fitzpatrick for Playbill
By Dan Meyer for Theaterly
By Raven Brunner for Playbill
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