Playwright development laboratory New Dramatists honored Redwood co-creators Tina Landau and Idina Menzel at its annual spring luncheon May 27 at the New York Marriott Marquis, and the stars came out to support. Among those in attendance were 2025 Tony nominees Nicole Scherzinger, Cole Escola, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Darren Criss, Kara Young, Megan Hilty, James Monroe Iglehart, and Jasmine Amy Rogers; along with Phylicia Rashad, Jay O. Sanders, and Stephen Schwartz.
Attendees also included 2025 Tony nominees Will Aronson, Kimberly Belflower, Camille A. Brown, Jeb Brown, Danny Burstein, Noel Carey, David Cromer, David Cumming, Erik Della Penna, Andrew Durand, Gabriel Ebert, Tom Francis, Christopher Gattelli, Jonathan Groff, Palmer Hefferan, Jon Michael Hill, Natasha Hodgson, David Henry Hwang, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Francis Jue, Julia Knitel, Harry Lennix, Jak Malone, Julia Mattison, Louis McCartney, Itamar Moses, Marjan Neshat, Hue Park, Holly Pierson, Sam Pinkleton, Conrad Ricamora, Fina Strazza, Danya Taymor, Sanaz Toossi, Justin Townsend, Joy Woods, and David Yazbek, along with Robert E. Wankel, David Stone, Marc Platt, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Emily Morse, Christie Brown, Alana Arenas, Jacqueline B. Arnold, Tala Ashe, John Behlmann, Marcus Choi, Chuck Cooper, Jim Dale, Glenn Davis, Dez Duron, Casey Garvin, Claire-Marie Hall, Mylinda Hull, Mara Isaacs, Lencia Kebede, Tom Kirdahy, Tom Kitt, LaChanze, Bianca Leigh, Tony Macht, Lesli Margherita, Ken Marks, Nicholas Matos, Kevin McCollum, Kristine Nielsen, Zachary Noah Piser, Maryann Plunkett, Krysta Rodriguez, Janet Rosen, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Kevin Ryan, Diane Scott Carter, Thom Sesma, Helen J Shen, Christopher Sieber, Thomas Swayne, Jeanine Tesori, David Thaxton, Lili Thomas, Lia Vollack, and Grace Hodgett-Young.
Go inside the starry event in the photo gallery below.
Also honored at the event was The Shubert Foundation, receiving the Isobel Konecky Award for serving the field with passion, dedication, excellence, and leadership.
Redwood was co-conceived by Landau and Menzel, with Landau also directing, writing the book, and co-writing the lyrics (with composer Kate Diaz); and Menzel starring. The musical played its final performance at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre May 18.
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Stephen Schwartz
Tina Landau and Idina Menzel
Nicole Scherzinger
Jonathan Groff
Cole Escola
Emily Mann, Chrisie Brown, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tina Landau, Idina Menzel, David Stone, Abbie Von Nostrand
Darren Criss
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Phylicia Rashad
Idina Menzel and Tina Landau
Tom Francis
Zachary Noah Piser
Idina Menzel
Glenn Davis, Alana Arenas, Tina Landau, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Kara Young, and John Michael Hill
Jonathan Groff, Emily Mann, and Idina Menzel
Tom Francis and Nicole Scherzinger
Tina Landau
