Molière in the Park's OneLove OneTheater Gala 2025

Tickets start at $125 and include:

• Food and drinks courtesy of Night Kitchen BK
• Dance and music courtesy of FlexN Dancer Call Hunt and Cellist Johnathan Moore, Molière excerpts performed by Bill Irwin and MIP alumni artists, and Broadway tunes by Michelle Veintimilla and Hamilton cast member Eddy Lee!
• A silent auction including destination getaways in the Alps and more
• And a post show DJ set by Sahr Ngaujah, because is it even a party without an opportunity to hit the dance floor?

Honoring:

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso

Antonio Reynoso is Brooklyn’s 20th Borough President. The son of two Dominican immigrants, Antonio was born and raised in Los Sures, Williamsburg, just three blocks down from where he lives today with his wife and two sons. In 2021, Antonio became the youngest Borough President elected to a four-year term, the first Latino to hold the office in the borough, and the first Dominican to be elected as a Borough President in NYC. Since then, he’s launched a history-making maternal health agenda and released The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn, New York City’s largest planning effort for a healthy, housed Brooklyn. Antonio previously served as Council Member for the 34th Council District, representing portions of Bushwick and Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Ridgewood in Queens.

Gala Host Committee Members:

Hosted by:

Sierra Boggess

Sierra Boggess is an Oliver, Drama League and Drama desk Award nominee who has been seen on Broadway in Harmony, School of Rock, It Shoulda Been You,The Phantom of the Opera, Master Class, and The Little Mermaid, in London West End in Les Misérables,The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies. Among her other New York theatre credits are the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools, The Goodbye Girl, Harmony, The Secret Garden at Lincoln Center, Guys & Dolls at Carnegie Hall, the final off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Music in the Air for City Center’s Encores! series. She also starred as Christine Daae in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera. Among many other performance and recording credits, she has toured across Australia, in Japan, Paris, and London with her concert show Awakening: Live at 54 Below, recorded live and issued on CD. She recently released an album of duets,Together at a Distance, with Julian Ovenden, made during the pandemic. www.sierraboggess.com

Special Appearance by:

Bill Irwin

Bill Irwin is an actor, director, writer, and clown. His original works include The Regard of Flight; Largely New York ; Fool Moon; Old Hats, The Happiness Lecture, among others. His actor’s theater credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Broadway, 2005 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play) The Goat, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and ON BECKETT (an evening of passages from Samuel Beckett’s writing). On television he can be seen in character roles including Mr. Noodle on Elmo’s World, Nate Haskell, serial killer, on CSI, and Peter Lindstrom, psychiatrist, on Law and Order/SVU. His film credits include Rachel Getting Married, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Eight Men Out, and Stepping Out – more recently, Spoiler Alert and Rustin. Irwin gratefully acknowledges the awards and fellowships that have allowed him to explore new work in the theater.

Additional Performances by:

Yonatan Gebeyehu

OFF- BROADWAY: CLUBBED THUMB: Not Not Jane's, Usus TFANA: Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, ARS NOVA: The Galas, THE FLEA: Bathhouse.pptx, MOLIERE IN THE PARK: Tartuffe, BEDLAM: Persuasion, NEW GEORGES/THE THANK: I Thought I Would Die, But I Didn’t. MTC: Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (u/s). REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL: Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Shakespeare Theater of DC, Portland Stage Company, Montana Rep.TV: Prodigal Son (FOX), Elementary, Madame Secretary (CBS). DIGITAL: Lessons in Survival (Vineyard), 86’d (Bric Arts). TRAINING: UCSD: MFA

Lisa Gorlitsky

Lisa began her professional career at the age of seven appearing in many national advertising campaigns, and has been seen in numerous Primetime and Daytime television series (FBI, all iterations of Law & Order, Sex & the City, Friends from College, Search Party), movies made for television (The 12 Days of Christmas Eve), feature films (Rounders), as well as numerous theater productions including those at Manhattan Theatre Club (Fuddy Meers), The Atlantic Theater (Posh Pill), Molière in the Park (The Miser) and “Stars in the House”. In addition to her acting credits, Lisa is the writer, creator, and producer of the episodic series “Heals” currently earning laurels and nominations in Festivals all around the world. Lisa earned her BFA in Acting at SUNY Purchase.

