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2007 a N N U A L
rEPORT
Founded in 1882, The Actors Fund
provides for the welfare of all
entertainment professionals.
The Fund serves those who work
in film, theatre, television, music, opera, and dance, and assists both
performers and those behind the scenes with a broad spectrum of
programs designed to address the needs of the community, including
comprehensive social services and emergency assistance, health
services and insurance information, supportive and affordable housing,
employment and training services, and skilled nursing and assisted
living care. The Actors Fund is a safety net, providing programs and
services for those who are in need, crisis or transition.
On the cover are five of the thousands of good friends and supporters of The Actors Fund (left to right).
Vice President Bebe Neuwirth, founder of our newest program, The Dancers’ Resource; Studs Terkel, who
we celebrated with our Medal of Honor; George Clooney, an advocate for our Financial Assistance program;
Renée Fleming, who was honored with The Lee Strasberg Award by The Actors Fund; and Fred Savage, leader
of Looking Ahead, our program for young performers.
George Clooney photo by Sam Jones, Bebe Neuwirth photo by Mark Hanauer.
Table of Contents
Letter from the President & Executive Director
2
Board of Trustees & Committees
3-5
Programs & Services 7-10
Housing
11
The Actors Fund Timeline
Fundraising 12
Special Events & Performances
13
Institutional Donors 14-15
Individual Donors 16-18
Bequests
19
In Memoriam - Lillian Booth
20
In Honor Of
21-23
In Memoriam - Frances Gaar
24
In Memory Of
25-31
Permanent Memorials
32-36
Edwin Forrest Society
37-39
Financials
40-43
Staff
44-46
Dear
Friends and Supporters,
2007 was a year of accomplishment and progress for The
Actors Fund and we’re very pleased to share our Annual
Report with you. As we celebrated our 125th Anniversary during this milestone year, The Actors Fund helped
9,315 entertainment and performing arts professionals an increase of 11% over 2006 - representing almost every
state in the country, and support, revenue and other income reached $23 million, exceeding expenses of
$22.6 million. Our colleagues in performing arts and entertainment found a responsive and caring place to
turn when they came to The Actors Fund, and we thank you for helping make this possible.
The Fund’s careful stewardship of our mission and our programs meant that 84 cents of every dollar went
to helping those in need, and for this care we were awarded the highest possible rating - Four Stars - by
Charity Navigator, the country’s largest and most utilized evaluator of charities and their performance. Of
the 9,315 we assisted this year with close to two dozen programs 4,301 received Social Services and Financial Assistance, 4,371 used our Health Services (including the Health Insurance Resource Center), 2,404
participated in The Fund’s Employment & Training programs, 252 were active in our young performers
program, called Looking Ahead, and 315 lived in our residences.
The Actors Fund is proud of our record of quickly responding to crises and situations as they occur throughout the entertainment community, and 2007 was no exception. We helped our colleagues who continued to
be affected by Hurricane Katrina, provided assistance to those in New York dealing with the work stoppage
due to the Local 1 strike, and offered significant support to those suffering the tremendous impact of the
Writers Guild strike.
Tremendous progress was made in 2007 on major projects, including the expansion and renovation of the
Lillian Booth Actors’ Home in Englewood, New Jersey and the development of Schermerhorn House in
Brooklyn, New York. In addition to a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center in Englewood, 15 additional
beds will be available - and 10 were occupied by mid-year. And we launched a new program, The Dancers’
Resource, through the guidance of Fund Vice President Bebe Neuwirth. The Dancers’ Resource addresses
the unique needs of injured dancers and is helping the dance community understand that all of the services
of The Actors Fund are available to them.
As always, so much is made possible by the championship support of our great friends and colleagues at
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which provided $4,450,000 in 2007 for a total of $45 million since
1987. The support of BC/EFA for ongoing programs including the AIDS Initiative, Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative, Actors Work Program and Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic, as well as their seed
funding for the new program The Dancers’ Resource, is a model of partnership and commitment, and we
salute them along with all of our donors.
We are honored to lead The Fund and to work with a committed and dedicated Board of Trustees. Our staff
is simply sensational – professional and compassionate, every day and hour of the week – and is privileged to
serve the thousands who seek our assistance each year.
Thank you for your support and your partnership in our essential work.
Sincerely,
Brian Stokes Mitchell
President
LetTer from the President and executive director
Joseph P. Benincasa
Executive Director
Board of Trustees
Brian Stokes Mitchell, President
Charles Hollerith, Jr., Secretary
John A. Duncan, Jr., Treasurer
Philip J. Smith, 1st Vice President
Lynn Redgrave, 2nd Vice President
Bebe Neuwirth, 3rd Vice President
Philip S. Birsh, 4th Vice President
Joseph P. Benincasa, Executive Director
Alec Baldwin
Jed W. Bernstein
Jeffrey Bolton
John Breglio
J. Nicholas Counter, III
Nancy Coyne
Misha Dabich
Merle Debuskey
Rick Elice
John Erman
Joyce Gordon
Marc Grodman, M.D.
Anita Jaffe
Kate Edelman Johnson
Steve Kalafer
Michael Kerker
Rocco Landesman
Stewart F. Lane
Alan Levey
Paul Libin
Matthew Loeb
Kristen Madsen
Kevin McCollum
Audra McDonald
Mike Mearian
Katharine Minehart
James L. Nederlander
Martha Nelson
Phyllis Newman
Jack O’Brien
Dale C. Olson
A.J. Pocock
Jane Powell
Harold Prince
Abby Schroeder
Charlotte St. Martin
David Steiner
Edward D. Turen
Tom Viola
Honey Waldman
Jomarie Ward
Scott Weiner
Joseph H. Wender
B.D. Wong
Mark Zimmerman
George Zuber
As of November 2008
National Board of Advisors
Sutton Foster, Co-Chair
John Lloyd Young, Co-Chair
John Barlow
Arthur Birsh
Ivar Brogger
James Burrows
Gilbert Cates
Irving Cheskin
Thomas Christopher
James Claffey
Sam Cohn
Tyne Daly
Edgar Dobie
Tom Donovan
Alan Eisenberg
Dasha Epstein
Malcolm Ewen
Thomas Florio
Peter Gallagher
Whoopi Goldberg
Larry Hagman
John C. Hall, Jr.
Joan Harris
Carole Shorenstein Hays
Richard B. Heller
Greg Hessinger
Celeste Holm
James Earl Jones
Sidney Lumet
Scott Mauro
Liz McCann
Robert W. McTyre
James M. Nederlander
Nancy O’Connor
Robert Pisano
Harvey Sabinson
Rick Sands
Robert Score
Howard Sherman
Thomas C. Short
Ron Silver
Jean Stapleton
Paul Stevens
Suzyn Waldman
Board of Trustees and committees
Artists’ Committee
Jason Alexander
Lucie Arnaz
Elizabeth Ashley
Antonio Banderas
James Barbour
Brent Barrett
David Alan Basche
Gary Beach
Shoshanna Bean
Kerry Butler
Liz Callaway
Christian Campbell
Len Cariou
Carolee Carmello
Michael Cerveris
Kathleen Chalfant
Barbara Cook
Gavin Creel
John Cullum
Alan Cumming
Stephanie D’Abruzzo
Tyne Daly
Jason Danieley
Blythe Danner
Darius de Haas
André de Shields
Kurt Deutsch
Taye Diggs
Jonathan Dokuchitz
Daisy Eagan
Christine Ebersole
Raúl Esparza
Tovah Feldshuh
Harvey Fierstein
Hunter Foster
Sutton Foster
Peter Gallagher
Victor Garber
Ana Gasteyer
Deidre Goodwin
Melanie Griffith
Josh Groban
Cynthia Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Rosemary Harris
Sam Harris
Heather Headley
Board of Trustees and committees
Tom Hewitt
Dee Hoty
Ken Howard
Cady Huffman
Anjelica Huston
January Jones
Shirley Jones
John Kander
Richard Kind
Ricki Lake
Sharon Lawrence
Michele Lee
Lisa Leguillou
Robert Sean Leonard
Norm Lewis
Laura Linney
Brad Little
Rebecca Luker
Andrea Martin
Marin Mazzie
Idina Menzel
Stephanie Mills
Liza Minnelli
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Alfred Molina
Debra Monk
Julia Murney
Donna Murphy
Bebe Neuwirth
Phyllis Newman
Michael Nouri
Orfeh
Brad Oscar
Elizabeth Parkinson
Adam Pascal
Billy Porter
Jane Powell
Heather Randall
Phylicia Rashad
Lynn Redgrave
Alice Ripley
Chita Rivera
Tony Roberts
Seth Rudetsky
Sherie René Scott
Neil Sedaka
Kate Shindle
Lewis J. Stadlen
Frances Sternhagen
James Stovall
Tamara Tunie
Leslie Uggams
Bruce Vilanch
Sam Waterston
Alton Fitzgerald White
Lillias White
Patrick Wilson
Henry Winkler
B.D. Wong
Jo Anne Worley
The Dancers’ Resource Advisory Council
Bebe Neuwirth, Founder
Medhi Bahiri
Theodore Bartwink
Dr. Philip Bauman
Joni Berry
Jeff Bolton
Cora Cahan
Gary Chryst
Jacques d’Amboise
Carmen de Lavallade
Alex Dube
Eric Falkenstein
Suzanne Farrell
Sandra Foschi
Judith Fugate
David Howard
Susan Jaffe
Joan Jeffri
Susan Marshall
Peter Martins
Arthur Mitchell
Mark Morris
Dr. Douglas Padgett
David Parsons
Wendy Perron
Paige Price
Ann Reinking
Denise Roberts Hurlin
Audrey Rohan
Dr. Donald Rose
Martine Van Hamel
Looking Ahead Advisory Council
Fred Savage, Chair
Chris M. Allport
Scott Appel
Cynthia Bain
Jenn Berman, Psy.D
Ray Bradford
Polly Businger
Melissa Gilbert
Michael Harrah
Darby Hinton
Jim Konantz
Sharon Lieblein
Bonnie Liedtke
Elaine Mackie
Jacky Olitsky
Paul Petersen
Lisa Rapport, Ph.D
Nicholas Rogers
Michael Rosenfeld
Joanne Savage
Judy Savage
Justin Shenkarow
Carolyn Sims
Wesley W. Staples
Richard Thomas
Nancy Wileman, MFT,
CADC
Henry Winkler
Western Council
John Holly, Chair
Henry Polic II, Vice Chair
Ian Abercrombie
Paul Ainsley
Barbara Allyne Bennet
Theodore Bikel
Bonnie Frank
Danny Goldman
Ilene Graff
Bridget Hanley
Carl Held
Daniel Henning
Richard Herd
James Karen
Sarah Marshall
Charlotte Rae
Marguerite Ray
Joseph Ruskin
Ken Werther
Robby Benson (emeritus)
Betty Garrett (emeritus)
Jane A. Johnston Shearing
(emeritus)
James Prideaux (emeritus)
Bernie West (emeritus)
Lynn Wood (emeritus)
Board of Trustees and committees
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2007 Highlights of
Actors Fund Programs & Services
As always, the focus of The Actors Fund is on the thousands of people
we are able to help each year through a wide variety of programs
encompassing social services, health services, emergency assistance,
employment and training and our residences. In 2007 The Fund
assisted 9,315 performing arts and entertainment professionals – an
increase of 11% over 2006 – representing almost every state.
This support included
4,301 receiving Social Services and Emergency Assistance
4,371 using our Health Services
(including the Health Insurance Resource Center)
2,404 participating in Employment & Training programs
252 in our Looking Ahead program for professionals ages 9 to 18
315 in our residences
Aurora (177) The Home (114)
Looking Ahead (252)
Palm View (23)
Shoe Fund (1,056)
Health Fairs & Screenings/
Flu Shots (1,074)
Social Services (3,330)
Al Hirschfeld
Free Health Clinic (1,224)
Health Insurance
Resource Center (2,073)
Actors Work Program (2,261)
Human Services Program
Programs and services
In The Actors Fund’s Social Services programs
The number of those assisted – 4,301 – increased over the previous year
Chemical Dependency (222)
Services for Seniors (230)
Services for Disabled (278)
Mental Health (355)
Entertainment Assistance
Program (1,901)
AIDS Initiative (508)
Social Services 2007
...and we provided over $2.2 million in Emergency Assistance
Grants increased by 11%
The average grant to the 2,215 individuals receiving assistance was $1,000
Support provided covered a wide variety of critical and emergency needs such as rent,
health insurance, basic living expenses, mortgage payments, utilities, funeral expenses,
utilities and much, much more
Chemical Dependency ($53,140)
Shoe Fund ($40,712)
Mental Health ($14,987)
Services for Seniors ($128,960)
Services for Disabled ($220,695)
AIDS Initiative
($1,218,424)
Entertainment Assistance
Program ($536,893)
The Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative supported over 1,083 women, including
Emergency Assistance
411 through Social Services programs and 672 at the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic.
Mental Health (159)
Services for Disabled (109)
The Clinic (672)
Entertainment Assistance
Program (101)
Chemical Dependency (39)
AIDS Initiative (23)
Services for Seniors (15)
Programs and services
PNWHI
The number helped through the Health Insurance Resource Center grew by 45% in 2007.
Number of individuals helped totaled 2,073
Visits to the ahirc.org website totaled 647,448
LA Seminars (77)
NY Individual Counseling (460)
NY Seminars (207)
LA Individual Counseling (335)
Clinic Counseling (422)
HIRC
The number of visits to the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic grew by 10% to 2,048.
There were 1,762 visits for primary care
281 received women’s health / gynecological assistance
432 attended health fairs
658 received flu shots
328 received mammograms
The Actors Work Program served 2,261 people
More than a thousand people – 1,078 – were new to the program
1,319 attended seminars
1,008 received career counseling
Classes (213)
Aids Training & Education (82)
Computer Lab (223)
Network Now (262)
Seminars (1,319)
Job Search (546)
Career Counseling (1,008)
Orientation (1,078)
Programs
and services
AWP
new program
Through the inspired vision and leadership of trustee Bebe Neuwirth, and
generous seed support from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS as well as
additional donors, in mid-2007 The Fund launched
The Dancers’ Resource to:
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Programs and services
•
Address the distinctive needs of dancers facing
health problems or injuries
•
Recognize the unique situations – physical,
emotional and financial – faced by those who
commit to a life in dance
•
Provide a portal for the dance community
to understand and receive the benefits of all
Actors Fund programs
•
Offer a support, education and information
system through one-on-one counseling in NY
and phone assistance throughout the country
Bebe’s Photo by Howard Schatz
h
ousing
Left to right: Construction
at the Lillian Booth Actors’
Home and construction of
Schermerhorn House in
Brooklyn.
Opposite page bottom:
Dancers’ Resource social
worker Alice Vienneau,
founder Bebe Neuwirth and
Advisory Council member
David Parsons.
There were tremendous accomplishments in
Housing in 2007 as two significant projects
continued towards completion in 2008.
