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Featuring Honored Guest Speaker: Kristin Chenoweth
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Featuring Honored Guest Speaker: J. Harrison Ghee
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2024
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2025
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Emmy® and Tony® Award winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth’s career spans film, television, voice-over and stage. In 2015, Chenoweth received a coveted star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, she received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in “Pushing Daisies.” In 1999, she won a Tony Award for “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” and she was nominated for her original role of Glinda the Good Witch in “Wicked” in 2004. Chenoweth was nominated for two Emmy Awards for her role on “Glee.”
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Tony Award and Grammy Award winner J. Harrison Ghee made history as the first nonbinary actor to win in a leading individual performance category for creating the role as “Daphne/Jerry” in SOME LIKE IT HOT, which also garnered them Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. Also on Broadway, Ghee starred as “Lola” in KINKY BOOTS, created the role of “Andre Mayhem” in MRS. DOUBTFIRE and co-starred opposite Harry Connick, Jr. as “Johnny Hooker” in THE STING. Ghee captured audiences as “The Lady Chablis” in the musical premiere of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL.
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Featuring Honored Keynote: Ali Stroker
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Featuring Honored Keynote: Brian Stokes Mitchell
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(2019 Tony Award winner for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as ‘Ado Annie’ in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!)
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(Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee, Co-Founder of Black Theatre United, Contributor to the Actors Fund.)
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Featuring Honored Keynote: Dominique Morisseau
2021(Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18, and a recent MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow)
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Featuring Honored Keynote: Gavin Creel
2019(Tony-Award winner: Hello Dolly, Star of Broadway's Book of Mormon,
Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie and more) |
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Featuring Honored Keynote: Jessica Hecht
2018(Star of Broadway's The Price, Fiddler on the Roof and more.
Television's Friends, Breaking Bad) |
Featuring Honored Keynotes: Terrence McNally and Tom Kirdahy
2017(Four-Time Tony Award Winning Playwright and Five-Time Tony Nominated Producer)
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Featuring Honored Keynote: Jeanine Tesori
2016(Multiple Tony-award winning Broadway Composer)
Featuring Honored Keynotes: Sheryl Kaller and Tom Kirdahy
2014(Tony nominated Broadway Director and Multiple Tony-award winning Broadway Producer)
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Featuring Honored Keynote: Anna Deveare Smith
2015(Actress, playwright, activist)
Featuring Honored Keynote: Joe Norton
2013(Past Director of Education and Outreach Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS)
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