V2-19-Program.indd 1 4/10/18 9:47 AM HONORING EDDY Moretti ’98 Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Cinema Studies Chris Columbus ’80 Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Undergraduate Film & Television & eleanor Columbus ’11 Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Undergraduate Film & Television With the Big Apple Awards for Artistic Achievement 3 V2-19-Program.indd 2-3 4/10/18 9:47 AM Honorary Chair Martin Scorsese ’64/’68/Hon. ’92 Tisch Gala 2018 Chairs Hilaria ’05/’08 & Alec Baldwin ’94/Hon. ’10 OPENING SET cLIVE house band and Dean “Who We Are” Allyson Green Written and performed by Austin Crute ’18 Present Welcome Dean Allyson Green Honoring Eddy Moretti ’98 Presented by Ana Lily Amirpour a Performance from Swing Cast of Swing, Department of Drama Director Sam Scalamoni Dinner is served. Coordinating Producer ANNA FRANGOS Honoring Chris Columbus ’80 and Production Supervisor Eleanor Columbus ’11 Jeffrey M. Markowitz Presented by Alec Baldwin ’94/Hon. ’10 Associate Producers Jessica Mantell ’14 & Cindy Sideris ’17 “Still I Will Love” Scenic & Decor Designer from Public Works’ As You Like It Andy Yanni ’08 Shaina Taub ’09 with student and alumni performers from the Department of Drama Lighting Designer Brian Nason ’86 Dessert is served. Video/Projection Designer Andrew Lazarow The party continues after the show upstairs at CLUB TISCH. Graphic Designer Joshua Sanchez 5 V2-19-Program.indd 4-5 4/10/18 9:47 AM To Our Friends, Dear Friends, Welcome to the NYU Tisch School of the On behalf of the NYU community, I am Arts Gala! We come together this delighted to welcome you to a most evening to pay tribute to three special evening: the 2018 Tisch School extraordinary alumni and to celebrate the of the Arts Gala. power of the arts in this beautiful downtown location. We are all grateful Tonight we celebrate three notable for an evening of gratitude and joy! alumni, Chris Columbus, Eleanor Columbus, and Eddy Moretti. Together, We honor Eddy Moretti, the trailblazing they represent NYU Tisch’s extraordinary Cinema Studies alumnus with a career as depth and range: In careers spanning a writer, director, producer, and creative four decades, their influence extends executive, who believes the Tisch School from producing to screenwriting to of the Arts changed his life. As a student, directing, from the small screen to the he studied with Professor Emeritus big screen, from box-office hits to Annette Michelson. Their bond was so independent films to documentaries. deep that Eddy has endowed a scholarship in her name to guarantee We also celebrate the Tisch School of the that cinema scholars can follow in his Arts, one of the world’s leading footsteps. institutions for the training of artists, scholars of the arts, and creative For the first time in our history, we are honoring a father-daughter duo. entrepreneurs. Your support is indispensable to NYU Tisch’s mission of Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus, both alumni of the Maurice nurturing the next generation of artists and performers. We are so happy Kanbar Institute’s Undergrad Film & Television program, have a unique that you are part of the Tisch School of the Arts family. Thank you! partnership. With their shared love of film, they influence one another as they create, promote, and celebrate fresh and exciting work. Chris and Sincerely, Eleanor also understand the importance of supporting the next generation of storytellers by funding scholarships and production awards at our school. Thank you so much to the gala committee, our hosts, generous donors, and Andrew D. Hamilton to all of you for making this evening so special. Your belief in our mission of education in the arts, and your support of our community is transformative for current and future generations. With your generosity, we are able to support the critical needs of our students who have the dream to create. We need these storytellers and innovators today! YOU are supporting the next outstanding film-and image-makers, performing artists, coders, producers, scholars, and entrepreneurs who will shape our world and lead their fields. We are grateful to you, and we are proudly optimistic about a bright future. Thank you! Allyson Green Dean, Tisch School of the Arts 6 7 V2-19-Program.indd 6-7 4/10/18 9:47 AM Mary & Brian Katz 2018 GALA SUPPORTERS Lisa & Brian Kessler GALA HOST COMMITTEE Bonnie Comley & Stewart Lane Alexandra & Scot Ackerman Terri & Joe Long Stefania & Mark Magidson Jillian Manus ’84 Tracy Stein & Marco Masotti Betty Ann Caravella & Kevin Morris Pat & Walter Moore Noela & Dimitris Nakos NBCUniversal GALA SUPPORTERS Lisa & Charlie Palmer Award Winners' Circle Reta & Briggs Peery Anonymous Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Jack Rapke ’74 Presenting Partners Toni Ross Preethi Krishna & Ram Sundaram Genny & Klaus See-Tho Anne & Mark Stewart Angels Beth & Matthew Sennett The Alec Baldwin Foundation, Inc. Allyson Green & Peter Terezakis ’14 The Columbus Family Warner Bros. Pictures Marsha Garces Williams Producers