The expansion of the Lillian Booth Actors’
Home in Englewood, NJ will result in 15
additional beds (10 were available and
occupied by mid-year), renovation of the
facility and the construction of a state-of-theart rehabilitation center.
Construction continued on Schermerhorn
House in Brooklyn, NY towards a late
2008 opening that will feature more than
100 apartments for low-income working
entertainment professionals and a theatre/
community room for both residents and
the community.
Housing
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T
he essential services of The Actors Fund
are made possible by a wide spectrum
of supporters, including thousands
of individual donors as well as foundations,
corporations, government agencies and the
entertainment unions and guilds. Everyone at
The Fund deeply acknowledges their efforts
as we work to increase the number of people
we serve during tough times, and as we
evolve and build our programs to address the
unfulfilled needs of our community.
From planned
gifts,
grants and
membership to
participation
in special events
and benefit
performances, the supporters of The Fund
represent both those who make their lives in
performing arts and entertainment, and those
who simply understand the importance of our
culture – and the people who make it possible
– to our society as a whole.
In 2007 individual donations and planned
gifts totaled $5,251,000. Institutional grants
totaled $6,013,000, including support from
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Special
events and benefit performances totaled
$1,744,000.
We salute each and every one of our donors!
To add your support to theirs, please contact
The Fund at 212.221.7300 or at 800.221.7303
or by visiting www.actorsfund.org.
Left to Right:
Wicked cast & crew
at their Special
Performance in
LA. David Hyde
Pierce and Vanessa
Redgrave.
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2007 fundraising
1998
Through a partnership with
the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation,
the Palm View Residence
in Southern California, a
forty-unit garden apartment
complex for low income
people with AIDS, is opened.
1990
This Benefit Performance
of A Christmas Carol was
directed by the legendary Zoe Caldwell and
produced by Robert
Whitehead. The Fund
was further honored
to have Broadway’s
newly restored Hudson
Theatre choose this
performance as its
inaugural event.
The Actors Fund,
for everyone
in entertainment.
2007 Logo
Celebrating 125 years.
June 8, 1882
A Brief History
1996
The Phyllis Newman
Women’s Health Initiative
(PNWHI) is established to
help women coping with
difficult diagnoses and the
situations that result.
The Actors Work Program,
initially started in 1986 at
Actors Equity, moves under
The Actors Fund umbrella.
The employment and
training program has since
grown to serve almost two
thousand people annually.
1990s
of
2003
1998
2002
Lillian Booth donates $2 million to The Actors Fund in New
York to support the Fund’s nursing home and assisted-living
facility in Englewood, New Jersey. The Englewood residence
is renamed The Lillian Booth Actors Home in her honor.
The Al Hirschfeld Free Health
Clinic opens in New York.
The Fund, in association with
Columbia Medical School
and New York Presbyterian
Hospital, operates the clinic to
provide free health care to the
uninsured and underinsured.
2005
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, The
Fund immediately responded through its
twenty-four-hour hotline for members of the
performing arts community in New Orleans.
Information and support were provided on
location, with resources being distributed
within twenty-four hours of requests for aid.
2008
2000s
1998
The Fund, in conjunction with the
National Endowment for the Arts,
launches the Artists Health Insurance
Resource Center (AHIRC). Through a
national web database, seminars, and
individual counseling, AHIRC provides the performing arts community
with the most comprehensive health
insurance resources in the country.
2002
A star-studded cast assembled for the
one-night-only performance of Funny Girl
featuring sixteen different actresses portraying Fanny Brice. The sold-out show
was part of the Fall Benefit Concert
Series, an annual fundraising event that
began in 2000 and continues today.
2008
1988
After several years of caring for growing numbers of
performers afflicted with HIV/AIDS, The Actors Fund
formally established the AIDS Initiative with the support
of Equity Fights AIDS. Providing comprehensive support
and resources, the group joined forces with Broadway
Cares in 1992 to create BC/EFA.
Late 1990s–2007 Logo
January 28, 1882
“Professionals [of the theatre] are
always ready to help other people—
will they not for once, do something
noble and generous for themselves?”
asked Harrison Grey Fiske in 1882.
His conviction to create a safety
net for the many professionals
touring far from home and those
unable to be buried in consecrated
ground resulted in an editorial in
the New York Dramatic Mirror
entitled, “Who Will Start the
Actors’ Fund?”
March 2, 1882
At a meeting of theatrical managers at the Union Square Theatre in
New York City, all pledge to give benefits for the fund.
July 15, 1882
First Annual Meeting
of The Actors Fund.
1882
February 4, 1882
April 3, 1882
Actress Fanny Davenport, a reigning favorite
of the day, throws her
support behind the
creation of a fund.
The theatrical managers of
New York band together
to make April 3 “Actors’
Fund Day,” with benefit
performances to be held
throughout New York.
March 13, 1882
2003
The first Actors Fund
benefi t is held with
the proceeds from this
day’s performance of
Sam’l of Posen: The
Commercial Drummer
being donated to the
creation of the fund.
The Actors Fund’s first program for “industry
kids” is introduced in Los Angeles. Looking
Ahead is established to assist young performers,
ages twelve through eighteen, develop the values, skills, and confi dence to make a successful
transition into adulthood. Looking Ahead now
extends services to performers as young as nine.
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In early 2008, The Fund will open Schermerhorn
House, a 217-unit supportive housing development in
downtown Brooklyn, providing affordable housing and
on-site social service and health service programs.
1996
The Actors Fund addresses the growing need for affordable housing by
opening The Aurora, providing affordable housing and support services to
working professionals, seniors and
persons with AIDS.
The Actors Fund
The New York State Legislature
officially passes the Act of Incorporation for The Actors Fund into law.
1886
The Actors Fund purchases a cemetery plot
in the Cemetery of the
Evergreens in Brooklyn
with twenty burial lots,
ensuring that no one will
be without a proper burial.
1980–1990 Logo
Brought back for 100th anniversary
1920–1980 Logo
1910
The 1910 Actors Fund
Fair at the Seventy-first
Regiment Armory
is officiated over by
President William
Howard Taft.
1982
The Fund begins providing
professional services, including mental health services,
crisis intervention, and referral
and advocacy for community
resources and benefits.
Al Jolson, star performer of the
1920s, donated his talent to Actors
Fund Benefits throughout his career
and continued this generous legacy
after his death. Following in the
tradition of The Fund’s Planned Giving program, Jolson bequeathed a
percentage of the royalties from his
recordings to The Fund in perpetuity.
1917
The 1917 Actors Fund Fair
is opened by President
Woodrow Wilson, who
presses a button in Washington, D.C., that unfurls
flags of the United States
and its Allies. The display
is accompanied by the
“Star-Spangled Banner”
sung by Louise Homer.
1887
More than ten thousand
people attend the dedication of the monument
erected at the center of
the plot in the Cemetery
of the Evergreens.
1902
The first Actors Fund home for retired theatricals, on
Staten Island, is dedicated.
1900s
1910s
1910
An established network of
“Physicians to the Fund,” who
charge no fee to professionals
referred by the Fund, are treating impoverished actors in forty
states across the country.
1927
The new basic contract between Equity, theatre
owners, and producers grants The Actors Fund
the exclusive privilege of calling for an extra performance of any production playing on Broadway
or the road, with all revenue from the performance
going to The Fund. The Theatre Guild’s production of Porgy was the first of what have come to be
known as Actors Fund Special Performances.
1959
Construction begins on a
new Actors Fund retirement
home on the Englewood,
New Jersey, site.
1930s 1940s
1920s
The Fund creates the Career
Transition for Dancers Program in
conjunction with the performing arts
unions. Now an independent organization, CTD continues to collaborate
with The Fund to address the comprehensive needs of dancers.
Newly constructed Actors
Fund home opens in
Englewood, New Jersey.
1950s 1960s
1970s
1980s
1975
1916
The Motion Picture Campaign is established in
Hollywood with stars like
Tyrone Power and Douglas
Fairbanks participating in
benefit performances.
The Actors Fund
Home adds The Percy
Williams wing to the
facility in Englewood.
1955
1892
1928
The Actors Fund Home moves from Staten Island to the former country estate of millionairess Hetty Green, in Englewood, New Jersey.
1907
1985
1961
The first Actors Fund Fair is held at Madison Square Garden. In
attendance are President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mr. & Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, and
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The 1907 Actors Fund Fair
is opened by President
Theodore Roosevelt.
1989
The Fund establishes
the Chemical Dependency Program.
The 1950s ushered in both “The
Bread Basket” campaign and the
Annual Blood Drive. A popular fundraiser, The Bread Basket collected
money year-round from audience
members at hundreds of New York
and regional performances. The
Blood Drive was held annually in
Shubert Alley, combining the support
of celebrities, producers, and theatre
owners. Both campaigns successfully
served the Fund through the 1980s.
1945
Actor Conrad Cantzen bequeaths his estate to The
Actors Fund with the stipulation that it be used to
help actors purchase shoes so they do not appear
“down at the heels” when auditioning. The Conrad
Cantzen Shoe Fund assists more than one thousand
performers each year.
1982
1987
The Actors Fund opens
the Midwestern Region
office in Chicago.
The Senior and Disabled
Care Program is created
to address the special
needs of aging and disabled performers.
1988
A new nursing wing
opens at The Home in
Englewood as Philadelphia’s Edwin Forrest
Home merges with The
Actors Fund Home.
1972
The Actors Fund opens its Western Region
office in Los Angeles.
1982
The Actors Fund celebrates its one hundredth
anniversary with the televised Night of 100
Stars, which featured hundreds of celebrated
performers from every area of the industry.
Night of 100 Stars was also produced in 1985
and 1990 as a fundraising event.
2007
special Events
and Performances
The Actors Fund’s Special Events bring the performing arts and entertainment
community together with Fund supporters while raising important revenue. They
include one-time-only events as well as Special Performances, a tradition of “extra”
performances by Broadway and touring companies that, for over 80 years, has
benefited The Fund.
Events
92nd St Y, NY
Annual Gala, NY
Auction of 1000 Stars
Brian Stokes Mitchell at Carnegie Hall, NY
Brunschwig & Fils Dress Exhibit Benefit, NY
Falsettos, LA
Graae’s Anatomy, LA
Musical Mondays, LA
Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley
Melissa Manchester
Sam Harris
Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway 101, NY
Tony Awards Party, LA
Special Performaces
A Chorus Line, NY
Company, NY
Chicago, NY
Curtains, NY
Deuce, NY
Frost/Nixon, NY
Grease, NY
Jersey Boys, NY
Legally Blonde, NY
The Little Dog Laughed, NY
Mary Poppins, NY
Spring Awakening, NY
Wicked, NY & LA
The Year of Magical Thinking, NY
Bottom left to right: Chicago cast at their Special Performance.
Spring Awakening cast before their Special Performance. Trustee
Martha Nelson and Joe Benincasa. Trustee Steve Kalafer and
Executive Director Joe Benincasa flank the cast of Jersey Boys.
“30 Rock” auction winner with cast member Jack McBrayer.
2007 special events and performances
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institutional
Donors
The tremendous and groundbreaking support of Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS continues to set the standard for philanthropic partnership at
The Actors Fund. BC/EFA is joined by the many organizations and institutions listed below who provide the programmatic or general support that
makes it possible for The Fund to do what we do.
$1,000,000+
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
$100,000+
The Entertainment Industry Foundation
Motion Picture Players Welfare Fund
MusiCares Foundation, Inc.
Professional Dancers Society
Screen Actors Guild - IACF
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
$50,000+
The Edith Meiser Foundation
Jujamcyn Theaters
New York State Department of Labor
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
People
Season of Concern
Tiffany & Company
U.T. Associates
$25,000+
Actors’ Equity Association (National/
Eastern Region)
AFTRA - New York
AFTRA Foundation, Inc.
Bio Reference Laboratories, Inc.
IATSE
Integrated Wealth Management
Lehman Brothers Inc.
The New York Community Trust
Philips
Playbill Incorporated
The Geraldine Stutz Trust, Inc.
$10,000+
AGMA Relief Fund
American Guild of Variety Artists
Anonymous
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Institutional Donors
The Broadway League
City National Bank
Consortium For Worker Education, Inc.
The Dana Foundation
Deloitte
Disney Theatrical Productions
Eleven Twenty Seven Foundation
HSBC Bank USA
ING Financial Services Corporation
Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Nederlander Producing Company of
America
OA Peterson Construction Co. Inc.
One Life, Many Voices Foundation
Hargrove Pierce Foundation
Mary Lea Johnson Richards 1997
Charitable Trust
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Theatrical Wardrobe Union, Local 764
IATSE
Richard F. Walsh/Alfred DiTolla/
Harold P. Spivak Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
$5,000+
The Acorn Foundation
The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc.
The Barrington Foundation
BFS Schaefer Foundation
California Community Foundation
The Dramatists Guild Fund, Inc.
The Entertainment AIDS Alliance
The Ferriday Fund
Film Funds
Friedman FL Foundation, Inc.
The John Golden Fund, Inc.
Herrick Theatre Foundation, Inc.
Hudson Scenic Studio, Inc.
The Irving Harris Foundation
Legg Mason Investment
$2,500+
Counsel
Americans for the Arts
The Frederick Loewe
L. Jules Arkin Family
Foundation, Inc.
Foundation, Inc.
Lotta Theatrical Fund
The Sascha Brastoff
Jack Oakie and Victoria
Foundation
Horne Oakie Charitable
Buck Consultants
Foundation
Dodger Properties LLC
Perkins Eastman Architects,
The Engelberg Foundation
P.C.
Frommer Lawrence &
Pharmagistics
Haug LLP
PLM Foundation
Grant Thornton LLP
The Louis & Harold Price
The Andrew & Irma Hilton
Foundation, Inc.
Foundation
The Bessie Rattner
Foundation
Road Concierge Inc.
Screen Actors Guild
National Office
The Segal Company
James H. Shattuck
Charitable Lead
Annuity Trust
Sh-K-Boom Records, Inc.
Charles Spear
Charitable Trust
Mary Tyler Moore visiting The Home in NJ.
The Dorothy Strelsin
Foundation
IATSE, Local No. 764
Marcia Brady Tucker
IATSE, Local No. 80
Foundation
International CinematoVoyageur Asset Management
graphers Guild, IATSE
The Neil & Virginia Weiss
Local 600 NY
Foundation - in memory
The Karma Foundation
of Steven Weiss
Kranz & Company, LLP
William Morris Agency, Inc.
The Lambs Foundation, Inc.
The A. L. Levine Family
Foundation
Dorothy Loudon Foundation
John L. McHugh
Foundation, Inc.
Motion Picture & Television
Fund
Roy & Marie Neuberger
Foundation
The Newell Foundation
Oceanic Heritage
Foundation
Rockette Alumnae
Association, Inc.
The Joseph Rosen
Foundation
Ross Family Foundation
Schwartzapfel, Truhowsky &
Marcus, P.C.
Smith Barney Inc.
St. Malachy’s Church
Stage West, Inc.
Stagedoor Manor
Jerome L. Stern Family
Foundation
The Stockbridge Group
Stratuscom Corporation
Treasurers & Ticket Sellers
- Local 751
Twelfth Night Club, Inc.
