Theatre East to Honor Richard Mawe with Laurette Taylor Award

Theatre East Board of Directors presents Richard Mawe with the 2017 Laurette Taylor Award on Monday, May 15th at Cafe Tallulah, 240 Columbus Ave, in the Upper West Side. The benefit starts at 7pm with an exclusive cocktail reception. Tickets start at $100. The evening will include tributes, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, entertainment, and an auction. To purchase tickets, visit www.theatreeast.org.

Richard Mawe, an ardent supporter of the arts, served for decades as a teacher at HB Studios where he studied with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen. As an actor, Mawe's most notable films include Rounders, Nobody's Fool, The Human Stain, Woody Allen's Alice, and Small Time Crooks. His theatrical body of work includes the premieres of Israel Horovitz's 50 YEARS OF CADDYING at the Gloucester Stage Company, Tim Blake Nelson's EYE OF GOD with Theatre East, and David W. Crawford's HARVEST, along with the Off Broadway productions of THE CRUCIBLE, INHERIT THE WIND, PROOF, and YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU. His regional work includes the Boston Theatre Award-winning production of DEATH OF A SALESMAN, KING LEAR with Harvard, ORPHANS with Julliard, MADE IN HEAVEN at the American Jewish Theatre His work has taken him to Boston, to Harvard, to Julliard, American Jewish Theatre, and Horton Foote's HABITATION OF DRAGONS at HB Playwrights.

The Theatre East Laurette Taylor Award is named after a pioneer of acting whose work on the stage influenced many generations of artists. The Award was founded in 2009 to pay tribute to the exceptional artistic contributions of Laurette Taylor, and to honor those industry members who have made vital contributions, on stage or off.

The company was founded in 2008 by husband-and-wife producing partners Judson Jones (Artistic Director) and Christa Kimlicko Jones (Associate Artistic Director), along with Joseph Mitchell Parks, after producing such hits as the premiere of Christopher Durang's THE VIETNAMIZATION OF NEW JERSEY (NY Times Critic's Pick), and the premiere of Texas playwright David W. Crawford's HARVEST (BackStage Critic's Pick, Smith & Kraus Best New Plays of 2008), as well as earning a spot as producers to watch in 2008 on PBS's Theater Talk. Since its founding, Theatre East has mounted such critically acclaimed New York and World Premieres as Tim Blake Nelson's EYE OF GOD, Daniel MacIvor's THE SOLDIER DREAMS, Bennett Windheim's NORMALCY, Megan O'Brien's THE JUNGLE BOOK, DEVIL AND THE DEEP with original music and lyrics by Air Supply's Graham Russell, and most recently Cyndi Williams' A NAME FOR A GHOST TO MUTTER.

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