Ronna & Steve Zoll Alexandra & Scot Ackerman Stefania & Mark Magidson Patrons Tracy Stein & Marco Masotti Available Light of New York Pat & Walter Moore Michele & Brian Barnett Myriam Benhamou Directors Tamara & Brad Bernstein Sharon Chang ’98 Muriel Boreham Jonathan Cohen ’13 Keith Funger/Funger Foundation Inc. Keri Craig-Lee Svetlana Goderstad Jennifer & Michael Freitag Alison & Jonathan Green Eddy Moretti ’98 David Javerbaum ’95 Randi & Dennis Riese Rise Johnson Lisa Shalett & Rhonda Kaufman, M.D. Tracy & Rocky Lai Ann & Andrew Tisch Margo Lion Lizzie & Jonathan Tisch Amanda Lipitz ’02 Richard Vague Ed Martino Kathleen & Charles Van Horn Michaels Family Foundation Todd Thurman & Jeff Miller Benefactors Dawn & Salar Mirran Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Neuman’s Kitchen Catering & Events Colin Callender Jane & Tom Nitti Romy & David Cohen Stephanie & Nicholas Osborne Michelle & Shane Coppola Peter Rosenberg Rosemarie & Joe DiLorenzo Henry S. Schleiff Stacey & Fernando Donayre Jeffrey Squires Lisa & Brian Enslow Debora Rodriguez & Terry Theologides Tim Herlihy ’88/’92 Michael Thomas Renee A. Richards & John H. Hill Jephtha Tausig & Alexandre Valcic Eve & Ross Jaffe Lena & Rob Gelenberg Carol & Benjamin Greenspan Lists in formation at time of printing. 8 9 V2-19-Program.indd 8-9 4/10/18 9:47 AM ADDITIONAL 2018 GALA SUPPORTERS Benefactors Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall Bonnie & Eugene Kornota Louis Quartararo M.D. Jillian & Jeremy Temkin Michael Thomas Michael Zaoui Patrons Lisa & Cary Amann Elizabeth & Douglas Dickinson Michael Duggan Paula & Jonathan Gordon Joseph Heinen Steven Sampson Monique Barbour & Robert Victome Lists in formation at time of printing. HONOREES The Witch, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews. Also in 2015, Maiden Voyage produced Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, a feature based on the Venice Film Festival CHRIS COLUMBUS ’80 short A Chjana, that premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. In For over twenty-five years, Academy 2016 they released Sian Heder’s Tallulah. Maiden Voyage’s Patti Cake$ Award® nominated-filmmaker Chris became the breakout star of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, finally Columbus has written, directed, and selling to Fox Searchlight after a heated bidding war. produced some of the industry’s most successful box-office hits. Columbus is also a New York Times best-selling ELEANOR COLUMBUS ’11 author. His novel, House of Secrets, the first iteration of an epic new fantasy Eleanor Columbus, a 2011 graduate series, was published in April 2013 to of the Tisch School of the Arts at rave reviews and quickly rose to the top New York University, formed Maiden of the charts. Voyage Pictures in 2013. Columbus is the masterful filmmaker Columbus was born in New York City behind the film adaptations for Harry and raised mostly in San Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Francisco, CA. Prior to running Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; the Maiden Voyage, Columbus worked 2005 screen adaptation of the Pulitzer on several independent features in Prize-winning Broadway musical, RENT; Manhattan, and worked as an and films Stepmom; Nine Months; Mrs. Doubtfire; Only the Lonely based assistant to Peter Glanz and Neda on his original screenplay; Home Alone; and Home Alone 2: Lost In New Armian in New York, rounding out York. His credits as producer include the blockbuster hit The Help, as her early education of filmmaking well as the highly successful family/adventure comedy Night at the gathered from growing up on the Museum and its two sequels, Night at the Museum: Battle of the sets of her father—writer, director, Smithsonian and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, all released and producer Chris Columbus. As under his 1492 Pictures banner. the oldest child of a film family, Columbus was from the beginning, a natural storyteller. Her gift In Hollywood, Columbus first gained prominence by writing several blossomed in NYU’s welcoming and competitive atmosphere. The original scripts produced by Steven Spielberg, including the back-to- confidence born of her years of study at NYU enabled her to help back hits Gremlins and The Goonies. create Maiden Voyage Pictures with her father in 2013. Growing up outside Youngstown, Ohio, Columbus originally aspired Maiden Voyage’s film credits include Sara Colangelo's Little to be a commercial artist, spending years studying art and Accidents, Jonas Carpignano's Mediterranea, Robert Eggers' The interested in drawing for comics. He eventually made the Witch, and Sian Heder's Tallulah. Maiden Voyage’s fifth film by connection between comic books and movie storyboards and Geremy Jasper, Patti Cake$, was in competition at the 2017 graduated from NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where Sundance Film Festival, and closed Directors' Fortnight at the 2017 he sold his first script, Jocks. Cannes Film Festival. Maiden Voyage’s sixth endeavor Menashe, directed by Joshua Z.