A Toast to the Artist 2022

A TOAST TO THE ARTIST
Monday, May 16, 2022

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@Current, Pier 59, Chelsea Piers
6:30PM - Cocktails
7:30PM - Seated Dinner, Performance & Award Presentation
9:30PM - Dessert Reception

HONORING LORI FINEMAN & 20 YEARS OF TRANSPORT GROUP
Join us to celebrate Transport Group's Executive Director from 2007-2019 and Independent Theatre Producer, Lori Fineman, and 20 Years of Transport Group!  This year, we will honor Ms. Fineman with the Transporting American Theatre Award, given in recognition of remarkable contributions to the American theatre. The evening will include performances by some of the incredible Broadway stars who have worked with Ms. Fineman.

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Don't forget to review all of the packages in our silent auction,

available for bidding in the ITEMS tab, at the top of this page!

ABOUT TRANSPORT GROUP

Transport Group is a New York-based, off-Broadway Theatre Company that stages new works and radically-reimagined revivals by American writer. Since our founding in 2001 under the artistic direction of Jack Cummings III, we have produced 14 World Premieres, 17 New Works, and 16 Revivals.

Transport Group Theatre Company's 2021-2022 season began with the critically acclaimed revival of The Patsy, starring six time OBIE Award Winner David Greenspan.  Two time OBIE Award Winner and TG Artistic Director, Jack Cummings III, revived this incredible one-man show filled with familial intrigue, marital sparring and lovers in pursuit  at the Abrons Arts Center, March 30th - April 30th.  This season's Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series will be announced soon.

Recent work includes our 2019-2020 season which featured world premiere musical Broadbend, Arkansas produced in association with The Public Theatre, with libretto by Harrison David Rivers and Ellen Fitzhugh and a score by Ted Shen, and Meredith Willson's The Unsinkable Molly Brown with a revised libretto from Dick Scanlan, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, and starring Beth Malone. Additional work includes Renascence with music by Carmel Dean, book by Dick Scanlan, with lyrics from the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. A radically adapted The Trial of the Catonsville Nine produced in partnership with NAATCO, Summer and Smoke, produced in partnership with CSC, the wholly reimagined Strange Interlude, starring David Greenspan (and only David Greenspan!), our unique and hilarious revival of Once Upon a Mattress starring Jackie Hoffman and John "Lypsinka" Epperson; the world-premiere performance piece Three Days to See, a theatrical exploration of the writings of Helen Keller; a revival of John Van Druten's classic play I Remember Mama (Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play), reconceived with an ensemble cast of ten women in their 70s and 80s; the first New York revival of John Cariani's Almost, Maine; and the sold-out, all-star concerts of Sweet Charity, Promises, Promises, The Man of La Mancha, Baby, Once Upon a Mattress, The Music Man, Peter Pan, Queen of the Mist, and A Man of No Importance.

To learn more about Transport Group Theatre Company, visit our website: transportgroup.org.

Please remember to bring proof of vaccination for check-in at the event;

Masks are encouraged whenever not eating or drinking.

About Lori Fineman

Photo by Robert Mannis

Lori Fineman is an independent theatrical producer. She is a co-Producer on Lempicka, a new musical about the Art Deco-era artist Tamara de Lempicka, and an Executive Producer on The Ritchie Valens Musical, currently in development. Additional producing credits include Thoughts of a Colored Man, Chasing Rainbows and Reunion, an immersive and interactive musical experience. From 2007-2019, Lori was Transport Group's first Executive Director. During her tenure she was the producer and general manager of numerous productions, labs, workshops and events and grew the company from a budget of $250,000 to over $2 million. Prior to Transport Group, Lori worked in management consulting for Andersen Consulting and Capco. She serves on the board of directors for Transport Group, the National Alliance of Musical Theatre (NAMT), and the Bantam Cinema and Arts Center in Bantam, CT. She also serves on the advisory board to the Jewish Community Project (JCP) Downtown, where she is a former president and was honored with the first annual Community Leadership Award in 2013. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Lori holds a BA in Theatre Arts and a BSE in Management from the Wharton School. Lori is married to Steve and mom to Dylan, Spencer, Nathan and a Barbet puppy, Claude.