Photo Coverage: Albee Honored at New Dramatists Luncheon

New Dramatists presented their 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award to three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee at the group's 58th Annual Benefit Luncheon, which was held at the Marriot Marquis Hotel on Thursday, May 17th.

Albee, who received a 2005 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, has won Pulitzers for A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women.� Other plays include the�landmark�Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tiny Alice, The Zoo Story, The Play About the Baby, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?.� Albee's The Lady from Dubuque, starring Dame Maggie Smith, is currently playing the West End, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? recently played a national tour starring Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner, who were featured in the recent Broadway revival.

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Edward Albee

Edward Albee and Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Terrence McNally

Edward Albee and Terrence McNally

Marian Seldes and Edward Albee

Terrence McNally, Marian Seldes and Edward Albee

Marian Seldes, Edward Albee and Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins and Edward Albee

Michael Cerveris

Edward Albee and�Michael Cerveris

Charlotte d'Amboise

Duncan Sheik

Jerry Stiller

Jerry Stiller and Jamie deRoy

Laura Bell Bundy

Stark Sands

Edward Albee and Stark Sands

Laura Bell Bundy, Edward Albee and Stark Sands

Edward Albee and Maureen Anderman

Phyllis Newman

Edward Albee and Phyllis Newman

Ben Gazzara, Swoosie Kurtz, Edward Albee and Michael Arden

Swoosie Kurtz and Edward Albee

David Hyde Pierce, Debra Monk, Edward Hibbert, Edward Albee, Karen Ziemba and Jill Paice

David Hyde Pierce, Angela Lansbury and Edward Albee

Boyd Gaines

Edward Albee

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After his life as an ingenue in Brooklyn & Queens, Walter spent the next 25 Years in a leading role as a Photographer / Photo Researcher in Manhattan. He is currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and children Dali & Gala. As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of "GREASE". His journey on the path to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. His photography is syndicated worldwide through Retna Ltd. and Corbis.

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