The Actors Fund Raises $1.1 Million at Virtual Gala

The occasion honored Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Brian Stokes Mitchell and extra.

The Actors Fund raised $1.1 million at its to start with-ever Digital Gala tonight!

The night highlighted appearances from Broadway luminaries including Medal of Honor recipients Tony Award-successful actor Matthew Broderick and Emmy Award-winning actor and producer Sarah Jessica Parker. The award was introduced to the few by a few-time Tony Award-profitable actor Nathan Lane.

Chairman of The Actors Fund Brian Stokes Mitchell was honored as effectively, Actors Fund Board Vice Chair, and Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actress Annette Bening introduced Stokes with the award.

Also honored were founding member and Creative Director of Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tony Award-successful actor, Academy Award-winning producer, co-proprietor of the New York Football Giants and philanthropist Steve Tisch, and American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Businesses (AFL-CIO) President Richard L. Trumka.

The evening also celebrated The Actors Fund and the 35th anniversary of Vocation Transition For Dancers, a method of The Fund.

“There is certainly no dilemma that this calendar year has been one monumental problem just after an additional. But a person of the vital strengths of The Actors Fund is our determination to assembly the constantly shifting needs of absolutely everyone in doing arts and entertainment,” said Actors Fund President and CEO Joseph P. Benincasa. “Thank you to all the excellent artists who shared their skills and to our esteemed honorees and donors. This digital celebration confirmed the important significance of ongoing assistance for The Fund, to help assure that we carry on to create balance and resiliency in our group, and present a safety internet to those people in want above training course of this pandemic and over and above.”

In addition to the evening’s honorees and presenters, the virtual fundraiser bundled on-line appearances by Jelani Alladin, Lynn Ahrens, Kate Baldwin, Andréa Burns, Danny Burstein, Caitlin Carter, Chuck Cooper, André De Shields, Brandon Victor Dixon, Stephen Flaherty, Mandy Gonzalez, Joshua Henry, James Monroe Iglehart, John Kander, Hailey Kilgore, LaChanze, Norm Lewis, Michael McElroy, Ruthie Ann Miles, Billy Porter, Desmond Richardson, Chita Rivera, Lea Salonga, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, Jonathan Tisch, Marisa Tomei, Courtney B. Vance and Nia Vardalos with unique video clip performances by the Dance Theatre of Harlem and Broadway Inspirational Voices.

Visitors joined alongside one another on-line to assistance The Actors Fund’s packages and companies that foster security and resiliency, and offer a protection web in excess of the lifespan of customers of the undertaking arts and leisure sector. Because mid-March, The Actors Fund has dispersed more than $16.9 million in emergency financial assistance to additional than 13,900 individuals in need to have throughout all 50 states, Puerto Rico and some intercontinental union associates.

To study much more or to donate in help of these in require in executing arts and entertainment, pay a visit to actorsfund.org.