The evening will feature performances, panels, and one-on-one conversations with theater makers from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and beyond including Tony and Emmy Award-winner LaChanze, two-time Tony winner Irene Gandy, and Obie and Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson. Rhonda LaChanze Sapp, known professionally as LaChanze, is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. Irene Gandy, winner of the 2020 Tony Honors Excellence in Theatre Award, began her career in 1968 as a publicist with Douglas Turner Ward and Robert Hooks' Negro Ensemble Company. Since then, she has worked on over 100 Broadway shows, including August Osage County, Glengarry Glen Ross, Radio Golf, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Lena Horne: The Lady, and her Music, and The Wiz. Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American actor known primarily for his work onstage, notably in several of August Wilson's plays. He has made several appearances in film and television, including notable roles in biographical drama Lincoln (2012), coming-of-age film Lady Bird (2017), science fiction miniseries Devs (2020), and Mentat Thufir Hawat in the science fiction film Dune (2021).
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