Join us for an afternoon of free entertainment for a great cause!
We are hosting a virtual variety show with a diverse line-up of talent including actors, singers, comedians, composers, and more! Support our 2021 Summer Fellowship cohort and enjoy an incredible show from the comfort of your living room!
What: Join us for our very first virtual variety show: Hope’s Got Talent!
When: Sunday October 25th 4:00-5:30pm
Who: We’ve got a talented lineup of actors, dancers, singers, and comedians
Where: Virtual Show via Zoom
Free Admission!
Check Out Our Talented Line-Up
Charlotte Lily Gaspard is the founder of Midnight Radio Show, a multi-disciplinary collective based in Brooklyn. The group has been written about in the NY Times, The Brooklyn Paper, and Faerie Magazine, and has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council and New York Restoration Project to provide free shadow puppet theater to children in public gardens throughout the city. 
Chris Myers is an actor/writer (and sometime director and producer). His acting has been featured at leading Off-Broadway theaters in NYC and on popular streaming platforms. His original work and more can be found on his website chrismyersinc.com. 
Hannah Jane McMurray is a New York actress born and raised in Los Angeles. She holds degrees from both The Boston Conservatory in Musical Theater and from LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) in Shakespeare and Classical Acting. In addition to stage, TV and film, Hannah Jane is a sought-after voice over and commercial actress, and has worked on over 70 spots. She believes in learning something new everyday and is an avid history buff and science enthusiast who loves bad jokes. Visit hannahjanemcmurray.com. 
Paige Madison is a Classical Vocalist from Brooklyn, New York. She has always had a love and appreciation for music since a young child. She embraced her first operatic experience during her sophomore year in high school and has remained an enthusiast of classical music since. She received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance at Howard University and her Master of Music in Voice Performance at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. She has performed in productions with the Martina Arroyo Foundation, Bethesda Summer Music Festival and Sienna Summer Music and more. She is currently performing around the New York area. 
Julia Kaplan Toce is a founding member of the Hope Reichbach Fund, and spent a lot of time in the early 2000s trying to get Hope to sing in key. Julia works as a lawyer in the Thousand Islands Region of New York State. 
Conductor and Pianist Scott Gentile has performed with a wide range of orchestras including the Klangkraft Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Cittadella Symphony in Italy, the Orquestra Costa Atlantica in Portugal and most recently the Das Cuerdas Orchestra in Santiago, Chile. In 2019, Gentile was named the Grand Prize Winner of the International Maestro Competition which resulted in his debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. He is a prize-winner in international competitions in Chile, Germany, and the United States. He is excited to be performing for Hope’s Got Talent! 
Cara Weinberger is a writer and comedian. She currently writes for the NPR trivia/comedy show Ask Me Another and her humor writing has been published in a variety of online publications including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and Reductress 
Tom Toce is an award-winning singer-songwriter living in New York. He is a longtime supporter of the Hope Reichbach Fund and is thrilled to participate in this event. 
Honza Pelichovsky is a dancer who has had the privilege to study various movement forms ranging from Ballroom to Contemporary Dance. Born and raised in Prague, he moved to the States in 2012 to pursue concert dance at Marymount Manhattan College. Honza has had the pleasure to perform with companies and on national tours all over the country and he cannot wait to return to live performance once it is safe again. 
Marcia Belsky is a New York City based stand-up comedian, writer, and musician. She co-wrote Handmaid’s Tale: The Musical with Melissa Stokoski in 2018, which played in New York City and Brooklyn, as well as in Washington D.C. at the John F. Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. Recently her musical comedy was featured on Comedy Central’s Taking The Stage, which included the hit song “100 Tampons” written about the first American woman in space, Sally Ride. 
Jared Arnold is a Brooklyn-based composer and sound designer. His work has appeared in ads for brands including Nike, Starbucks, and Lexus. A graduate of Brown University’s computer music program, he focuses on the use of novel synthesis techniques in the production of popular music. 
Ariana Perlson is thrilled to be singing in Hope’s Got Talent! She’s a graduate of UCLA’s Musical Theater Program. Regional theater: Mamma Mia, Pippin, and Bonnie and Clyde at Summer Repertory Theater. Upcoming: Olive in Spelling Bee at Pricilla Beach Theater (Covid pending!) in Summer 2021. Currently, Ariana is working for an Influencer talent agency. She’s so happy to be supporting such an amazing cause. 
Jared Bryce Goldsmith is thrilled to be singing in Hope’s Got Talent. He was last seen in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway and the First National Tour. A graduate of Elon University, Jared is also writing his own musical Mazkapan, which is being presented virtually through Texas State University this fall. 
Justin Walker White is an actor born and raised in New York City. He has worked in television, film, and theater, as well as in voiceovers and commercials. In 2017, he earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Graduate Acting program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. 
Ezra Bloom is an interdisciplinary event- and music-maker based in unceded Lenapehoking (Kingston, NY). Ezra has performed & composed music for concerts, theater, and dances throughout NYC including Washington Square Park, Signature Theater, and the Queens Museum of Science. They currently produce events for Brooklyn Youth Chorus and serve as Music Director for Midnight Radio Show, a Brooklyn-based shadow puppet collective. 
Matthew Jost @matthew.jost made his Broadway debut as Zack the guitarist in School of Rock. A lead guitarist and vocalist he can be heard rocking out throughout NYC with his band @mischiefboys , with the Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra and lately jamming in Central Park.