United Scenic Artists,
Local 829
William Sarnoff
Philanthropic Fund
Left: Mary Poppins orchestra before their Special Performance. Right: Michael Berresse, Christian Hoff, moderator Leonard
Lopate, Tonya Pinkins and Harvey Fierstein at the 92 St Y’s panel on The Actors Fund in celebration of our 125th Anniversary.
Institutional Donors
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individual
Donors
The Actors Fund is honored to receive support from thousands upon thousands of
donors who participate through our In the Spotlight, Inner Circle, In Memory Of,
In Honor Of, membership, annual giving and planned giving programs as well as
those who help The Fund through event participation.
$50,000+
Frances Gaar
Anita Jaffe
$25,000+
Roger & Brook Berlind
Robert L. Boyett
John F. Breglio
George Clooney
Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie
Comley
Anthony Dellasalla
The Stephanie & Carter
McClelland Foundation
David Geffen
William Haber
Carole Shorenstein Hays
Steve & Suzanne Kalafer
Kevin & Tamara Kinsella
Suzanne Mados
Richard Rendina
David & Sylvia Steiner
Robert Stigwood
James & Charlene
Nederlander
Phyllis Newman
A. J. & Charlotte Mae Pocock
Mimi Prentice
Heather H. Randall
Lynn Redgrave
Catherine Rein
Wendy Rohan
Stanley Newman &
Dr. Brian Rosenthal
Cindy & Thomas Secunda
Calvin J. Slater
Pamela & Allen B. Swerdlick
David A. Terveen
Jan & Edward Turen
Christine Urquhart
Denise & Dean Vanech
Sandra K. Wasserman
Max Weintraub
Joseph H. Wender
George R. Zuber
$5,000+
$10,000+
Anonymous (1)
Angel Power, Inc.
Jeffrey & Tina Bolton
Bruce & Liz Boulware
Craig Buermann
Robert F. Comstock
Jan Cortez
Avram C. Freedberg
Marc D. Grodman, M.D.
Thomas Kean
Frances Martin
Charlotte St. Martin
David & Anita Massengill
Kevin McCollum
Monica G. Muhart
Heather Nachman
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Individual Donors
Anonymous (2)
Esther Adir
Meridee Alter
Clarke & Patricia Bailey
Robert & Veronica Bailin
Lisbeth R. Barron
Willard Beckham
Ira B. Bernstein
Joni Berry
David & Susan Bershad
Jordan Bittel &
Stephen Bittel
William K. Block
Glory McRae Bowen
Barbara Whitman &
David Carlyon
John A. Cassese
Susan Daley
Ruby Dee
Darcie Denkert
Jock & Joan Duncan
Barbara J. Fife
Murray Fishman
Louise Forlenza
Eric Forst
Mike Mearian & Judy Frank
Howard & Judie Ganek
Bernadette Gietka
Catherine Gietka
Barbara L. Goldsmith
Kelly L. Gonda
Calla & Ralph Guild
Louise Guthman
John & Sadie Hall
Martin & Jill Handelsman
Nedenia Merrill & Ted Hartley
Susan R. Hoffman
Max Jacobs
Alice Jarcho
Kate Edelman Johnson
Ted Kennedy
Martin & Barbara Klein
Stephen Lang
Joan & Avram Lavin
Amy Butte Liebowitz
Tracy Cohen & William Ludel
Gregory J. Mack
William Martini
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara
Michel Moskal
Don & Sara Nelson
George Nicolau & Siobhan
Oppenheimer Nicolau
Geraldine Parker
David & Faith Pedowitz
Richard T. Pilchen
Charles R. Pollock
Anna Quindlen
Bradley Reynolds
Marie Ritter
Jillian Robbins
Jorge Ignacio Rosso
Charles & Deborah Royce
Charlene Royce
Frederick Rudd
Evan Sacks
Carl & Aviva Saphier
Jerry & Marsha Seslowe
Suzy Shechtman
Scott A. Weiner &
Beth Siegel
Mace & Jan Siegel
Paul Singer
Warren Spector
Howard Stern
Barbara Stokel
Margaret Styne
Phyllis N. Sussman
Gregory Swinehart
Claude M. Tusk
Mary G. Urquhart
Tom Viola
Eric Weinmann
Kenneth C. Whitney
M. Kenneth & Erika Witover
$2,500+
Anonymous (9)
David & Karen Aboodi
Henry J. & Monica Aboodi
Richard & Iris Abrons
Robert J. Allan
Jayne Meadows Allen
Scott Clearwater &
Chris Ambs
Tim Amos
Robert Kuhbach &
Sherrell Andrews
Albert & Carole Angel
Arnold & Ruth Aprahamian
Richard Aronstein
Joseph & Judy Avallone
Richard Baker
Alec Baldwin
Amnon S. Barness
Gene Bayliss
Orson & Alley Bean
Charles Berg
Richard Alan Bernsley
Yogi & Carmen Berra
Andrea Bici
Morton Blum
Robin P. Hertz &
Raymond A. Bragar
Frank Nichols &
Chaz Browman
Andrea Brown
Robert & Nancy Brown
Stephen Brown
Valerie Brown
Peter C. Browne
Steve Brustien
Richard & Barbara Bull
Javan Bunch
Grace Mirabella Cahan
Janice Calloway
Mark A. Castellano
Danny Goldman Casting
Lew Center
Robin Charin
Celeste W. Cheatham
Cathy Chernoff
Richard Frankel &
Kathleen Clark
Larry Coben
Irwin & Jill Cohen
Michael T. Cohen
Richard Coll
Jill Conner
Clive & Ann Cummis
Joan M. Cunningham
Edgar Foster Daniels
Christopher D’Anna
Thomas A. D’Auria
Barbara & Tim Davis
Charles & Patricia Debrovner
Merle Debuskey
Fred & Denise Dechowitz
Marvin Dennis
Jamie deRoy
Matt Devito
Richard Dinar
Jonathan & Lillian Donnelly
Susan Dorfman
Nancy Downey
David Edwab
David & Rachel Eidelman
Janice & Bruce Ellig
David & Judy Epstein
Joseph Fahey
Dorothy Foord & Family
Perakis Family
Jeff Feig
Neil Getnick &
Margaret Finerty
Margaret Fluhr
Edward & Lori Forstein
Jordan Fox
Michael S. Gardner
Lynn & Paul George
Harry M. Gittelson
Kim Glazer Goldberg
Erwin G. Gonzalez, M.D.
Robert & Sarah Goodman
Joyce Gordon
Lawrence Gottlieb
Fred & Lisa Graziano
Tom Graziano
John DeWitt Gregory
Henry & Mary Guettel
James & Kathryn Gurfein
Sherry Lambert Halpern
Daniel Hanford
Bernadette & Bert Hefke
Loretta M. Hennessey
Buck Henry
Fredi Herlihy
Robert Hewitt
David Rambo &
Theodore Heyck
Maurice J. Hill
Margaret M. Hill
Bridgette Hirsch
Jonathan & Judy Hoff
Abigail & Steven Hoffman
Richard Kuh & Beth Holland
Ron & Cheryl Howard
Helen Stenborg Hughes
Patricia Jehle
Lisa & Mark Jennings
Curtis Johnson
Dale Johnson
Cherry Jones
Joseph Kaminkow
Jonathan J. Kandel
Richard I. Kandel
Ann & Robert Kaplan
Alba Francesca &
James Karen
Robert Karp
Laurie D. Kefalidis
Individual Donors
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Bill E. Kelly
Robert & Anna Kelly
Greg Kinnear
Astrid Kohl
Harvey D. Kohn
Jeffrey A. Kolsrud
Sharon Korman
Ronald Kosinski
Tushar Kothari
Julienne Krasnoff
Ronald Krause
Bill & Sheila Lambert
Nancy J. Lang
Angela Lansbury
Peter Lawrence
Jane Lebell
Traci Lerner
Carol Levitt
Arthur L. Loeb
Richard Lutz
Richard MacDonald
Kristen Madsen
John Maese
Daniel & Lisa Malloy
David Canary &
Maureen Maloney
Antonio Manning
John Bard Manulis
Kathleen Marsal
Arlene & Neil Martin
Peter & Patricia McHugh
Johnna G. Torsone &
John McKeon
Barbara Mentz
Martin M. Metz
Felice Michetti
Frances Milberg
Paul Miles
Stuart Breslow & Anne Miller
Debra Morris
Franklin Moss
Mary A. Mullin
Muriel Myerson
Rick & Jenny Nelson
Serge Nivelle
Gerard Oestreicher
Dale C. Olson
Bruce & Nicole Paisner
Robert & Sula Pearlman
Richard S. Pechter
Barbara Peda
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individual donors
Garwood Perkins
Fred Peskoff
H. Charles Pfaff, M.D.
June Bennett Larsen, Ph.D.
Billy & Ronnie Potter
Harold & Judy Prince
Gail Propp
Thomas Prosser
Nina Duchaine &
Rory Radding
Charlotte Rae
Joyce Randolph
Richard E. Rauh
Sandra Reilly
Kenneth Remsen, M.D.
Albert Reyes
Albert W. Rice IV
Douglas Richards
John R. Robinson
Lawrence & Janice
Rogak
Lev L. Spiro &
Melissa Rosenberg
Patricia Rosenwald
Bob Ross
Robert P. Rothenberg
Joseph D. Roxe
Barbara H. Rudd
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Sabinson
Dorothy Samel
Gary B. Samuels
Mary Jane & Peter Sander
Micki Schildkraut
Karen Schmitt
Abby Schroeder
Jane Schroeder
John E. Schumacher
Wayne P. Schur
Marvin Schwartz
Sidney Seifer
Thomas C. Short
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Silver
Carl & Fay Simons
Marlene Marko &
Loren Skeist
Lorie Slutsky
Doug Smith
Sophia Spehar
Allan & Ferne Sperling
Ted & Vada Stanley
Janice Stanton
David H. Glaser &
Debra F. Stone
Robin Strasser
James Sullivan
P. R. Sundaresan, M.D.
Gerald & Marion Sussman
Ronna Sussman
Elgart Aster &
Paul A. Swerdlove
Helen & William Van Syckle
Victor Syrmis, M.D.
Harold & Lynne Theurer
Michael Thomas
Cindy Thomasson
Norman & Doris Tipograph
Robert Tolan
Michele Trincellita
Stephanie F. Troulman
Bonnie Tseng
Helen S. Tucker
Kara Unterberg-Niederhoffer
Grace Lyu Volckhausen
Carol M. Waaser
Richard Wade
Honey Waldman
James Wallick
Milton J. Walters
Charles G. & Donna R. Ward
Floyd & Jane Warren
Michael Weprin
Bernard West
Bob White
Elizabeth Kubota Whitney
Mary & John Wight
Darell Wilson
June & Neil Winward
Mr. & Mrs. Allen Wolpert
Gretchen Wyler
Yuri Yoshizawa
Barbara & Michael Zimmerman
Donald & Barbara Zucker
Thanks also to our many
generous supporters whose
gifts were under $2,500.
bequests
From George M. Cohan to Katharine Hepburn, The Actors Fund
is honored to receive bequests from a stellar group of those who work in our arts
community as well as those who believe in the importance of the arts to our society.
$100,000+
Estate of Olga Troughton
Estate of Anna Minot Warren
Estate of William Weinberger
Estate of Jane Barton
Estate of Paula Laurence
Bowden
Estate of Philip A. Guibord
Estate of Barbara Hunt
Estate of Sidney Kingsley
Estate of John Tuerk
$5,000+
$50,000+
$2,500+
Estate of Conrad Cantzen
Estate of Susan Erenburg
Estate of Albert Hackett
Estate of Nancy Hamilton
Estate of Mary Jackson
Estate of Richard Besoyan
Estate of Joan Gilmore
Estate of Jack & Arlyne Green
Estate of William Lanteau
Estate of June Bennett Larsen
Estate of Alexander Levino
Estate of Frank Mandel
Estate of Gretchen Wyler
$25,000+
Estate of Mark Dawson
Estate of Howard Lindsay
Estate of Mabel D. Locke
Estate of Winchell Smith
$10,000+
Broadway’s Lost Treasures
Estate of George M. Cohan
Estate of Patricia Edwards
Estate of Maurice J. Hill
Estate of Joanna Malley
Estate of Richard C. Thorne
Estate of Richard Clarke
Estate of Eugene B. Neville
Estate of Clifton Webb
Under $1,000
Estate of Gertrude Applebaum
Estate of Norbert Auerbach
Estate of Jean Cleveland
Estate of Rod Colbin
Estate of Frederick Combs
Estate of Morton DaCosta
Estate of Scotti D’Arcy
Estate of Robert Downing
Estate of John Eames
Estate of Harry Ellerbe
Estate of Harvey Enders
Estate of Angna Enters
Estate of E. Susan Erenberg
Estate of Gertrude J. Flynn
Estate of George Hall
Estate of John Haupt
Estate of Joy Hatton Haynes
Estate of Tiger Haynes
Estate of Helene L. Heigh
Estate of Percy Helton
Estate of Bernard Herold
Estate of Al Jolson
Estate of Madelon Marfield
Estate of Ruth McDevitt
Estate of Jan Miner
Estate of Barbara Morrison
Estate of Kermit Murdock
Estate of Channing Pollock
Estate of Guy Raymond
Estate of Frank Scannell
Estate of Lois St. John
Estate of Howard St. John
Estate of Jeremiah Sullivan
Estate of Nancy Walker
Estate of Nelson V. Welch
Estate of Charles Welch
Left to right: Cast of
The Little Dog Laughed
before their Special
Performance.
Reba McEntire shared
the stage with Brian
Stokes Mitchell at his
Carnegie Hall concert.
Bequests
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In Memoriam.
These pages include biographies of two trustees we honor – Lillian Booth and Frances Gaar
L
illian Booth was born in Baltimore
to Greek parents. In her early 20s she
moved to New York when Milton Berle
invited her to perform, ultimately appearing in
small roles on Broadway including The Right
Age to Marry, Caught and The Family Failing.
Lillian
Booth
Lillian was successful in New York’s high society
and made a strong marriage with Col. Ferris Booth,
who grew the fortune he inherited from his father’s
investments in such companies as Hotpoint and
International Business Machines Corp. Booth
began her philanthropic efforts after her husband’s
death in 1956 while expanding the family’s wealth
with savvy investments in real estate. Her first
major gift was $2 million to Columbia University
in the 1960’s, building a student activity center
named Ferris Booth Hall in honor of her husband.
Booth donated $3.5 million in the 1990’s for
a dialysis center and an oncology/radiation
facility at Pascack Valley Hospital. Mrs. Booth
also donated several patient transport vans to
Christ Hospital in Jersey City that were used
on September 11 to shuttle victims from the
World Trade Center and gave the hospital
an additional van just before her death.
1915 - 2007
The Actors Fund received $2 million from Lillian
in 2004, renaming The Actors Fund Home in
Englewood as the Lillian Booth Actors’ Home.
She also joined the Board of Trustees of The
Fund in 2003 and served until her death.
