“Songwriting for Character,” featuring Hermitage Fellow Rona Siddiqui, Friday, May 29, 6:30pm: Grammy Award-nominated artist, musical theater composer, and Hermitage Fellow Rona Siddiqui returns to the Hermitage Beach to reveal her approach to songwriting in this sunset program. Siddiqui has won some of musical theater’s most prestigious awards, including the Kleban Prize for lyric writing and the Jonathan Larson Grant, and has collaborated on major Broadway musicals as a music director and orchestrator, including the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning A Strange Loop, written by Hermitage Fellow Michael R. Jackson. Join returning Hermitage composer Rona Siddiqui on the Hermitage Beach as she offers songwriting techniques and shares some of her original work as the sun sets into the Gulf. Registration is required at HermitageArtistRetreat.org ($5/person registration fee). Hermitage Artist Retreat, 6660 Manasota Key Road, Englewood, FL 34223