News & Views from the Drama Desk
Media Advisory
To: All City, News, Theatre, Photo, TV and Radio Assignment Editors
Event: Official Cocktail Reception for 2009/2010 Drama Desk Award Nominees
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Time: 3:30PM to 5:45 PM
Place: Churrascaria Plataforma, 326 W. 49th St. (between 8th and 9th Aves)
The Official Cocktail Reception honoring the Drama Desk Award nominees for the 2009/2010 New York theater season will be held tomorrow (Thursday, May 6, 2010) from 3:30 to 5:45 PM at Churrascaria Plataforma, New York’s authentic Brazilian Steak House, located at 326 W. 49th St (between 8th and 9th Aves).
Most of the nominees are expected to attend this event where they will be given their Official Drama Desk Nomination Certificates, meet with the print and broadcast media for the first time since being announced as nominees, and create sketches depicting their theatrical shows for the Drama Desk Art*Kives collection.
YOUR NEWS AND PHOTO COVERAGE IS CORDIALLY INVITED!
(To be placed on the Press List for, you need to confirm with Les Schecter
either by phone (917/854-3286) or e-mail Lester.Schecter@gmail.com)
All the nominees, including actors, writers, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers, designers, special honorees and producers and producers, are invited to the reception, including: Alfred Molina, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury, Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Liev Schreiber, Christopher Walken, Scarlett Johansson, Ethan Hawke, Susan Stroman, Twyla Tharp, Sergio Trujillo, Michael Mayer, Melissa Errico, Jan Maxwell, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, Kristen Johnson, Anne Hathaway, Theodore Bikel, Carrie Fisher, Judith Ivey, Anna Deavere Smith, Philip Glass, Branford Marsalis, Ayesha Antoine, Bobby Steggert, Chad Kimball, Cheyenne Jackson, Douglas Hodge, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kate Baldwin, Montego Glover, Jayne Houdyshell, Sherie Rene Scott, Christiane Noll, Victoria Clark, Viola Davis, Chris Chalk, Sean Dugan, Santino Fantana, Adam James, Hamish Linklater, Nick Westrate, Mary Beth Hurt, Xanthe Elbrick, Andrea Riseborough, Kevin Chamberlin, Robin De Jesus, Jeffry Denman, Jeremy Morse, Terri White, Carolee Carmello, Katie Finneran, Carrie Cimma, Kenita Miller, Jonathan Bank, Jack Cummings III, Sam Gold, Michael Grandage, Warren Carlyle, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Lynne Page, David Bryan, Michael Friedman, Joe Iconis, Andrew Lippa, David Zellnik, Joe DiPietro, Dick Scanlan, David Thompson, Alex Timbers, William David Brohn, Larry Hochman, Tom Kitt, John Oddo, Daryl Waters, David Bryan, Adam Cochran, Adam Cork, Gaines, Hem, Colman Domingo, Jim Brochu, Scott Lehrer, Brian Ronan, Ashley Hanson, Kurt Eric Fischer, Jonathan Deans, Natasha Katz, Neil Austin, Dane Laffey, Christopher Oram, Sandra Goldmark, Derek McLane, Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch, Basil Twist, Adam Cork, as well as the casts of Charles L. Mee’s Fetes de la Nuit, Hansel and Gretel, John Tartaglia’s Imaginocean, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Stuffed and Unstrung and The Provenance of Beauty, which are competing in the Unique Theatrical Experience category.
Also invited are this year’s Special Drama Desk Award Winners -- the casts, creative team and producers of Horton Foote’s epic The Orphan’s Home Cycle, Jerry Herman, Godlight Theatre Company and the Ma-Yi Theater Company – and the casts of Circle Mirror Transformation- and The Temperamentals, who will receive Outstanding Ensemble Performance Awards at the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Patti LuPone, Sunday, May 23, at 9 PM at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.
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Press Contact:
Les Schecter and Matthew P. Donoghue (L.S. Communications)
Tel: 917-854-3286
E-Mail: lester.schecter@gmail.com
presented by
56TH ANNUAL DRAMA DESK AWARDS
TO BE TELEVISED NATIONALLY ON OVATION CREATING LARGE NATIONAL FOOTPRINT FOR THE AWARDS AND ALL OF NEW YORK THEATERS
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Also Sponsored by:
For Sponsorship Information:
Christopher Raphael 845-987-0303
For Awards Program Advertising:
Allison H. Cohen 212-354-5124
For further information on this Ceremony and Events.
Go to www.DramaDeskAwards.com