Although Booth never had children of her
own she was tremendously generous to her 10
nieces and nephews and their own children.
Misha Dabich, her companion of 50 years, said,
“An angel on earth — that’s what she was. She
did more for others than for herself. Every man
should have a gal like her. She took care of the
community. She took care of her family.”
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Lillian Booth
A terrific way to recognize those who make a difference – and those to be
remembered – are through In Honor Of and In Memory Of gifts. The Fund
celebrates both the individuals named and those who choose to recognize them
through a special gift to The Actors Fund.
in honor of ...
Ann Steele Agency
Elizabeth Share
Elena Gutierrez
Thom Clay
Jolie Gabler
Ellen Barry
Christopher Ogrady
Clair, Eliza &
Gabe Collison
Laura Gardner &
Frank Collison
Edgar Bergren &
Charlie McCarthy
Orphan Fund
Lee Woodson
Barbara Cook
George Connolly
Dennis Birchall
Marcia O’Brien
Harlan Boll
Brenda Feldman
Jeff Bolton
Richard & Kathleen
Feldmann
Jeff & Tina Bolton
Joel Goldstein &
Elaine Zelnick
Philip & Nancy Bosco
Ellen Fiske & Terry Layman
Don Buchwald
Associates
Commercials
Kevin & Amanda Mahoney
Chris Carroll
H. L. Melville
Miriam Nelson Meyers
Mary Jo Catlett
Annie O’Donnell
Martha Gene Carson
Cecile G. Foster
Channing Chase &
Dan Saxon
Laura Gardner &
Frank Collison
Irving Cheskin
Neal Rechtman
Lynda Clark
Joanne Dickinson
Ken Cox
Patt Dale
Patti Geary
Suzen H. Murakoshi &
Mark F. Temme
Jay & Leslie Gerber
Terrie Gerber
Alice Ghostley
Pat Carroll
Allan Gruet
George Connolly
Susan Davison
The Newell Foundation
Dave Gusty
Roy & Cornelia Marthon
Barbara Sommers
DOHERTY AGENCY
Carol Emshoff
Linda Haberman
Kristyn Smith
Gary Dontzig
George Connolly
Julie Hagerty
The DeLuise Family Trust
Jeanette Egrini
Lorraine Barney
Robert Harling
George Connolly
Mr. & Mrs. STANLEY
Eisenberg
Francine White Lambert
Judy Harris
Howard & Theodora Waltman
Dorothy Fass
Paul & Judith Friedman
Nicholas Fenster
Elizabeth Bothwell
Matthew Henerson
Harvey Cohen
Celeste Holm
Eric Weinmann
Dan Frazer
Mike Mearian & Judy Frank
Roslyn Hosenball
Richard Van Deusen &
Carol Nadell
Jane Freed
Barbara Walters
Tanya Huff
Anonymous
Ruth Frimark
Barbara Cantor
Herbert & Cecile Pogoda
Gail Thompkins
Abraham & Shulamith Weinberger
Richard Jay
Alexander
Trudy Durant
Stephen Gardner
Frances Beede
Denise Cohen
James Goldsmith
Barbara Zuck Locker, M.D.
Lynn & Don
Jessen
Sarah J. Needham
Jane Johnston &
Jack Shearing
Christine Lotts
In honor of
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Frederick Joseph
Linn Anderson
Dick Moore
Anita Jaffe
Stacy Schronck
Chip Davis
Brett Kahr & Kim Criswell
Anonymous
Chris Morey
Jolie Gabler
March Schwartz
Dale C. Olson
Steve Kalafer
Virginia Rohan
Dale Olson
Marc Fite
Bippy Siegel
William Edelson
David Kaley
Claudette Nevins
Georga Osborne
Jill Bosworth
Douglas Sills
Patricia Wafer
Isabel Knispel
Robert G. Rosenthal
Evan Pappas
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Dr. Mark Silver
Charles & Myrna R. Feinbloom
Marilyn Irwin
PHANTOM: Las Vegas
Spectacular
Elena Batman
Bernadette Simon
James Simon
Mathilde Krim
John F. Breglio
Richard Kux
Barbara L. Kux
Rocco Landesman
Ira & Jill Mont
Bill Largess
Louise Andrews
Eugene Lee
Stephen Berenson
Viviene Leheny
& Mark Feuer
Cara Leheny
Rosemary Mallett
Allison Donnelly
Kim Gross & Rich Marin
Landslide Management
Rhonda Martyn
Andrew Sackin
David McKeown
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Joan Messinger
David Rambo & Theodore Heyck
Brian StOkes Mitchell
Elizabeth Clay
Hilary Huebsch Cohen
Alexander & Eleanor Holtzman
Ruth Kamerman
Sesame Workshop
The Shropshire Family
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David Hyde Pierce
Dawn Hershberger
Ken Slevin & the agents,
assistants & staff
Stephanie D’Abruzzo
Tim Pinckney
Stanley Edelstein & Gail P. Granoff
Brian Smith
Marcia Belmont
Julie Plec
Fran Plec
Jenny & Jess Speaker
Jane P. Cartney
Michael Portantiere
Cori M. Poff
Ann Steele
Kevin & Amanda Mahoney
Mitchell McGuire
Orville Mendoza
Christine Ryndak
Doug Shapiro &
Shawn Cowls
Warren & Elizabeth
Press
Jim Mestnik
Carrie Preston
Tricia Ross
DanIEL Proctor
Ann McMann
Peter & Nancy Spina
Robin Strasser
Susan Hoffman
David Rambo
Faye G. Matthews
Runner Stumbles
Cynthia Darlow
Mark Redantay
Rita Gardner
Jane Summerhays
Henry & Mary Guettel
Peter Mark Richman
Dale C. Olson
Steve Susskind
Anita & Donald LaFontaine
Pernell Roberts
Helen Reynolds
Francis Temme
Suzen H. Murakoshi &
Mark F. Temme
Julie Rose
Larry Mark
Allyson & Brian
Stokes Mitchell
Erskine & Marie Tucker
Seth Rudetsky
Stanley Edelstein &
Gail P. Granoff
Monte Light
Randy DeLelles
Joshua Scharback
Gail Weiner
in honor of
Marieluisa Stern
Judith Lee Fish
The Artists
Entertainment
Agency
Shannon Koob
THE Cast & Crew of
Death of a Salesman
John Thomas Waite
THE CAST & CREW OF
DOUBT National Tour
Darrie Lawrence
THE STAFF OF
About Artists
Timothy Smallwood
THE Cast & Crew OF
Meet me in St. Louis
Thomas Joyce
The Cast & Crew of
ORSON’S SHADOW
Brent Harris
The Cast & Crew
of RABBIT HOLE
Darrie H. Lawrence
THE CAST & CREW OF
Singin’ in the Rain
Michael P. Price
THE CAST & CREW OF
THE Odd Couple
Dev & Phyllis Kennedy
The Cast & Crew of
THE Year of Magical
Thinking
Karen Armstrong
THE Cast & Crew
of Thoroughly
Modern Millie
Mitzi Hamilton
Megan Thomas
the CAST & CREW OF
TOnight at 8:30
Edwin C. Schmidtke
The Cast, Crew &
Creatives of
MY FAIR LADY
Georga Osborne
Tony Roberts at a Fund
Special Performance.
The staff of
Amsel, Eisenstadt
& Frazier, Inc.
Laura Gardner &
Frank Collison
THE staff of
CUNNINGHAM,
ESCOTT, SLEVIN &
The staff of
STEWART TALENT
Shannon Koob
The staff of
The Meadows
Foundation
George C. Lancaster
Marty Wiviott
David Michaels &
Joan Messinger
Jo Anne Worley
Ken Burns
Joyce Feurring Yellen
Evelyn Orbach
Mother Torres
Vilma Torres
THE Cast of Spamalot
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Justine Ava Tunney
Barbara M. Roberts
The Company of
Something’s Afoot
Thomas Joyce
Dathan Williams
Suzen H. Murakoshi &
Mark F. Temme
Suzanne Tobak
Jeffrey Borer, M.D.
MR. & Mrs. Guido
Tumolillo
Mark Thomas
The company of
NOISES OFF at
Purdue University
Katherine Burke
THE WGA STRIKE
Stuart Creque
Beth Curran
Joan Freed
Mary French
Mindy Henjum
Colleen Hillerup
Shane Hockins
J. Charles Ladesich
Denis McGrath
Anita Nallathamby
Julie Nichols
Eric Pawtowski
Michelle Poley
Irene Turner
Diane K. Wild
Linda Traum
Joan Hornig
The Cast of DESPERATE
HOUSEWIVES
Sabrina Tobis
The company of
IS HE DEAD?
Wilbur Henry
Celia Weston
Peter Ramirez
EdWARD Turen
Dennis Cavanagh
Members of Looking Ahead.
Carol NadeL &
Richard Van Deusen
Edward & Cheryl Gross
Charles Rosen
Shirley Weisman
Jean & Ray Fox
David Welch
Anonymous
in honor of
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F
rances Jessie Gaar was born in Hagerstown,
Maryland. Her love of swimming in the waters
of Chesapeake Bay started early and by the age
of 9 she had won her first swimming title. While in high
school she decided to become an actress and attended
The University of Michigan, majoring in speech. She was
also the captain of the women’s swim team.
Because she didn’t want to be typecast, Fran turned
down an offer from MGM to come to Hollywood and
work as a stand-in for the swimmer Esther Williams.
Instead, she continued to study acting with Stella Adler
and Lee Strasberg and made her Broadway debut as a
much-married showgirl in Ladies Night In A Turkish
Bath. Also working in television and summer stock, her
credits during the era of live television included “Kraft
Theatre”, “Playhouse 90”, “U.S. Steel Hour”, the Ed
Sullivan and Jackie Gleason shows and many others.
Frances
Gaar
1918 - 2008
Fran was the captain of the ballet for the original
production of Arabian Nights with Lauritz Melchior
at Jones Beach and served as stunt coach and
choreographer for the Esther Williams television
spectacular. She staged the first underwater ballet
performed with scuba gear for the Sea Hunt
Extravaganza at the 1964 World’s Fair, inspired by
the TV series and narrated by Lloyd Bridges. Fran
was certified as the first woman master scuba diving
instructor in the world and in 2001 was inducted into
the Women Divers Hall of Fame.
Fran had a tireless commitment to the entertainment
community. She was elected Executive Secretary/
Treasurer of AGVA in the early 1980’s and served as
a Trustee of the AGVA Welfare Trust and the Margie
Coates Sick and Relief Fund. She worked tirelessly on
behalf of AGVA members to the end of her life.
Fran was a Life Member and an In The Spotlight
member of The Actors Fund and became a Trustee in
1995. Her generosity and passionate devotion to The
Fund’s Lillian Booth Actors’ Home was legendary.
Among her many projects there were the monthly variety
shows produced for the residents. “Fran’s Gaarden of
Aquatic Delights” beautifies the Home entrance. On
June 25, 2008 The Actors Fund Board of Trustees passed
a resolution to name the Home’s Boardwalk of Fame
“Fran’s Variety Boardwalk” and the path connecting six
new gardens in front of the Home “Fran’s Gaarden Path”
as lasting tributes to her memory.
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frances gaar
in memory of...
Robert Abernathy
Stan & Barbara Lachow
Carla Achziger
Darlene Barger
Amelia Barrett
Larry & Judy Horn
Rex Howard
Lee Kesselman
Allison Latta
Kurt Naebig
Jane Oldfield
Thomas Tallman, M.D.
Kevin Theis
Sam Adamo
Sherry Pratt
Allison Adams
Bill & Mary Louise
Britten
Stella Adler
Frances Gaar
Malcolm Allen
Joni Fritz
Steve Allen
Jayne Meadows
John Amoroso
Jolie Gabler
Beverly Anderson
Keith Perry
Charles Antalosky
Peter Jack Tkatch
Joseph Anthony
Ruth Tobin
Calvin Artne
Twelfth Night Club, Inc.
Lynne Arundale
Kenneth Waissman
Helen Bakeris
Virginia Azzariti
Dino Bakeris
John J. Barrett
Alfred G. Becker
Michael Blank
Anthony & Margaret
Cacciola
Ralph C. Del Priore,
D.D.S.
Alan Faske
Pedimedica
Helen Sebeko
Jan Siolos
Eve Weissenborn
Donald T. Williams
David Zigelman, M.D.
David “Tex” Ballou
Joan Brand
Adam Balzano
Charles Braver
Kathleen Celano
Robert Deutsch
Gabriel Ford
Risa A. Glickman
Kyle Hagler
Wade Hellew
Micha Hendel
Timothy Kelly
Brian Lehner
Ernest Lobel
Blanche Mednick
Kenneth Rush
Valerie V. Tomlinson
Karyl Turner
Stephen Warner
Natalie Hall Webb
Joan Whitlock
AnnE Bancroft
Edward Fishman
Karl Bargen
Louise Schulman
Millie Baron
Cindy Ames
Sidney Baskin
Carole Baskin
Lee C. “Buddy”
Batemam
William J. Bateman
Jeanne Beavais
Twelfth Night Club, Inc.
Jackson Beck
Cindy Ames
Laurie Beechman
Henry Krieger
Keith Bell
J. Carla Parker
Don Belth
Suzie Jary
James Benincasa
Frances Gaar
John Bernabei
Cynthia Darlow
Friedberg Properties
& Associates, Inc.
Frances Gaar
George & Mildred
Hoshower
Stephen Kremen
Angie Lake
Lisa Leppo
Mike Messerian
Pearl Moeschlin
Enrique Riquelme
Boris Stepich
Brunetta Bernstein
Marguerite Ray
Joyce Randolph and Fran Gaar at Frost/Nixon Special
Performance.
Barbara Best
Dale C. Olson
Peigh B. Byers
John Beach
John Bishop
Bruce Danoff
Jeanne Blackford
James Hearne
Ronda Ormont
Blumberg
Henry Blumberg
Chris Bohn
Meta Ukena
Frank Bolger
Jessica Stokes
Lillian Booth
Jeanne Dabich
Fazio, Mannuzza,
Roche, Tankel,
LaPilusa, LLC
Peter Fierro
Peter Boyle
Alice B. Duffy
Beverly A. Ollearo
John Bozzo
Actors’ Equity
Association
(National/
Eastern Region)
Sascha Brastoff
The Sascha Brastoff
Foundation
Helen Breed
Robert & Linda Grew
Alan Brock
Brad Gromelski
Maureen Brookman
Steven Fenton
Roscoe Brown
Andrew Parks
Alan L. Oppenheimer
Katherine Hopkins
-Nicholas
in memory of
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Susan Browning
Jane A. Johnston
B. Cole
Thomas W. Kraft
Sally De May
Lorraine Condos
Carol Bruce
Jane A. Johnston
Fred Collins
Doug Wiesenthal
Robert DeCamillo
Tate Donovan
Richard Burdette
William Herz, Jr.
Eve Collyer
Pat Carroll
Scott Bushnell
Martha Knight Clements
Betty Comden
Walter & Mary-Alice
Kattwinkel
Calvert DeForest
Anonymous
Jennifer Farley
Jane Ayer Public
Relations, Inc.
