Tony Award winner Michael Mayer is the special guest director of Trevor Live, which features appearances by "Smash" star Debra Messing, The Best Man's Eric McCormack, Anthony Rapp (Rent), news anchor Thomas Roberts and Tony nominee Stanley Tucci (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune). Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff and their band, fun., headline the event.

The evening, which features a two-hour performance beginning at 8 PM, honors Renae Cartwright and Jeremiah Beaverly with the Colin Higgins Youth Courage Award and MTV with the Trevor 2020 Award. Sarandon, who has been seen on Broadway in Exit the King and An Evening with Richard Nixon and..., is this year's recipient of the annual Trevor Hero Award.

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. For more information, visit TheTrevorProject.org.

Director Mayer won the Tony Award in 2007 for Spring Awakening and was nominated for his work on Thoroughly Modern Millie; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and A View From the Bridge. His other Broadway credits include Triumph of Love, Side Man, Uncle Vanya and the 2011 revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, among others. For more on his theatrical history, visit the Playbill Vault.

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