Michael Douglas will present White with the Monte Cristo Award at the April gala.
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will honor its founder George C. White with the 21st Monte Cristo Award at the organization's spring gala, to be held at the Gotham Hall in New York City April 11. Oscar winner Michael Douglas, who helped build the O'Neill (literally—he was on the work crew that built the amphitheater), will present White with the award.
The O'Neill was founded in 1964 and remains one of the country's most distinguished organizations for new works development. Programs at the O'Neill include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Critics Institute, National Puppetry Conference, Cabaret & Performance Conference, and National Theater Institute. White served for 37 years as president of the O’Neill and chairman of its Board of Trustees.
The gala's Honorary Committee will include Congressman Joe Courtney, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Henry Hwang, Michael R. Jackson, Judith Light, John Logan, Senator Chris Murphy, Robert O’Hara, Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders, John Patrick Shanley, Jeanine Tesori, Preston Whiteway, Constanza Romero Wilson, and George C. Wolfe.