The Workshop Theater’s SOIRÉE IN THE SKY
Monday, October 26, 2026 | 6:30pm - 9:30pm, One Vanderbilt, 29th Floor
Dress Code: Cocktail Attire!
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!
Open bar all night!
Live performances showcasing our past, present, and future work with special guest artists!
Thrilling auction items!
Last year, we worked with and paid over 175 artists and supported the development of more than 85 new plays by writers of all genders, ages, races, sexual orientations, 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.
Come for the cause, stay for the celebration — be part of the story! See you in the sky!
Bottom Dollar
Nathaniel Foster (Playwright) is a New York City-based playwright. He is a 2017 Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy Fellow, 2018 ASTEP Artist as Citizen Fellow, a 2018 Cape Cod Theatre Project New Play Development Fellow, and a 2019 New Play Development Apprentice at The Public Theater. He was a member of The Workshop Theater's Winter/Spring 2020 writers' intensive. He was a 2020-2021 Art House INKubator playwright and a 2021 resident playwright at The Strides Collective. He was the recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Ken Ludwig Young Playwright Award. He served as an associate producer for Loading Dock Theatre’s 2020 Forklift season and as an associate producer for Black Lives, Black Words 2020 Plays for the People series. He was a finalist for the 2024 Ojai Playwrights Conference and a member of The Kennedy Center's 2024 Black Playwrights Gathering Cohort. His plays have been seen or developed at The Kennedy Center, The Workshop Theater, HERE Arts Center, The Brick, Permafrost Theatre, Fort Collins Fringe Festival, Southern Utah University, Pharmacy Theatre, Mirrobox Theatre, The Strides Collective, Live and in Color, The Hollywood Fringe Festival, and The Tank.
Kalonjee Gallimore is a multi-hyphenate black and queer artist based in New York City. After graduating from NYU Tisch he made his Broadway debut in “A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical” and feature film debut as Johnny in “Girls Getaway Gone Wrong 2. OFF-BROADWAY: Bowl EP (Vineyard Theatre) REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre, Argyle Theatre, Theatre Aspen, Surflight Theatre
Joshua Hendricks considers himself a versatile actor with excellent experience in playing characters with both heart and nuance. As a Jamaican-American born performer, hailing from Central New Jersey, he seeks to carry himself in a manner that positively reflects the family and community that he comes from. Whether it's playing 9 year old creole-speaking Oladokun Aguilard in NBT's "The Festival in Da Back", athenian nobleman Timon from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" at RADA in London or various characters in New Jersey's Pushcart Players' repertoire of plays---Joshua enjoys bringing a variety of human experiences to life.”
OPErATION SAFFRON
Monna Sabouri (Playwright) is a playwright and actor based in New York City. Her writing blends political satire with dark comedy, centering SWANA voices and morally complicated characters navigating power and faith. Today she is showcasing Operation Saffron, a play that explores surveillance and corruption with humor and bite. Her acting credits include: Madam Secretary, FBI, The Blacklist and The Night Agent.
Rawya El Chab is a New York City–based storyteller and theater maker. Her work digs through archives, family histories, and collective memory to explore where personal stories collide with political history. Working across storytelling, puppetry, poetry, and audiovisual media, she has presented work at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, The Brick, Rattlestick Theater, and the Exponential Festival. Her recent works include Lula 19/85 & the Pearl of Bekaa and Crossing the Water, the first two installments of an ongoing trilogy exploring memory, political inheritance, and the rise and collapse of the Lebanese left.
Aryana Asefirad is a first-generation, Iranian - Californian born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aryana’s credits include Goli in English at the Long Wharf Theatre and The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Wish You Were Here at Gloucester Stage Company. Bee at the LES Shakespeare CO. and Men on Boats at the Rita Morgenthau Theatre. Aryana will be making her TV debut in the upcoming AppleTV+ series The Savant and her voice over debut as Kitty in Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas in Pemberley produced by Audible and directed by Kimberly Senior. Prior to pursuing a career in the arts, Aryana received her BA from the University of California Irvine in Public Health Policy and International Studies. She has worked on various political/presidential campaigns throughout the years as an operations and events consultant and producer.