Made in NY Awards announces the opening honors of the theater, including Lachanze
Exclusive: The honorees were announced from the first private theater in New York City at NY Awards by the mayor’s office for media and entertainment: performer and product Lachanze, EXC Ken Sunshine, St. Ann Warehouse Foundation, technical director Susan Feldman and Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck Will Gracie Mansemony.
The next award ceremony is the first designer to honor individuals and institutions who have made great contributions to the theater and direct performance in New York City. Mayor Eric Adams, media and entertainment commissioner Pat Sweeini Kaufman will host the ceremony.
Adams said in a statement: “Whether you are excited while waiting for your big break, a famous actress at the top of your game, or the theater lovers for a long time, watched every show, the scene of the arts and city of New York is unparalleled,” Adams said in a statement. “This is the place where the barriers were broken, the stars were born, and generations were inspired. With this new award ceremony, we will honor this legacy and the people who helped build it.”
“The contributions of these honorees are widespread, from performance to education to custody to promotion, and we look forward to the moment when we can collect artists, officials and community leaders in this industry together to spend a special night,” Kaufman said.
Prizes were created by the Mayor’s Office for Media and Entertainment in 2006 to learn about contributions to the film, television and digital media industries in the city. While people in the theater won the award before-including John Leguzamo and Odra McDonald and Line Manuel Miranda, among others-the latest group of honorees is the first to fully consist of direct performance.
The September 15 party will also include Gracie Mansion Perhaps a happy end and Hell Kitchen. Musicians are participating in the shares of musicians in Broadway, which aims to support the historically represented musicians in Broadway, with opportunities for access, learning and resources in playing in the music theater industry.
Here is more information about the honorees:
- Lachanze He is a Tony Prize -winning representative, a Tony Prize -winning producer and gets nearly 40 years of experience in Broadway. The credits produced for it in Broadway include Strangers, Topdog/Underdog, Kimberly Akimbo, here is love, gaga hair cavity, Boina Vista Social Club and very. As an actor, Lachanze played the starring role in Purple, once on this island, is a problem, summer: Summer music, Donna, then/then, and Carol ChristmasAmong other things. She is the head of the Black Theater United, a defense organization devoted to protecting black bodies, black talent and black life inside and outside our stages;
- Suzan Feldman He is the founder and technical director of the St. Ann warehouse, and the famous showcraft company. Feldman built a profession of converting spaces found to cultural destinations, and led the tobacco warehouse before the beloved war to Saint -An permanent home. In the first years of St. Ann Church, Susan grew up as cooperation like John Cal, Lu Reed Derilla songs, If you want Berlin; Comedies: A group in Berlin; And historical parties before Marian Vethavol and Jeff Buckley With the music producer Hull Wilner. In the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn since 2000, Saint -An has presented the British National Theater (People, places and things), Scotland National Theater (Blackwatch), Among other things.
- Ken Sun Shine Ken Sunshine Consultans was founded in 1991, later to become Sunshine Sachs and then Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Laylis (SSM & L) in 2022. Over the past three decades, the company has represented customers ranging from leading companies, non -profit organizations, unions and social organizations. Sunshine is currently working on the Board of Trustees of the City University in New York, the foreign and legislative committees and the cultural property work team at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and the Public Theater. He is a co -chair of the mayor’s theater industry/live performance industry and is a member of a vote at the Academy of Arts and Motion Sciences;
- Patricia Deljado She was a major dancer in Miami City Ballet, where she worked for 20 years and is currently an independent artist who lives in New York City and a member of the Gilliard School College. Delgado performed the work of George Palnchene, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, among other things, and created distinguished works with Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Liam Scarlett and Pam Tanowitz, and more, and she was a participant producer in Roldway Revival 2020 of Of of The Western side story Dancing designer linked to the feature film Western side story It was directed by Stephen Spielberg. Deljado is currently designed in Boina Vista Social Club In Broadway, the Lusail Lortel 2024 Award, the Chita Rivera 2025 Award, and the Tony 2025 Award for Excellence Dancing Design. She is married to her colleague, dance designer and participant in Justin Beck;
- Justin Beck He is a director, dance designer, film director, dancer -based New York City. He is a ballet -based dance designer in New York City, and he is only the second person in the history of the 75 -year -old institution. He developed and created more than 50 dance and theater works presented in stages around the world, including Lincoln Center, Palais Garnier, Sydney Opera House, BroKlyn Academy of Music and Broadway. He designed the 2021 movie Western side story In cooperation with director Stephen Spielberg; And danced with the ballet in New York City from 2006-2019, in the end, he achieved the rank of single player in 2013. Carosil (2018), Illinois (2024) and Boina Vista Social Club (2025). He is married to a colleague of dance designer and participant in Honoria Patricia Deljado.