Jill Leiderman
Charles Randau
Judith Reimann
Gary Campbell
George Connolly
Fran Carlon
Kim McLaurin Allen
Harry Carlson
Dorothy L. Boeshore
John Carlyle
John Paul Davis
Robert Castellani
Michael & Maxine Meyer
Richard L. Charles
Frances Gaar
Joyce Randolph
Stephanie Cheretun
Theatrical Wardrobe
Union, Local 764
IATSE
Donald Chu
Kwang-Nan Chow, M.D.
Peter T. Cieplinski
Anita Jaffe
Madeline Clive
Jeffrey Reese
Margie Coate
Frances Gaar
Emily Coates
John Dagger & Ellen
Weissbrodt
Imogene Coca
Frances Gaar
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Arthur Concors
Philip LaRocco
Betty Cone
Clifford M. Schwartz
Darlene Conley
Catherine Thomas
Ann Connolly
John & Marilyn Connolly
John & Betty Pettit
Henry Corden
Angelina Corden
Muriel CostaGreenspon
Cindy Ames
Franklin Cover
Anna Minot Warren &
Michael Franz
Ellen CreaN
Amy C. Corn
John Crean
Dale C. Olson
Daniel Culliton
Pat Carroll
Howard Cutler
Frommer Lawrence &
Haug LLP
Bonnie Good
Howard Lee
Louise Tezel
Dominic D’Ambrosio
Eugenia D’Ambrosio
Ruth Maynard
Coffin
Ruth Tobin
Norma D’Ambrosio
Eugenia D’Ambrosio
Alexander R. Cohen
Frances Gaar
Leora Dana
Ruth Tobin
Rod Colbin
John Leighton
Robert Darnell
John Bennes
in memory of
Edward Earle
Leigh Carole
Yuster-Freeman
Richard Edwards
Richard Addesso
Jeffrey Ellison
Kenneth Waissman
E. Susan Eisenberg
Bonnie Garly
Sylvia Seroy Engel
Jack Lehnert
Mary Orr
Denham
Dorothea
Hammond
Anthony
DeSantis
Actors’ Equity
Association
(Central Region)
Erick Devine
James Dennis
Devine
Tom Dillon
Frances Gaar
Marian “Hattie”
Dodds
William Dodds
Doris Blum Gorelick
James Doerr
Jane A. Johnston
Virginia
Donaldson
Ruth Tobin
LaRue Donnan
Josip Elic
LaVerne Donnan
Josip Elic
Melvyn Douglas
Frances Gaar
Lee H. Doyle
David Ball &
Susan Chapek
Leonard Drum
Mary Leonard
Donna Dunn
Jerome & Patricia
Hammes
Marc Rosen and Arlene Dahl
attend a Fund Special Performance.
Dale Engle &
Margaret
Sheean Engle
Robert L. McLaughlin
Agna Enters
Frances Gaar
Shirley Erb
Neil Herrick & Robert
Prussack
Susan
Erenburg
Rosemary Bechtler
Louise Berenson
Frank & Kathleen
Schulz
Theatrical Wardrobe
Union, Local 764
IATSE
Stewart & Linda
Yallowitz
Evelyn Hope Bunn
The Estate of Evelyn
Hope Bunn
Ray Evans
Joseph Harris
Audrey Falk
William A. Falk
Louis Galen
Anita Jaffe
Bobby Faye
Frances Gaar
John Franklin
Ganzer
Peter Jack Tkatch
Clifford Fearl
Jimmy & Betty Lydon
Phil Kiraly
Harvey Litwin
Luis & Mary Lozano
Robert Maple
Robert A. Miller
Prager & Fenton LLP
Sidney Feinberg
Dorothy Olim Krone
Dean Gardner
Michael Cone
Eve Roberts
Jack Sydow
Etta Feldman
Bob Freed
Maude Garrison
Grant Management
Don Fellows
Meta Ukena
Don George
Frances Gaar
James Field
Malachi Throne
Marvin Glickman
Anita Jaffe
Edward Flynn
Theresa A. Flynn
Peter A. Gloo
Bob & Mary Jane
Ruggero
Sandy Greene
E. Nobles Lowe
Constance Ford
Ellen M. Violett &
Mary Thomas
Jeanne Davis Glynn
Judith Trojan
Howard Greenwald
Anita Ross
Henderson
Forsythe
Anna Minot Warren &
Michael Franz
Nettie & Paul
Goldberg
Michael & Maxine
Meyer
Victor Griffin
Alyce Gilbert
Gordon & Mary Gould
Clara Fox
Actors’ Equity
Association
(National/
Eastern Region)
Len Goldsmith
Joan Goldsmith
Allan Frank
Freddi Chandler
Frances Herald
Barbara Gordon
Mark Gordon
Jerry Stiller &
Anne Meara
Arlyne Frank
Patricia T. Ripley
John Frannley
Ruth Bedford
Ted Goldsmith
Judy Goldsmith
Bernard Gorelick
William Dodds
Doris Blum Gorelick
Signe Green
Libby Adler Mages
Michael & Mary
Ann Briggs
Rick & Mitzi Johnson
David & Josie Haskin
Elizabeth
Greenberg
Jaye Chen
David Rogers
Edith Green
Elayne Rosen
Merv Griffin
Pat Carroll
Michael Grilikhes
Dale C. Olson
George Grizzard
Howard & Barbara Atlee
David B. Graham
Helen Stenborg Hughes
Frank Marino & Bill
Mcintyre
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara
Leonard Grossman
Peter Grossman &
Alison Cross
Charlotte d’Amboise at an Actors
Fund Special Performance.
Martha Knight Clements
Alden E. Danner
Leslie A. Findlen
Richard & Carolyn Fleiss
Steve Jones
Dana Patton
Ellis H. Pines
Carolyn Swift
Dorothy
Hammerman
Leon Stevens
Burford Hampden
Marion Hampden
Ethel Hanauer
Stewart & Linda
Yallowitz
Ellen Hanley
Rudy Tronto
Hope Hardcastle
Twelfth Night Club, Inc.
Charlotte Harmon
Terri Rose Bleil
Judy Silverman
Harriet Slaughter
Jay Harnick
Sherry Lambert Halpern
Jerry Stiller &
Anne Meara
Isadore Freeman
Charles & Myra
Wrubel
Robert Goulet
The DeLuise Family Trust
Beverly A. Ollearo
Andrew Parks
Sally Frei
Myra Burke
Murray Grand
Richard C. Harpham
Kevin Hagen
Maxine Arnold
Ruth Bannon
Fricke
Rockette Alumnae
Association, Inc.
Adolph Green
Frances Gaar
Uta Hagen
Dona D. Vaughn
Sandford Green
John Brown
Harold & Sheila Davis
Jean & Ray Fox
William Herz, Jr.
Harriet Hall
Robert Coleman
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Actors’ Equity
Association (National
/Eastern Region)
Barbara Primosch
Mark Hammer
William & Susan Breed
Joy Haynes
Beverly Severino
Ruth Frimark
Abraham & Shulamith
Weinberger
Mr. Groves
Sally Ann Sockwell
Wally Harper
George Connolly
Bryan Harris
Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS
in memory of
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Dana Helfrich
Steve Smith
Theodore
Vincent Jacobi
Sandra Bernstein
Deborah Kerr
Janette Gautier
& Jerry Kline
James Henderson
Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS
Vince Jacobi
David & Patricia M.
Hallquist
Eric Titcomb
Daniel & Ann Viafore
Michael Kidd
The DeLuise Family Trust
Andrew Parks
Edward J. Herlihy
Frances Gaar
Bernard B. Jacobs
Warren & Sally Baker
Edward & Molly
Herman
Paul Herman
Peter R. Johl
Melanie K. Johl
Janet Johl Weissman
Louise Kirtland
Anne Russell
Alan Hewitt
Robert Hewitt
Elinor Jones
Keith W. Charles
Warren Kliewer
Michele LaRue
Frances Helm
Martha Mendelsohn
Richard Kiley
Patricia F. Kiley
Tom Kindle
Malcolm Groome
Erik Knutsen
Courtenay Collins
Ida Koven
Fred Koven
Jack KOVen
Fred Koven
Ken Kraft
The Estate of John Haupt
Karen Kueffner
Roberta & James Eaton
Looking Ahead members Aimee Teegarden and Stephen Lunsford.
James Hilbrandt
Cindy Ames
Maurice Hill
Helen Stenborg Hughes
Olivia Hill
Carol Nelson
Bernard Hoffman
Frances Gaar
Betty Hanna Hole
Jennifer J. Leonard
Jonathan Hole
Jennifer J. Leonard
Tom Huff
Henry Masao Kingi
Barnard Hughes
Cindy Ames
Frances Gaar
Arthur & Gwen Hiller
Helen Stenborg Hughes
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in memory of
Robert Earl Jones
Schiffman, Ekman,
Morrison & Marx, Inc.
Lucy Finney
Jordan
Art Brickman
Getrude Julian
Matt Kupchin
Joan Kan
Harriet Fried
Fred Kareman
Vito Maiorano
Olive Duenas
Kawiecki
Barry Lubin
Sally Gracie
Timothy Kebbe
Doris Kelsey
Jolie Gabler
Matthew Allen
Kwiat
Cecilia Kwiat
June BENNETT
Larsen
Frank R. Harland
Susan Henning
Joseph & Mary Israel
Jeanne Locke
Anthony & Sally Palmer
John Towey
Francis Lavaia
Enrico & Anita Ambrogi
Anthony DePaulo
Barnett Epstein
Ronald & Barbara
Federman
David & Carol Fink
Albert & Carolyn Fulton
Gary & Wendy Kollarus
Elizabeth Morris
Sandra Nathan
Robert Ranellone
Hal & Marti Rifkin
Jamie Schnuer
Christopher & Martha
Wallace
Eva Le Gallienne
Doris Johanson
Francis Lederer
Marion Lederer
Leila Lee Chun
Paul Keoni Chun
Jerry Lee
Patricia Sones
Robert E. Lee
Lucy Lee
Rosetta LeNoire
Brown
Frances Gaar
Cynthia E. Lester
Joe S. Moretti
Howard Levine
Leon & Alex Stieb
Maxine Lewis
Karen Schmitt
Robert P. Lieb
Barbara Fairchild
Libby Littlefield
Herbert & Ethel Kaplan
Hannah Loesser
Joseph Harris
Frederick Loewe
Frances Gaar
Spain Logne
Julie Lancaster
Dan Lomax
Alyce Gilbert
J. Frank Lucas
Cindy Ames
Salem Ludwig
Actors’ Equity Association
(National/Eastern
Region)
Herbert Berghof Studio, Inc.
Herman Luschar
Leon & Alex Stieb
Norman Lynn
Anita Jaffe
Robert
MacDonald
Barbara Carroll
Phyllis Campbell
Macklin
Jean Lewis
Fred MacMurray
Elliott Reid
Jean Magner
The Stage Managers of
The Color Purpler
Kathleen Maguire
Ruth Tobin
Jorge Maldonado
Melanie Adelman
Anonymous
Roxanna Arrojo
Nova L. Bergeron
Chase Brock
Michael Busillo
Wendy Dann &
Joe Calarco
Steven Goldsmith
Kevin & Nina Harper
Joe Levash & Sherry Muir
Bruce Lumpkin &
Michelle Gaudette
Finn & Katie
O’Shaughnessey
Richard Portney
Jessica Simkins
& Kat Charonko
Woody Schultz
Kate E. Tobia
Paul Waslin
Susan Wilson
Ruth Manning
Cindy Ames
Martin ManulIs
Robert W. Anderson
Charles Hollerith, Jr.
John Bard Manulis
Nancy MarchanD
Elizabeth Wilson
Pearl Marcus
Herb Marcus
Emma Mascolo
Sandra Berke Jordan
Lois Maxwell
Katherine Tam
Wayne Maxwell
David Samples
Herb Mazzini
The DeLuise Family Trust
Francis Mcarthy
Leigh Kamioner
Frank McCarthy
Ed McCarthy
Elise McCord
Sally Ann Sockwell
Mary Jane McKeown
Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS
Thomas McKillop
Treasurers & Ticket
Sellers - Local 751
Barbara McNair
Katherine HopkinsNicholas
Daisy McNamara
Patricia Rubenstein
Frank Melfo
Therese Melfo
Betty Ann Metz
Ruth Tobin
Joan Meyers
Fred Koven
Arthur Miles
Alice Dillon
Pearl Miles
William Moor
Frank Mountain
Elizabeth Wallace
Joseph Morelli
Joseph Harris
Barry Nelson
Steve Shapiro
Jane Zachary
Martha Newell
Joyce Garner
Fayard Antonio
Nicholas
Katherine HopkinsNicholas
Charlotte Rae at The Fund’s Special
Performance of The Year of Magical
Thinking.
John Noonan
Martha Knight Clements
Dennis Paver
Alyce Gilbert
Craig North
Lester J. Czukor
Brock Pemberton
Jacqueline A. Turkel
Maggie O’Brien
Ruth Tobin
Harriet Perlin
Sue Ellen Bromberg
William O’Brien
Wisner & Judith Washam
Ernestine Perrie
Charles Goff
Carol Sullivan
Frederick O’Neal
Frances Gaar
Michael O’Reilly
Michael A. Puglisi
John O’Riordan
Margaret Rose
Don Phillips
Frances Gaar
Ed Pinney
Anita Jaffe
Jerry Orbach
Janette Gautier
& Jerry Kline
Beverly A. Ollearo
Malachi Throne
Ann Pitoniak
Eugene & Ruby Francis
Peter Jack Tkatch
Joyce Van Patten
Jack Palance
Ann Dusenberry
Byrne Piven
Jerry Stiller &
Anne Meara
Dorothy Paley
Michael Paley
Barney Martin
Andrew Parks
Rica ShapiroMiritello
Kathleen Craft
Christopher Parris
Helen Volpe
John & Claire Martin
Kathleen Goldpaugh
James Monitor
Barbara Callander
Nancy Ann Parker
Theatrical Management
Virginia Dyer
Martin
Jean Lewis
Richard F.
Mooney
Actors’ Equity
Association
(National/Eastern
Region)
Jonathon Paskow
Suzen H. Murakoshi &
Mark F. Temme
Lee Marvin
Cindy Ames
Gordon Pfleeger
Eileen Barnett
April Parke
Arthur Hanket
Robert Pauli
Adam Wagner
Tom Poston
Jerry Stiller &
Anne Meara
Lanna Pressman
Eileen Barnett
Alex & Jodi Block
The DeLuise Family Trust
Patrick Quinn
Diane Zoe Adler
Nancy & Joseph P.
Benincasa
Barbara Callander
in memory of
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Frances Gaar
Janette Gautier &
Jerry Kline
Tom Rosica
Peter Jack Tkatch
Richard Ryan
Margaret Rose
Shirley Schneider
Barry H. Liben
Michael Shurtleff
Jack Sydow
Steve Ryan
Stephen Lang
Donn Schrader
Janette Gautier & Jerry Kline
Alfred Simon
Alice & Phil Mathias
William Raidy
Fred Koven
Belle Sabinson
Lois & Dell Hecht
Iris Schwartz
Louis Colarusso
Danny Simon
Neil Simon
John Raitt
Andrew Parks
Mrs. Saccente
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Debra Lee Scott
Georgia G. Foster
Al Sklar
Pete Nowicki
Vic Parrhysius
Johanna Seignious
Larry Rauch
Anita Jaffe
Edward Sacks
Freddi Chandler
Karl Seiden
Barry Lubin
Edgar Small
Bryan Cranston
Betty Zimmer
Edward Ready
Robert G. Rosenthal
Charles Nelson
Reilly
Renee Fleming
Walter & Mary-Alice
Kattwinkel
Andrew Parks
Jerry Stiller &
Anne Meara
Joyce Van Patten
Carter Smith
Screen Actors Guild
- National Office
Henry
Reinhardt
Treasurers & Ticket
Sellers - Local 751
Phyllis Nash
Sporn
Naomi Lewis Mack
Roz Relin
Freddi Chandler
Brett Somers
Pat Carroll
Sally Sommner
Mary C. Carnie
Trustee Jon Erman with Angela Lansbury at the monthly celebrity series at The Lillian Booth Actors’ Home in New Jersey.
Lee Remick
Cindy Ames
Ralph Reynolds
Buddy Powell
Alice Mary Riley
Barbara B. Riley
Luis Saladino
Faye Phillips
Joseph Toth
John Rossi
Loretta Moffatt Rossi
Vincent Sardi
Dorothy Loudon
Foundation
Sherry Lambert Halpern
Herbert Berghof
Studio, Inc.
William Herz, Jr.
David & Sarah
Huddleston
Jane A. Johnston
Walter & Mary-Alice
Kattwinkel
Mitchell Leeds
George Naumberg, M.D.
Louis Michael Ream
Joel Rotana
Amy Whitman
Lois Sarsfield
Michael Rubin
Norman Rothstein
W. F. & Janice Johnston
Joe Lorden
Vincent
Schiavelli
Cindy Ames
Austin Roe
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Herbert Rosoff
Felix A. Cohen
Herman & Helen Fala
Ami Kassar
Marcia Spitofsky
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Lilyan Sacks
Freddi Chandler
in memory of
Theresa Kay Sewell
Billy E. Drago
Elizabeth Shapiro
Michael & Maxine Meyer
Susan Sharkey
Barnett Epstein
David Shaw
Lynn Lane
Thomas J. Sheehan
Treasurers & Ticket
Sellers - Local 751
J.C. Sheets
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Theatrical Wardrobe
Union, Local 764
IATSE
Edward Sherry
Joe Allen Price
Thomas ShortT
Theatrical Wardrobe
Union, Local 764
IATSE
Irma St. Paule
Keith Perry
Ann Stanwell
Emily Cobb
Maureen Stapleton
Arthur & Gwen Hiller
Thomas A.
Steinfeld
Viviane B. Steinfeld
Carl Steib
Leon & Alex Stieb
John Stix
Michael Goldstrom
Vivian Stone
Alan Ross Kosher
Lee Strasberg
Frances Gaar
John Stratton
Gordon & Mary
Gould
John Patrick
Sundine
William J. Bateman
Jane Surrey
Kathie Coblentz
Jo Van Patten
Frances Gaar
Sylvia Weintraub
Arlene Fricchione
Dolph Sweet
Josip Elic
Joe Van Slyke
Jeff Christian
DeDe Van Slyke
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
John Tsafoyannis
Danny Weiser
Pamela Dayton
Robert Symonds
Art Brickman
David B. Graham
David Rambo &
Theodore Heyck
Jose Vega
Richard A. Via
Eddie Weston
Frances Gaar
Henry Velez
Anna Minot Warren & Michael Franz
Robert Whitehead
Doris Blum Gorelick
Randy Tallman
Lynn R. Metrik
Mrs. Vinsic
William & Helen Kingsbury
Mary Jane Whitman
Richard & Gertraud Kidwell
Mary Tarcai
Ruth Tobin
Terry Violino
Keith Perry
Darlene Wilson
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS
Martin Lee Teitel
David & Ruth Teitel
Alan Wagner
Jane Altman
Francis Temme
Suzen H. Murakoshi &
Mark F. Temme
Frances Helm Wallace
Marjorie R. Brown
Abe & Helen Chutorian
Charles & Brenda Gelles
John & Judith Kallas
Shirley K. Mandel
Valerie Warner Parish
Michael Tolan
Willard Swire
Frances Gaar
Peter Thompson
Frances Gaar
Erik Thorendahk
Adele Irving
Richard Thorne
Mary Sebel Cronin
Charlie Tirone
Michael Abbassi
Barnet Tobin
Ruth Tobin
Walter Wallace
Lee Sanders
John Wallowitch
Jean & Ray Fox
Thommie Walsh
Alyce Gilbert
Lotte Tobin
Ruth Tobin
Anna Minot WARREN
Mary E. Fogarty
John Leighton
Paul Tripp
Richard & Susan
Jurmain
Joan Warren
Screen Actors Guild
- Producers Pension
Ruth Enders Tripp
Richard & Susan Jurmain
Ann Wasdahl
Diane Recanati
Barry C. Tuttle
Elizabeth Clay
Douglass Watson
Harriett E. Watson
Paul Ukena
Meta Ukena
Richard B. Weaver
Christopher S. Weaver
Henrietta Valor
Mike & Joy Fogarty
Joseph & Mary Israel
Joy Crane Thorton
John Towey
Robert Weil
Roseann Perrone
L.A. Weissberger
Frances Gaar
Bud Wolff
John & Sadie Hall
Joseph Wortman
Lorne Feldman
Mark Wright
Anonymous
Jane Wheeler Boling
Gretchen Wyler
Walter & Mary-Alice Kattwinkel
Patricia F. Kiley
Andrew Parks
Lionel “Lee” Zimmer
Priscilla Allen
Barry & Joan Carl
Margaret Goz
Integrated Wealth Management
Silvana Venouziou
Trustees Steve Kalafer and Edward Turen
at a reception before The Fund’s Special
Performance of Jersey Boys.
EstHer & SaM Weinstein
Meredith A. Turkel
in memory of
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permanent Memorials
Abetha Aayer
Frankel
Aaron Frankel
Joan Bennett
The Dark Shadows
Festival
William Abrams
Jonathan Freeman
Rivington M.
Bisland
Mrs. Rivington M.
Bisland
WeslEy Addy
Celeste Holm
John Alexander
Anna Neglia
Christopher
SEAN Bixby
Wilfred B. Bixby
Lucinda Ballard
Robert F. R. Ballard
FRANK BOLGER
Jessica Stokes
Katharine Bard
Martin Manulis
Laurie, Karen & John Bard
May Bolhower
Committee for May
Bolhower
Richard Bauman
Gilbert Parker
Storer Boone
Dom & Carol DeLuise
Mrs. Martin Beck
Lynn Wood &
Iggie Wolfington
Bob Borod
Merle Frimark
Brian Bell
Pat & Ralph S. Bell
Philip
Bourneuf
Frances Reid
Robert Osborne and John Erman at the monthly celebrity
series at The Lillian Booth Actors’ Home.
Ralph Bellamy
Siobhan Oppenheimer
Nicolau
Peggy Cornell
Benline
Capt. Arthur J. Benline
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Permanent memorials
Horace Braham
Guy Sorel
SAscha
brastoff
The Sascha Brastoff
Foundation
John Bruce Bredin
Octavia du Pont Bredin
Jacqueline Britt
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Reiff
John F. Bromfield
Mary Bromfield
Geraldine Brooks
Budd Schulberg
Bianca Stroock
Gloria Stroock Stern
Robert Brossman
Sylvia Brossman
JOEL CHESKIN
Gwen J. Lourie &
H. Richard Chattman
Montgomery Clift
Sandy M. Campbell &
Donald Windham
Margie Coate
Frances Gaar & The
American Guild of
Variety Artists
Alexander Cohen
Bruce Helford &
Deborah
Oppenheimer
REBECCA
BROWNSTEIN
Dorothy & Benjamin
Brownstein
Roberta Beatty
Cohen
Jonathan Hole
Josephine Brown
Mary Jane Higby
Thomas L. Coley
William G. Roerick
Les Brown
Rozene Supple
FRED COLLINS
Anita Jaffe
Betty Bruce
Robert Sidney
Elinor Foster
Comegys
Kathleen Comegys
William A. Bush
Estate of William A.
Bush
Ted Corday
Frances Reid
Elizabeth Caldwell
The Cast & Crew of
Annie (West Coast)
Clifford Cothren
June Prud’homme
Cothren
Sandy Campbell
Donald Windham
Robert Crawley
Casey Walters
Wayne Carson
Martha Randall Carson
HuMe Cronyn
Susan Cooper Cronyn &
Hallmark Global
Services Inc.
Madeline
Castellotti
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Rosa Catania
Martin Waldron
RICHARD L. ChaRLES
Dennis & Judy
Jones
Melissa Crosman
Gertrude Milley Ortlieb
Gertrude Haworth
Culliton
Patrick Culliton
Robert D. Currie
Tanny McDonald Currie
Morton DaCosta
Peter Flint
Jeanne Harrison
Kleina Jones
Richard & Jan Miner
Merrell
Donald & Sada Stewart
Howard H. Taubman
Michael Thomas
Lori March Williams
Eleanora Duse
Martin Waldron
Emil Friedlander
Emil Friedlander
WILLIAM & MARGARET
E. DWYER
Thomas J. Burke, CPA
Dick Gallagher
Anita Jaffe
James Edwards
Patrick Culliton
JAMES W. GARDINER
Robert Sidney
Electra
Sangster
HALL
Margaret Nidzyn
Lili Darvas
Frances Reid
Wallace A. Hall
Theatrical Wardrobe
Union, Local 768
Dalton Dearborn
S.H. & Helen R. Scheuer
Family Foundation
William
Hammerstein
Alice & Phil Mathias
CALVERT DEFOREST
Anonymous
Irene R. Dessau
Marianna Elliott &
Alan L. Oppenheimer
Colleen Dewhurst
Actors’ Equity
Association (Eastern
Region)
Howard Dietz
Doris Small
Tom Dillon
Frances Gaar
Robert Hewitt
Anita Jaffe
Jerry Stiller & Anne
Meara
The orchestra of Company preparing for their Actors Fund
Special Performance.
Marianna Elliott
Alan L. Oppenheimer
Herb Gardner
Dom & Carol DeLuise
Bobby Faye
American Guild
of Variety Artists
Judy Garland
John Paul Davis
John Fearnley
Ruth Bedford
Elaine Anderson
Steinbeck
The Rodgers &
Hammerstein
Organization
Edna Ferber
Janet Fox Goldsmith
MARIA GENEVIEVE
GERACI
Martin Waldron
ANDY GIBB
Barry Gibb and
Robin & Maurice Gibb
RUTH GILLETTE
John Bowab
Neil Flanagan
M.T.M. Productions
Mary R. Gish
The Estate of Dorothy
Gish
La Rue Donnan
Josip Elic &
LaVerne Donnan
Lynn Fontanne
Alan Hewitt
PETER GLOO
Donald J. Toumey
La Verne Donnan
Josip Elic
NED F. Foulds
Claiborne Foster Foulds
Ethel Frank
Gordon
Eleanor Zimmerman
RALPH DOUGLAS
Melvin Silverman
MICHAEL J. FRANK
Thecla Frank Everson
Ulysses Dove
Dwight Hutton
New York City Ballet
Lydia Lauter
The Lauter Family Trust
David F. Doyle
Anne Doyle
James Gregory
Anne C. Gregory
Paula Houston
Guibord
Phillip Arthur Guibord
Toni Darnay
Toni & Darnay Hoffman
Hobe & Randy Morrison
Lester Degenstein
Shirley Brownrigg
Charitable Trust
Adolph Green
Phyllis Newman
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Florida Friebus
Actors’ Equity Foundation
(Western Region)
Ruth Gordon
Anonymous
Harry Goz
Margaret Goz
Bernard Grant
Joyce Gordon
Genevieve Hamper
Anna Neglia
Bertram Hancock
Mr. & Mrs. James E.
Barry
CARL HARMS
Actors’ Equity
Association
(Eastern Region)
Berkeley Harris
Beverlee & Scott
McKinsey Harris
GENE W. HARRIS
Mr. & Mrs. Donald
Harris
SYD HART
(SUSAN T. FEELEY)
Dorsey & Whitney
Foundation
Michael Hartig
Suzyn Waldman
Steven Haupt
Anita Jaffe
Josephine (Jo)
Healy
Sandy M. Campbell &
Donald Windham
Roger Heldfond
The Casting Society of
America
permanent memorials
33
Harold W. Herz
His Friends
Anne NAYLON
Madden
Wilson H. Madden
Alan Hewitt
Robert & Louise Hewitt
Hortense B. Hewitt
Robert & Louise Hewitt
Catherine
“Tina” Mandas
Mimi G. Cozzens &
William Falkner
Philo Higley
Sally R. Higley
Martin manulis
John Bard Manulis
George Roy Hill
Joanne Jacobson
Cast of Wicked NY before their Actors Fund Special Performance.
Betty Hanna
Hole
The Jonathan Hole
Family
Jean Lehman
Holfeldt
Estate of Milton I.
Shubert
ROBERT HOMMA
Anita Jaffe
BARNARD HUGHES
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Melvin Bernhardt &
Jeff Woodman
Helen Stenborg Hughes
RICHARD HUGHES
Walt Witcover
Vincent R.
Impellitteri
Elnora Hayes
Leo Jaffe
Anita Jaffe
NATHAN JENNINGS, JR.
Elizabeth Jennings
Al Jones
George Hunter
Anne Jones
Richard Addesso
JANE LLOYD JONES
Heywood Hale Broun
Judith Jordan
Charlotte Rae
NORA KAYE
The Nora Kaye &
Herbert Ross
Foundation
34
Permanent memorials
Dr. Belle Kennedy
Friends & Former
Students
John Kennedy
Actors’ Equity
Foundation (Western
Region)
Richard Kiley
Suzyn Waldman
Louise Kirtland
Grant Walden
Gene Klavan
Phyllis Klavan
Esther Korey
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Bruce Laffey
The DeLuise Family
Trust
BILL LARKIN
India Hando
Eva Le Gallienne
Eloise & Seth Armen
Anne Kaufman
Schneider
William
Le Massena
Sandy M. Campbell &
Donald Windham
Elizabeth Leary
David & Ellen Leary
Queenie Leonard
Patience Cleveland
David Leopold
J. M. Erdelac
TRUDIE LESTER
Edwin Lester
MAXINE LEWIS
Karen Schmitt
Abraham Lieberman
The Estate of Abraham
Lieberman
William L. Livingston
Joel Key Rice
Samuel Locante
Adeline B. Locante
Jacob F. Loeb
Mark & Hanna Stroock
JOSHUA & NEDDA
HARRIGAN LOGAN
John R. Lehman
Anita Fitelson &
David Wren
Robert logan
Alan & Kathryn
Greenberg
Alfred Lunt
Alan Hewitt
Bert Lytell
The Estate of
Grace Menken Lytell
Charles MacArthur
James & Helen
Hayes MacArthur
Elaine Mackey
Mike Mearian &
Judy Frank
Harry Mackey
Mike Mearian &
Judy Frank
Tom Martin
Tom Martin
Nora Marlowe
McCallion
Friends & Family
Bill McCutcheon
The DeLuise Family
Trust
FRANK MCHUGH
Dorothy Spencer
McHugh
MICHAEL SPENCER
MCHUGH
Dorothy Spencer
McHugh
SUSAN SPENCER
MCHUGH
Dorothy Spencer
McHugh
Tim McIntire
Jeanette Nolan McIntire
& John H. McIntire
James B. McKenzie
Newman’s Own, Inc.
