Photo Coverage: NCTF Annual Chairman's Award Gala Funding New American Theatre

Hosted by Michael Ritchie (Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles) and wife Kate Burton (Present Laughter, Hedda Gabler), the gala will featured a silent auction filled with exciting prize packages.

Co-chairs of the 2009 Chairman's Awards Gala are Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Ernst & Young.

The Gala Committee includes Mitchell Auslander, Richard M. Ditizio, John R. Dutt, Isabelle Halphen, Gretchen Shugart, and John Thomopoulos.

NCTF is an association of ten of America's finest not-for-profit theatres dedicated to increasing the participation of corporations and their employees in supporting theatre across the country and in New York. Member theatres include: Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theater, American Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, The Cleveland Play House, Guthrie Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Trinity Repertory Company.

Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.