AwardsDenzel Washington Honored at New Dramatists’ 2018 Spring Luncheon May 15The Tony and Oscar winner, back on Broadway this season in The Iceman Cometh, will receive the Distinguished Achievement Award.
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Andrew Gans
May 15, 2018
Denzel Washington
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Tony and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington is honored with the 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award at New Dramatists’ 69th Annual Spring Luncheon tribute May 15 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Washington returned to Broadway earlier this season in a revival of The Iceman Cometh at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The actor received a 2018 Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Eugene O'Neill classic.
"Mr. Washington has earned his career status through hard-work and excellence," said Emily Morse, artistic director of New Dramatists, in an earlier statement. "He's a professional actor who continues to pursue artistic and career challenges, like undertaking the plays of August Wilson, an alumnus of New Dramatists, and Eugene O'Neill, for example, and it's his fearless risk-taking that connects him to what the playwrights working at New Dramatists and the collaborators who support their processes seek every day."
Tributes to Washington and performances will be offered by three-time Grammy Award winner Branford Marsalis with bassist Noah Jackson, Tony winners George C. Wolfe and Stephen McKinley Henderson, Constanza Romero (August Wilson Estate), and Pulitzer Prize finalist and New Dramatists resident playwright Kristoffer Diaz (The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity).
Past luncheon honorees include Daryl Roth and Paula Vogel, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Susan Stroman, Seth Gelblum, Bernadette Peters, Roger Berlind, Julie Taymor, Horton Foote, Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Chita Rivera, Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Julie Andrews, Glenn Close, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, Jerry Herman, Terrence McNally, Barbara Cook, John Kander & Fred Ebb, August Wilson, and Gwen Verdon.
The luncheon begins at 11:15 AM with a champagne reception. Tickets are $350 (a portion of which is tax-deductible). For tickets, visit NewDramatists.org or call New Dramatists' Director of Development Tiffany Baran, (212) 757-6960, ext. 5472
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Celebrating Tony Award Winner Denzel Washington
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Arnold Wilkerson, Gilbert Lewis and Denzel Washington in the 1979 Players State Theatre production Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Denzel Washington and Kirk Kirksey in the 1981 New Federal Theatre production of When The Chickens Come Home To Roost.
Brent Jennings, Steven Anthony Jones, Eugene Lee, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, James Pickens and Peter Friedman in the 1981 Negro Ensemble Company production of A Soldier’s Play.
Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington, Peter Friedman and Cast in the 1981 Negro Ensemble Company production of A Soldier’s Play.
Denzel Washington and S. Epatha Merkerson in the 1984 National Black Touring Circuit production of Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone.
Paul Winfield, Ruby Dee, Denzel Washington and Marsha Jackson in the 1988 Broadway production Checkmates.
Paul Winfield, Ruby Dee, Marsha Jackson and Denzel Washington in the 1988 Broadway production Checkmates.
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Marsha Jackson and Denzel Washington in the 1988 Broadway production Checkmates.
Denzel Washington in the 1990 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Richard III.
Martha Swope
Sharon Washington and Denzel Washington in the 1990 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Richard III.
Denzel Washington in the 2005 Broadway production Julius Caesar.
Colm Feore, Denzel Washington, Jack Willis and Patrick Page in the 2005 Broadway production Julius Caesar.
Patrick Page, Richard Topol and Denzel Washington in the 2005 Broadway production Julius Caesar.
Denzel Washington and Stephen McKinley Henderson in Fences.
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Viola Davis and Denzel Washington in Fences.
Joan Marcus
Viola Davis, Chris Chalk, Denzel Washington and Mykelti Williamson in the 2010 Broadway production Fences.
Joan Marcus
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis holding their Tony Awards on June 13, 2010.
David Cromer, Bryce Kyle Jenkins, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Denzel Washington and Sophie Okonedo in the 2014 Broadway production A Raisin in the Sun.
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Denzel Washington and LaTanya Richardson Jackson in the 2014 Broadway production A Raisin in the Sun.
Sophie Okonedo, Denzel Washington and Anika Noni Rose in the 2014 Broadway production A Raisin in the Sun.
Denzel Washington and Sophie Okonedo in the 2014 Broadway production A Raisin in the Sun.
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Denzel Washington and Viola Davis
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Denzel Washington and Stephen McKinley Henderson
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Denzel Washington
Julieta Cervantes
Denzel Washington
Julieta Cervantes
Denzel Washington and the company
Michael Potts, Denzel Washington, and the company
Julieta Cervantes
Denzel Washington and the company
Julieta Cervantes
Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth
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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth
