Actors Fund Tony Awards Party | 2011

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Presenting the Julie Harris Award to

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HAL HOLBROOK

Sunday, June 12, 2011


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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 3:30 pm – Cocktails and Silent Auction 4:30 pm – Seating in the Ballroom 4:50 pm – Welcome from Marilu Henner 5:00 pm – Broadcast Begins / Dinner Served 7:30 pm – Silent Auction Closes 8:00 pm – Presentation to Hal Holbrook The Tony Awards® broadcast portion of this evening’s event is made possible with the kind permission of Tony Awards® Productions, The American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League, DIRECTV and CBS.



Social Services Providing confidential counseling, education, financial assistance, and linkage to community resources that address a wide array of challenges faced by people in the performing arts. American Comedy Fund Entertainment Industry Assistance Program Financial Wellness Program Mental Health Services HIV/AIDS Initiative Chemical Dependency Program Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative The Dancers’ Resource HOWL Emergency Life Project Housing Resource Center Senior and Disabled Care Looking Ahead (youth program) Conrad Cantzen Shoe Fund Senior and Disabled Care Program Employment and Traning Services The Actors Fund Work Program assists people in identifying and obtaining sideline and second careers through career counseling, job training and job development. Health Services Offering health insurance information, referral and counseling as well as the only full-time free health clinic in NYC for the uninsured in the performing arts and entertainment. Artists Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC) The Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic The Performing Artists’ Clinic at Venice Family Clinic Housing The Lillian Booth Actors Home, Englewood, NJ The Dorothy Ross Friedman Residence (formerly The Aurora), New York, NY The Schermerhorn, Brooklyn, NY The Palm View, West Hollywood, CA To learn more about The Actors Fund please visit www.actorsfund.org or call 800.221.7303


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Welcome to The Actors Fund’s 15th Annual Los Angeles Tony Awards® Party at the beautiful Skirball Cultural Center. We are thrilled that tonight’s event is hosted by the luminous Marilu Henner. We have an exciting party planned for you this afternoon. Not only do we have the only live feed of the annual Tony Awards® but we also honor a genuine treasure of our profession, Hal Holbrook, with the prestigious Julie Harris Award. It is fitting that Oscar® winner Sean Penn will be on hand to present the award to Mr. Holbrook. Past recipients include Julie Harris, Gwen Verdon, Charles Durning, Tyne Daly, Lauren Bacall, Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, James Earl Jones, Stockard Channing, Liza Minnelli, Jerry Herman, Tommy Tune, Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell. There are many individuals and organizations to thank – all who have donated their time, talent and resources to make this event possible. First and foremost, a special thank you to Tony Awards® Productions, The American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League and CBS for allowing us to bring this live telecast to the West Coast. Thank you to our generous sponsors – United Airlines (the official airline of The Actors Fund), Actors’ Equity Association, DIRECTV, Sextant Wines, Staging Techniques and Wells Fargo. We all know the erratic and volatile nature of the entertainment business. A TV series can be abruptly cancelled and a long running stage show can come to an end – threatening our homes, health insurance and security. The Actors Fund is always ready during these uncertain times. The Fund’s essential and unique programs are available to everyone who works in television, film, theatre, music, opera, radio and dance in times of need, crisis or transition. Your generosity, and the generosity of all the artists involved in today’s Tony Awards® Party, allows The Fund to assist performing arts and entertainment professionals when they are confronted with unexpected and difficult challenges. You make all of this possible and we thank you. We are very happy you’re here. Enjoy the evening! Brian Stokes Mitchell Chairman of the Board

Joseph P. Benincasa President and CEO


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Board of Trustees Brian Stokes Mitchell, Chairman of the Board Marc Grodman, M.D., Secretary Abby Schroeder, Assistant Secretary John A. Duncan, Jr., Treasurer Steve Kalafer, Assistant Treasurer Philip S. Birsh, Vice Chair Bebe Neuwirth, Vice Chair Philip J. Smith, Vice Chair Joseph P. Benincasa, President and CEO Alec Baldwin Annette Bening Jed W. Bernstein Jeffrey Bolton John Breglio Gilbert Cates James J. Claffey, Jr. Nancy Coyne Merle Debuskey Rick Elice Janice Reals Ellig Joyce Gordon Ken Howard

