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Stage and screen star Patricia Clarkson will be honored by In the Life Media with its Producing Change Award at its 2009 Season Premiere Gala, to be held at 7pm on October 15 at New York's Rubin Museum of Art. Clarkson and Julian Bond, who will receive the Pioneer Award, will be honored for their advocacy for the LGBT community.

Clarkson received an Oscar nomination for Pieces of April, has appeared in such films as Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Far From Heaven, Good Night, and Good Luck, and The Dying Gaul, and will soon be seen in Main Street, written by Horton Foote and directed by John Doyle.

Her Off-Broadway credits include The Maiden's Prayer, Raised in Captivity, Three Days of Rain, and The Maderati.

For tickets and information, call 212-255-6012, ext. 305 or visit www.inthelifetv.org.