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| February 27, 2013 |
The Stage is Set for April 29th Join us on April 29th as we honor Academy Award®-winning actor Robert De Niro, pay television company HBO® (accepted by CEO Richard Plepler) and film producer/executive and Fund Trustee/Treasurer Steve Kalafer at our Annual Gala in NYC. The trio is set to receive The Fund’s highest award, the Medal of Honor. Read the press release. The event at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square begins with a 6 pm reception, 7 pm dinner and entertainment and includes special tribute performances by guests to be announced. Call 212.627.1000 or email actorsfund@resevt.com for tickets. Visit www.actorsfund.org for more information and updates! .......................................................................... Upcoming Events The Cougar Ball, Stage 72, 3/1, New York Our Town 75th Anniversary Reading, 3/4, New York Annie—Producer’s Picks, 3/20, 3/26, New York Annual Gala, 4/29, New York Revlon Run Walk—New York, 5/4 Revlon Run Walk—Los Angeles, 5/11 |
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Starry March 4 Benefit Reading of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Tappan Wilder, nephew and literary executor of the playwright stated, “My uncle loved actors—he was an actor himself, you know—and he was mighty proud to have written a popular large-cast play that provided his fellows with so many jobs! What a great pleasure it is to partner with The Actors Fund, which Thornton Wilder supported throughout his life, on the occasion of a major milestone in the history of his most famous work." Curtain up at 7:30 pm at the Gerald R. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College in NYC! For tickets ($75, $100, and $150) visit www.actorsfund.org, call 212.221.7300 ext. 133 or email tickets@actorsfund.org.
Congratulations to Trustee Jeffrey Bolton, who was recently featured as “Donor of the Day” in The Wall Street Journal! Mr. Bolton, a managing director of Neuberger Berman Group LLC, an investment management firm based in New York, heads The Funds’ Advancement Committee, and leads efforts to raise half of The Fund’s $27 million operating budget to help those in need in the creative community. A standing ovation for our friends at Palm Beach Dramaworks—as well as its leaders Managing Director Sue Ellen Beryl and Producing Artistic Director Bill Hayes (who also serve as Fund National Ambassadors)—for their month-long fundraising efforts in conjunction with their production of A Raisin in the Sun. The Fund’s link to Lorraine Hansberry’s acclaimed drama is a strong one, as the show’s Broadway producer, Philip Rose, lived at The Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, NJ (with his wife, Doris Belack Rose), as did Claudia McNeil, who starred as family matriarch Lena Younger in both the Broadway and film productions of the play—as well as a 1981 musical version. Read more on our Blog, or in a recent article in the Palm Beach Daily News. .......................................................................... Exploring Creative Longevity
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