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Western Council John Holly, Chair Henry Polic II, Vice-Chair Ian Abercrombie John Acosta Barbara Allyne Bennet Joni Berry Theodore Bikel B. Harlan Boll Pam Dixon Danny Goldman Ilene Graff Bridget Hanley Daniel Henning Richard Herd

James Karen Ilyanne Morden Kichaven Dale Olson (Trustee) Charlotte Rae David Rambo Scott Roth Joseph Ruskin William Thomas Jomarie Ward (Trustee) Ken Werther Mary Lou Westerfield David Young

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HAL HOLBROOK Academy Award-nominated actor Hal Holbrook was born in Cleveland in 1925, but raised mostly in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. His people had settled there in 1635 and were, according to his grandfather, “some kind of criminals from England.” His mother disappeared when he was two, his father followed suit, so young Holbrook and his two sisters were raised by their grandfather. It was only later he found out that his mother had gone into show business. Holbrook, being the only boy, was the “white hope of the family.” Sent away at the age of 7 to one of the finer New England schools, he was beaten regularly by a Dickensian headmaster who, when forced to retire, committed suicide. But when he was 12 he was sent to Culver Military Academy, where he discovered acting as an escape from his disenchantment with authority. While not the model cadet, he believes Culver saved his life.


In the summer of 1942 he got his first paid professional engagement playing the son in The Man Who Came To Dinner at the Cain Park Theatre in Cleveland at $15.00 per week. That fall, he entered Denison University in Ohio, majoring in Theatre under the tutelage of his lifelong mentor, Edward A. Wright. World War II pulled him out of there and put him into the Army Engineers for three years. The Mark Twain characterization grew out of an honors project at Denison University after the War. Holbrook and his first wife, Ruby, had constructed a two-person show, playing characters from Shakespeare to Twain. After graduation they toured the school assembly circuit in the Southwest doing 307 shows in thirty weeks and traveling 30,000 miles by station wagon. On winter mornings in the Texas panhandle they opened their trunks to find frost on the costumes. Their audiences ranged widely in age, were often unruly, and they learned to survive on stage or perish. Death of a Salesman (1996)

King Lear (1990)

Holbrook’s first solo performance as Mark Twain was at the Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania in 1954. The show was his desperate alternative to selling hats or running elevators to keep his family alive. By then he had a daughter, Victoria. That same year, fortune struck by way of a steady job on a daytime television soap opera, The Brighter Day, but the following year Holbrook pursued the Twain character at night in a Greenwich Village night club while doing the soap daytimes. In seven months at the club he developed his original two hours of material and learned timing. He learned lines for the soap opera on the rear platform of the 7th Avenue subway train between 104th Street and Sheridan Square. Finally, Ed Sullivan saw him and gave his Twain national television exposure. In 1959, after five years of researching Mark Twain and honing his material in front of countless audiences in small towns all over America, he opened at a tiny theatre off-Broadway in New York. He was a stunning success, as stunning to Holbrook


as anyone else. “The critics went wild.” (Associated Press). “Mr. Holbrook’s material is uproarious, his ability to hold an audience by acting is brilliant.” (New York Times). “Uncanny. A dazzling display of virtuosity.” (The New Yorker). “One of the treasures of the American Theatre.” (Life Magazine). The white hope of the family had finally arrived. Holbrook quit the soap opera. After a twenty-two week run in New York he toured the country again, performed for President Eisenhower and at the Edinburgh Festival. The State Department sent him on a tour of Europe, during which he became the first American dramatic attraction to go behind the Iron Curtain following World War II. He was a star who had never appeared in a Broadway play, a nighttime television show or a movie. He was 36 years old and had to jump start a new career. When David Merrick offered him co-star billing playing an 80-year-old Mexican bandit in a new Broadway musical, Holbrook turned it down in favor of younger roles, concerned that he was being typecast as an old man. He played Hotspur in Henry IV, Pt.I at the Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut; then Lincoln in Abe Lincoln In Illinois off-Broadway. In 1963 he joined the original Lincoln Center Repertory Company in New York appearing in Marco Millions, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy and Tartuffe. Word got around that he could act his own age. Starring roles on Broadway came along: The Glass Menagerie, The Apple Tree, I Never Sang For My Father, Man of La Mancha, Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie? with the young Al Pacino. Meanwhile, he continued to do Mark Twain every year and in 1966, on Broadway, his second New York engagement won him a Tony Award and a Drama Critics’ Circle Award followed in 1967 by a ninety-minute CBS television special of Mark Twain Tonight! which was nominated for an Emmy Award and seen by an audience of 22 million. In 1970, after a dozen plays in New York, he was brought to Hollywood to star in a

