Broadway stars Liz Callaway and Peter Gallagher are scheduled to lob and tee-off as celebrity chairpersons of the Actors Fund’s Jock Duncan Celebri-TEE Golf & Tennis Outing, which will take place July 31 at the Knickerbocker Country Club in Tenafly, New Jersey.
Attendees will join Golf Chair Gallagher (Guys and Dolls, Covert Affairs, On the 20th Century) and Tennis Chair Callaway (Cats, Baby, The Spitfire Grill)! for their respective summer sports to raise funds for The Actors Fund’s Lillian Booth Actors Home. Both performers are Tony Award nominees. The outing, now in its seventh year, is named for The Actors Fund’s former treasurer Jock Duncan, who served as a trustee for 13 years.
Now in its seventh year, the event raises funds for The Actors Fund’s Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey, the acclaimed assisted living and skilled nursing care facility for those who worked in performing arts and entertainment, and their immediate families. The outing is named for The Actors Fund’s former treasurer Jock Duncan, who served as a Fund trustee for 13 years.
Registration opens at 10 AM, followed by lunch and tee off at noon, tennis round robin at 2 PM, followed by a cocktail reception, charity auction, dinner and live performances.
“I’m proud to continue this annual tradition,” said Gallagher, a multi-year participant in the event. “It’s an honor to join our guests in giving back to The Actors Fund, an organization that provides so much care for our performing arts and entertainment community.”
The Knickerbocker Country Club is located at 188 Knickerbocker Road. Individual tickets for golf start at $500 and tennis at $300. Dinner reception only begins at $250. For more information on sponsorships and reservations, call (212) 221-7300, ext. 133 or visit actorsfund.org/Celebritee2017.
The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that offers help to anyone—performers and those behind the scenes—who works in performing arts and entertainment.
Callaway has also been a special guest performer on three of Playbill’s Broadway on the High Seas cruises. Cabins are available for Playbill’s Rhine River cruise in August 2017, featuring Seth Seth Rudetsky, Andréa Burns, Faith Prince, Terrence Mann, Charlotte d’Amboise, and Santino Fontana. Playbill Travel is now also booking Broadway on the Danube River for November 2017, with Carmen Cusack, Christopher Fitzgerald, Marc Kudisch, Julia Murney, Christopher Sieber, Brandon Uranowitz, and Rudetsky, as well as other exciting talent to be announced. Visit PlaybillTravel.com for booking and information.
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