Tony Nominee Joy Woods and Sierra Boggess Join Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown for a Benefit Concert Supporting Proyecto Faro

NYACK, NY, November 7, 2025 — On Saturday, December 6, 2025, Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown will be joined by Tony Award nominee Joy Woods (Gypsy, The Notebook, SIX) and Drama Desk nominee Sierra Boggess (The Phantom of the Opera, Harmony, The Little Mermaid) for an intimate concert at The Angel Nyack (18 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960), to benefit Proyecto Faro, a nonprofit organization devoted to serving and protecting Rockland County’s immigrant communities.

Proyecto Faro (“Project Lighthouse”) works across language, religion, and ethnicity to provide solidarity, safety, and advocacy for Rockland’s immigrant population — a community increasingly targeted by hostile rhetoric and policy. This concert aims to amplify their mission and raise essential funds to continue their work.

“What my work speaks about most often is community — what makes someplace feel like home, feel safe?” said Jason Robert Brown. “Since moving back to Rockland County four years ago, my family and I have been massively grateful for the community we’ve found here, an area of socioeconomic diversity, creative expression, and deep connection to this place and its history. Most importantly, we’ve been so moved by this community’s innate compassion, and nowhere has that been more apparent than in its connection to our immigrant communities.

Needless to say, those communities have been under attack for some time, and in the past year in Rockland County, those attacks have grown increasingly strident. Proyecto Faro is doing the work that needs to be done to strengthen that community, protect it, and stand in solidarity with its members. 

I am immensely proud to stand with Proyecto Faro and honored to help them with their vitally necessary work. ​ I’ve asked my extraordinary musicians and two of the greatest singers on Broadway – Tony nominee JOY WOODS and Drama Desk nominee SIERRA BOGGESS – to come to Nyack and join me for an evening to celebrate Proyecto Faro and to amplify its mission as loud as we can. ​ It is such a gift to be able to bring this music to the Angel Nyack in support of this invaluable organization.”

The one-night-only concert will feature Brown performing selections from his celebrated songbook in Nyack for the first time in almost thirty years, alongside Woods and Boggess. Together, they’ll bring artistry, compassion, and the spirit of solidarity to the stage, uniting the community in song and purpose.

JASON ROBERT BROWN has written some of the most highly acclaimed scores for the stage in the last three decades, including Songs for a New World, Parade (1999 Tony for Best Score, 2023 Tony for Best Revival), The Last Five Years (also a feature film), The Bridges of Madison County (Tonys for Best Score and Orchestration), Honeymoon In Vegas, 13 (also a Netflix film), Mr. Saturday Night (with lyrics by Amanda Green), and last season’s The Connector. Upcoming: Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil, written with Taylor Mac and directed by Rob Ashford based on John Berendt’s novel; and Less, written with Doug Wright and adapted from the novel by Andrew Sean Greer. As a solo artist, Jason has performed around the world – including his debut at Carnegie Hall in Autumn 2024 – and released several albums of his songs. His most recent release, Jason Robert Brown & Stephen Sondheim Live In Concert (on Concord Theatricals Recordings), documents a 2019 all-star performance at New York’s Town Hall. Jason lives in Nyack, NY with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their two daughters.

JOY WOODS is a Chicago-born, New York–based performer. A recent 2025 Tony Award® nominee for her performance as Louise in the Broadway revival of Gypsy opposite Audra McDonald, she is honored to work alongside Jason Robert Brown, coming off the 30th anniversary concert of Songs for a New World. 

Joy made her professional debut at 19 as Chiffon in the 2019 Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, and later returned to the show in the leading role of Audrey. In 2022, she made her Broadway debut in SIX as Catherine Parr. She gained widespread attention for her breakout performance as Middle Allie in the 2024 Broadway adaptation of The Notebook. Other stage credits include performances at Classic Stage Company, New York City Center, and regional theatres across the US.

SIERRA BOGGESS has been seen on Broadway in Harmony, School of Rock, It Shoulda Been You, The Phantom of the Opera, Master Class, and The Little Mermaid (Drama League and Drama Desk nominations). Her London theatre credits include Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall, and Love Never Dies (Olivier award nomination). Among her other New York theatre credits are the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools, The Goodbye Girl, Harmony, The Secret Garden at Lincoln Center, Guys & Dolls at Carnegie Hall, the final off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Music in the Air for City Center’s Encores! series. She also starred as Christine Daae in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera. Regionally, she has been seen in the world premiere of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman) A Little Night Music (BSC), The Secret Garden (CTG), Into the Woods (Hollywood Bowl), Ever After (Alliance Theatre), Age of Innocence (world première, Hartford Stage and McCarter Theatre) Les Misérables (National Tour). Sierra has performed in concert halls all over the world, including BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Songbook series at Lincoln Center. She appears in the original Broadway cast recordings of Harmony, School of Rock, It Shoulda Been You, the twenty-fifth-anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera, the symphonic recording of Love Never Dies, The Little Mermaid, and A Little Princess. Other recordings include Together at a Distance, an album of duets with Julian Ovenden, and the world-premiere full-symphony recordings of Oklahoma! and Carousel with the Sinfonia of London. www.sierraboggess.com

PROYECTO FARO (Project Lighthouse) is a Rockland County–based nonprofit that provides advocacy, leadership development, legal support, mutual aid, including food relief, and community-defense initiatives for immigrant families. Working across lines of language, faith, and identity, Proyecto Faro strives to ensure safety, dignity, and belonging for all who call Rockland home. Learn more at www.proyectofarorockland.org.

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