Mike Nichols to Be Honored at Public Theater’s Summer Gala

Award-winning director Mike Nichols and former Public Theater board member Susan Lyne will be honored at the Public Theater’s annual Summer Gala, which will be held at the Delacorte Theatre on June 25, the opening night of Daniel Sullivan’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, starring Anne Hathaway.

Nichols has won seven Tony Awards for directing Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Luv, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Real Thing, and Monty Python’s Spamalot, and one for producing Annie. His most recent Broadway credit was directing the revival of Clifford Odets’ The Country Girl. He won the Oscar for The Graduate, and his other film and television credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Carnal Knowledge, Angels in America, Wit, and Charlie Wilson’s War.

Lyne has been president and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, president of ABC Entertainment, and Editor in Chief of Premiere.

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