2024 ANNUAL BENEFIT

Workers Circle Presents

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2024

at the PRINCE GEORGE BALLROOM

MANHATTAN, NY ★ HONORING SHAINA TAUB

Shaina Taub

Shaina Taub is a two-time Tony Award-winning songwriter/performer, an artist-in-residence at The Public Theater, and a signed recording artist with Atlantic Records. She is currently starring in her musical Suffs on Broadway. For writing Suffs, she has won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Book, Best Score and Best Musical.

Shaina Taub

  • She created and performed in musical adaptations of Twelfth Night and the Obie Award-winning As You Like It with the Public Works community that have been produced by London’s National Theatre, the Young Vic, and hundreds more theaters worldwide. She performed Off-Broadway in Hadestown; Great Comet (Lortel nom.); and Old Hats, which featured her songs. She wrote the lyrics for The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Sir Elton John, opening in the West End this year. She’s released three solo albums, and has a longstanding concert residency at Joe’s Pub. Television songwriting: “Sesame Street,” “Central Park” and the Emmy-nominated opening number for the 2018 Tonys, co-written with Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. She received the Michael Friedman Freedom Award for activism as co-chair of NYCLU’s Artist Ambassadors.

    www.shainataub.com

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GOLD SPONSORS

  • Robert and Marcia Kaplan

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

  • Mark Slutsky

BRONZE SPONSORS

  • Rich Rumelt

2024 ANNUAL Benefit Host Committee

Stacey Weinstein

  • Jesse Eisenberg is an Academy Award nominated actor and playwright. His new movie, A Real Pain, which he wrote, directed, and acted in follows Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as estranged cousins who join a Holocaust tour in Poland. 

  • Matt Gehring is a director, educator, and comedy creator. Noteworthy productions include Harry Clarke featuring Billy Crudup, written by David Cale (Berkeley Rep, assistant director to Leigh Silverman), and Pop Roulette’s Amazing Earth featuring SNL’s Bowen Yang at Amy Pohler’s Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater. Matt has garnered recognition for his character comedy at the New Faces showcase, part of the Montreal Just For Laughs festival, and featured in Amazon’s The Tick, Netflix’s Set It Up,and more. He is also the co-creator and leader of the Comedy Artist Makers Program (CAMP), a groundbreaking residency program for comedians at the Obie-winning theater company Ars Nova.

  • Jessica Hecht is an accomplished stage actress and appeared most recently in Summer, 1976 opposite Laura Linney (Tony Nomination). Hecht's Broadway credits include The Price opposite Mark Ruffalo, Fiddler on the Roof opposite Danny Burstein, The Assembled Parties opposite Judith Light, Harvey opposite Jim Parsons, After the Fall opposite Carla Gugino, The Last Night at Ballyhoo opposite Dana Ivey and Paul Rudd, Brighton Beach Memoirs opposite Laurie Metcalf, Julius Caesar opposite Denzel Washington, A View from the Bridge opposite Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson (Tony Nomination) Off-Broadway, she has appeared in King Lear opposite Annette Bening, Stage Kiss opposite Sandra Oh, Three Sisters opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal and at Lincoln Center Theater in Admissions for which she received an Obie Award.

    She received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance in the Netflix series SPECIAL. She is known to TV audiences for THE SINNER, DICKINSON, THE BOYS, and TOKYO VICE She is also recognizable to television audiences from FRIENDS and BREAKING BAD.

    She has just completed filming Eleanor The Great opposite June Squibb (Scarlett Johnasson's directorial debut !)

    In 2017, she founded The Campfire Project, an arts-based wellness program that engages refugees in shelters worldwide. July marked their first NYC in collaboration with Project Rousseau and The Worker's Circle. It was a great success and that collaboration continues.

  • Catherine Markowitz is a TONY award-winning producer and the director of Broadway Votes. Broadway producing credits include: Suffs (Tony Nomination), Just for Us, Parade (Tony Award), What the Constitution Mean to Me (Tony Nomination). In 2024, she co-founded Broadway Votes, a nonpartisan initiative dedicated to promoting voter engagement and participation within the Broadway community and its national audiences. 

  • Stacey Weinstein, the principal artist and founder of Once Upon A Bride was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2014 for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling on “Bethenny”. Stacey’s work includes celebrity weddings for Robert Downey Jr., New York Jets’ D’Brickashaw Ferguson, and Tony-winning choreographer Kathleen Marshall. Stacey has appeared on “Entertainment Tonight”, “My Fair Wedding”, “The Knot LIVE”, and “Get Married”. She’s been featured in InStyle Weddings, New York magazine’s Weddings, and styled covers for People, Glamour, and Forbes. She also worked in The View from 1998 to 2004. Once Upon a Bride is based at Stacey’s full-service NYC salon Loft 26.