{"id":993,"date":"2025-04-09T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:16:50","slug":"tisch-gala-honors-winnie-holzman-and-daniel-dae-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/tisch-gala-honors-winnie-holzman-and-daniel-dae-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Tisch Gala honors Winnie Holzman and Daniel Dae Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Tisch School of the Arts honored Winnie Holzman, who wrote the Broadway musical \u201cWicked,\u201d and award-winning actor Daniel Dae Kim at its 2025 Gala on Monday evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Honoree Winnie Holzman. (Kiran Komanduri for WSN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Honoree Daniel Dae Kim. (Kiran Komanduri for WSN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Casa Cipriani on South Street was decked out for celebration despite the rain as over 500 members of the community gathered to celebrate the arts, complete with a purple carpet. University President Linda Mills, Tisch\u2019s Dean Council members and alumni, including recent Oscar winner and \u201cWicked\u201d costume designer Paul Tazewell, attended the gala, which raised over $1.7 million to support Tisch students.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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NYU President Linda Mills with Tisch Dean Allyson Green. (Kiran Komanduri for WSN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Previous honoree Paul Tazewell. (Kiran Komanduri for WSN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For over 50 years, Tisch has pulled from the artistic and cultural resources of New York and NYU to create a training ground for upcoming artists. The school\u2019s annual gala celebrates alumni and collaborators who are redefining the arts. All donations from the event will go toward student scholarships and school-wide needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s nice to be here with so many professors and classmates and friends,\u201d said Kim. \u201cIt just reminds me of how special NYU is. Everything I know as an actor I learned here at NYU, so I use the things that I learned in the classroom almost every day, on set and on stage.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kim, who graduated from Tisch\u2019s Graduate Acting program in 1996, is best known for his performances as Jin-Soo Kwon in the sci-fi series \u201cLost\u201d and Chin Ho Kelly in drama series \u201cHawaii Five-0.\u201d In 2013, he founded the production company 3AD, which produced ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Good Doctor\u201d and Kim\u2019s audio adaptation of David Henry Hwang\u2019s play \u201cYellow Face.\u201d Last year, Kim starred in a Broadway revival of the same play. At the event, Kim announced a <\/span>$500K donation to form a new Tisch Graduate Acting scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-honoree Holzman, who graduated from the Musical Theater Writing program in 1983, wrote the book for Stephen Schwartz\u2019s musical \u201cWicked,\u201d earning her a best book of a musical nomination at the 2004 Tony Awards. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2024 film adaptation, with sequel \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d scheduled for release in November. Holzman created the TV series \u201cMy So-Called Life\u201d and also holds multiple acting credits, including a cameo on \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel very lucky,\u201d Holzman said. \u201cNYU Tisch [and] the Musical Theatre Writing program really made an impact on my life. I wasn\u2019t even writing musicals before I went [into the program]. It really focused me and gave me a new direction, and gave me an exciting feeling of possibility.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt appropriate for Winnie because Wicked\u2019s such a sensation right now. She\u2019s from our very first musical theatre class, cycle number one. They\u2019re going to be performing a song that she wrote for her thesis in 1983,\u201d Tisch Dean Allyson Green said in an interview with WSN. \u201cAnd Daniel, he\u2019s the most lovely person and he came out of graduate acting. Everybody\u2019s such a huge fan of him so I thought they were such an interesting combination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Green, Tisch dean for 11 years, is resigning from her post and rejoining the school\u2019s staff this year. Green is a choreographer and visual artist and plans to spend more time creating while also teaching in Tisch\u2019s Department of Art and Public Policy and its Department of Dance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bittersweet,\u201d Green said. \u201cIt\u2019ll be hard because I love this school so much but I\u2019m a Tisch for life. It\u2019s been the opportunity of a lifetime to do the work that we do at this school.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact the Julia Diorio and Dani Biondi at arts@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This story Tisch Gala honors Winnie Holzman and Daniel Dae Kim<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tisch School of the Arts honored Winnie Holzman, who wrote the Broadway musical \u201cWicked,\u201d and award-winning actor Daniel Dae Kim at its 2025 Gala on Monday evening.\u00a0 Honoree Winnie Holzman. (Kiran Komanduri for WSN) Honoree Daniel Dae Kim. (Kiran Komanduri for WSN) Casa Cipriani on South Street was decked out for celebration despite the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}