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Black Tie International:
Women's Project's
Women of
Achievement 26th Annual Gala Celebration |
Women's Project's
Women of Achievement
26th Annual Gala Celebration
Monday, March 7
Photos by: Rob Rich
robwayne1@aol.com
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Kathleen Turner |
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Bebe Neuwirth |
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Carmen del Orefice |
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Colleen & Gary Rein |
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Ramona Singer |
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Sarah Herbert Galloway, Bonnie Pfeifer Evans
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Ida Liu, Jin Hu, Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster,
Bonnie Pfeifer Evans,Flor Riccio, Lucia Hwong Gordon, guest |
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Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster,Colleen Rein,
Liora Sternbeg, Nurit Kahane, Ramona Sinder,
Marcia Gail Levine, Lucia Hwong Gordon
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Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, fashion model,
philanthropist and real estate investor; Mindy
Grossman, Chief Executive Officer of HSN, Inc
(Home Shopping Network); and Bebe Neuwirth,
two-time Tony Award-winner currently starring on
Broadway in Addams Family are Women's
Project's 2011 Women of Achievement who were
inducted at the 26th Annual Gala Celebration
hosted by the Academy Award-nominated and Golden
Globe Award-winning Kathleen Turner at ESPACE,
635 West 42nd Street, on Monday, March 7, at
6:30pm.
"Each year, Women's
Project, the acclaimed off Broadway theatre
company that produces work written and directed
by women, takes pride in celebrating the
extraordinary accomplishments of women from the
worlds of entertainment and business. Women's
Project's extraordinary group of past recipients
includes Kathleen Turner, Dame Judi Dench,
Gloria Steinem, Tina Brown, Eve Ensler, Whoopi
Goldberg, Annie Leibovitz, Estelle Parsons,
Laurie Anderson, Suzanne Vega and Joan Osborne
to name but a few," said Julie Crosby, the
Producing Artistic Director of Women's Project.
Co-chairs for the Gala Celebration were
Cassandra Del Viscio, Lucia Hwong Gordon,
Annette Green, Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster and
Arlene Scanlan.
- BONNIE PFEIFER EVANS has an
exceptional background as a prominent model,
philanthropist, real estate investor and a
Healthy Chocolate distributor. She was
"discovered" while still in high school by
the Washington Post and was a finalist in
the nationally televised "Model of the Year"
contest, which launched her modeling career.
She has been photographed for virtually
every magazine, featured in TV commercials
worldwide and cat walked preeminent runway
shows for designers including Ralph Lauren,
Donna Karan, Kenzo, Calvin Klein, Armani,
Chanel, Jeffrey Beene, Bill Blass, Gianne
Franco Ferre, Missoni and many others. Click
www.womensproject.org/Women%20of%20Achievement%202011.html
for more information.
- MINDY GROSSMAN, a 32-year veteran
of the retail and apparel industries, is
Chief Executive Officer of HSN, Inc. and a
member of the company's Board of Directors.
In this capacity Ms. Grossman oversees a
$2.8 billion dollar retail portfolio which
includes: HSN, a leading interactive
lifestyle network (Home Shopping Network)
and retail destination that offers a curated
assortment of exclusive products combined
with top brand names; HSN.com, a top 10
trafficked e-commerce site that offers a
differentiated e-commerce experience by
leveraging content, community and commerce;
and Cornerstone, a dynamic, multi-channel
retailer of lifestyle brands including.
- In 2009, Ms. Grossman was ranked one of
the world's 100 most powerful women by
Forbes magazine and serves on the Board of
Directors of the National Retail Federation,
as well as Cosmetic Executive Women. Click
www.womensproject.org/Women%20of%20Achievement%202011.html
for more information.
- BEBE NEUWIRTH is a star of
theatre, television and film. From her 1980
Broadway debut in A Chorus Line and
through Little Me, Dancin',
Sweet Charity (Tony Award #1), Damn
Yankees, Fosse, Chicago (Tony #2, plus
Drama Desk, Astaire, Outer Critics Circle
and Drama League awards) and to today's
The Addams Family (staring as Morticia
Addams), Ms. Neuwirth reigns as one of the
brightest stars of the American Theatre.
- On TV, Ms. Neuwirth won two Emmy Awards
for her role as Lilith Sternin Crane on
Cheers and was nominated for Emmys for
her work on Frasier as well as her
portrayal of Dorothy Parker in the TV movie
Dash and Lilly. Her numerous films
include Say Anything, Green Card,
Bugsy, Jumanji, Summer of
Sam, Liberty Heights,
Celebrity and Tadpole. Click
www.womensproject.org/Women%20of%20Achievement%202011.html
for more information.
Sizzlingly hot
since the 1980s, Women of Achievement Awards
host Kathleen Turner, with her blend of raw
sexuality, beauty, intelligence, and drive,
ranks with golden age-sirens like Lana Turner
and Ava Gardner. She blazed into the public
mind in 1981 when she starred as the femme
fatale opposite William Hurt in Lawrence
Kasdan's neo-noir thriller Body Heat.
Her next starring film roles include The Man
With Two Brains (1983), Crimes of Passion
(1984), Romancing the Stone (1984),
The Jewel of the Nile (1985), The War
of the Roses (1989), Prizzi's Honor
(1985) and Peggy Sue Got Married
(Oscar-nominated 1986), The Accidental
Tourist (1988), Serial Mom (1994) ,
Moonlight and Valentino (1995) and The
Real Blonde (1997), Baby Geniuses
(1999), The Prince of Central Park
(1999), and The Virgin Suicides (1999),
Background on the 26th Anniversary of
Women of Achievement Award
This year's Women
of Achievement Award marks the 26th anniversary
of the award. Past recipients include Kathleen
Turner, Laurie Anderson, Joan Osborne, Suzanne
Vega Estelle Parsons, Toni Morrison, Beverly
Sills, Diane Sawyer, Gloria Steinem, Donna Karan,
Susan Sarandon, Barbara Walters, Rosie
O'Donnell, Katie Couric, Lauren Bacall, Maya
Angelou, Dame Judy Dench, Joan Didion, Eveyln
Lauder, Whoopi Goldberg, Twyla Tharp, Susan
Lucci, Eve Ensler and Kerry Washington, among
many others. In 1999, the late Gerald
Schoenfeld of the Shubert Organization became
the first and only male recipient of the award.
www.womensproject.org/awards.htm
33 Years of Presenting Women Theater Artists
Founded in 1978
by Julia Miles, and now under the leadership of
Producing Artistic Director Julie Crosby,
Women's Project provides a stage for women
playwrights and directors, who even today
receive fewer than 20% of professional
production opportunities nationwide.
Recently acclaimed plays
include Freshwater, Aliens with
Extraordinary Skills, crooked,
Sand, Or, Smudge and Lascivious
Something and the soon to be acclaimed
Apple Cove.
For more on Women's
Project, click
www.womensproject.org/about_us.htm.
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