William L. McKnight
Jujamcyn Theaters
CATHERINE
MCLEOD
Don Keefer
BUTTERFLY
MCQUEEN
Cora Walker
Daniel Coby
Mearian
Mike Mearian &
Judy Frank
Michael Chapman
Mearian
Mike Mearian &
Judy Frank
EDITH MEISER
The Edith Meiser
Foundation
Actors’ Equity
Association (Eastern
Region)
JON MENSINGER
Esther Rosenberg
Ismail Merchant
Anne & Vincent Mai
Edythe Meserand
Cmdr. Jane Barton,
USNR
Jan Miner
Colgate-Palmolive
Elizabeth Allen
Montgomery
Doris Smolek
James Montgomery
Constance Montague
Montgomery
Robert
Montgomery
Doris Smolek
JAY MORAN
Actors’ Equity
Association (Western
Region)
William Morris
The Family of
William Morris
Dorothy morro
Mike Bramblett
Sandra Gould
Morse
Donna & John Crean
Richard Mulligan
Robert & Sandy Leeds
Mulligan
CHESTER (CHET)
LEO O’BRIEN
Elnora Hayes &
The Estate of
Chester L. O’Brien
MORTIMER J. SNOOKS
Chet O’Brien
Carroll O’Connor
Robert & Carole Daly
WINI SHAW O’MALLEY
William J. O’Malley
RICHARD WARREN
PUGH
Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS
Trini Ramos
Sadowsky
Lenore & Nathan
Schwartz
WILLIAM H. PUTCH
Jean Stapleton
Gloria Safier
Constance Ford
PATRICK QUINN
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Steven B. Spivak
George Salerno
Cindy Ames
Donna Reed
Grover W. Asmus
Betty O’Rear
Edward M. Skanta
Maureen
O’ Sullivan
James E. Cushing
Simon Oakland
Gus Vletas &
Marinda French
Robertson
TROY EUGENE
PACKWOOD
The Estate of
Troy Eugene
Packwood
B. Iden Payne
Friends & Former
Students
Cast and Crew of Curtains after their Special Performance for The Fund.
Brock Pemberton
Jacqueline A. Turkel
ELAINE PERRY
Milton Lyon
MIRIAM PHILLIPS
Paul B. Modes
Thom Phillips
Gary L. Finkel
Eleanor Pinkham
Edwin Lester
Christine C. Reid
Margaret R. Jackson
Reginald & Ruth
Petty
Elliott Reid
Bud & Cece
Robinson
Anonymous
The Armin &
Esther Hirsch
Foundation
Jill Levy & J. Stephen
Price
Richard Rodgers
Dorothy Rodgers
Jane Keith Munsell
Douglas & Keith Munsell
Roy Poole
Marie Poole
Warren P. Munsell
Grace Carney
Letteria Porrazzo
Martin Waldron
EMMANUEL
ROSENBERG
Rita Rosenberg
MAY MUTH
Dom & Carol
DeLuise
Natalie Priest
George A. Elmer
STEVE RYAN
Stephen Lang
THOMAS PROCHNOW
The Family of Thomas
Prochnow
MRS. SACCENTE
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Betty Noble
Edward M. Lapidus
Honey Sanders
Kelly Gonda &
The Gonda Family
Foundation
NATALIE SCHAFER
Maurice J. Hill
George Schaff
Bernardette Casson
Schaff
Mark G. Shapiro
June A. Renfrow
J.C. SHEETS
Broadway Cares/
Equity Fights AIDS
Charles W.
Sheldon
The Estate of Julius
Mandl
Jean Shevlin
Rosemary & Marc
Weiss
Esther A. Shultz
Catherine A. Rein
John Shultz, Sr.
Catherine A. Rein
Permanent memorials
35
Herman Shumlin
Society of Stage Directors
& Choreographers
Cornelia Otis Skinner
The Blodget Family
Phyllis Smith
Richard & Sandy Cobb
Philip J. Smith and
The Shubert Organization
Arnold Soboloff
Suzanne Soboloff
Kate Tomlinson
Howard Whitfield
EDDIE WESTON
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS
Barbara “Quaney” Tracey
Dom & Carol DeLuise
Philip Trent
Peter C. Trent
Robert Whitehead
Roger & Brook Berlind
KENNETH UTT
The Dustin &
Lisa Hoffman
Philanthropic Fund
KITTY WIATT
Anita Jaffe
MereDith Willson
Rosemary Willson
Seymour Mitchell Spector
Paul Swerdlove & Elgart Aster
Edith Van Cleve
Ruth Van Cleve Emerson
KATHRYN GUNN STEHLEY
Martin Waldron
Vivian Vance
John Dodds
Paul Stewart
Peg La Centra Stewart
VICKI VOLA
Dena Vola Iamonica
Bianca & James E. Strook
Doris Small
Gerald Walker
Patricia M. Walker
Shepperd Strudwick
T. Anne Shingleton
SYDNEY WALKER
Barbara Walker Shive
WILLARD SWIRE
Actors’ Equity Association
(National/Eastern Region) &
Mary Hara
Eugene W. Walton
Theatrical Teamsters Local 817
John Swope
Dorothy McGuire Swope
Mary Tarcai
Cindy Ames
SUSAN TEPPER
Susan J. Tepper Charitable Trust
SANDRA THOMAS &
THE DECEASED MEMBERS OF
THE STAGE MOTHERS CLUB
The Stage Mothers Club
Ruth White
Lynn Wood & Iggie Wolfington
Eleanor D. Wilson
Robert Hewitt
Travis Wright
Phantom of the Opera
Raoul Company
WILLIAM LON WRIGHT
Paul Wright
Richard Ward
The Cast & Crew of
Brubaker – 20th Century Fox
Frederick Warriner
Tom Martin
Adelaide Reis Watson
Michael Rowe & Kathleen Watson
Douglass Watson
The Cast of Another World
Jean LeBovier Welsh
Lynn Wood & Iggie Wolfington
The Actors Fund apologizes for
any mis-spelled names; names
appear as requested by the donor.
36
Permanent memorials
edwin
forrest society members
The Actors Fund established the Edwin Forrest Society to give
special recognition to those selfless individuals who have made
provisions for estate gifts to The Actors Fund. The gift can be made
through a will, a trust, an insurance policy or retirement plan and
membership is granted to those who pledge that they have set aside
an estate gift so thousands of performing arts and entertainment
professionals can rely upon The Actors Fund in the years to come.
Anonymous (8)
Ian Abercrombie
Paul Ainsley
Jeffrey Albani
Len Alexander
Gertrude A. Allen
Valerie Allen
Jane Altman
Cindy Ames
Barbara Anderson
Douglas Andros
Jules Arkin
Shirley Arkin
Helen-Jean Arthur
Mary Linda Armacost
Madison Arnold
Maxine Arnold
Victor Arnold
Ward Asquith
W. Lee Bailey
Millie Baron
Jack Beers
Jerry Bell
Joseph P. Benincasa
Melvin Bernhardt
Jed Bernstein
Mr. & Mrs. John Bertani
Harriet Bigus
Leslie Hoban Blake
Peter Blaxill
Jeffrey Bolton Bayla Sussman Bonney
Gael Borden
Louis Botto
John Bowab
Katie Brader
Jean Carberry Brady
Bill Britten
Elaine Brodey
James E. Brodhead
Robert J. Bruyr
Lydia Bruce
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Budd
Lonnie Burr
Linda Burson
Kristin Ann Capuano
Ruth Altman Champlain
Irving Cheskin
Dolores Childers
Thom Christopher
Emily Cobb
Catherine Connolly
Isabel Cooley
Joan Copeland Alex Cord
Mark Costello
Vicki Cowen
Ann Latham Cudworth
Joan Cunningham
George Curley
Carolyn B. D’Alessandro
Stephen A. Daley
Herman Aldervan Daley
Edgar Foster Daniels
A. Daniel Danoff
Barbara & Tim Davis
Barbara Ann Davison
Mark & Carolyn N. Dawson
Carleton Davis
David Day
Merle Debuskey
Richard Delahanty
Joseph Dellasorte
Mary Ellen Devery
Erick Devine
Bill Dolive John L. Dooley
Vincent F. Dowling
Phil Drach
Ilona Dulaski
Michael Dunetz
Kathleen Dunn
James C. Dutton
Harry Edwards
Anne Einhorn
Frances Eldred
Carol J. Emshoff
John M. Erman
Paula Ewin
Mallory Factor
Charlotte Fairchild
Leon Fassler
Leonard Finger
Lola Fisher
Michael Fisher
Mary Fogarty
Luther Foulk
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Francis
Dr. Joel I. Frand
Aaron Frankel
Roger Franklin
Naomi Freistadt
Luther Foulk
Catherine Gaffigan
Don Garner
Sylvia Gassell
Mrs. Larry Gates
Margaret Anne Gathright
Joanna M. Gitterman
Scott Glascock
Doris Blum Goerlick
Charles E. Goff
Henry Goldsmith
Janet Fox Goldsmith
Arleen Goman
Gayle Gorman
Ed Grady
Michael Graves
Alice Lucille Green
Jean Greer
Betty Ann Grove
Henry Guettel
Michael Hajek
John & Sadie Hall
Margaret Hall
Eugene Harbin, Jr.
Grace Harris
Henry Harris
Herbert & Frances Rainer Harris
Nancy & Kay Harris
Viola Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Atlee
Heinlen
Lee Heinz
Melody Henshaw
Fredi Herlihy
William Herz, Jr.
Alan Hewitt Trust
edwin forrest society
37
Robert Hewitt
Maurice Hill
Robert D. Hock
James T. Hodson
Beth Holland
Charles Hollerith, Jr.
Celeste Holm
William Hughes
Frances Ingalls
Barbara Irvine
Joanne Jacobson
Dorothy Dorian James
Jane A. Johnston
Sonia Joseph
Gloria Justin
Robert Kamlot
Amanda KC
Constance Kelly
Nicholas Kepros
Charles Kindl
Margaret Carmichael King
Joan Kobin
Anita B. Kolen
Fred Koven
Ronald Krause
Mr. & Mrs. David Kurlan
William Kux
Tom Lacy
Francine White Lambert
Renee Rogers Landau
Robert F. Landau
Lucie Landcaster
Cyrilla Dorn Langeais
Kristin Larsen
Jean Lee
Edward C. Leman
Daniel Leone
Edwin Lester Trust
Judith Leverone
Audrey Davis Levin
Peter Dan Levin
Aura Levitas
David Lewis
Nadine Lewis-Crane
Philip Lindsay
Rick Little
Robert Livingston
Damian London
Mary Louise
Joan Lowell
James MacArthur
Elaine Marlowe
Frank Marino
Paul Marin
Frederick Martin
Tom Matsusaka
Charles McCollister
Barry E. McGuire
William McIntyre
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Mearian
Robert Meier
Jeffrey Mendrala
38
edwin forrest society
Jaymie Meyer
Wynne Miller
Katharine Minehart
Laura Mitchell
Joanna Morris
Ben Morse
Margot Moser
Marianne Muellerleile
Robert Mulligan
Sandy Leeds Mulligan
Wallace Munro
Donn B. Murphy
Robert Nakashima
Richard J. Natowski
Luce Neilson
Richard Neilson
Jane Neufeld
Paul Newman, Esq.
Stanley Newman
William Nimmo
Norma Novak
John O’Leary
Dorothy Olim
Lazaro Oliveira
Dale Olson
Mary Orr
Jan Owen
Gian Eric Pace, M.D.
Evelyn Page
David & Claude Paulsen
Mary Payne Jennings
Liz Pazik
Bill Perry
John Petlock
Vivian Petlock
Edward A. Pfeiffer
A. J. Pocock
Don Potter
Dan Price
James Prideaux
Harold Prince
Rosemary Prinz
John Quinn
Remak Ramsay
Joyce Randolph
Lynn Redgrave
Kismin Reeves
Elliott Reid
Ann J. Reilly
T.J. Reilly
Maureen Wilshire Rhodes
Grahame Richards
Chuck Richie
Charles Knox Robinson
Joan Robinson
Gil Rogers
Lynne Rodgers
Margaret Roski
Paul L. & Marion J. Ross
Mrs. William Edward Daniel
Ross
Michael Rougas
Anne Russell
Harvey Sabinson
David Sacks
Alan Sader
Maureen Sadusk
M. David Samples
Raynor Scheine
Dolly Beechman Schnall
Robert Schnitzer
Marion Sears
Richard Seff
Richard Selikson
Ralph Shaw
Leslie Shreve
Jerry William Siggins
Melvin Silverman
Michael Simmons-DeFord
Diana Shuman Skylar
Harold F. Smith
Mary H. Smith
Leida Snow
Craig Spindle
Joseph Stanton
Helen Stenborg
Leon B. Stevens
Maryan French Stephens
Elaine Stritch
Bradford E. Sullivan
Susan Sullivan
W. M. Supernaw
William Swan
Jill Tanner
Terry Hodge Taylor
Harry Teter
Richard C. Thorne
Zubie T. Thronson
J. Kevin Tighe
Florence Tustin
Beverly Spottswood Voelbel
Richard A. Via
Barbara Von Borstel
Peter T. Tierney
Lawrence C. Vincent
Carol Waaser
Honey Waldman
Martin Waldron
Lee Wallace
Marilyn Chris-Wallace
Honore E. Walsh
Cory Wayne
Fredd Wayne
Robert Allen White
Bart Williams
Elizabeth Wilson
Morgan Woodward
David Wren
Doris Wyman
Joel Wyman
Annetta Toni Yager
Linda Carol Young
Betty Zimmer
Lee Zimmer
Edwin Forrest Society members – in memoriam
Charlotte Abramson
Elizabeth Allen
Lewis Allen
CDR Jane Barton, USNR (Ret)
Jackson Beck
Patricia Bell
Charles Bowden
Rosetta Le Noire Brown
Edna Burnett
Richard L. Charles
Ann Connolly
Richard Crowley
Jean Dalrymple
Richard C. Daniels
Harry Davies
Tom Dillon
Lee Doyle
Paddy Edwards
Isadore Freeman
Rita Frucht
Truman Gaige
Larry Gates
Patricia Gerringer
Bernard Goerlick
Arline Goodman
Frank Goodman
Charles V. Grunwell
Hope Hardcastle
Lewis Harris
Peter Harris
Helen Hayes
Edward Herlihy
Louise Hewitt
Harry Hickox
Hildegarde
Edna Hirst
Joy Hodges
Jonathan Hole
Barnard Hughes
Barbara Hunt
Bernard B. Jacobs
Bella Jarrett
Paula Laurence
Madeline Kahn
Richard Kiley
Clinton Kimbrough
Sidney Kingsley
Kay E. Kuter
Robert F. Landau
Hope Lange
Dr. Rosella Linskie
Paul Lipson
Lucille Lortel
Dorothy Loudon
J. Frank Lucas
Margaret E. Lynn
Polli Magaro
Joanna E. Malley
Ruth Manning
Marijane Maricle
Edith Mason
Gaylord Mason
Frank C. P. McGlinn
Oscar “Skedge” Miller
Joan Mollison
Rhoda Pauley
Ernestine Perrie
Anne Pitoniak
Ken Porter
Bob Pryor
John Randolph
William Edward Daniel Ross
Edith Rothchild
Martha Shaw Sack
Robert Schnitzer
Lee Truhill
George Wallace
Billye Ree Wallace
George D. Wallace
Eugene W. Walton
Paul F. Ware
Edward Weston
John Wingate
Gretchen Wyler
Through December 2007
Left to right: Company photo from Grease Special
Performance. Lillian Booth, Misha Dabich and Joel
Grey at the Fourth of July celebration.
