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Board member Christopher Lawrence & NYC Councilmember Jessica Lapin

Board member Christopher Lawrence & NYC Councilmember Jessica Lapin

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Institutional Support

Donations from foundations, corporations and government agencies provide essential support for Playwrights Horizons' activities, including productions, play development, audience access programs and professional theater training for young arts professionals. Institutional supporters of Playwrights Horizons receive many benefits, such as complimentary tickets, discounts for employees and public recognition.

For more information, please contact Susan Ferziger, Manager of Institutional Giving, at (212) 564-1235 x3142 or by email at sferziger@phnyc.org.

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Playwrights was welcoming and supportive and careful to protect me as I wrote. I wrote a play I might not have written, had I not the time [their] money bought me. Most importantly, it reminded me that I am being supported in New York.

—- Adam Bock, recipient of a Playwrights Horizons Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust commission

Special thanks to the following foundations, corporations, government agencies and elected officials for their extraordinary support of Playwrights Horizons:

HEROES ($100,000+)

Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
New York City Council at the request of Council Member Domenic M. Recchia
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Time Warner Foundation

CHAMPIONS ($25,000 – $99,999)

American Airlines
Citi
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation
The Ralph & Ricky Lauren Foundation, Inc.
The Richenthal Foundation
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Taconic Capital Advisors

LEADERS ($10,000 – $24,999)

Acadia Realty Trust
Broadway Across America
CBS Corporation
Con Edison
Condè Nast
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Edgerton Foundation
Goldman Sachs
The Marc Haas Foundation
HBO
Horizon Media Inc.
The Hyde and Watson Foundation
Jerome Foundation
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
NBC Universal
Newmark Holdings
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Scherman Foundation
Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc.
The Evelyn Sharp Foundation
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sony Corporation of America
Tiger Baron Foundation
Tishman Speyer
Travelers
Walt Disney Company

PARTNERS ($5,000 – $9,999)

The Frances Alexander Foundation
Axe-Houghton Foundation
AWOL Project, Inc.
The Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc.
BWF Foundation
The Carter Fund
Centerbridge Partners
The Durst Organization
The John Golden Fund
The Carl Jacobs Foundation
Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation
Leon Levy Foundation
Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation
The Liman Foundation
Limited Brands Foundation
The Lawrence E. Madison Charitable Lead Trust
The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater
Tony Randall Theatrical Fund
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Inc.
Theatre Development Fund
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc.
The Winston Foundation

Benefactors ($2,500 – $4,999)

Abernathy MacGregor Group
Akerman Senterfitt LLP
Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation
Dramatists Play Service
The Ferriday Fund
The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Dorothy Loudon Foundation/Lionel Larner
The Media Foundation
The Northern Trust Company
Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation
The Spiritus Gladius Foundation
Sweet Concessions

DONORS ($500 –$2,499)

321 Theatrical Management
Abrams Artists Agency
Actors’ Equity Foundation
AKRF, Inc.
Allied/CMS, Inc.
Arts and Business Council
BMI
The Betsy and Alan Cohn Foundation, Inc.
The Brodsky Organization
Cabana Cachaca
Chez Josephine
Cosentini Associates
Creative Artists Agency
DeWitt Stern Group
Dramatists Guild Fund
The Friars Foundation
The Gersh Agency New York Inc.
Naomi Glaser/Valera Global Car Service
The Barbara Goldsmith Foundation
Eugene and Emily Grant Family Foundation
The Agnes Gund Foundation
Levine Plotkin & Menin LLP
Frederick Loewe Foundation
Lucille Lortel Foundation
Lutz & Carr, CPA’s LLP
The Edith Meiser Foundation
The Mirapaul Foundation
Paradigm
Schreck, Rose, Dapello & Adams LLP
SLCE Architects
Sulzberger Foundation Marian Heiskell Giving Fund
Tyco International, Ltd.
Viacom
West Bank Café
William Morris Endeavor

Playwrights Horizons is a recipient of support from The Leading National Theaters Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Government Support

National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York City Council at the request of Councilmember Domenic M. Recchia
New York State Council on the Arts
Office of the Manhattan Borough President, Scott M. Stringer

List current as of February 1, 2013. Includes supporters of the Annual Gala Benefit

Photo (1) Playwrights Horizons' Board member Christopher Lawrence and New York City Council member Jessica Lappin by Leo Sorel.

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