News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner

By: Jun. 10, 2014
Get Access To Every Broadway Story

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click.




Existing user? Just click login.

Musical theatre performers MARY LOU BARBER, EDWARD PLEASANT and BEN RAUCH performed dramatic readings of excerpts from The Very Reverend James Parks Morton's forthcoming memoir at the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards gala last week, June 5 at the New York Hilton Midtown. This is the first time in the history of the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) awards dinner that a theatrical event has been presented. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the event below!

The gala event and sneak peek of the memoir excerpts are being produced by Broadway veteran Jonathan Cerullo of JSC Theatricals.

The Interfaith Center of New York, founded in 1997, is a secular educational non-profit organization which seeks to make New York City and the world safe for religious differences by increasing respect and mutual understanding among people of different faiths, ethnic and cultural traditions and by fostering cooperation among religious communities and civic organizations to solve common social problems,

Previous Interfaith Award recipients include former President Bill Clinton, James Carroll, Wynton Marsalis, Alan Slifka, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), Nina & Daniel Libeskind, Shirin Ebadi (2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Philippe Petit, Santiago & Robertina Calatrava, Richard Gere, Amma, Imam Feisal Rauf, Nicholas D. Kristof, Paul Winter, The Hon. Stephen Breyer, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei (2005 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), Carl Sagan, Steven C. Rockefeller, Rev. Kyotaro DeGuchi, Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Vartan Gregorian, Rabbi Awraham Soetendor, Leymah Gbowee (2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) and Abigail E. Disney, and Bill and Judith Moyers.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
The 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner at The Hilton Hotel Midtown on June 5, 2014 in New York City.

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
The 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Peter Zimroth

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons and Peter Zimroth

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons and Peter Zimroth

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons, Peter Zimroth and Rev. James Parks Morton

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons, Peter Zimroth and Rev. James Parks Morton

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. Chloe Breyer

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. Chloe Breyer and Peter Zimroth

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. Chloe Breyer and Peter Zimroth

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons, Peter Zimroth and Rev. Chloe Breyer

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Estelle Parsons and Peter Zimroth

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Karenna Gore Schiff

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Karenna Gore Schiff and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Karenna Gore Schiff and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Karenna Gore Schiff and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. James Parks Morton and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. James Parks Morton and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. James Parks Morton and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. Chloe Breyer, Rev. James Parks Morton and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. James Parks Morton and Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. James Parks Morton, Al Gore and Karenna Gore Schiff

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. James Parks Morton, Al Gore and Karenna Gore Schiff

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Rev. Chloe Breyer, Rev. James Parks Morton, Al Gore and Karenna Gore Schiff

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Al Gore and Karenna Gore Schiff

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Al Gore

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Serge Schmemann

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Ben Rauch, Mary Lou Barber and Edward Pleasant

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Ben Rauch

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Mary Lou Barber

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Edward Pleasant

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Ben Rauch, Mary Lou Barber and Edward Pleasant

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
James Carroll

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
James Carroll, Alexandra Marshall and Patrick Carroll

Photo Coverage: Inside the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner  Image
Al Gore and Karenna Gore Schiff







Videos