Photo Coverage: Vineyard Theatre Celebrates Lee Sunday Evans at Emerging Artists Luncheon

Just last week, Colman Domingo hosted Vineyard Theatre's Annual Emerging Artists Luncheon at The Gander (15 West 18th Street) in Manhattan. The event featured the presentation of the 2016 Susan Stroman Directing Award to Lee Sunday Evans (D DEB DEBBIE DEBORAH, A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER...). BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the big day below!

Ms. Evans is the second recipient of Vineyard Theatre's Susan Stroman Directing Award, named in honor of theatre director Susan Stroman, who most recently directed DOT at The Vineyard, as well as THE PRODUCERS and THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS. VineyardTheatre created the Susan Stroman Directing Award in 2013 in order to recognize and support gifted early- and mid-career theatre directors. The Award provides recipients with space, time and resources to develop projects and strike new collaborations while in residence at The Vineyard over the course of one or more seasons. The first recipient of the Award was Liesl Tommy (ECLIPSED).

The Emerging Artists Luncheon celebrates Vineyard Theatre's commitment to cultivating talent in our own backyard. From local public high school students to next year's Tony Contenders, artistic development and education programs provide artists with support and resources to develop new plays and musicals, as well as offering free arts learning opportunities for community youth.

The Vineyard Theatre (located at 108 East 15 Street) has been one of the nation's leading non-profit theatre companies for over 30 years. Dedicated to the creation and production of daring new plays and musicals, The Vineyard has consistently premiered provocative, groundbreaking works, including Nicky Silver's THE LYONS; Marx, Lopez and Whitty's Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q; Kander and Ebb's THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS; Bell and Bowen's [title of show]; Paula Vogel's HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (1998 Pulitzer Prize); Edward Albee's THREE TALL WOMEN (1994 Pulitzer Prize); Nicky Silver's PTERODACTYLS; Becky Mode's FULLY COMMITTED; Jenny Schwartz's GOD'S EAR; Tarell Alvin McCraney's WIG OUT!; Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's GLORIA; and many more. Vineyard's productions have been honored with two Pulitzer Prizes, three Tony Awards, and numerous Drama Desk, OBIE, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

The Vineyard Theatre Emerging Artists Luncheon at The Gander on June 30, 2016 in New York City.

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The 2016 Susan Stroman Award

Susan Stroman

Colman Domingo

Lee Sunday Evans

Jill Gabbe

Michael Rosen and Finnerty Steeves

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell and Joanne Guerrerio

Joanne Guerrerio and Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo and Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell

Jinn S. Kim, Toni Salisbury, AdrIan White and Colman Domingo

Lee Sunday Evans

Susan Stroman

Susan Stroman and Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern and Susan Stroman

Colman Domingo and Susan Stroman

Sharon Washington, Colman Domingo, Sarah Stern and Susan Stroman

Colman Domingo, Douglas Aibel and Susan Stroman

Sharon Washington and Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell

Marjorie Johnson

Douglas Aibel and Marjorie Johnson

Judy Kuhn and Sarah Stern

Judy Kuhn and Sarah Stern

Douglas Aibel and Susan Stroman

Douglas Aibel and Jill Gabbe

Judy Kuhn and Susan Stroman

Susan Stroman and Lee Sunday Evans

Susan Stroman and Lee Sunday Evans

Judy Kuhn and Douglas Aibel

Sam Rudy and Susan Stroman

Sam Rudy and Susan Stroman

Gayle Taylor Upchurch, Sarah Stern and Susan Stroman

Gayle Taylor Upchurch, Sarah Stern and Susan Stroman

Gayle Taylor Upchurch and Shane Marshall Brown

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell, Sarah Stern, Susan Stroman, Lee Sunday Evans and Douglas Aibel

Colman Domingo, Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday

Stephen Conrad Moore

Colman Domingo and Stephen Conrad Moore

Colman Domingo and Marjorie Johnson

Colman Domingo and Marjorie Johnson

Lee Sunday Evans, Marjorie Johnson and Colman Domingo

Marjorie Johnson and Colman Domingo

Michael Rosen and Sharon Washington

The cast of 'Dot", Finnerty Steeves, Sharon Washington, Marjorie Johnson, Michael Rosen and Stephen Conrad Moore

Colman Domingo with the cast of 'Dot", Finnerty Steeves, Sharon Washington, Marjorie Johnson, Michael Rosen and Stephen Conrad Moore

Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell and Colman Domingo

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell

Jill DeArmon and Jinn S. Kim

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell and Jennifer Vasquez

Jennifer Vasquez

Jennifer Vasquez

Douglas Aibel

Douglas Aibel

Douglas Aibel

Susan Stroman

Susan Stroman

Susan Stroman

Sharon Washington

Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

Lee Sunday Evans

Lee Sunday Evans

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

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Lee Sunday Evans

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

Sarah Stern and Lee Sunday Evans

Colman Domingo

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Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo