Tisch Gala 2025

Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2025 Tisch Gala a successful evening! With your support, we raised more than $1.7 million in support of critical student needs. 

Whether you purchased a ticket or table, made a donation, or shared your time and talents, your encouragement is the foundation of our community. Your generosity enables us to continue offering a world-class arts education to our exceptionally talented students who will carry on the legacies of our wonderful honorees, Winnie Holzman and Daniel Dae Kim. 

Featured speakers included: Dean Allyson Green and NYU President Linda Mills; acelebrated alumni Billy Crudup and Karl Kensler; renowned actress Claire Danes; lauded actress, playwright and professor Anna Deavere Smith; and alumna, Tisch Dean's Council member, and NYU Trustee Sharon Chang. The night wouldn't have been complete without the captivating performances by our talented Tisch students from Drama, Graduate Acting, and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. And of course, the after-party with DJ TrX kept the celebration going! Thank you for making Allyson Green's last gala as Tisch dean such a special night.

If you'd like to make a donation in support of the Tisch Gala, you can still do so here.

TISCH GALA HONOREES

Gala Leadership Support

Presenting Partners ($100,000+)
Anonymous*
David R. Bernon '11 BFA, Bernon Family Charitable Foundation+
Ceci Chan
Preethi Krishna & Ram Sundaram+

Changemakers ($50,000 - $99,999)
Anonymous*
AC Hotel Marriott - San Jose Airport Belen
Wasserman Foundation+

Innovator ($25,000 - $49,999)
Sharon Chang ’95/’98+~
J.Crew
Napoleone Family~§+
Lizzie & Jonathan Tisch+

Trailblazers ($12,500 - $24,999)
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation+
Lynn Ann Casey & Rob O'Keefe*
Cathe Chiaramonte*
Alexandra Thomopoulos Colombos '93 WSC & Nicholas Colombos*
Tina & Steve Johnston*
Brian & Lisa Kessler+*
Sumner Roy Kates Charitable Trust
Suzanne & William M Lowe, Jr.*
Stefania & Mark Magidson+*
Shaiza Rizavi & Jonathan Friedland*
Genny & Klaus See-Tho*

$5,000 - $12,499
Liz Angelone & Dr. James R. Morris*
Frances & Steven Berman
Sandra & Tim Chen
Music Theatre International, Drew & Samantha Cohen
Nicole & Peter Dawes*
Brendan Fraser
Judge Elisabeth French & G. Courtney French, Esq.
Allyson Green & Peter Terezakis ’14
Waves of ABA Donna Judge MS ITDS L-BCBAe & Anthony Judge
Rob & Paige Olson 
Dr. Pedro A Serrano & Carmen Irene Bigles
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
Steve Taw*

$2,500 - $4,999
Norma Alvarez*
Yuki Arai '10 STN
Dr. and Mrs. Marco Caruso
Paul Dooley & Winnie Holzman '83
Sean & Molly Durkin*
The Giglia Family
Hongling & John Goslin
Alexandra Hsu '16
Blake Judge '22
Kyo Kasumi
David & Andrea Kinsley
Stephanie Lenzi & Eric Ewald*
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley D. Mock
Nakos Family
NYU Office of the Provost
Wendy & Joseph Perello
Lydia Pigott '25
Xixi & Jonathan Shakes*
Cheryl Snow
Sardarni Amrit Walia
Alexa Whiteside ’12

$1,000 - $2,499
Anonymous
Anonymous
Ladan Alavi Daneshmand
Jeff and Carole Barnard, Eating Establishment Park City Utah
Christine Barker '91 LAW & Claude Carlier
Marika Bernstein-Condos '04 SSSW
Caroline Bonwitt
Ethan Cheung
Adrian Grad '72
Qingmei Han '20
Kathy Izard
Jellinek Family*
Sean Manucha '23
Kenneth Ocasio '25
Shaurya Seth '23
Sara Ransford
Zhang Shizhuo '13
Brittany Stevenson ’05
Andrew I. Uriarte '96 CAS & Marc Parees '97/'11
Talia Wiesel

+ Tisch Dean’s Council
* Tisch Parents’ Council
~ NYU Board of Trustees
§ NYU President’s Global Council

List as of April 5, 2025

Special thanks to: