GALA PERFORMERS
Hodori K-pop Dance Group
Julia Riew
Janet Noh
The Hodori K-pop Dance Group is a vibrant dance ensemble formed by participants of our very own Hodori after-school program! Driven by their passion for K-pop artists, the members of Hodori K-pop Group choreographed and infused their own creative flair into iconic K-pop dance routines, delivering captivating performances
Julia Riew is a Korean-American composer-lyricist, librettist, and writer. She is best known for Dive (known online as "Shimcheong" or "The Korean Disney Princess Musical"), which is currently being developed into a stage musical with Tony-Award-winning director Diane Paulus and GLAAD-Award winning playwright Diana Son for the American Repertory Theater, and into a middle-grade novel for HarperCollins after amassing 130k+ followers and 3M+ likes worldwide. In addition to being the recipient of the 2022 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theater Songwriting, Julia has been Playbill’s Featured Songwriter of the Month, a Woman to Watch on Broadway, the inaugural Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship winner, and the inaugural Musicians United for Social Equity (MUSE) Linda Twine Scholarship winner. Julia graduated magna cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 2022 with a B.A. in Theater and Music.
Janet Noh is a classically trained pianist and pop-R&B songwriter, singer, producer, and
musical theater writer originally from Seattle. An international award-winning pianist, Janet took a U-turn by starting her post-college career as a Wall Street investment banker after graduating from Yale with a degree in Economics and History. She came back to music after being awarded a musical theater writing scholarship to NYU-Tisch and upon graduating with a Master of Fine Arts, made her acting debut as a principal role on Broadway. Her musical works include THE ISLAND CLUB (commissioned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing LLC, licensed through Concord Theatricals), PANGAEA (The Frederick Loewe Foundation award recipient; developed by Live & In Color; Marymount Manhattan College), MODEL MINORITY (developed at Broadcast Music Inc. Lehman Engel Workshop), #BARS workshop with original Broadway cast of Hamilton (The Public Theater). As a performer, she made her Broadway singing debut in ROCKTOPIA and made her acting debut in MACK AND MABEL (Encores! New York City Center). She has also been a featured soloist at Lincoln Center, New York City Center, Public Theater, and Signature Theatre, among other large venues across the world. She has been a songwriting teaching artist at Lincoln Center Theater, a guest songwriter at Columbia University, a guest composer/faculty at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and a guest teaching artist at Marymount Manhattan College. Janet believes music is the universal language of the heart. She loves to explore combining eclectic musical influences - the timelessness of classical music, the drama inherent in musical theater storytelling, and the modern soundscape of pop songwriting & production - to create a unique and relatable experience that speaks to the heart. Janet is based in New York City. Janet wrote songs for the feature film Anastasia (Paramount Pictures, Amazon, Disney+), and is currently developing several new musicals as well as a full concept album of original music. She is currently a resident songwriting artist at Lincoln Center Theater. As an independent artist, her debut EP "Love Me More" was released in September 2023 and within a month hit 250,000 streams on Spotify.
Website: www.janetnohmusic.com / IG: @janetnoh