On Monday night, April 16, 2012, The Point Foundation honored Edward Albee and Focus Features at their fifth annual New York Gala. BroadwayWorld.com was on hand at Pier Sixty to capture the event honoring current and future champions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Point Honors New York, an event honoring current and future champions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. Playwright
Edward Albee will receive the Point Legend Award, and worldwide film company Focus Features will receive the Point Inspiration Award. Presenting sponsors are Audi and Wells Fargo. Premier sponsors are PricewaterhouseCoopers and Motorola Mobility Foundation. Principal sponsors are Estée Lauder Companies, Bumble and bumble, Bud Light, HBO, Mitch Draizin & Philippee Brugere-Trelat, Time Warner Inc., Goldman Sachs and 42Below Vodka. Media sponsors are Gay City News, The Advocate, theMenEvent.com. Benefit Co-Chairs: James Cummings, Shelley Fischel, Jonah Trout and Richard Ziegelasch. For more information about this event, visit
www.pointfoundation.org/newyork/
Point Foundation (Point) is the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit. Point provides financial support, leadership training, mentoring and hope to LGBT individuals who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Point provides its scholars with the financial ability to attend the nation's foremost higher educational institutions and its donors and mentors with the rare satisfaction of directly investing their resources and time in future generations of leaders.
Photos by Linda Lenzi


Executive Director and CEO, Point Foundation Jorge Valencia

Legend Award Honoree Edward Albee

Inspiration Award Receipent CEO, Focus Features James Shamus and Inspiration Award Receipent President, Focus Features Andrew Karpen

Denis O'Hare

Trista Moldovan and Kyle Barisich

Thomas Roberts and Patrick Abner

Michelle Clunie

Michelle Clunie and Point Scholar Diego Arango

Brian Holbrook, Bari Zahn, William Kapfer and Eric Baker

James Schamus, Denis O'Hare and Andrew Karpen

Ted Allen

Ted Allen, Denis O'Hare and Jorge Valencia

Ted Allen and Denis O'Hare

Jorge Valencia and Valerie Smaldone

Renee Graziano

Renee Graziano

Angela "Big Ang" Raiola

Angela "Big Ang" Raiola

Renee Graziano and Angela "Big Ang" Raiola

Renee Graziano, Jorge Valencia and Angela "Big Ang" Raiola

Ted Allen, Renee Graziano, Big Ang and Jorge Valencia

Ted Allen, Denis O'Hare, Jon Robin Baitz and David Tripp

James Shamus, Jorge Valencia and Andrew Karpen

Jorge Valencia and Shelley Freeman

Renee Graziano and Denis O'Hare

Mercedes Ruehl

Jorge Valencia and Mercedes Ruehl

Mercedes Ruehl and Edward Albee

Bruce Conroy, Jorge Valencia, Lysette Drumgold and Ronald Rudolph

Judith Light

Jorge Valencia and Judith Light

Shelley Freeman and Judith Light

Dan Whitman, Tom Viola, Lorna Kelly and Robert Bartley

Valerie Smaldone and Zac Chandler

Point Scholar Taylor Clarke and Ted Allen

Kyle Barisich and David Lewis

Kyle Barisich, Point Scholar Maggie Keenan-Bolger and Trista Moldovan

Terrence Meck, Judith Light and Todd Sears

Judith Light and Scott Dill

Terrence Meck and Point Scholar Derek Blechinger

Ted Allen, Point Scholars and Alumni

Point Scholars and Alumni

Point Scholars John Downey, Matthew Smith, Derek Blechinger and Diego Arango

Point Scholars Dayan Erikson, Maggie Keenan-Bolger and Rhys Ernst

Point Scholars Lilia Espinoza, Derrick Miller-Handley, Ellen Adams and Garrett Zuercher

Point Scholars James Derek Mize, Tommy Craven, BranDon Lee-Markowitz, Taylor Clarke and Brooke Sebold
