The Actors Fund’s
Annual Gala,
held on Monday,
May 23, 2011 at the Marriott
Marquis, honored Tony and Emmy
Award winning actress and
current star of “The Addams
Family,” Bebe Neuwirth
(“Chicago,” “Sweet Charity,”
“Cheers,” “Frasier”); Tony, Emmy
and Academy Award winning actor
Al Pacino (“The Godfather: Parts
I, II and III,” “Scent of a
Woman,” HBO’s “Angels in
America” and “You Don’t Know
Jack,” “The Merchant of
Venice”), and Vice President,
Market General Manager for New
York City’s Marriott &
Renaissance Hotels Michael J.
Stengel, as the New York
Marriott Marquis celebrates its
25th anniversary of commitment
to Broadway and Times Square.
Neuwirth was recognized for her
12 years of services as a
trustee of The Actors Fund, and
the founder of The Dancers’
Resource—a program of The Actors
Fund aimed at relieving the
particular emotional and
physical challenges faced by
dancers. Both Neuwirth and
Stengel will receive The Actors
Fund Medal of Honor, and Pacino
will receive the Lee Strasberg
Artistic Achievement Award.
The Actors Fund is a national
human services organization that
helps everyone—performers and
those behind the scenes—who
works in performing arts and
entertainment, helping more than
12,000 people directly each
year, and hundreds of thousands
online. Serving professionals in
film, theatre, television,
music, opera, radio and dance,
The Fund’s programs include
social services and emergency
assistance, health care and
insurance, housing, and
employment and training
services. With offices in New
York, Los Angeles and Chicago,
The Actors Fund has—for nearly
130 years—been a safety net for
those in need, crisis or
transition.
In attendance
were previous Actors Fund Medal
of Honor Recipients and honorees
Alec Baldwin, Annette Beninng,
Jonathan Tisch, Stewart F. Lane
and Bonnie Comley.