INPERSON
BROADWAY
BOUND
Mya Lane
Mya Lane, senior at
Emsworth’s Nazareth College
and Career Prep High School,
makes her Broadway debut as
Pittsburgh’s first-place winner
of the regional August Wilson
Monologue Competition.
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M
aking a Broadway debut at the very young age of 17 might seem like just
a dream, but for Mya Lane it’s a reality. In May, as a first-place winner
in Pittsburgh’s regional August Wilson Monologue Competition, Lane
traveled to New York City for the national competition where she joined
fellow high school students from around the country as they performed
monologues from the famous playwright’s works at the August Wilson
Theater.
Lane is a senior at Nazareth College and Career Prep High School, located
in Emsworth. She is the daughter or Talonda and Derrick Lane and has three
brothers and one sister. At school, Lane is a member of the choir and has also
participated in basketball, volleyball, yearbook club and cheerleading. In the
community, she is part of a program called Krunk Movement—a youth micro-
enterprise for singers, rappers, videographers, photographers and more—
located in Hazelwood and open to students in grades 9 through 12. Lane is