First gala in new St. Ann’s Warehouse honors collaborators, raises $650K
St. Ann’s Warehouse presented its 2015 gala “Lights Up,” in the organization’s highly anticipated, nearly complete new theater at the historic waterfront Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Tuesday.
The event, which raised $650,000, honored artists Steven Hoggett, John Tiffany and Enda Walsh, who have made St. Ann’s Warehouse their American artistic home since 2007. The honored artists have produced works such as the National Theatre of Scotland’s “Black Watch” and Druid Ireland’s “The Walworth Farce,” and more recent hits including Walsh’s “Misterman” and this season’s “Let the Right One In,” directed by Tiffany with Hoggett as associate director / movement.
Add the Best Musical Tony-winner “Once,” by all three artists, and Tiffany and Hoggett’s Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie,” and Hoggett, Tiffany and Walsh have entered the ranks of New York’s — and the world’s — most beloved theater-makers. Through decades of collaborations with these and other innovators, St. Ann’s has established itself as an indispensable force on the New York and international cultural landscapes.