Pueblo (1973)

The Senator (1970)


controversial television series, The Senator, which won 8 Emmy Awards and was cancelled in one year. But his new career had taken off. In the 36 years since then Mr. Holbrook has done some 50 television movies and mini-series, been nominated for 13 Emmys and won 5 for The Senator (1971), Pueblo (1974), Best Actor Of The Year (1974), Sandburg’s Lincoln (1976), and as host and narrator of Portrait Of America (1989). He has appeared in two sitcoms: Designing Women and Evening Shade, and has made guest appearances on The West Wing, the sitcoms Becker and Hope & Faith, The Sons of Anarchy, The Event, ER, The Sopranos and NCIS. Holbrook’s movie career began with The Group in 1966 when When Hell Was In Session (1979) he was 41 years old. Since then, moviegoers have seen him in nearly 40 films including Magnum Force, Midway, All The President’s Men, Julia, Capricorn One, The Fog, Star Chamber, Creepshow, Wall Street, The Firm, The Bachelor, Waking The Dead, Men of Honor, The Majestic, Shade, Killshot, That Evening Sun. Upcoming feature films include Water for Elephants, Good For It, Savannah. In 2008, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Into the Wild written and directed by Sean Penn. Throughout his long career, Holbrook has continued to perform Mark Twain every year, including his third and fourth New York engagements in 1977 and 2005; and a world tour in 1985, the 150th anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth, beginning in London and ending in New Delhi. And he has constantly returned to the stage: in New York (Buried Inside Extra, 1983; The Country Girl, 1984; King Lear, 1990; An American Daughter, 1997); at regional theatres (Our Town, Uncle Vanya, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, A Life in the Theatre, Be My Baby and Southern Comforts - the last two with his wife Dixie Carter); and a national tour of Death of a Salesman.


But Holbrook has never been able to quit Mark Twain and probably never will. He has toured the show in some part of every year since 1954, with over 2,100 performances, making 2007 the 57th consecutive year for this remarkable one man show. Mark Twain Tonight! has become perhaps the longest running show in theatre history. Holbrook adds to his Twain material every year, editing and changing it to fit the times and has mined over sixteen hours of Twain with more coming all the time. He has no set program – he chooses material as he goes along. Holbrook is a sailor. In June 1980, he competed in the Single-handed Transpac Race from San Francisco to Hawaii in his 40-foot sailboat, Yankee Tar, sailing 2400 miles alone. With one or two friends, he has sailed through the South Pacific to Tahiti, Samoa, the Tongas, New Zealand and the Fiji Islands. Holbrook has received Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degrees from Ohio State and the University of Hartford, an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Ursinus College, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Elmira College and Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees from Kenyon and his alma mater, Denison University. In 1996 he received the Edwin Booth Award and in 1998 the William Shakespeare Award from The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC. In 2000 he was inducted into the New York Theatre Hall of Fame; and in 2003 received the National Humanities Medal from President Bush. He lives in Los Angeles and Tennessee in homes he shared with his beloved wife, actress/ singer Dixie Carter before her passing. Together they have five children.

With Dixie Carter in Buried Inside Extra (1983)


