Photo Coverage: Point Honors New York 2012 Gala
By: Linda Lenzi Apr. 17, 2012
On Monday night, April 16, 2012, The Point Foundation honored Edward Albee and Focus Features at their fifth annual New York Gala. BroadwayWorld.com was on hand at Pier Sixty to capture the event honoring current and future champions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Point Honors New York, an event honoring current and future champions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. Playwright Edward Albee will receive the Point Legend Award, and worldwide film company Focus Features will receive the Point Inspiration Award. Presenting sponsors are Audi and Wells Fargo. Premier sponsors are PricewaterhouseCoopers and Motorola Mobility Foundation. Principal sponsors are Estée Lauder Companies, Bumble and bumble, Bud Light, HBO, Mitch Draizin & Philippee Brugere-Trelat, Time Warner Inc., Goldman Sachs and 42Below Vodka. Media sponsors are Gay City News, The Advocate, theMenEvent.com. Benefit Co-Chairs: James Cummings, Shelley Fischel, Jonah Trout and Richard Ziegelasch. For more information about this event, visitwww.pointfoundation.org/newyork/
Point Foundation (Point) is the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit. Point provides financial support, leadership training, mentoring and hope to LGBT individuals who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Point provides its scholars with the financial ability to attend the nation's foremost higher educational institutions and its donors and mentors with the rare satisfaction of directly investing their resources and time in future generations of leaders.
Photos by Linda Lenzi
Executive Director and CEO, Point Foundation Jorge Valencia
Legend Award Honoree Edward Albee
Inspiration Award Receipent CEO, Focus Features James Shamus and Inspiration Award Receipent President, Focus Features Andrew Karpen
Trista Moldovan and Kyle Barisich
Thomas Roberts and Patrick Abner
Michelle Clunie and Point Scholar Diego Arango
Brian Holbrook, Bari Zahn, William Kapfer and Eric Baker
James Schamus, Denis O'Hare and Andrew Karpen
Ted Allen, Denis O'Hare and Jorge Valencia
Jorge Valencia and Valerie Smaldone
Renee Graziano
Renee Graziano
Angela "Big Ang" Raiola
Angela "Big Ang" Raiola
Renee Graziano and Angela "Big Ang" Raiola
Renee Graziano, Jorge Valencia and Angela "Big Ang" Raiola
Ted Allen, Renee Graziano, Big Ang and Jorge Valencia
Ted Allen, Denis O'Hare, Jon Robin Baitz and David Tripp
James Shamus, Jorge Valencia and Andrew Karpen
Jorge Valencia and Shelley Freeman
Renee Graziano and Denis O'Hare
Jorge Valencia and Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes Ruehl and Edward Albee
Bruce Conroy, Jorge Valencia, Lysette Drumgold and Ronald Rudolph
Jorge Valencia and Judith Light
Shelley Freeman and Judith Light
Dan Whitman, Tom Viola, Lorna Kelly and Robert Bartley
Valerie Smaldone and Zac Chandler
Point Scholar Taylor Clarke and Ted Allen
Kyle Barisich, Point Scholar Maggie Keenan-Bolger and Trista Moldovan
Terrence Meck, Judith Light and Todd Sears
Judith Light and Scott Dill
Terrence Meck and Point Scholar Derek Blechinger
Ted Allen, Point Scholars and Alumni
Point Scholars and Alumni
Point Scholars John Downey, Matthew Smith, Derek Blechinger and Diego Arango
Point Scholars Dayan Erikson, Maggie Keenan-Bolger and Rhys Ernst
Point Scholars Lilia Espinoza, Derrick Miller-Handley, Ellen Adams and Garrett Zuercher
Point Scholars James Derek Mize, Tommy Craven, BranDon Lee-Markowitz, Taylor Clarke and Brooke Sebold
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