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Thanks to CBS 12 for having Shari Upbin and Avery Sommers on as guests to discuss the Musical Theatre Competition.

Thanks to the Hubbard Radio Family, WRMF, WIRK and many more, for interviewing Kim Champion about NSAL

Thanks to Boca Raton Observer for featuring our upcoming Star Maker Awards.

CBS News featured NSAL Board Member, Shari Upbin and local drama winner Darius J. Manuel as they prepare for the National Drama Competition. In this Mentoring Matters segement the duo share their stories, the need for mentors and the important role NSAL plays in helping emerging artists ascend to the next stage!

Judi Asselta was Pam Gigante's guest on Your South Florida program airing the South Florida PBS stations. Judi discussed NSAL's mission and the National Drama Competition.

The 2019 Star Maker Awards featured the performances by many of the NSAL scholarship and competition winners, along with a humorous and heartfelt speech by Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Marilynn Wick.

One at a time they will step from behind the curtain and stand center stage at the Crest Theatre in Old School Square. “Good morning,” they will say, “I’m No. 1.” Then “I’m No. 2. … I’m No. 3. ...” They have names, but the trio of judges in the front row won’t know them. They are from Boynton Beach and Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, but the judges won’t know where they live. All the judges will know for sure on this Saturday morning, March 9, is that each of them has a dream. They are 12 aspiring actors — seven young men, five young women — dressed in black slacks, black skirts, black blouses, black shirts. They have no costumes, no sets, no music, and when they are done, they will have no applause. All they have is a chair, two brief monologues and eight short minutes with which to attempt to win one of the top three spots in the Florida East Coast Chapter awards for the National Society of Arts and Letters 2019 Drama Competition. The first-place winner will receive $2,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national competition May 30-June 2 and a chance to win $12,000.

One of South Florida's biggest radio groups, Hubbard which includes WRMF, WIRK, WEAT and more, recently interviewed NSAL President Judi Asselta and Star Marker Co-Chair Kim Champion about the Star Maker Awards and the importance of supporing the emerging artists in our area.