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MARILU HENNER With the energy of a teenager and the wisdom of a sage, Marilu Henner has deservedly earned the nickname “Perpetual Motion.” Along with starring in over thirty films, six Broadway shows, and two hit classic sitcoms, Taxi and Evening Shade, this five-time Golden Globe nominee is also a New York Times best-selling author of eight books on health, fitness, and lifestyle improvement, changing the lives of millions in her quest to make the world a healthier place. She also has hosted and executive-produced talk shows, appeared as a competitor on Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice, and hosted and guest-starred on many TV shows in addition to being Talk Show Guest of the Year! As one of six people documented with superior autobiographical memory, Marilu was recently the subject of a two-part special on 60 Minutes. She will next appear in the feature film Vamps scheduled for release this summer and as the host of the new series Here’s To Your Health! later this year. She also serves as the consultant on the new CBS series Unforgettable, which premieres this fall. Marilu was a pioneer on the Internet, starting her own website, Marilu.com, in 1999. She has taught classes for her growing membership ever since, as well as offering online counseling and support. Marilu has spoken before Congress in Washington on several occasions as an expert on dietary supplements, women’s cardiovascular disease, deadbeat parents, and she was one of only two private citizens selected to contribute to the shaping of our Government’s food pyramid. Last spring she again faced Congress to present healthy dietary guidelines for kids as part of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 2010. Marilu lectures frequently throughout the country as a keynote speaker and motivator for professional organizations, universities, government agencies, interest groups, and corporations on topics ranging from diet and fitness, women’s health issues, cardiovascular disease, cancer survival, and child rearing; as well as lifestyle, entertainment, and business organization strategies. Marilu Henner is married to Michael Brown, CEO and Founder of Browntrout Publishers, (a calendar company) and the busy mother of two teenage boys, Nick and Joey. Because she practices what she preaches, Marilu has truly become the quintessential portrait of what health and fitness can do for one’s life, and she loves to give back to her community in so many ways!


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SEAN PENN Two-time Academy Award® winner Sean Penn has become an American film icon in a career spanning nearly three decades. Penn has been nominated five times for the Academy Award® as Best Actor for Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, I Am Sam and won his first Oscar® in 2003 for his searing performance in Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River and his second Oscar® as Best Actor in 2009 for Gus Van Sant’s Milk. The performance as gay rights icon Harvey Milk also garnered Penn “Best Actor” awards from The Screen Actors Guild, New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Penn has also received Best Actor awards at the Cannes (She’s So Lovely) and Berlin (Dead Man Walking) Film Festivals, as well as being a two-time winner of Best Actor honors at the Venice Film Festival (Hurlyburly, 21 Grams). Penn can currently be seen in Doug Liman’s drama Fair Game opposite Naomi Watts and in Terrence Malick’s drama The Tree of Life Image by Chuck Zlotnick opposite Brad Pitt. He recently wrapped production on Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place. Penn’s feature film directorial debut came with 1991’s The Indian Runner, which he also wrote and produced. In 1995, he directed The Crossing Guard, which he also wrote and produced. His third film as director/ producer was 2001’s The Pledge starring Jack Nicholson and was named in the Top Ten Films of 2001 by The National Board of Review. Since then, Penn wrote and directed the United States contribution to the compilation film 11’09’01. This important project gathered 11 acclaimed directors from around the world to create short films in response to the


horrific events of September 11, 2001. In 2003 the film was nominated for a French Cesar in the best European Union Film category and received a special recognition award from the National Board of Review. As writer, producer and director, Into the Wild marked Penn’s fourth feature film, which opened to rave reviews in September 2007. The film, based on Jon Krakauer’s best-selling non-fiction book, premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals and appeared on many lists of the top ten films of 2007. Penn has appeared on stage in productions including Alfred Hayes’ Girl on the Via Flaminia and Albert Innaurato’s Earthworms in Los Angeles. On Broadway, Penn performed in Kevin Heelan’s Heartland and John Byrne’s Slab Boys. He appeared in David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, at the Westwood Playhouse, and Goose and Tom Tom, at Lincoln Center, both productions directed by the author. Most recently, Penn starred opposite Nick Nolte and Woody Harrelson in The Late Henry Moss, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Sam Shepard. In 2002, Sean Penn was presented with the Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and in 2003, became the youngest recipient to ever receive the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Sebastian Film Festival. In 2004, he was honored with the John Steinbeck Award for outspoken torchbearers in the creative arts. In 2008, Penn received the Desert Palm Achievement Award for Acting, after being presented in 2007 with the Director of the Year Award for “Into the Wild” from the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Penn served as President of the jury for the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival and later that year was named a Knight in the French Legion of Honor. As a journalist, Penn has written for Time, Interview, Rolling Stone and The Nation magazines. In 2004, Penn wrote a two-part feature in The San Francisco Chronicle after a second visit to war-torn Iraq. In 2005, he wrote a five-part feature in the same paper reporting from Iran during the election which led to the Ahmadinejad regime. Penn’s landmark interviews with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and Cuba’s President Raul Castro, were published in The Nation and The Huffington Post. Penn’s interview with President Castro was the first-ever interview with an international journalist. Penn’s humanitarian work has found him in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and more recently in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. In January 2010, Penn founded the J/P Haitian Relief Organization which focuses on medical aid, protection, and re-location. His organization is currently serving as UN IOM designated Camp Management for the largest IDP camp in Port-au-Prince and established the first emergency re-location in the country. For his efforts, Penn received the Commander’s Award for Service (US Army 82nd Airborne Division), 82nd Airborne Award for Meritorious Service, the Operation Unified Response JTF Haiti Certificate from Lieutenant General, US Army Commander P.K. Keen, along with the 1st Recon 73rd Division Coin of Excellence, 2nd Brigade Combat Team Coin of Excellence, Commendation of Excellence United States Southern Command, and Award of Excellence by the Deputy Commander US Southern Command. Earlier this year, Penn was honored with the “Children’s and Families Global Development Fund Humanitarian Award” presented by the Ambassador of the Republic of Haiti, Raymond A. Joseph and his wife, Lola Poisson-Joseph. In July 2010 Penn was knighted by Haitian President Rene Preval in a ceremony in Port-au-Prince. Penn recently received the 2010 Hollywood Humanitarian Award from the Hollywood Film Festival and the 2011 Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America.


