ABOUT
In each episode, an imaginative 10-year-old composer takes us on a magical podcast journey throughout history and around the world to meet composers who got left out of the classical music canon, including Elisabetta de Gambarini, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Margaret Bonds, Queen Lili’uokalani and more.
The series aims to educate kids about women and other underrepresented composers, and to offer an inclusive and entertaining history of classical music.
Allegra Sparkle wants kids to see that the greats are just like them—and that greatness is available to us all.
REVIEWS
“[Allegra] is someone worth watching for continued installments. She is fun, funny, and engaging. She’s truly someone who can carry a Pixar film as its lead.”
-analyst from WeScreenplay
“This is a wonderfully unique and entertaining premise . . . Allegra is a well executed lead, and her vivid imagination comes to life on the page throughout the entire episode. Beyond this, she's hilarious.”
-reader from The Black List
“I want that.”
-toddler from Minneapolis
MORE INFO
Allegra Sparkle was the Winner in Austin Film Festival’s prestigious Script Competition of the Rooster Teeth Women & Animation Fellowship Award! Read about it in Deadline.
This project was mentioned in the newest issue of MovieMaker magazine, which features series creator Lillie Gardner on its 25 Screenwriters to Watch list for 2023. Lillie Gardner was also interviewed about Allegra Sparkle on WWFM - The Classical Network’s A Tempo with Rachel Katz.
Allegra Sparkle was an Official Selection for the 2022 Catalyst Story Institute Festival, where the script received a SAG-AFTRA Table Read and a public pitch by Lillie Gardner.
This project was also a Finalist in The International Screenwriters Association’s TV Pilot Pitch Challenge and one of 3 Finalists in Barnstorm Media’s BOLT Screenplay Competition. In June, Minnesota Screenwriters’ Workshop hosted a live table read of the script.
Allegra Sparkle is on Coverfly’s Red List as one of the top 20 scripts in the animated 30-minute TV category.
You can request to read an episode of Allegra Sparkle on Coverfly or get in touch through this contact form.
This project is created and written by Lillie Gardner, a screenwriter and music instructor who’s passionate about women’s history, education and good storytelling. Learn more at her website.
Concept art is by Lillie’s sister, Jane Gardner. Lillie and Jane produced the project’s animated pitch video with FableVision Studios. Read more about this collaboration in the St. Paul Monitor.
