Annette Bening and David Rockwell to Be Honored at New York Stage and Film Gala
(© David Gordon)
New York Stage and Film has announced that its annual winter gala will honor four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening and Tony-winning scenic designer David Rockwell. The fundraising event will be held on December 4 at the Plaza Hotel. The evening will include cocktails, an auction, dinner, and entertainment from special guests.
Annette Bening's career includes her Oscar-nominated turns in American Beauty, Being Julia, The Grifters, and The Kids Are All Right. Onstage, she has been seen in Coastal Disturbances (her Tony-nominated Broadway debut) and, most recently, opposite John Lithgow in King Lear at the Public’s Shakespeare in the Park in 2014.
David Rockwell is the 2016 Tony Award and Drama Desk winner for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for She Loves Me and a six-time Tony Award nominee. His work as a set designer includes over 20 Broadway productions and scenic designs for television including an Emmy Award for his art direction of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony in 2010.
Winter gala cochairs include Michael Douglas, Tom Hulce, Michael Mayer, George C. Wolfe, Lauren Cramer, Carol Friscia, and Barbara Manocherian. Gala vice-chairs include Ida and Charles Cardona, Dasha Epstein, Norman and Kate Lear, Max and Rebecca Carpenter Mayer, Fred Nelson, Daryl Roth, Jordan Roth, Thomas Schumacher, and Denise and Dean Vanech. The gala committee includes Scott Ellis, Santino Fontana, Paula Harwood and Peter Gallagher, Thomas Kail, Stephen Karam, Jane Musky and Tony Goldwyn, Bill Pullman, Josh Radnor, John Patrick Shanley, Jon Tenney, Jennifer Westfeldt, Amy Aquino and Drew McCoy, Kelly Ashton and Carlo Barel di Sant Albano, Anne Carey, Ed Cheetham, Susan DeKrey, Kimberly Germ Cramer, Ruth and Stephen Hendel, Lisa Huestis and David Van Zandt, Sheryl Kaller and Scott Zaretsky, Rick Miramontez, Gabrielle and Michael Palitz, and Anne and William Tatlock.
New York Stage and Film is a nonprofit company dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of theater and film.
