Join Us for Sounds of Awakening Sunday, February 12th at 8 pm ET

Join us Sunday, February 12, 2023, from 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for the next installment of the musical Awakening Together program, Sounds of Awakening hosted by Rev. Yolanda Mapes.

Rev. Yolanda’s guest, back for the second time, is Adam B. Shapiro. Adam is a TV/Film actor and also an award-winning singer and cabaret performer. He is best known for the movie The Normal Heart (2014), and TV shows The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) and Master of None (2015).

Adam won the 2013 MAC Award for Musical Comedy performer of the year for his show “Guide to the Perfect Breakup”. In 2021, he released his debut EP “Let Love In”.

Adam was born in Indianapolis Indiana and attended Ball State University in Muncie IN, and is an experienced stage actor in both English and Yiddish. He was the understudy for Tevye and Lazer Wolf in “Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish” Off-Broadway and has worked extensively with the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (despite growing up with no exposure to Yiddish and only beginning to learn it when he was cast by NYTF for the first time).

Rev. Yolanda is a trans femme genderqueer singer songwriter actor and Interfaith Music Minister AND a very grateful member of the member Board of Trustees for Awakening-Together. Rev. Yolanda has been making music/theater/TV/film/performance art for well over 35 years, winning the NYC MAC Award twice and inducted into both the NY Blues Hall of Fame and The GLBT Hall of Fame.

One of Rev. Yolanda’s greatest joys is being an active member of Awakening-Together’s assembly of equals. The personal learning/healing that has occurred in her from the sharing that takes place in this community, is a gift that she is forever grateful for.