Rachel York to Perform at 2008 SF Equality Awards, Feb.9

Broadway, film, television and recording star Rachel York will be the special guest performer at the 2008 San Francisco Equality Awards to be held on Saturday, February 9 at historic San Francisco City Hall. The black tie fund-raising event celebrates the 10th anniversary of Equality California and will honor Evan Wolfson, founder and executive director of Freedom to Marry, and Theresa Sparks, president of the San Francisco Police Commission.

The Equality Awards program, presented by AT&T, features a reception and silent auction at 6 p.m. with entertainment by m-pact, a Los-Angeles based a capella sextet; gourmet dinner by Paula LeDuc at 7PM followed by the awards ceremony; entertainment by Rachel York at 8:30PM; and an after-party with DJ Luke Johnstone at 9PM. York will sing selections from her critically acclaimed cabaret, "For the Love of It," which she recently debuted at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in New York and Sterling's Upstairs in Los Angeles.

York is best known for her Broadway performances in City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria (Drama Desk Award) with Dame Julie Andrews, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sly Fox with Richard Dreyfuss, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels co-starring Jonathan Pryce. She most recently appeared as Cicely Pigeon in the Reprise! special staged reading of The Odd Couple with Jason Alexander and Martin Short. Additionally, York has starred in the national tour of Camelot opposite Michael York, Putting It Together (Drama Desk Nomination) also with Julie Andrews, the national and London tours of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate (Helen Hayes Nomination), Dessa Rose at the Lincoln Center Theater (Drama Desk Nomination), Anything Goes (Ovation Nomination), Ragtime, Evita, Summer of '42, Summer and Smoke, and Crucifer of Blood with Billy Crudup.

Tickets to the 2008 San Francisco Equality Awards are available online at the Equality California website, www.eqca.org.  For more information on Rachel York, please visit her on the web at www.rachelyork.net.

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