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6.12.11 Nominations Best Play q Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire q Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth q The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Stephen Adly Guirgis q War Horse, Nick Stafford

Best Musical q The Book of Mormon q Catch Me If You Can q The Scottsboro Boys q Sister Act

Best Book of a Musical q Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Alex Timbers q The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone q The Scottsboro Boys, David Thompson q Sister Act, Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner & Douglas Carter Beane

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre q The Book of Mormon, Music & Lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone q The Scottsboro Boys, Music & Lyrics: John Kander & Fred Ebb q Sister Act, Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Glenn Slater q Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek

Best Revival of a Play q Arcadia q The Importance of Being Earnest q The Merchant of Venice q The Normal Heart

Best Revival of a Musical q Anything Goes q How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play q Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest q Bobby Cannavale, The Motherf**ker with the Hat q Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart q Al Pacino, The Merchant of Venice q Mark Rylance, Jerusalem

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play q Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday q Frances McDormand, Good People q Lily Rabe, The Merchant of Venice q Vanessa Redgrave, Driving Miss Daisy q Hannah Yelland, Brief Encounter

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical q Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can q Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon q Joshua Henry, The Scottsboro Boys q Andrew Rannells, The Book of Mormon q Tony Sheldon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical q Sutton Foster, Anything Goes q Beth Leavel, Baby It’s You! q Patina Miller, Sister Act q Donna Murphy, The People in the Picture

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play q Mackenzie Crook, Jerusalem q Billy Crudup, Arcadia q John Benjamin Hickey, The Normal Heart q Arian Moayed, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo q Yul Vázquez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat


Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play q Ellen Barkin, The Normal Heart q Edie Falco, The House of Blue Leaves q Judith Light, Lombardi q Joanna Lumley, La Bête q Elizabeth Rodriguez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical q Colman Domingo, The Scottsboro Boys q Adam Godley, Anything Goes q John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying q Forrest McClendon, The Scottsboro Boys q Rory O’Malley, The Book of Mormon

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical q Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown q Tammy Blanchard, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying q Victoria Clark, Sister Act q Nikki M. James, The Book of Mormon q Patti LuPone, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Best Scenic Design of a Play q Todd Rosenthal, The Motherf**ker with the Hat q Rae Smith, War Horse q Ultz, Jerusalem q Mark Wendland, The Merchant of Venice

Best Costume Design of a Musical q Tim Chappel & Lizzy Gardiner, Priscilla Queen of the Desert q Martin Pakledinaz, Anything Goes q Ann Roth, The Book of Mormon q Catherine Zuber, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Best Lighting Design of a Play q Paule Constable, War Horse q David Lander, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo q Kenneth Posner, The Merchant of Venice q Mimi Jordan Sherin, Jerusalem