edwin forrest society
39
statement of
Financial Position
Complete financial statements with notes and the auditor’s report for 2007 prepared by Grant
Thornton are available online at www.actorsfund.org or by request.
for the year ending December 31, 2007
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts held on behalf of others, net
Deposit with bond trustee
Short-term investments
Accounts and receivables, less allowance for doubtful
amounts of $210,000 and $166, 000 in 2007 and 2006,
respectively
Bequests, contributions and pledges receivable, net (Note B)
Prepaid expenses
Long-term investments (Note C)
Program-related investments and notes, net (Note D)
Annuity fund investments (Note E)
Value of interest in split-interest agreements (Note E)
Deferred financing costs
Other assets (Note G)
Property and equipment, net (Note F)
Total assets
2006
2007
Assets
$
$
4,200,020
751,165
4,795,515
1,404,494
1,135,419
285,096
13,777,865
18,763,447
2,888,104
5,433,774
380,217
355,802
10,460,653
64,631,571
$
$
2,646,096
600,197
1,728,221
1,315,445
1,120,721
347,672
12,012,888
18,133,447
2,758,712
5,510,837
614,804
7,379,917
54,168,957
Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Amounts held on behalf of others
Deferred revenue (Note D)
Annuities payable (Note E)
Other liabilities
Bonds payable (Note G)
Postretirement benefit obligation (Note H)
Total liabilities
$
$
4,159,218
751,165
3,364,953
1,847,980
486,439
7,000,000
3,880,452
21,490,207
$
$
2,761,160
561,165
3,945,082
1,661,630
391,914
3,597,953
12,918,904
Net assets
40
Unrestricted
Temporarily restricted (Note B)
Permanently restricted (Note B)
Total net assets
$
28,964,555
2,718,387
11,458,422
43,141,364
$
26,446,002
3,262,783
11,541,268
41,250,053
Total liabilities and net assets
$
64,631,571
$
54,168,957
financials
statement of
Activities
Operating activities
Support and revenues
Contributions
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS grants (Note I)
Special events
Human services
Other recovery
Aurora revenue
Net patient services revenue (Note B)
Net residents services revenue (Note B)
Bequests
Investment return designated for
current operations (Note C)
Net assets released from restrictions (Note B)
Total support and revenues
Total
$
5,146,202
4,450,000
2,807,214
855,858
125,992
1,398,123
6,003,791
1,788,345
2,058,316
504,096
25,137,937
Expenses
Program Services
Social Services
Employment and training
Health services
Housing
6,546,698
1,276,242
1,554,459
10,217,807
Total program services
19,595,206
Supporting services
General and administrative
Special events
Fundraising
1,491,868
2,400,090
2,246,075
Total supporting services
6,138,033
Total Expenses
Increase (decrease) in net assets from operating activities
25,733,239
(595,302)
Non-operating activities
New split-interest agreements
Change in value of split-interest agreements
Realized & unrealized gains on investments (Note C)
Grants and contributions for capital
expenditures/improvements
Aurora social service income (Note D)
Interest and amortization income (Note D)
Reversal of minimum pension liability
658,967
(97,291)
695,911
442,022
240,000
811,276
283,910
Total non-operating activities
3,034,795
Changes in net assets before effect of adoption
of FASB Statement No. 158
Effect of adoption of FASB Statement No.158 (Note H)
Changes in net assets
Net assets, beginning of the year
2,439,493
Net assets, end of year
(548,182)
1,891,311
41,250,053
$ 43,141,364
Financials
41
statement of
Functional Expenses
Program Services
Social
Services
Employment
& Training
Health
Services
Housing
Events
-
-
-
-
Fundraising
-
-
-
-
Communications & public relations
58,628
19,543
15,200
17,371
Salaries
2,112,731
618,324
505,430
4,426,438
Payroll benefits & taxes
562,539
143,990
114,635
1,330,966
Retirement benefits
212,329
70,042
55,357
338,486
Administrative
339,519
109,901
101,844
838,304
Professional fees & outside services
354,631
116,864
113,909
172,654
Occupancy & facility
395,628
131,884
127,004
741,945
Depreciation & amortization
94,706
27,924
67,914
718,671
Program & financial assistance
2,415,987
37,770
453,186
1,632,972
$6,546,698
$1,276,242
$1,554,459
$10,217,807
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Financials
Supporting Services
General &
Administrative
Total
Special
Events
Fundraising
Total
Total
-
-
1,145,251
-
1,145,251
1,145,251
-
-
-
833,485
833,485
833,485
110,742
41,528
83,057
41,528
166,113
276,855
7,662,923
724,296
647,727
719,340
2,091,363
9,754,286
2,152,130
154,675
149,922
147,603
452,200
2,604,330
676,194
60,656
54,526
65,252
180,434
856,628
1,389,568
132,784
109,542
173,300
415,626
1,805,194
758,058
238,380
79,143
119,209
436,732
1,194,790
1,396,461
103,907
99,825
107,826
311,558
1,708,019
909,215
35,642
31,097
38,532
105,271
1,014,486
4,539,915
-
-
-
-
4,539,915
$19,595,206
$1,491,868
$2,400,090
$2,246,075
$6,138,033
$25,733,239
for the year ending December 31, 2007
Financials
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Staff
National Headquarters
Joseph P. Benincasa, Executive Director
Barbara Davis L.M.S.W., Deputy Executive Director
Ina Sorens Clark, Senior Director of Development & Communications
Anthony Lopez-Linus, Senior Director of Finance & Administration
Suzanne Tobak, Senior Director of Advancement
Paul Riedel, Executive Assistant
Eastern Region
Development/Communications
Louie Anchondo, Director of Special Events,
National
DJ Brumfield, Director of Institutional Giving
Judith Fish, Director of Individual Giving
Wally Munro, Director of Planned Giving
Harry Ballard, Membership Assistant
Tina Benanav, Communications &
Design Associate
Jose Delgado, Membership Associate
David Engelman, Manager, Special Events
Jay Haddad, Major Gifts Associate
Joe Moretti, Membership Associate
Gail Perlman, Advancement Coordinator
Amy Picar, Special Events Coordinator
Timothy Pinckney, Producer/ Staff Writer
Megan Quinn, Manager, Major Gifts
Daniel Scholz, Internet Communications
Associate
Finance & Administration
Connie Yoo, Corporate Controller
Erica Chung, Accounts Payable Supervisor
Carlos de Jesus, Manager, Accounting
Jian Bing Ho, Senior Accountant
Joy Pascua-Kim, Executive Assistant
Zehava Krinsky, Accountant
Victor Mendoza, Senior Accountant
Human Resources & Administration
Carol Wilson, Director of Human Resources
Camille Codner, Receptionist/Office Manager
Manira Hossain, Human Resources Assistant
Charlene Morgan, Employee Benefits Manager
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staff
Information Technology
Israel Duran, Director of Information Technology
Ricardo Montero, IT Help Desk/PC Tech
Jeffrey Woo, Network Administrator
Social Services
Tamar Shapiro, L.C.S.W., Director of Social
Services, National
Elizabeth Avedon, L.C.S.W., HIV/AIDS
Initiative
Stephanie Linwood-Coleman, L.C.S.W.,
Supervisor, Services for Seniors & the Disabled
Amanda Clayman, L.M.S.W., Entertainment
Assistance Program
Kenton Curtis, L.M.S.W., Supervisor, HIV/AIDS
Initiative
Dale Daley, L.C.S.W., Supervisor, Entertainment
Assistance Program
Rosalyn Gilbert, L.C.S.W., Supervisor, Chemical
Dependency Services
Lynnell Herzer, L.M.S.W., Chemical Dependency
Service
Gloria Jones, Administrative Coordinator
Thomas Lorio, L.M.S.W., HIV/AIDS Initiative
Carol Harris-Mannes, L.C.S.W., Phyllis
Newman Women’s Health Initiative
Dalin Rivera, Data Assistant
Marjorie Roop, L.C.S.W., HIV/AIDS Initiative
Robert Rosenthal, L.M.S.W., HIV/AIDS
Initiative
Lucy Seligson, L.M.S.W., Intake Social Worker/
Housing Specialist
Samuel A. Smith, Data Control Supervisor
Alice Vienneau, L.M.S.W., The Dancers’ Resource
Health Insurance Resource Center
James Brown, Director of Health Services,
National
Renata Marinaro, Manager, Special Projects
Elizabeth Tripp, Web Content Developer
The Actors Work Program NY
Katherine Schrier, Director, Actors Work
Program, National
Icem Benamu, M.A., A.T.E.P., Counselor
Billie Levinson, Office Coordinator/ Job
Developer
Ell Miocene, M.A., L.M.H.C., Career
Counselor
Richard Renner, Education Coordinator
Patricia Schwadron, Career Counselor
Supervisor
The Aurora Social Services
Ellen Celnik, L.M.S.W., Director of Housing
Program Services
Jonathan Margolies, L.C.S.W., Associate
Director Aurora
Jamie Trachtenberg, L.M.S.W., Associate
Director Schermerhorn
John Barrow, L.C.S.W., Social Worker
Matthew Brookshire, Activity Coordinator/
Performance Space Manager
Linda Sax Craig, Senior Case Manager
Hope Geteles, L.M.S.W., Social Worker
Elizabeth Lawlor, Office Manager
Thomas Pileggi, Activities Coordinator
The Aurora Property Management
Richard Pimentel, Director of Property
Management
Derrick Sage, Assistant Director
Keisha Gardner, Office Manager
Seymour Hunter, Rent Coordinator
Raymundo Lizarraga, Superintendent
Claudette McCee, Tenant & Intake Service
Coordinator
Raymond Peralta, Security Supervisor
Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic
Dr. Jim Spears, M.D., Medical Director
Janet Pearl, Health Services Manager
Elisa Orme, Administrative Coordinator
Western Region
Keith McNutt, M.P.P., M.S.W., Director
Development
David Michaels, Director of Special Events
Human Resources & Administration
Angelique Prahalis, Office Administration
Manager
Stacy Renfroe, Receptionist/Admin Assistant
Social Services
Tina Abas, L.C.S.W., Director of Social Services,
M.S.W., Supervisor, Entertainment Assistance
Program
Roni Blau, L.C.SW., Intake
Gabrielle Forman, L.C.S.W, Seniors & the Disabled
Gregory Polcyn, Data Coordinator
Logan Speers, M.S.W., Entertainment Assistance
Program
Jan-Kees Van Der Gaag, L.C.SW, Supervisor,
HIV/AIDS Initiative, Senior/Disability
Programming
Michael Zaleski, M.S.W., HIV/AIDS Initiative
Linda Zimmerman, M.S.W., HIV/AIDS Initiative
Health Insurance Resource Center
Daniel Kitowski, M.S.W., Manager, HIRC,
Aaron King, Research Assistant
The Actors Work Program
Michael Salerno, M.A., MDiv, ABVE/D,
Manager, Actors Work Program
Joanne Webb, A.T.E.P. Counselor
Lauren Trotter, Administrative Assistant
Looking Ahead
Laura Campbell, Education Counselor
Heather Vanian, L.C.S.W., Social Worker
Central Region
Social Services
Donald Towne, L.C.S.W., Director of Social Services
lillian booth actors’ Home
Administration
Jordan Strohl, M.B.A, L.N.H.A, Administrator
Annmarie De Feis, Administrative Manager
Finance
Kim Eng, Controller
Susan Kang, Billing Manager, Accounts Receivable
Grace Park, Senior Accountant/Reimbursement
Specialist
staff
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Human Resources
Jeanette Rivera, Manager of Human Resources
Nursing
Maria Box, Director of Nursing
Soo Donlin, Nursing Supervisor
Doris Daly, Medical Records Secretary
Rose Thorne, Staff Educator/Nursing Supervisor
Mandelia Williamson, Nursing Supervisor
Recreation
Yalile Chavez, Director of Recreation & Volunteers
Social Services
Florence Lynch, L.C.S.W., Director of Social Services
Rochelle Nuss, M.S.W., Admissions Coordinator, Social Worker
Food Services
Cynthia Guest, Director of Food Services
Housekeeping & Laundry
Omar Castano, Supervisor of Housekeeping & Laundry
Maintenance & Security
Igor Denisenko, Director of Maintenance & Security
From collage on page 6 - Top to bottom left to right:
Actors Fund Revlon Run/Walk team Los Angeles. Vicki Lewis performing in The Fund’s special event Falsettos.
Anne Jeffreys at The Actors Fund Tony Award Party. Auction winners visiting the set of “30 Rock”. Actors Fund
Revlon Run/Walk team New York. Martha Lavey of Steppenwolf and Fund President Brian Stokes Mitchell at
Medal of Honor presentation to Studs Terkel. Laura Benanti and Andrea McArdle before the Seth’s Broadway
101 event. Auction winners Mike Grodanz and Susan visited the set of All My Children, where they were hosted
by Emmy-winner Jacob Young. Alice Ripley, Mr. Blackwell and Emily Skinner at Musical Mondays event in
Los Angeles. Karen Morrow and Jerry Herman. Bruce Vilanch “Spins the Lucite” for raffle at The Actors Fund
Tony party.
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staff
Annual Report Credits
Design
Tina Benanav
Actors Fund Timeline by Donning
text & Research
Ina Clark
Jose Delgado
Judy Fish
Wally Munro
Megan Quinn
photography
Jay Brady
Bill Dow
Phil Mansfield
David Michaels
Jordan Strohl
Ben Strothman
rectors stagehands producers
ushersartists grips screenwriters
torsmusicians composerssingers
dancers hair & make up artists
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