The Plaza Hotel is the location for the ATW fundraiser. A surprise vocal artist will perform.
Stringer has been chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation since June 2005. In 2009, he also became its president. He is also a Representative Corporate Officer of Sony Corporation. Additionally, Stringer serves as chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation of America, as well as corporate head of Sony Corporation's Entertainment Business Group. He is a member of the board of directors of Sony Corporation and of Sony Music Entertainment, and oversees Sony's other music-related holdings in the U.S. He is also chairman of the board of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, a 50/50 joint venture of Sony Corporation and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. Prior to joining Sony in 1997, Stringer had a distinguished 30-year career as a journalist, producer and executive at CBS Inc. He earned nine individual Emmys as a writer, director and producer at CBS News from 1973 to 1983. A native of Cardiff, Wales, he received the title of Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Dec. 31, 1999.
Also expected at the gala are James Naughton, Colin Donnell, Marilu Henner, gala co-chairmen Theodore S. Chapin, Marva A. Smalls, honoree Sir Howard Stringer, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Judith Light, Lucie Arnaz, Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi, Jane and Morley Safer, Jim Dale, William Ivey Long, Susan Fales-Hill, Mario Buatta, Ted Hartley, Dina Merrill, Melissa and Chappy Morris and Susan Patricoff.
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Best known for creating the Antoinette Perry Tony Awards, the American Theatre Wing is "dedicated to celebrating excellence and supporting education in the theatre." ATW "has been an integral and influential part of the theatrical community for the better part of seven decades. Adapting its activities for each successive theatrical generation, ATW focuses today on programs and activities which help students, audiences and members of the theatrical community itself to learn more about what makes theatre tick from the people who make it so vital." ATW's "reach extends beyond Broadway and beyond New York, with educational and media work that offers the very best in theatre to people around the world."
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