Times Square handed the spotlight to its youngest performers on August 25, when Wonderama brought its 2026 Wonder Games back to Duffy Square under the banner “The Games That Everyone Can Play.” Among the rising talent taking the stage was Kylie Marshall, the teenage singer and actress from Homestead, Florida, whose return to the Wonderama stage marked another milestone in a career built on exactly this kind of high-visibility platform.
This year’s Wonder Games arrived with new scale behind it. Wonderama named FENIX360, the global creator platform founded by Allan Klepfisz, as a launch partner for the event, positioning Times Square as a launchpad not just for a live broadcast audience but for FENIX360’s international creative community as well. The event was hosted by David Osmond alongside Chuck Armstrong and Alisa Obrivanova, continuing Wonderama’s run as one of the longest-standing family entertainment franchises on television, now reaching more than 90 million households each week.
For Marshall, the appearance extended a relationship with Wonderama that stretches back years, to her earliest Times Square broadcasts as a young rising star. She began singing at age three and was producing her own music by thirteen, a trajectory that caught the attention of Grammy-winning music publisher Tony Mercedes and vocal coach Makeba Riddick-Woods, both of whom continue to shape her sound. That same period also produced her first screen credits, including a lead role in Josh Webber’s holiday film “Athena Saves Christmas.”
Wonder Games’ format — built around participation as much as performance — has made it a natural fit for an artist like Marshall, who has treated every stage as a stepping stone rather than a spotlight to be enjoyed once and left behind. Her presence at this year’s event places her among the same rising talent pool the Games are designed to elevate, even as her résumé already outpaces many of her peers.
With Wonderama’s footprint continuing to expand through partnerships like the one with FENIX360, and with Marshall’s own career gaining ground on both the music and film sides, her appearance at the 2026 Wonder Games reads as much as a homecoming as it does a new chapter.