{"id":353618,"date":"2026-09-22T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353618\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:32:12","slug":"arts-ignite-reveal-performers-presenters-for-20th-anniversary-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353618\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Ignite Reveal Performers, Presenters for 20th Anniversary Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arts Ignite has revealed the performers and presenters for their 20th Anniversary Gala event, Illuminate. Held\u00a0October 12 at City Winery NYC, the evening will celebrate Danielle Brooks<\/a>, Whitney White<\/a>, and Tom Viola<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hosted by Jessica Vosk<\/a> (Beaches), featured performers will include\u00a0Tony nominee Charles Busch<\/a> (The Tale Of The Allergist\u2019s Wife),\u00a0Aneesa Folds<\/a> and Kaila Mullady<\/a> (freestyle+), Mandy Gonzalez<\/a> (Hamilton), Kayla Davion<\/a> (Liberation), Brandon Victor Dixon<\/a> (Hell\u2019s Kitchen), and Grammy-winning duo ARKAI. Presenters will include Tony winners Joaquina Kalukango<\/a> (Paradise Square), Bess Wohl<\/a> (Liberation), and Mary-Mitchell Campbell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Arts Ignite House Band will feature Alex Eckhardt on bass and\u00a0Rich Mercurio<\/a> on drums, with Campbell on piano and serving as music director.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Mary-Mitchell Campbell, president and founder of Arts Ignite, received the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, recognizing her decades-long commitment to advocacy and humanitarian work through the arts. \u201cTwenty years ago, we created Arts Ignite with a simple belief: Access to the arts can change the trajectory of a young person\u2019s life,\u201d said Campbell. \u201cOur 20th Anniversary Gala will honor three extraordinary individuals who inspire, and commend dozens of artists, educators, students and supporters who\u2019ve made that work possible. Illuminate will highlight what we can accomplish\u2014together\u2014in the next 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Illuminate is produced by Joy Huang and directed by Jonathan Bernstein<\/a> and Dick Scanlan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arts Ignite has revealed the performers and presenters for their 20th Anniversary Gala event, Illuminate. Held\u00a0October 12 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-353618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}