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For the third consecutive year, TheaterMania will present the awards ceremony and Joey Parnes Productions will produce and manage the show. TheaterMani CEO Gretchen Shugart is the managing executive producer of awards, which will be written by Bill Rosenfield and directed by Jack Cummings III (co-founder and artistic director of Transport Group). The awards will be presented at 8 pm Sunday, June 1 at Town Hall, 123 West 43rd St., NYC.
"I am thrilled to bring my particular brand of idiocy to what is usually a very classy affair. #ForThePeopleByThePeople," Benanti said.
The nominations announcement news conference will be held 11 am Friday, April 25 at 54 Below and will be live-streamed on www.TheaterMania.com.
Tickets to the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards are available at www.dramadeskawards.com.
The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories.
The 2013-2014 Drama Desk Nominating Committee is composed of: Barbara Siegel, Chairperson, (Author and Freelance Critic); Morgan Jenness (Dramaturg; Columbia & Pace University Professor); Samuel L. Leiter (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, CUNY); Sandy MacDonald (freelance; TheaterNewsOnline.com); Chad McArver (Lighting and Set Designer; Professor, Fordham University); Martha Wade Steketee (Editor and Contributor, Chance Magazine; UrbanExcavations.com); and James Wilson (Theatre Professor, CUNY; Co-Editor of JADT).
The 2013-2014 Board of Directors of the Drama Desk is composed of: President Isa Goldberg (The Broadway Channel), Leslie (Hoban) Blake (City Arts; Two on the Aisle), Charles Wright (A+E Networks), Richard Ridge (Broadway World), Arlene Epstein (South Shore Record & Herald Community Newspapers), Elysa Gardner (USA Today), Randy Gener (USA Editor, Critical Stages; Contributor, NPR), John Istel (Freelance), Edward Karam (offoffonline.com), David Kaufman (Author & Freelance), William Wolf (Adjunct Professor, NYU &wolfentertainmentguide.com), Lauren Yarger, reflectionsinthelight.com, BroadwayWorld and www.theaterlife.com.
In addition to Shugart, Robert R. Blume and David S. Stone, in association with Renee McCurry, are producers of the awards.
Tickets to the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards are available at www.dramadeskawards.com.
The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories.
The 2013-2014 Drama Desk Nominating Committee is composed of: Barbara Siegel, Chairperson, (Author and Freelance Critic); Morgan Jenness (Dramaturg; Columbia & Pace University Professor); Samuel L. Leiter (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, CUNY); Sandy MacDonald (freelance; TheaterNewsOnline.com); Chad McArver (Lighting and Set Designer; Professor, Fordham University); Martha Wade Steketee (Editor and Contributor, Chance Magazine; UrbanExcavations.com); and James Wilson (Theatre Professor, CUNY; Co-Editor of JADT).
The 2013-2014 Board of Directors of the Drama Desk is composed of: President Isa Goldberg (The Broadway Channel), Leslie (Hoban) Blake (City Arts; Two on the Aisle), Charles Wright (A+E Networks), Richard Ridge (Broadway World), Arlene Epstein (South Shore Record & Herald Community Newspapers), Elysa Gardner (USA Today), Randy Gener (USA Editor, Critical Stages; Contributor, NPR), John Istel (Freelance), Edward Karam (offoffonline.com), David Kaufman (Author & Freelance), William Wolf (Adjunct Professor, NYU &wolfentertainmentguide.com), Lauren Yarger, reflectionsinthelight.com, BroadwayWorld and www.theaterlife.com.
In addition to Shugart, Robert R. Blume and David S. Stone, in association with Renee McCurry, are producers of the awards.
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