Upcoming Events
Breakfast with Mugabe, Special Performance, NYC, 10/06
Snow Geese, Producer’s Picks, NYC, 10/15 and 10/16
Nothing Like a Dame – Lorna’s Pink Party, NYC, SOLD OUT!
Signing Event with Rosa Lladro, NYC, 10/23
Lladro Commemorative Exhibition and Signing Event, Beverly Hills, 10/24
Actors Fund Community Arts Festival, Brooklyn, 10/25 - 10/27
Kinky Boots, Special Performance, NYC, 11/03
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Special Report—LA Creates: Supporting the Creative Economy of Los Angeles
 Western Region Director Keith McNutt just released a report entitled LA CREATES: Supporting the Creative Economy of Los Angeles funded by his Stanton Fellowship from the Durfee Foundation. The fellowship allowed Keith to interview thought leaders from Los Angeles, across the US and Europe, and a national consulting firm specializing in creative economy support. It includes recommendations for how LA city and county governments can better support the creative economy, as well as for the future structure and goals of LA’s “Creative Economy Convergence,” a voluntary coalition from academia and public policy, non-profit arts, for profit creative businesses (including entertainment unions and guilds), philanthropy and government. Visit www.actorsfund.org/LACreates to access your free online copy of the report.
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Downtown Brooklyn Gets Even Hipper
Join us in celebrating the exciting role that The Actors Fund Arts Center (AFAC) has come to play in Downtown Brooklyn! The Festival, all taking place at The Schermerhorn’s beautiful state-of-the-art black box performance venue, welcomes back artists who have performed at AFAC in the past, and introduces exciting new work from emerging artists! From October 25 – 27. Click for details and to purchase tickets.
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10 Facts About Health Care Reform From The Artists Health Insurance Resource Center
The Actors Fund’s Artists Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC) knows about healthy artists. They’ve been connecting people in visual and performing arts and the entertainment industry around the country to health insurance and affordable health care since 1998. With the advent of Health Care Reform, we’ll all need to be insured. AHIRC is here to help our Creative Community sort through the details, and point out relevant facts to help navigate the process! Facts such as…. Read more on our Blog.
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Thank You Jeff Bolton & Neuberger Berman: A Copacabana Celebration
 In early September, The Actors Fund and Neuberger Berman took over the historic Copacabana (now in Times Square!) to celebrate longtime Trustee Jeffrey Bolton. The event raised $250,000 thanks to gifts from Jeff’s many colleagues and clients, and was hosted by our very own Chairman Brian Stokes Mitchell. The evening also featured a video tribute narrated by Bebe Neuwirth, a performance by Anthony Nunziata and wonderful stories from Jeff's longtime friend, Elliott Gould. Thank you, Jeff Bolton! Read more on our Blog.
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 Producer’s Picks in Los Angeles
Western Council members, donors, staff and friends of The Actors Fund enjoyed not one but two Producer’s Picks from the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles last week—Neil Simon's hit comedy Sunshine Boys with Danny Devito and Judd Hirsch at the Ahmanson Theatre and Humor Abuse, the Obie Award-winning one man show at the Mark Taper Forum about growing up in the circus. Many thanks to the Center Theatre Group and our donors for these benefit nights! Join The Actors Fund for access to house seats, as well as these and other great events.
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Lady Day Gives Back to WBGO and The Fund
A recent benefit performance of Lady Day: The Billie Holliday Musical, starred the amazing Dee Dee Bridgewater, and included a pre-show reception (pictured above are Fund CEO Joe Benincasa, Special Guest Jessye Norman and WBGO Acting President Amy Niles) and post-show talk-back with Dee Dee and the whole cast! Thanks for an incredibly successful night! View photos.
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 Rogers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella Special Performance
The company’s September 29 benefit raised much needed funds to help those in need! Tony Award winning star Harriet Harris gave a beautiful curtain speech to thank the audience for coming. Join us soon for one of these very special nights! Watch the curtain speech.
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 On the Town with Young Professionals
Our Young Professionals group is growing by leaps and bounds! Our group gathered for cocktails before the Special Performance of Cinderella this past Sunday, and on Monday they took the Big Quiz Thing challenge at the Cutting Room. To be a part of this social community of performing arts enthusiasts visit www.actorsfund.org/YP today! View photos on Facebook. |
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2012 Annual Report
