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Photo Coverage: New Dramatists Honor Roger Berlind at Starry Luncheon

By: May. 18, 2011
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New Dramatists, Tony Honor® recipient and the nation's premiere playwright development workshop, honored 14-time Tony Award® winner Roger Berlind with their 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 62nd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, yesterday, May 17th at the New York Marriott Marquis. Philip J. Smith and Robert E. Wankel of The Shubert Organization served as the Luncheon Chairs. Jim Dale, Emily Mann and Brian Stokes Mitchell were among those paying tribute to Mr Berlind. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you phoot coverage below.

Each year, New Dramatists salutes an individual who has made an outstanding artistic contribution to the American theatre. Roger Berlind has been producing for more than 30 years. Recent productions include Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Proof; Medea; Anna in the Tropics; Caroline, or Change; Wonderful Town; Doubt; The History Boys; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Faith Healer; Deuce; The Year of Magical Thinking; Curtains; Rock ‘n' Roll, Is He Dead?; Gypsy; 13; Equus; Ragtime; A Little Night Music; and A Behanding in Spokane. This season he is represented by Arcadia, The Book of Mormon, Driving Miss Daisy, La Bête and Jerusalem.

Past luncheon honorees have included Julie Taymor, Horton Foote, Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Chita Rivera, Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Julie Andrews, Glenn Close, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, Jerry Herman, Terrence McNally, Barbara Cook, John Kander & Fred Ebb, August Wilson, George C. Wolfe and Gwen Verdon.

New Dramatists is dedicated to the playwright, and pursues a singular mission: to find gifted playwrights and give them the time, space, and tools to develop their craft, so that they may fulfill their potential and make lasting contributions to the theatre. Regarded as a national leader in playwright support and advocacy, New Dramatists has remained a pioneer in the field of new play development since our inception in 1949. We offer our company of 50 playwrights a home base and self-guided laboratory for seven years, free of charge, in the company of a gifted community of peers. New Dramatists' alumni include some of the most revered and influential playwrights of our time: Robert Anderson, Kia Corthron, Nilo Cruz, Horton Foote, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Eduardo Machado, Donald Margulies, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, John Patrick Shanley, Mac Wellman, August Wilson, Doug Wright, and many more. Current playwrights and alumni have won 16 Pulitzers (including 8 of the last 12), 24 Tonys®, 71 Obies, 17 Drama Desk Awards, 4 MacArthur Fellowships, and 12 Susan Smith Blackburn Awards.. New Dramatists itself is the recipient of a 2001 Tony Honor and a 2005 Obie Award, in recognition that our writers are, as our Tony put it, "blessing" the future of the American theatre.

For more information, visit www.NewDramatists.org.

Photo Credit: Monica Simoes

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Joel Grey

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Joyce Randolph & Joel Grey

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Donna Murphy, Roger Berlind & Emily Mann

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Donna Murphy

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Donna Murphy & Roger Berlind

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John Benjamin Hickey

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Jim Dale, Roger Berlind & Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Richard Topol

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Terrence McNally, New Dramatists Artistic Director Todd London, David Lindsay Abaire, Lynn Nottage & Donald Marguilies

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Alex Timbers

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Jim Parsons

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David Thompson & Colman Domingo

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David Lindsay-Abaire

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Daphne Rubin-Vega

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Nilo Cruz, Daphne Rubin-Vega & Craig Lucas

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Nilo Cruz & Craig Lucas

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Nilo Cruz & Judith Light

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Judith Light

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John Weidman

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Brian Tyree Henry

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George C. Wolfe & Susan Birkenhead

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Casey Nicholaw

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Lily Rabe & Dan Lauria

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Dan Lauria

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Nick Adams

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Ben Vereen

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Jez Butterworth

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Roger Berlind & Adam Godley

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Adam Godley

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Arian Moayed

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Andrew Rannells, Nikki M. James, Rory O'Malley & Josh Gad

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Andrew Rannells

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Nikki M. James

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Robert Lopez, Roger Berlind, Rory O'Malley, Nikki M. James & Josh Gad

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Rory O'Malley & Josh Gad

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Roger Berlind, Marian Seldes & John Leguizamo

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