Events & Annual Gala
Events
Please join us for a benefit evening supporting Theatre for a New Audience.
Events
Please join us for a benefit evening supporting Theatre for a New Audience.
Special Events
Special Events
Thursday February 23, 2023
7:00PM Performance
Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
8:30PM on-site post-performance reception and discussion led by Jonathan Kalb, Professer of Theatre, Hunter College, CUNY/TFANA’s Resident Dramaturg, with cast members Bill Irwin, John Douglas Thompson, Joe Grifasi and Patrice Johnson, along with director Ciarán O’Reilly
Premium Seats: $1,250 each ($940 tax-deductible)
Tickets and Donations: Olivia Laskin
646-553-3894
[email protected]
Please reserve by Friday February 3, 2023
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Annual Spring Gala
Annual Spring Gala
Celebrating Shakespeare's Birthday
Monday May 13, 2024
Gala and Silent Auction
Cipriani 25 Broadway
6:30PM EDT Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction
7:30PM EDT Dinner and Program
Featuring the 20th Presentation of the Samuel H. Scripps Award for Extraordinary Artistic Achievement to
Robert Caro
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, three times winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and member of the TFANA Artistic Council
Presented by
J.T Rogers
And the 13th Presentation of the Life in Art Award to
Leonard Tow
Leading New York philanthropist
And THE TOW FOUNDATION
Presented by
Jeffrey Horowitz
Founding Artistic Director
Emcee
LisaGay Hamilton
Gala Co-Chairs
Kathleen C. Walsh
Robert E. Buckholz
Support The Annual Gala
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To make a pledge and to pay by check or other method, please contact Gavin McKenzie at [email protected] or call at 646-553-3890.
The Annual Gala raises significant support for TFANA’s critically-acclaimed and award-winning productions, as well as for its in-depth education programs that serve public school students in every borough of New York City.
Theatre for a New Audience’s elegant and entertaining Gala is attended by many of New York’s leading arts patrons and has been hosted by eminent theatre artists such as Jessica Hecht, Alfred Molina, Kristine Nielsen, and Maggie Siff. The Gala includes a cocktail reception, auction, seated dinner, and program.
About the Honorees
Robert A. Caro is one of our nation’s most acclaimed and honored authors, “the greatest political biographer of our times” according to the London Sunday Times. For his biographies of Robert Moses (The Power Broker) and Lyndon Johnson (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award, three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal. In 2019 Caro published a memoir, Working.
“Caro has changed the art of political biography,” Nicholas Von Hoffman has said. His work has been called “a study of the corruption which power exerts on those who wield it to sit beside Tacitus and his emperors, Shakespeare and his kings (Baltimore Evening Sun); “a majestic, even Shakespearean drama about the interplay of power and personality” (Justin Kaplan), and “the best presidential biography the country has ever seen” (NPR).
Born and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and an investigative reporter for Newsday. He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
Leonard Tow, PhD, is the founder and chairman of The Tow Foundation and chief executive officer of New Century Holdings. With a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College and doctoral and master’s degrees from Columbia University, Dr. Tow served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Citizens Utilities and founder of Century Communications and Centennial Cellular. He has taught at Columbia Business School, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and the New York University School of Business. His honorary degrees include Doctorates of Humane Letters from Brooklyn College, City University of New York and University of New Haven.
Dr. Tow’s current board service includes Lincoln Center Theater and Educational Broadcasting Corporation. He is a trustee of the Brooklyn College Foundation and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, as well as a director of AMC Networks.
The Tow Foundation, led by its president Emily Tow, was established in 1988 by Leonard and Claire Tow and promotes wellness and access to opportunities so that individuals and communities can thrive. It has a long history of supporting visionary leaders and nonprofit organizations, as well as providing playwright residencies and director fellowships at major theatres in New York.
The Samuel H. Scripps Award
Samuel H. Scripps (left) was a visionary philanthropist who played a pivotal role in supporting theatre and dance. For Theatre for a New Audience, Samuel Scripps made a leadership gift to enable the Theatre to expand its body of work in Shakespeare and classical drama and increase its season from two to three annual productions. Samuel Scripps championed Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He has provided leadership support to BAM, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the American Dance Festival and the American Society for Eastern Arts where one summer in the 1970s, Julie Taymor first studied Asian art. This directly led to her study in Indonesia – an experience which has profoundly influenced her as an artist. Each year, we honor a great artist with the Samuel H. Scripps Award for Extraordinary Artistic Achievement.
Past Scripps Honorees
Past Scripps Honorees
Ayanna Thompson (2023), Harry Lennix (2022), Marie Maignan (2021), Jeffrey Horowitz (2020), Christian Camargo (2019), Arin Arbus (2018), Bartlett Sher (2017), Kathryn Hunter (2016), John Douglas Thompson (2015), F. Murray Abraham (2014), John Turturro (2013), Michael Boyd (2012), Robert Woodruff (2011), Julie Taymor (2010), Elliot Goldenthal (2010), Mark Rylance (2009), Wallace Shawn (2008), Cicely Berry CBE, Hon.D. Lit (2007), Tony Kushner (2006), and Robert Neff Williams (2005).
The Life in Art Award
Theatre for a New Audience’s Life in Art Award honors the achievements of individuals whose support for theatre has set the standard for leadership and generosity, and whose example has inspired others to ensure that theatre remains a vibrant part of our cultural life. The award, a signed giclée print by Milton Glaser, is named for the autobiography by the great theatre artist Constantin Stanislavski, My Life in Art.
Past Life in Art Honorees
Past Life in Art Honorees
Audrey Heffernan Meyer (2023), Sally Brody (2022), Amanda Riegel and the Thompson Family Foundation (2021), Barbara G. Fleischman (2020), Anne Tatlock (2019), Terry Christensen (2018), Richard E. Feldman and the SHS Foundation (2017), Elayne Bernstein and Sol Schwartz (2016), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP. (2015), Leonard Polonsky and Georgette Bennett (2014), Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (2013), Theodore C. Rogers, Former TFANA Board Chair (2012).