Primary Stages FALL Gala

Monday, October 20, 2025

at Sony Hall (235 W 46th Street, New York, NY)

Cocktail hour 6pm | Dinner & Performances 7pm

The Primary Stages Gala is the largest fundraiser of our season, and its income provides critical support for our free educational programs benefiting more than 1,000 teens and teachers annually. The event includes a cocktail hour, seated dinner, and live performances by Broadway’s biggest stars.

HONORING
Thom Sesma with the Einhorn Mentorship Award

A beloved stage veteran, Thom appeared most recently in Broadway’s Dead Outlaw, for which he won the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Award for Featured Performer in a Musical. Thom made his Primary Stages debut in 2018 as Leo Tolstoy in Scott Carter’s The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy: Discord. In addition to his leading roles on Broadway and National Tours, such as Scar in The Lion King and The Engineer in Miss Saigon, Thom’s recent Off-Broadway credits include Pacific Overtures and A Man of No Importance at Classic Stage Company, Superhero at Second Stage, and the title character in the immersive production of Sweeney Todd at Barrow Street Theatre, among others.

Thom joined the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) acting faculty in 2019 and developed a special online curriculum to help actors work and create despite the social distance during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Mickey Rolfe with the Andrew Leynse Commitment to New Plays Award

Mickey is the founding patron of the Primary Stages’ Liff Lab, a new play development program created in memory of legendary theater agent Samuel “Biff” Liff. The Liff Lab is an annual program providing an exceptional early- to mid-career playwright with a 29-hour developmental workshop of an unproduced new work and the ESPA students with the opportunity to participate in the workshop by observing rehearsals and assisting creative personnel. Mickey dedicated most of his 40-year career to representing Broadway’s top designers, with Rolfe Company clients winning a total of 22 Tony Awards. The Rolfe Company flourished for 26 years, and at one point, Mickey represented at least one designer in every American show on Broadway.

Individual tickets start at $500 and tables start at $3,000.

To purchase a table or tickets, click here.
For more information, please contact the Development Department at 212.840.9705 x214 or gala@primarystages.org.

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