Best Lighting Design of a Musical q Ken Billington, The Scottsboro Boys q Howell Binkley, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying q Peter Kaczorowski, Anything Goes q Brian MacDevitt, The Book of Mormon

Best Sound Design of a Play q Acme Sound Partners & Cricket S. Myers, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo q Simon Baker, Brief Encounter q Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Jerusalem q Christopher Shutt, War Horse

Best Sound Design of a Musical q Peter Hylenski, The Scottsboro Boys q Steve Canyon Kennedy, Catch Me If You Can q Brian Ronan, Anything Goes q Brian Ronan, The Book of Mormon

Best Direction of a Play

q Beowulf Boritt, The Scottsboro Boys q Derek McLane, Anything Goes q Scott Pask, The Book of Mormon q Donyale Werle, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

q Marianne Elliott & Tom Morris, War Horse q Joel Grey & George C. Wolfe, The Normal Heart q Anna D. Shapiro, The Motherf**ker with the Hat q Daniel Sullivan, The Merchant of Venice

Best Costume Design of a Play

Best Direction of a Musical

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

q Jess Goldstein, The Merchant of Venice q Desmond Heeley, The Importance of Being Earnest q Mark Thompson, La Bête q Catherine Zuber, Born Yesterday

q Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying q Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes q Casey Nicholaw & Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon q Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys


Best Choreography

Best Orchestrations

q Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying q Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes q Casey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormon q Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys

q Doug Besterman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying q Larry Hochman, The Scottsboro Boys q Larry Hochman & Stephen Oremus, The Book of Mormon q Marc Shaiman & Larry Blank, Catch Me If You Can

Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-Competitive Categories Special Tony Award For Lifetime Achievement In The Theatre Athol Fugard Philip J. Smith Regional Theatre Tony Award Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, IL) Isabelle Stevenson Award Eve Ensler Special Tony Award Handspring Puppet Company Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre William Berloni The Drama Book Shop Sharon Jensen and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts


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production team Executive Producer and Writer.........................David Rambo Producers.........................................................Ted Abenheim, Meg Thomas Director...........................................................John Holly Stage Manager................................................Don Hill Event Publicist.................................................B. Harlan Boll Production Supervisor......................................BRYAN LANDRINE Assistant Event Coordinator.............................ROBIN STURMTHAL Pianist.............................................................Brian Shyer A/V Production................................................Curly Whitaker, Staging Techniques Video Feed.......................................................Alison Mattiza, DIRECTV Sergio Ruiz, Integrated A/V Solutions Video Tributes..................................................Les Perkins, Les is More Productions Video Graphics................................................Joe GasiorowsKI Silent Auction Managers.................................Bert Champagne DIANA OFFEN NATALIE WINDSOR Silent Auction and Table DÊcor.......................Mel Grayson Security............................................................Mitchell Grobeson Javier Mendez Program Design...............................................Robert Sokol, VIA MEDIA Production Assistants.......................................Julianna Brei-Crawley, Tom Chou, Caron Clancey, Dean Curosmith, Michael Decamp, Katie Dominguez, Ben Dunlap, Rachael Ferroe, Michael Finney, Shannon Goldsborough, Solia MartinezJacobs, Hallie Mayer, Caitlin Michelle Remmel, Stephanie Sintef, Alex Spears, Joel Veenstra, Michael Vitale, Luke Yankee And a special Thank You to UC Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Department of Drama for their assistance with production this evening. Actors’ Equity (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits for its members, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member if the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org


DIRECTV is pleased to support

The Actors Fund in honoring

Hal Holbrook 800-DIRECTV • www.directv.com


Special Thanks to ...

HAL HOLBROOK SEAN PENN • MARILU HENNER DAVID RAMBO ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION UNITED AIRLINES, The Official Airline of The Actors Fund SEXTANT WINES FAST FRAME WOODLAND HILLS RENAISSANCE NEW YORK HOTEL TIMES SQUARE CITY NATIONAL BANK WELLS FARGO BANK TOMMY TUNE B. Harlan Boll Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Wayne Bryan Joyce Cohen United Airlines Jane Pupa Jeff Sewalson DIRECTV Alison Mattiza FastFrame Woodland Hills Frank Moldovan Peter Glebo Wayne Gmitter Mel Grayson Hillcrest Party Rentals ID-PR Mara Buxbaum Petra Kauraisa

Integrated A/V Solutions Sergio Ruiz Les is More Productions Les Perkins Mon Atelier Steve Rohr Skirball Cultural Center Marilyn Delanoeye, Darrel DeVera David Shine Staging Techniques Curly Whitaker Tony Awards® Productions Alan Wasser Associates, Jake Hirzel Triton Gallery Roger Puckett, Ron Crofoot, Bill Brecht VIA MEDIA Robert Sokol, Ron Willis

And a very special THANK YOU to all of our fantastic volunteers without whom this event would not be possible.



