{"id":438999,"date":"2026-08-21T03:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438999\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:12:20","slug":"cal-state-la-faculty-and-students-contribute-to-emmy-win-for-la-county-holiday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438999\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State LA faculty and students contribute to Emmy win for LA County Holiday Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Cal State LA faculty member Meredith Greenburg and students Leah Cobleigh and Ngan Ho-Lemoine were part of the team behind the Emmy-winning\u00a066th Annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration<\/a>, which was broadcast live on PBS SoCal from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in December 2025.<\/p>\n

Greenburg, chair of Cal State LA\u2019s Department of Theatre and Dance\u00a0in the College of Arts and Letters, served as lead stage manager for the production. Cobleigh and Ho-Lemoine, both\u00a0theatre\u00a0design and production\u00a0majors,\u00a0worked alongside\u00a0Greenburg\u00a0as assistant stage managers\u00a0while\u00a0gaining firsthand experience\u00a0in a major live television and performing arts production.<\/p>\n

The Holiday Celebration received a Los Angeles Emmy Award in the\u00a0Live Special Events \u2013 Programming category<\/a>\u00a0at the 78th Los Angeles Emmy Awards, presented July 25 at the Skirball Cultural Center. PBS SoCal received a total of eight Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n

The 2025 production marked Greenburg\u2019s first year working on the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration, and she has been contracted to return for the 2026 show. For Greenburg, one of the most meaningful aspects of the experience was being able to bring Cal State LA students into professional production with her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team won the award\u2014not just me,\u201d Greenburg said. \u201cThe best part of the process was that I was able to bring two of our amazing students to work as\u00a0assistant\u00a0stage\u00a0managers,\u00a0Leah Cobleigh and Ngan Ho-Lemoine. Without them, the show would not have been the wonderful success that it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

The annual Holiday Celebration\u00a0highlights\u00a0the breadth of artistic and cultural talent across Los Angeles County, bringing together performers and production professionals for a large-scale live event at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Holiday Celebration showcases the brilliant talent that\u00a0is\u00a0Los Angeles,\u201d Greenburg said. \u201cHaving our students there to support that brought that all\u00a0full\u00a0circle for me. Being an educator and mentor to Cal State LA students has been a highlight of so much of the work I have done over the past 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the past 20 years,\u00a0Greenburg\u00a0has served as production stage manager for the Hollywood Bowl\u2019s summer Broadway musicals, regularly creating opportunities for Cal State LA students to work alongside her and gain firsthand experience\u00a0in major professional productions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroducing them to the Bowl\u2014and now to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion\u2014offers an extraordinary opportunity to experience firsthand the scale, rigor, and artistry of world-class theatrical production, while building relationships and networking with the professionals who make live entertainment happen throughout Los Angeles,\u201d\u00a0said Greenburg.<\/p>\n

The Emmy recognition celebrates the collective work of the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration team while underscoring the value of connecting Cal State LA students with professional opportunities in Los Angeles\u2019 creative and performing arts industries.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Cal State LA faculty member Meredith Greenburg and students Leah Cobleigh and Ngan Ho-Lemoine were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-438999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}