Cal Hunt

Native Brooklynite Cal Hunt is known worldwide as a dancer, choreographer, director and FlexN ambassador. He is currently the lead choreographer on Peter Sellars’ production of Castor et Pollux at The National Opera of Paris.

He travels the world performing, including in music videos with artists such as Lous and the Yakuza. In 2019, he choreographed and performed a solo for the Opéra national de Paris production of Les Indes galantes.

As part of a program at The Shed (NYC) cultural center, he teaches dance in public schools. He is currently artistic director of It's Showtime NYC, a non-profit organization created by Dancing in the Streets for New York street dancers.

Eddy Lee

Eddy Lee is an NYC based actor originally from Michigan whose career spans multiple mediums, from Broadway to audiobooks and animation to TV and film. Credits include: Broadway: HAMILTON (Currently a Swing with many performances as Alexander Hamilton under his belt), KPOP (Sky, OBC). TV/Film: LAW & ORDER, BIG SKY, TICK…TICK…BOOM! Animation: POKÉMON, YU-GI-OH!, GUNDAM. Audiobooks: THE MANY MASKS OF ANDY ZHOU (by Jack Cheng).

Johnathan Moore

Michelle is a performing artist based in NYC. Her credits span Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and international theater, film, and television. On Broadway, she starred alongside Chita Rivera in the Tony-nominated musical, THE VISIT. Her MIP credits include TARTUFFE. Last summer, she starred in the Kennedy Center’s Helen Hayes Award-winning production of NINE.

DJ set by:

Sahr Ngaujah

Sahr is Co-founder of the FON Sound System.

The FON Sound System is a dj and artist collective founded in Brooklyn, NY Cir. 2012. Its members encompass over 40+ years of djing, recording and cross-discipline work within the entertainment and nightlife industries.

Sahr has been djing internationally for over a decade. Primarily playing underground clubs and bars, private parties and galas of all sorts. Sahr aka DJ Drunken Dragon Sound has become known for his genre-bending selection style self-described as “passport control”. When not taking requests, he seeks to enhance the established vibe and uplift all individuals within whichever engagement or proceedings his music has been invited to serve.

From dance parties and boat parties to poolside lounges and hotel rooftop/lobbies: FON and associates offer thoughtful and dynamic music selection, sound design, space curation and audience building.

Fresh Offerings Nightly, Free Of Nations, Flexibility Of Nomenclature

About the Shoulder-to-Shoulder Award:

We created the "MIP Shoulder-to-Shoulder Award" to honor individuals whose work reflects a core belief of Molière in the Park: that it is vital to build and sustain spaces where people of all cultural and racial backgrounds can come together—sitting shoulder to shoulder—to create and/or experience art. Through this award we seek to honor those who contribute to a sense of common humanity and unity despite everything that seemingly makes us different.

Q&A for those of you who are new to MIP:

• Wait, what is Molière in the Park?

It’s like Shakespeare in the Park’s cool French cousin who lives in Brooklyn. We present a contemporary production of a Molière play every year for three weeks in Prospect Park and additional readings and events throughout the year. Always free. Always world class theater.

• Why Molière?

At MIP we believe that Molière’s plays, when produced through an inclusive and contemporary lens, explore the human condition in a way that promotes generosity of spirit, fosters unity over division, and spreads joy. Something we all need nowadays.

• Why Free?

We believe that arts experiences spark ideas and conversations, keep history alive, challenge prejudice, and increase civic participation, but not all communities have equal access to these experiences. MIP seeks to address these inequalities by providing ALL Brooklynites with the benefits of high-quality theater at no cost. Thus far in 2025, 7456 individuals have reserved a ticket to one of our shows, with 61% of our Brooklyn audience coming from low-income zip codes and 45% from historically under represented communities where the majority of residents are people of color.

• Ok, amazing. How can I support MIP?

COME TO OUR GALA!

All proceeds from the Gala go towards funding our operating costs and paying our artists equitable wages.