Thank you to our AUCTION DONORS including: 94.7 The Wave American Conservatory Theatre Nick Adams Baby, It’s You Bengal Tiger in The Baghdad Zoo Billy Barnes & Richard Jordan Cash Baxter Blank Theatre Bodyworks By Antonio Border Grill The Broad Stage Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS Broadway/LA Mel Brooks Camp Broadway Caesar’s Palace California Cantina The Capital Grille Catch Me If You Can Center Theatre Group Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts Carol Channing Lourdes Chavez Couture Cirque du Soleil Costa Rica Dream Adventures Tyne Daly Dancing With The Stars The Dodgers Organization DreamWorks Animation Ellen Harvey Fierstein Follies – Kennedy Center The Geffen Playhouse Irwin Gelb Gold’s Gym Hollywood Ilene Graff Mel Grayson Grub Restaurant Halong Jasmine Junk HBO Hobo Men & Women International Home With The Beachcomber Jerry Herman Hal Holbrook Indo China Travel Service

The Importance of Being Earnest The Improv John Kander James Karen Michael A. Kerker Ellen Krass La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts LaLu Hotel, Taiwan Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles Opera Los Angeles Philharmonic LA Stage Alliance Los Angeles Theatre Works La Jolla Playhouse Sandra Lord Los Angeles Opera Los Angeles Zoo Patti LuPone Lynn 2 Travel The Magic Castle Magic Mountain Resort, Costa Rica Scott Mauro Tom McCoy & Cathy Rigby Keith McNutt Lee Meriwether Brian Stokes Mitchell Mon Atelier Mudville Flats Hotel, San Diego Musical Theatre Guild Nesspresso New York Marriott Marquis New York Philharmonic Lynn Nottage Al Pacino Mary Poppins Tour Company Priscilla Queen of the Desert Paul Prosser Off Vine The Old Globe San Diego Pageant Of The Masters Pasadena Playhouse The Patina Group PCPA The Phantom of The Opera Company – Las Vegas

Playbill, Inc. Platine Cookies Pure Sense by Paula David Rambo David & Vida Randall Red Rose Designs Reprise! Philip Rinaldi Roundabout Theatre Rubicon Theatre San Antonio Winery Solvang Gardens Hotel Stephen Schwartz Sextant Wines Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman Shambala, Tippi Hedren Skirball Cultural Center Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel, Hanoi Sony Pictures Street Tamarindo Diria Resort, Costa Rica Theatre West Tommy Tune Trader Joe’s Triton Gallery Universal Pictures Valley Performing Arts Center / Cal State Northridge Villa Florence Hotel, San Francisco Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Consumer Products

Thank you to our GIFT BAG DONORS Border Grill Deep River Snacks Ghostlight / Sh-K-Boom Records Granola Gourmet Le Bon Garcon Morning Glory Confections OPI Nail Products Screen Actors Guild Terry’s Toffee


Love and Congratulations to Hal Holbrook and The Actors Fund Love,

Joni Berry & Stephen Maitland-Lewis

Congratulations

to all of tonight’s Tony nominees and recipients and to special honoree Hal Holbrook AFTRA-SAG Federal Credit Union is proud to support THE ACTORS FUND

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“The ordinary run of newspaper criticism will not do to depend upon. Pay no attention to the papers, but watch the audience.” Mark Twain

Hal, it’s a privilege to be in your audience.

David Rambo & Ted Heyck

Congratulations, dear Hal A tribute long overdue

Anne Jeffreys


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Dear Hal, With deep appreciation and admiration‌ Warmest regards,

Ron de Salvo

Hal, Congratulations on your brilliant career and colossal humanity. With love and gratitude for your friendship,

Linda & Harry


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