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NEW YORK -Sharon Bush,
Philanthropist & Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Teddy
Share, Arianna Huffington, Chair, President &
Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, and Joan
Vail Thorne, playwright and director, were Women's Project
Theater's 2014 Women of Achievement who were inducted
at its
29th Annual Gala Celebration at the Mandarin
Veanne Cox and Doug Wamble led a musical tribute to lyricist Dorothy
Fields.
Also on hand for the evening were presenters David Hyde Pierce and Stanley
Zareff.
"Each year, Women's Project Theater takes pride in celebrating the
extraordinary
accomplishments of women from the worlds of entertainment and business.
Past recipients include Joanna Coles, Donna Kalajian
Lagani, Sheila Nevins, Charlotte St. Martin, Thia Breen,
Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, Mindy Grossman, Bebe Neuwirth,
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 Theater.
Lucia Hwong Gordon (Women Achievement Award Winner 2009) chaired the
Gala
celebration and co-chairs were Jennifer Chambers, Susan Ciminelli,
Cassandra Del Viscio, Wendy Federman, Linda Healey,
Michelle-Marie Heinemann, Paul Kim, Donald J. Loftus, Joy
Marks, Pamela Morgan, Arlene Scanlan, Cassandra
Seidenfeld, Lisa Simonsen, and Andrea Warshaw , Lucia Hwong
Gordon (Women Achievement Award Winner 2009).
Co-chairs were Jennifer Chambers, Susan Ciminelli, Cassandra
Del Viscio, Wendy Federman, Linda Healey,
Michelle-Marie Heinemann, Paul Kim, Donald J. Loftus, Joy
Marks, Pamela Morgan, Arlene Scanlan, Cassandra
Seidenfeld, Lisa Simonsen, and Andrea Warshaw Wernick.
Honorary co-chairs were Paola Bacchini Rosenshein, Laura
Zambelli Barket, Christine Mortimer Biddle, Lady
Liliana Cavendish, Anne Chaisson, Kathleen Chalfant, Bruce
Cohen,
Stacey Cooper, Julie Crosby, Countess Luann de Lesseps, Fe Fendi, Angelina
Fiordellisi, Sara Herbert Galloway and Barry Klarberg, Nurit
Kahane Haase, Tania Higgins, Kathryn and David Henry
Hwang, Armistead Johnson, Cheri Kaufman, Casey Kemper,
Jeanine Jeo-Hi Kim, Karen Mayer, Montserrat Mendez,
Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, Laura Pozvolska Nicklas, Maggie
Norris, Barbara and Peter Regna, Muna Rihani and Ambassador
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Michele
Rella, Denise Rich, Lauren Day Roberts, Sheila Rosenblum, Sandra
Rosenthal, Noreen and Peter Thomas Roth, Adrienne
Saldaña, Jean and Martin Shafiroff, David Singleton, Dara
Sowell, Tina and David Storper, Barbara and Donald
Tober, Lauren Vernon, Tia Walker, Debra and Gregg
Wasser, Carole Bellidora Westfall, Barbara Winston, and
Deborah Zeigler
Past notable recipients include Toni Morrison, Beverly Sills, Diane
Sawyer, Donna Karan, Susan Sarandon, Katie Couric, Lauren Bacall, Maya
Angelous, Twyla Tharp 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.
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