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National Corporate
Theatre Fund
Chairman's Awards Gala
Vanessa Williams
2013 honoree
Theatre Artist
Award
Theatre Artist Award
Resident Theatres 50th
Anniversary achievement
in theatre award
:
Actors Theatre of Louisville,
Guthrie Theater,
Hartford Stage,
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Trinity Repertory Company
Monday, April 29
Pierre Hotel, New York City
Cocktails:6:30 Dinner:7:30
American Express Corporate
Honoree; George Takei Emcee
Vanessa
Williams “Theatre Artist Award.”
will be presented by James Lapine, Tony Award winning
director and librettist Williams has excelled in musical
charts, Broadway, music videos, television and film.
Ernst & Young and Cisco Systems, Inc.
co-chair
the evening’s festivities.
James S. Turley,
Global Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young, and
chairman of NCTF, said, “Central to the founding and
success of regional theatre have been corporate
partnerships. Ernst & Young is proud to support outstanding
theatre programming, as well as the innovative theatre
education and outreach initiatives, at NCTF theatres across
the U.S.”
Luis A. Ubiñas,
President of the Ford Foundation, will present the regional
theatre awards. Accepting on theatres behalf:
Actors Theatre of Louisville - Managing Director Jennifer
Bielstein.
The Guthrie Theater - Director Joe Dowling.
Hartford Stage - Managing Director Michael Stotts;
Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak; Board President Jill
Adams.
Seattle Repertory Theatre - Managing Director Benjamin
Moore; Artistic Director Jerry Manning; Board President
Becky Lenaburg.
Trinity Repertory Company- Executive Director Michael
Gennaro; Richard L. Bready Artistic Director Curt Columbus.
. These prestigious theatres staged award-winning dramas and
musicals, while serving as labs for up-and-coming
playwrights, actors and directors. Their key role enhanced
the youth arts education in their cities by offering vast
innovative programs in schools and at their theatres.
These artists on the NCTF’s Artistic Advisory Council,
generously donate time and energy
supporting NCTF’s fundraising and sponsorship initiatives:
Edward Asner, Brent Barrett, Annette Bening, Robert Brustein,
Kathleen Chalfant, Glenn Close, Billy Crudup, Gordon
Davidson,
David Henry Hwang, Cherry Jones, Swoosie Kurtz, John
Lithgow,
Jerry Mitchell, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Pels, David Hyde Pierce,
Daryl Roth, Marian Seldes, Patrick Stewart, and Paula Vogel.
Richard Thomas, Honorary Chairman of NCTF
To quote Bruce E. Whitacre, Executive Director of NCTF:
“It is our privilege to celebrate fifty years of achievement
by these outstanding organizations and to acknowledge the
instrumental role of the Ford Foundation in the development,
and sustained support of resident theatres across America.
NCTF creates and supports exciting partnerships at the
intersection of the corporate and arts communities –
relationships that are central to the success of theatre and
the vitality of communities in which they are based,”
Media Contact for National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF):
Karen Imas
Connelly, McLaughlin & Woloz
212-437-7373
kimas@cmw-newyork.com
Media Contact for NCTF Gala:
Marlea Wills
Marlea Willis Communications, Inc
914.220.8399
marlea@mwilliscomm.com
More than 300 theatre patrons, Broadway leaders and industry
professionals from across the country will gather for an
evening honoring individuals and institutions that have made
significant contributions to the national theatre community.
The gala will raise funds for NCTF member theatres in the
U.S., some of America’s finest not-for-profit theatres.
NCTF member theatres include the Actors Theatre of
Louisville, American Conservatory Theater, American
Repertory Theater, Center Theatre Group, Cleveland Play
House, Guthrie Theater, Long Warf Theatre, The Old Globe,
Seattle Repertory Theatre and Trinity Repertory Company.
Their Affiliate Network includes the Alley Theatre, Alliance
Theatre, Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Dallas
Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts,
Hartford Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, and
Walnut Street Theatre.
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