Photo Coverage: Point Honors New York 2012 Gala

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by Linda Lenzi

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, visitwww.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