Ma-Yi Theater’s Seventh Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner

OBIE Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company, one of the leading theater companies in the U.S. devoted to presenting work about the Asian-American experience, honors Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Loida Nicolas lewis, a best-selling author and the Asian-American CEO of TLC Beatrice, as part of its Seventh Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner. Hwang and Lewis will receive Leader in Arts and Leader in Community Service awards, respectively, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the Asian American community. In addition, Broadway stars Jenn Gambatese (Tarzan) and Jose Llana (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) will perform songs from Disney’s Tarzan and from the 2002 revival of Flower Drum Song, musicals whose books were written by Hwang. Keo Woolford (The King and I, West End) performs scenes from his upcoming off-Broadway play, I Land.