Colman Domingo to Host Vineyard Theatre’s Annual Emerging Artists Luncheon
(© David Gordon)
Tony nominee Colman Domingo (The Scottsboro Boys) will host Vineyard Theatre‘s Annual Emerging Artists Luncheon on June 30 from noon-2pm at the Gander. The event will feature the presentation of the 2016 Susan Stroman Directing Award to Lee Sunday Evans.
Leading up to the event, the Vineyard's 2016 Spring Online Auction will be available through June 30 at 5pm. Auction items include house seats to the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton with a backstage tour; four VIP tickets to Saturday Night Live; coffee with the mothers from Showtime's The Affair: Kathleen Chalfant (Wit) and Mare Winningham (Tribes); house seats to Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, starring Josh Groban, with a backstage tour; and more.
Evans is the second recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Susan Stroman Directing Award, created to recognize and support early- and mid-career theater 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 Vineyard Theatre is dedicated to the creation and production of new plays and musicals. The company's productions have been honored with two Pulitzer Prizes, three Tony Awards, and numerous Drama Desk, OBIE, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel Awards.
