{"id":14246,"date":"2019-02-22T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=14246"},"modified":"2019-02-24T04:37:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T09:37:40","slug":"emmy-winner-broadway-star-to-host-anti-bias-program-it-gets-better-at-point-borough-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/02\/emmy-winner-broadway-star-to-host-anti-bias-program-it-gets-better-at-point-borough-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Winner, Broadway Star to Host Anti-Bias Program ‘It Gets Better’ At Point Borough High School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A three-time Emmy award winning actor and producer who has starred in Broadway productions will host an anti-bias program at Point Pleasant Borough High School next week.<\/p>\n

In partnership with the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, Anthony J. Wilkinson will host \u201cIt Gets Better,\u201d a program focused on anti-bullying and harassment.<\/p>\n

Wilkinson will be speaking about his life growing up in Staten Island and being the victim of bullying and harassment by classmates and peers. Mr. Wilkinson will share his experiences and his journey from being bullied to realizing his own self-worth.<\/p>\n

Wilkinson is the creator and star of popular stage productions \u201cMy Big Gay Italian Wedding,\u201d \u201cMy Big Gay Italian Funeral\u201d and \u201cMy Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis.\u201d He is also known for serving as associate director and editor on the soap opera \u201cOne Life to Live,\u201d for which he won three Emmy awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Wilkinson\u2019s story is inspirational and will be beneficial to anyone that attends,\u201d an announcement from the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

There is no charge for attending the event and all are welcome. The program will also feature Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer and Vincent S. Smith, superintendent of Point Pleasant Borough schools.<\/p>\n

The program will be presented Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

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A three-time Emmy award winning actor and producer who has starred in Broadway productions will host an anti-bias program at Point Pleasant Borough High School next week. In partnership with the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, Anthony J. Wilkinson will host \u201cIt Gets Better,\u201d a program focused on anti-bullying and harassment. Wilkinson will be speaking about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[3623,24],"class_list":["post-14246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-anthony-j-wilkinson","tag-brick-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pp_program.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3HM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}