The Workshop Theater’s SOIRÉE IN THE SKY
Monday, October 20th | 6:30pm - 9:30pm
29th Floor, One Vanderbilt
Join us for an unforgettable evening high above the city—great food, great company, great art - for a great cause!
What’s in store:
Exquisite fare by French chef Zoé Deleu!
Open bar all night!
Live performances showcasing our past, present, and future work with special guest artists!
Thrilling auction items including courtside Knicks tickets, backstage Broadway experiences, and more!
Last year, we worked with and paid over 220 artists and supported the development of 85+ new plays by writers of all genders, ages, races, sexualities, and abilities. In today's environment, we’re raising the bar even higher—and we need YOU more than ever to help us keep these untold stories alive.
Get your tickets (or make a donation!) today.
Come for the cause, stay for the celebration — be part of the story! See you in the sky!
Blair Baker (they/them) is an actor, director, and writer. Theatre: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Center Theatre Group), The Play That Goes Wrong (First National Tour, Off-Broadway), Smart (W.H.A.T.), The Slow Dance (59e59), The Humans (Broadway, Roundabout Theatre Company), Goldie, Max & Milk (59e59), Oleanna (Broadway, Mark Taper Forum, Bristol Riverside Theater), title role in Hvmlet (SheNYC). TV/Film: The Perfect Couple, Before, Bull, Ghosts of Christmas Always (Hallmark) Billions, Blue Bloods, Harlem. www.blairbaker.info
Cori Diaz has had her plays workshopped with SheNYC Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival, The Tank’s LimeFest and Darkfest, RE/VENUE, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Bechdel Group, Playwrights on Park, Concord Theatricals’ Off-Off Broadway Festival, and was a finalist for the Civilians' R&D Group, the LAMBDA Literary Writers Retreat, and the Stanley Drama Award. She is a member of PlayPenn Playwrights Cohort, and a recent member of Life Jacket Theatre’s Writer’s Room and a 2025-2026 recipient of the EST/Sloan commission. BFA: NYU Tisch. coridiaz.com
Aja Downing is extremely pleased and excited to be apart of this project and ready for all the projects to come. Aja has been living and working in New York City for 10 years. She is extremely grateful and pleased for the community that she has found not only in this city, but through the wonderful community of theater and art. She graduated from AMDA in 2016. Some of Aja's previous roles were Lorrell Robinson in Dreamgirls ,Annette in TjLovesSally4eva, and St.Monica in The last days of Judas Iscariot. Aja would like to thank her Mom and dad for all their support and love! And also thank the incredible cast and crew of this project!
David Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother, She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel; his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia; solo renditions of Barry Conners’ comedy The Patsy, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour drama Strange Interlude and Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts; premieres and revivals, notably Jordan Tanahill’s Prince Faggot, Terrence McNally’s Some Men, Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band, Goethe’s Faust and two solo plays: Joey Merlo’s On Set With Theda Bara and Mona Pirnot’s I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan; honors include six Obies.
Daniel Holzman is a writer and artist from San Francisco. His work has been produced and developed through the New York Foundation for the Arts, Clubbed Thumb, The Laguardia Performing Arts Center, The Brick, The Tank, and his plays have been finalists for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference (Me and Who, 2023), Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BERLINDIA, 2022), and Jewish Plays Project (BERLINDIA, 2022). He frequently collaborates with his sister Neena, who illustrates all his plays. BFA: NYU, Playwrights Horizons Theater School.