When Tony Award-winning Broadway star Laura Benanti launched the #SunshineSongs initiative at the start of the pandemic, it quickly became a national movement — celebrating student performers whose musicals had been canceled while also bringing joy to seniors and children’s hospitals through music.

For the third season of the web series Submissions Only, I created Theater Burn, a fictional Broadway gossip website styled like TMZ. Through original headlines, slider graphics, and satirical storylines, I expanded the show’s narrative world and engaged fans beyond the episodes.