New York Theatre Workshop's 2018 Gala To Honor John Tiffany & Barbara Cutler Emden

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today that the NYTW 2018 Annual Gala will celebrate John Tiffany, the Tony Award-winning Director of Once, which had its world premiere at NYTW, and the upcoming 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. The Gala will be held on Monday, April 16 at the Altman Building (35 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011).

Tony Award nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Emmy Award nominee Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) will serve as Masters of Ceremony for the evening, which will feature 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 will be scripted by Issac Oliver (Intimacy Idiot), will be directed by Kevin Cahoon (Tastiskank), and features musical direction by Charlie Alterman (Pippin). The live auction will be conducted by Christie's Auctioneer Robbie Gordy.

John Tiffany directed Once for which he was the recipient of multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway. As Associate Director of the Royal Court, his work includes Road, The Twits, Hope and The Pass. He was the director of Let The Right One In for the National Theatre of Scotland, which transferred to the Royal Court, West End and St. Ann's Warehouse. His other work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes Macbeth (also Broadway), Enquirer, The Missing, Peter Pan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, The Bacchae, Black Watch, for which he won the Olivier and Critics' Circle Best Director Awards, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn and Home: Glasgow. Other recent credits include Pinocchio at the National Theatre, The Glass Menagerie at A.R.T, on Broadway, EIF and in the West End, and The Ambassador at BAM.

John was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012 and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University in the 2010-2011 academic year. For his work on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, he received the Olivier Award for Best Director, one of a record-breaking nine Oliviers received by the production.

Barbara Cutler Emden spent more than two decades as a practicing attorney, and the last eleven years as President of Mediate, Inc. (a subsidiary of The Feinberg Group). There she served as a Court-appointed Special Master in several class action public disputes in NYC concerning homeless families with children and welfare reform where she dealt with the parties to the actions - government agencies, advocacy groups and the media. Her work on the homeless families' dispute was praised in a New York Times editorial. Barbara then joined the Public Relations firm Fleishman-Hillard where she was co-creator of Project ERASE, an in-school asthma program for NYC's poorest children. Project ERASE was awarded the PR Week Campaign of the Year and the Best of the Silver Anvils. In addition to New York Theatre Workshop, Barbara is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, whose mission is to provide emerging and established playwrights with space to develop new work and/or explore new avenues of creativity. Barbara served on the Board of Trustees at LiveON NY, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of older New Yorkers, making New York a better place to age.

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.

Tickets starting at $1,250 and tables starting at $12,500 can be purchased at www.nytw.org, via e-mail at BreannaF@nytw.org, or by calling (212) 780-9037. Please note that the schedule for the evening is subject to change. The Gala will be chaired by Sonia Friedman & Colin Callender and James B. Emden.

The current production of NYTW's 2017/18 season is the World Premiere of AN ORDINARY MUSLIM, by NYTW Usual Suspect and 2017-18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Hammaad Chaudry (Salaam, Mr. Bush), directed by NYTW Usual Suspect and Obie Award winner Jo Bonney (The Body of An American), which runs through March 25. The season will continue with a new production directed by NYTW Usual Suspect, Tony Award nominee, and three-time Obie Award winner Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) of LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, by NYTW Usual Suspect and five-time Obie Award winner Caryl Churchill (Love and Information; A Number). The 2017/18 season will conclude with the New York Premiere of THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND by Marcus Gardley (X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation), directed by NYTW Usual Suspect and Obie Award winner Lileana Blain-Cruz (Red Speedo; The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World).

ABOUT NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP

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.

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