Christine Baranski to Present Mark Rylance with Samuel H. Scripps Award

Tony Award-winner Mark Rylance will receive the Samuel H. Scripps Award at Theatre for a New Audience’s Spring Gala, to be held at The Powerhouse at the American Museum of Natural History on May 11 at 6:30 pm.

Tony winner Christine Baranski, who co-starred with Rylance on Broadway in Boeing-Boeing, will present the award. His daughter, Juliet Rylance, and Christian Camargo, will be co-masters of ceremonies at the gala, which will also celebrate Shakespeare’s 445th Birthday.

Established in 2005, the Samuel H. Scripps Award recognizes extraordinary commitment to promoting the power of language in classic and contemporary Theatre. The award is a sculpture of Shakespeare by Milton Glaser. Prior recipients include Cicely Berry, O.B.E., author Tony Kushner, and author and actor Wallace Shawn.

Rylance won the Tony for Boeing-Boeing and is the former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. One of the world’s most prominent Shakespearean actors, he has starred in such plays as Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.

Individual tickets are $500 to $1,500. To purchase, call 212-343-1920.