Photo Coverage: New York Theatre Workshop's 2018 Gala Honors John Tiffany and Barbara Cutler Emden

New York Theatre Workshop held it's 2018 Annual Gala last night, April 15. The gala celebrated John Tiffany, the Tony Award-winning Director of Once, which had its world premiere at NYTW, as well as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; along with Barbara Cutler Emden, who is celebrating 25 years of arts advocacy and exceptional service on the NYTW Board of Trustees.

Check out photos from the evening below!

Tony Award nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Emmy Award nominee Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) served as Masters of Ceremony for the evening, which featured performances from Michael Esper (The Last Ship; Lazarus), Cristin Milioti (Lazarus; Once), Jamie Parker (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Kyle Riabko (Spring Awakening; What's It All About? - Bacharach Reimagined), Greg Hildreth (Frozen; Peter and the Starcatcher) and more.

The evening's program was scripted by Issac Oliver (Intimacy Idiot), directed by Kevin Cahoon (Tastiskank), and featured musical direction by Charlie Alterman(Pippin). The live auction was conducted by Christie's Auctioneer Robbie Gordy.

The NYTW Annual Gala raises nearly 10% of the Off-Broadway company's annual budget. Funds raised at this one-night only event help NYTW to mount five world class productions each season and to share them with more than 40,000 audience members. Proceeds also support NYTW's Artist Workshop activities through which nearly 2,000 artists develop more than 80 projects each year and their Education Initiatives including Learning Workshop, Mind the Gap, and Public Programs that serve over 1,600 students of all ages.

New York Theatre Workshop, now in its fourth decade of incubating important new works of theatre, continues to honor its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape all our lives. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village, NYTW presents five new productions, over 80 readings and numerous workshop productions for over 45,000 audience members. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs, including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies and artist fellowships. Since its founding, NYTW has produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent; Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright's Quills; Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus; Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's Aftermath; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh's Once; Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher; David Bowie and Enda Walsh's Lazarus; Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown; and seven acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW's productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, seventeen Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride