Photo Flash: Inside the 2015 NYMF Gala with Bob Saget, Victoria Clarke, Beth Leavel & More!

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) honored Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw, theatre executive and producer Darren P. DeVerna and former NYMF board chair Martin Grant at its 2015 Gala held last night, Sunday, November 15th at the Edison Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan (240 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036). Check out photos below!

The starry lineup included Bob Saget, Victoria Clark, Beth Leavel, Michael Park, Javier Munoz, David Hibbard, Adam Heller, Kevin McCollum, Shakina Nayfack, Michael James Scott, Lucia Spina, Noemi de la Peunte and David Davila (Manuel vs. The Statue of Liberty), Vynnie Meli, Ronve O'Daniel and Jevares Myrick (Illa: A Hip Hop Musical), Beth & Allan Williams, Barry & Fran Weissler, and more.

Each November, NYMF holds a gala celebrating the year's artistic triumphs and honoring select individuals whose work has contributed to the continued vitality of musical theatre. Held at the beautiful Edison Ballroom, an historic Times Square landmark, this one of a kind event is attended by an exclusive group of musical theatre enthusiasts, Broadway artists, and leading members of the theatre industry.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival nurtures the creation, production, and public presentation of stylistically, thematically, and culturally diverse new musicals to ensure the future vitality of musical theatre.

Now in its twelfth year, the Festival is the premier musical theatre event in the world. The preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theatre fans. More than 90 Festival shows have gone on to productions on and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters in all 50 states, and in more than 20 countries worldwide. Festival alumni have received a wide array of awards including the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, NYMF received a special Drama Desk Award in recognition of its work "creating and nurturing new musical theatre, ensuring the future of this essential art form."

Photos by Russell Rowland