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Professional Performing Arts School
The Professional Performing Arts School, colloquially known as PPAS, is a public middle and high school in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. History PPAS was created in 1990 to meet the needs of two groups of students: those who wanted to pursue professional work in the arts as they earned a junior/senior high school diploma and those who wanted to study the arts as an avocation. Notable alumni *Eddie Alderson, actor (Daytime Emmy Award nominee for ''One Life to Live'') *Kristen Alderson, actress (Daytime Emmy Award winner for ''One Life to Live'') *Nadia Azzi, pianist *Morena Baccarin, actress (''Firefly'', Primetime Emmy Award nominee for ''Homeland'') *Andrea Bowen, actress (''Desperate Housewives'', ''Les Misérables'') * Tru Collins, singer and actor (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) * Lana Condor, actress ( ''To All the Boys I've Loved Before'') *Monét X Change, drag queen, singer (''Rupaul's Drag Race'', ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'') *Billy Crawford, singer, actor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State School
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary educational institution, schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desperate Housewives
''Desperate Housewives'' is an American comedy-drama soap opera television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry, Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012, for a total of 180 episodes. Executive producer Marc Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins (television producer), George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman (director), David Grossman, and Larry Shaw (director), Larry Shaw. Set on Wisteria Lane, a street in the fictional town of Fairview in the fictional Eagle State, ''Desperate Housewives'' follows the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of their friend and neighbor who took her life by suicide in the pilot episode. The storyline covers fifteen years of the women's lives over eight seasons, set between the years 2004–2008, and later 2013–2018 (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. She is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012, ''Time'' named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015. Danes gained early recognition as Angela Chase in the 1994 teen drama series ''My So-Called Life''. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She made her film debut the same year in '' Little Women'' (1994). Her other films include '' Home for the Holidays'' (1995), ''Romeo + Juliet'' (1996), '' The Rainmaker'' (1997), ''Les Misérables'' (1998), ''Brokedown Palace'' (1999), the 1999 English dub of ''Princess Mononoke'' (1997), '' The Hours'' (2002), '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' (2003), ''Shopgirl'' (2005), '' Stardust'' (2007), and ''A Kid Like J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunflower Bean
Sunflower Bean is an American rock band from Glen Head, New York and Brooklyn founded in 2013. The band consists of Julia Cumming (bass, lead vocals), Nick Kivlen (guitars, backing vocals), and Olive Faber (drums). Their most recent album ''Headful of Sugar'' was released in May 2022. Career Kivlen and Faber were childhood acquaintances who both enrolled at North Shore High School in Glen Head, New York in 2009. They initially collaborated when Olive briefly subbed for the drummer in Turnip King, the band for which Nick was the bassist. By early 2013, the two began to create their own original music, practising and writing in Faber's basement. The name of their new band apparently came about due to Kivlen's obsession with sunflower seeds alongside Faber's concurrent love of coffee and coffee beans. The Manhattan-based Cumming, who had been performing in the band Supercute! along with Rachel Trachtenburg since 2009, met Faber and Kivlen at an early Sunflower Bean show; she agre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Cumming
Julia Rachel Cumming (born January 16, 1996) is an American singer-songwriter who is the frontwoman and bass player of the Brooklyn-based band Sunflower Bean. Cumming models occasionally, and has modeled for several well known designers and has appeared in global campaigns for H&M and Diesel. Cumming is also a political activist and is active in the Model Alliance. She has produced and directed a video featuring her fellow models, encouraging young people to become politically active. Early life Cumming was born in Manhattan to Alec Cumming and Cynthia Harden, who (at the time) were a creative partnership as well as a marital one - writing, performing, and releasing songs in the alternative pop band Bite The Wax Godhead (1990-1998). Julia grew up in the East Village, Manhattan, attended New York City public schools, and started a band - Supercute! - along with neighborhood friends June Lei and Rachel Trachtenburg (of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) in 2009. Supercute! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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