
Our 2019 Benefit Gala
“YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS”
Monday, March 11, 2019
Featuring an all-star reading of selected shorts by participants from the Writers Guild Initiative’s writing workshops.
Scroll down to see highlights from the 2018 Gala.
For ticket and table information contact
Lynn McCary Events 212-629-8748 or RSVP@LynnMcCaryEvents.
The 2018 WGI Gala featured some of our favorite actors reading just some of the amazing writing that comes out of our workshops every year. Watch the full performance from the Gala here, and see the remarks and individual clips of the stories here. Thanks to all of our performers but most of all to the wonderful, brave, funny and extremely human writers who contributed this work!
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From The Blog
Gala 2017: Writing from the Workshops, Read by Some of Our Favorite Actors
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