Larson Legacy Concert: Veronica Mansour (+ Livestream)

We are thrilled to welcome composer/musician/artist Veronica Mansour to Adelphi for her Larson Legacy Concert. Veronica will be presenting music from several different projects in development including The Dark Lady (in collaboration with Sophie Boyce) and Lighthouse (in collaboration with abs wilson). Her talented cast will include Ari Afsar, Jane Bruce, Jade Jones, Kerstin Anderson, Darcie Hingula, Adam LaPorte, Samantha Lane, Zalah Vallien, Sophia O’Brien, and August Quini. Her musical director is Fred Feeney and band members include Nate Lueck, Roger Post and Rich Zurkowski. There will be a reception following the performance for audience and artists.

This event will also be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person.

Veronica Mansour is a composer/lyricist/artist. She is a 2024 Richard Rodgers Award winner, Jonathan Larson Grant winner, Dramatists Guild Fellow, a recent nominee for a Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award (Musical Theatre Composition), one of four writers for DreamWorks Theatricals, MTI & NBCUniversal Emerging Writers Program (currently commissioned to write How To Train Your Dragon Jr.), and one of three 2023 Write Out Loud Contest Winners for her song “Runaway Girl” (performed by Jessica Vosk, written with abs wilson).

Having spent many years studying at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and The Colburn School, Veronica has performed with artists such as Kristin Chenoweth, Todd Rundgren, Chloe Agnew, members of the cast of Hamilton as both a cellist and a vocalist, and performed for many more, including Martin Chalifour and Philip Glass. She was a selected cellist in the 2016 Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, performing at Disney Hall, and served as the principal cellist of the University of Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. She has been featured on the radio (“Sundays Live” on KUSC) and ABC’s The Goldbergs. She is the founder of her own charitable organization, The Young Artists Alliance, which has raised nearly $30,000 for various children’s charities. Veronica is a proud member of Maestra, BMI, the Society of Composers and Lyricists, and the Dramatist’s Guild. She has an MFA in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

The Larson Legacy Concert Series

Since 2015, the Larson Legacy Concert Series at the Adelphi PAC has celebrated the next generation of artists at the college home of the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT, Jonathan Larson ’82. This series helps nurture and support the next generation of creative artists to carry on Jonathan Larson’s legacy. Past participants in this concert series have gone on to create the Broadway musicals A Strange Loop and K-Pop, the upcoming Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves, the Off-Broadway musicals The Lonely Few, The View Upstairs, Teeth and many more regional productions.