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Lauren Ambrose, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, B.D. Wong, Jeffrey Wright, and More Set for Our Time Benefit

Jeffrey Wright
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Jeffrey Wright
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

Additional casting has been announced for Our Time Theatre Company’s benefit, to be held at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, on April 13 at 7pm.

Participants will include Lauren Ambrose, Talia Balsam, David Alan Basche, Tevin Campbell, Michael Cerveris, Maddie Corman, Nadia Dajani, Ned Eisenberg, Dominic Fumusa, Lauren Graham, Kate Jennings Grant, Kathryn Grody, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Hermann, Gregory Allen Howard, Adriane Lenox, Ilana Levine, Tiffany McElroy, Matthew Modine, Greg Naughton, Jasica Nicole, Kelli O’Hara, John Oliver, Austin Pendleton, Rosie Perez, Alysia Reiner, Ron Rifkin, Ken Roberson, Ramon Rodriguez, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Peter Sarsgaard, Ed Sherin, John Slattery, Fisher Stevens, Mary Testa, Callie Thorne, Bill Withers, and cast members from Spring Awakening.

The event will be hosted by the Our Time Kids, and feature celebrities performing original work written by and with the young people of Our Time Theatre Company. The benefit will also honor biographer and photographer, Howard L. Bingham, with Wright presenting him with this year’s Our Time Award.

Honorary Chairs for the event include Muhammad and Lonnie Ali, Bill Cosby, and Camille Cosby, and Carly Simon. Co-Chairs include Scott M. Delman, Fred Nelson, Kathleen A. & Dr. Joseph F. Popovich, and Liz Tuccillo.

Our Time Theatre Company provides an environment free from ridicule where young people who stutter discover the joy of creating and performing original theatre and music.

For more information, visit www.ourtimetheatre.org.