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Michael Redmond has written about the arts and cultural affairs for The Star-Ledger, The Princeton Packet, Opera News, Symphony Magazine, Lincoln Center Playbill, and Carnegie Hall Playbill, among numerous other publications and websites. He has been recognized for "Distinguished Service to the Arts" by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and for excellence in Critical Writing by the New Jersey Press Association. A native of Newark and a lifelong resident of the Garden State, Mr. Redmond is a lapsed pianist, a hapless acrobat, a card-carrying member of the Dinner Party, a master of polyglot Scrabble, and an occasional poetaster.