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Celebrating its 41st Anniversary Season, Playwrights Horizons is one of New York’s most prized theater companies. Proceeds from the Auction and Gala benefit the company’s six annual productions and programs that develop new work, support access to the arts, and training the next generation of theater managers and artists.
A writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, it has presented the work of over 375 writers. The 2011/2012 Season has boasted productions of Itamar Moses’ Completeness, Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar, Jordan Harrison’s Maple and Vine, Leslye Headland’s Assistance, Dan LeFranc’s current The Big Meal and the upcoming Obie Award-winning play Rapture, Blister, Burn. The Off-Broadway institution is the recipient of numerous awards and last year was honored with its fifth Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park, which had its World Premiere at the theater last season and is currently playing on Broadway. The 2012-2013 season includes plays and musicals by Annie Baker, Tanya Barfield, Lisa D’Amour, Scott Frankel, Richard Greenberg, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter and Michael Korie.
The categories and items for Playwrights Horizons’ online Auction include:
CELEBRITY EVENTS
Including tickets to see RED at Mark Taper Forum and meet Jonathan Groff; Dinner with Book of Mormon co-creator Robert Lopez before attending a performance of the show and going for a backstage tour with Michael Potts; two tickets to see Jay-Z perform at the opening of the Barclays Center with a backstage tour on September 28; a lunch for you and four friends with New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project or a visit from her at your book group as well as signed copies of her book; tickets and backstage visits as well as restaurant gift certificates for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (backstage tour with Michael Urie), Clybourne Park (dinner with playwright Bruce Norris and Director Pam MacKinnon and backstage tour with cast member Jeremy Shamos); Nice Work If You Can Get It (backstage visit with Kelli O’Hara) Phantom of the Opera (backstage tour with Kris Koop), Memphis (backstage tour with James Monroe Iglehart), Annie (backstage tour and meet and greet with “Annie”), double date with Molly Ranson to Playwrights’ new musical Far From Heaven in the 2012-2013 season; 2 tickets to Godspell and drinks with director Danny Goldstein and cast member Nick Blaemire; 2 tickets to Other Desert Cities and drinks with Jon Robin Baitz; a backstage visit with Celia Keenan-Bolger after a performance of Peter and the Starcatcher.
ONE-OF-A-KIND EXPERIENCES
Including a Sun Valley vacation with airfare; weeklong stay in a Puerto Vallarta apartment including airfare; weeklong stay at a private Palm Springs home; 90 minute private casting consultation with casting director Alaine Alldaffer and one hour voice lesson with Nancy Opel; the chance to be a casting director for a day; lunch with photographer Henry Grossman and 1 Henry Grossman signed print of the Beatles from the June 16, 1967 issue of LIFE Magazine; the chance to be artistic director for a day; 4 VIP tickets and tour to Good Morning America; private tour of the TDF costume collection with collection director Stephen Cabral; visit to the GQ Fashion Closet including consultation with creative director Jim Moore’s team and an outfit to take home; “Behind the Scenes” in-studio visit with WNYC’s Richard Hake; chance to choose your own Los Angeles Bike Ride Adventure; opportunity to publish a book including the formatting, cover and printing of two paperback copies.
MEMORABILIA
Including a signed “30 Rock” script of “Pilot” written by Tina Fey and directed by Adam Bernstein; signed poster, script and playbill from Playwrights Horizons’ Clybourne Park; “Friday Night Lights” script signed by writer Bridget Carpenter; Sunday in the Park with George Broadway poster, original Playwrights Horizons showbill and Broadway Original Cast Recording signed by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.
TICKETS
4 Premium tickets to Yankees vs. Mets Subway Series on June 24; 4 VIP tickets to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”; tickets to a New York Giants game and walk on the field; 2 orchestra tickets to L’Elisir D’Amore at The Metropolitan Opera, 4 passes to a taping of BET’s 106 & Park, 4 adult passes to Top of the Rock; 2 season passes to the Williamstown Theatre Festival; 2 tickets to Pilobolus Dance Theatre at the Joyce Theater; plus membership to the New York Public Library at the Young Lions Level; and many Broadway shows.
Many more items include those in the categories of Fitness and Dining and a second round of major items, to be announced, will be added online soon.
All interested bidders must go to www.biddingforgood.com/playwrightshorizons to register to bid.
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Playwrights Horizons’ annual Gala evening, this year titled “The Highest Standard”, will be held Monday evening, June 11th at 583 Park Avenue. The evening will honor its five Pulitzer Prize-winning productions and creators include: Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park (2011 winner), Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (2004 winner, 2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (1989 winner), Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy (1988 winner) and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park With George (1985 winner) Cocktails and a Silent Auction will begin at 6PM, followed by dinner at 7:45 PM and the evening’s entertainment.
The gala will include many unique silent auction items including: A Private Tour for 12 of The High Line’s Unopened Third Phase of lead by Co-Founder Robert Hammond and Two Tickets to the Premiere Screening and Party of Boardwalk Empire, Season 3.Ticket prices for the Gala start at $1,000 and can be reserved by calling Michelle Kiefel at 212-564-1235, extension 3143.
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS, celebrating its 41st Anniversary Season, is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their new work. Under the leadership of artistic director Tim Sanford and managing director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights Horizons continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. Writers are supported through every stage of their growth with a series of development programs: script and score evaluations, commissions, readings, musical theater workshops, Sharp and Mainstage productions. In its 41 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of over 375 writers and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors not only including its five Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, but also. a Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation (three 2010 Obie Awards, Best American Play), Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards), Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, Adam Bock’s A Small Fire and The Drunken City, Bathsheba Doran’s Kin, Melissa James Gibson’s This, Amy Herzog’s After the Revolution, Craig Lucas’ Prayer for My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play), Adam Rapp’s Kindness, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting), Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero, David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award), Kirsten Childs’s The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award), Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s James Joyce’s The Dead, William Finn’s March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, Christopher Durang’s Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and Betty’s Summer Vacation, Richard Nelson’s Goodnight Children Everywhere and Franny’s Way, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island, Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire, Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room, A.R. Gurney’s Later Life, Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet. Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 by Robert Moss, before moving to 42nd Street where it has been instrumental in the revitalization of Theatre Row. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981 to 1991, followed by Don Scardino, who served through 1995. Playwrights’ auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is affiliated with NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Ticket Central, a central box office that supports the Off-Broadway performing arts community.
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