Laura Heywood

​Eighteen years after taking on Elphaba in “Wicked” and 16 years after playing Maureen in “Rent,” Eden Espinosa is back on the Great White Way in another epic leading role. In “Lempicka,” she portrays the largely forgotten Art Deco portraitist Tamara de Lempicka, who redefined women’s roles in the art world, both as painter and subject.

57 min Steven Sater is a Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award winning lyricist, librettist, writer, poet and much more. He is the man responsible for Spring Awakening, the show that inspired the passion that led to Laura Heywood's online alter ego, @BroadwayGirlNYC. His new novel, Alice By Heart, is a gorgeous and poetic expansion of the world behind the musical of the same name, which borrows from dark stories from Steven's own solitary childhood. 57 min Top Podcasts In Performing Arts See All

By Lauren Van Hemert on February 24, 2020 • On social media, Laura Heywood is known as Broadway Girl NYC, a handle she created anonymously 10-years ago on a whim to entertain herself. Five years ago, during a Ted Talk, Heywood revealed herself as the writer behind this joyful character she had created on Twitter and being Broadway’s most influential fan then became her career.