Code Red

The event starts at 6.30PM for VIP ticket holders.

• VIP $300: include pre-show celebration with hors d'oeuvres, wine, award ceremony and CODE RED.
  

And at 8PM for Benefit ticket holders

• Benefit $225: award ceremony and CODE RED

En Garde Arts is hosting its 2024 annual benefit on December 9th, honoring esteemed playwright, Emily Mann, with an En Garde Arts Change Agent Award for her contribution to theatre. Esteemed dramaturg and author Gail Merrifield Papp will present Mann with the 2024 En Garde Arts Change Agent Award in recognition of her decades long contributions to the theatre.

An all-star lineup of theatre luminaries will come together to celebrate Mann’s theatrical legacy with a staged reading of Mann’s new play, CODE RED. Participants include Deborah Hedwall (Showtime’s Homeland), two-time Tony winner Judith Ivey (Women Talking), Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner Christine Lahti (Broadway’s God of Carnage, The Heidi Chronicles, Paramount+’s Evil), Tony winner Kecia Lewis (Hell's Kitchen), and Colleen Werthmann (The Daily Show, The Civilians, Elevator Repair Service).

Emily Mann’s CODE RED illuminates day-to-day life in an environment perpetually alert—the American public school system. Five women in rural upstate New York navigate teaching, parenthood, and friendship while trying to grapple with their greatest fear. When unfathomable situations make for breakroom banter, the question becomes—how do normal people do their jobs when nothing is normal anymore? This is not a drill. CODE RED.

What will you be supporting?

En Garde Arts 2024 Benefit is supporting six shows in development for over 50 writers, composers, directors, and performers through our one-of-a-kind residency program Uncommon Voices that delves into topics top-of-mind for artists predominantly from underrepresented communities. The question is, how do we think about our history and make peace with our origins against a backdrop of so many differences of opinion?

If you can’t attend but you’d like to make a donation, we’ll be eternally grateful.

En Garde Arts Mission

En Garde Arts uses the city as our stage to offer accessible theatre that explores the salient social issues of our time. We are an artist-centric companythat supports playwrights, directors, composers, and designers in creating new work from the ground up. We invite artists to think deeply about the stories they choose to tell and the physical sites where they belong to meet audiences where they live and work, spark conversations that explore a range of perspectives, and build an inclusive community.