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0 House of Gala Event 7pm - 27' January 2014 SpeakEasy City Winery, 155 Varick Street, New York, NY Gala Committee Co-Chairs Please join us for the House of SpeakEasy Inaugural Gala Event Amanda Foreman Ariadne Calvo-Platero Cathy Graham Committee Members Plays with Matches Danlela Amini Gabrielle Bacon Jonathan Barton Campbell Brown and Dan Senor A Seriously Entertaining evening of literature, verse, music and song. Jonathan Burnham John Burnham Schwartz Mario Calvo-Platero Hosted by Andy Borowitz featuring Adam Gopnik, Susan Orlean, Robin Canter and Sally Susman Lea Carpenter Uma Thurman, Dar Williams and Simon Winchester. Daisy Prince and Hugh Chisholm Elizabeth Wagley and Joe Conason Monday 27 January 2014 Christine and Cromwell Coulson Gruff and Rob Fah-bairn 7.00pm Susan Fades-Hill BrookeGeahan Dinner and Cabaret will start promptly at 7.30pm Susan Gilchrist and Andrew Roberts Barbara Goldsmith RSVP using form below Gala Tickets $250 Victoria and Ben Gore Stephen Graham Allbut S120per ticker is ma-deductible Dorothy and Stanton Green Bernard Kruger Paul LeClerc Sir Mark and Lady Sheila Lyall Grant YES! I would like to apply for: $250 Gala ticket(s) Katte Lydon Christopher Mason 'If you wouldlike to be seated near another parry, please indicate that favour response and we will do our best to seat you accordingly. Camille Massey Blythe Matters Ian Mohr I am unable to attend the event. Enclosed is my tax-deductible contribution of $ Susan Morgenthau David Mortimer and Shelley Wanger Alexandra Munroe and Robert Rosenkranz Name Caroline and Patrick O'Hara Lucy Sykes and Euan Rellie Address Gretchen Rubin Marina Rust Dan Stevens Phone Email Sir Tom Stoppard Jessica Strand Gabrielle Tana Diana Taylor PAYMENT MFTHOQ Uma Thurman Charge this credit card: Type: Visa / MasterCard Number: Karen and Clay Tompkins (sadly we cannot accept Amex) Vicky Ward Caroline Weber Name on Card: Exp.: CW2: Lucas Witimann About our current structure: House of SpeakEasy Foundation's Signature: S01(c)(3) is pending. In the meantime, we have partnered with The Field Enclosed is a check made payable to The Field (www.thefleld.org), a 501(c)(3) that acts as our 'ftscal sponsor.' The Field Is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt S01(c)(3) Please accept my pledge to make payment by January 13, 2014 organization serving the performing arts community. Contributions made to (please write 'House of SpeokEosy- in the Memo Line) The Field and earmarked for "House of SpeakEasy Foundation' are tax- PLEASE MAIL YOUR REPLY AND CHECKS TO: deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field Contact: The Field, 75 Malden Lane, House of SpeakEasy, 117 East if Street, New York, NY 10003 Suite 906, New York, NY 10038, (212) 691-6969, wwwxhetleletorg, A copy of If you wish to send form by email, please send to The Field's latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney GeneraLCharities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York. NY 10271. www.houseofspeakeasy.org EFTA00314488  House of SpeakEasy EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR About House of SpeakEasy Dorothy Mitchell SpeakEasy was established in 2013 by a group of prominent writers and literary professionals to support the art of writing in all its diverse forms. Its mission is to promote innovative ways of bringing writers and their audiences together. SpeakEasy seeks to raise awareness of great writing and to provide the public with entertaining and exciting ways to connect with the literary arts. COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR SpeakEasy's flagship program is "Seriously Entertaining", a monthly showcase of outstanding literary talent. Caroline O'Hara Presented in dinner-theater style, each SpeakEasy cabaret features a variety of writers from across the genres, from fiction to non-fiction, from the dramatic arts to stand-up comedy - with poetry and song forming a key part of the evening. Every event has a title - a central theme - that is reflected, embodied by, or otherwise meditated PRODUCTION DIRECTOR upon by the writers on the stage. The SpeakEasy style of performance is based on a simple format; short monologue-style deliveries that are rehearsed but feel casual and spontaneous. It is the old lecture-hall mode of Elizabeth Uzelac literary readings reborn and refreshed for the modern age. SpeakEasy has chosen City Winery as the venue for its New York series. Located at 155 Varick Street, City Winery is a convivial downtown space that provides intimacy and immediacy, along with room for an audience of 300, BOARD OF DIRECTORS and a state-of-the-art stage. The program is beginning in early 2014, with monthly events, except for a break Jonathan Barton, Chairman during the summer, until the end of the year. Our current roster of participating artists includes Jonathan Alter, Andy Borowitz, Susan Cheever, Simon Doonan, Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Fry, Michael Friedman, David Gilbert, Susan Fales-Hill Adam Gopnik, Mark Kingwell, Stephen Lang, Jay McInerney, Susan Orlean, Jay Parini, Katie Roiphe, Gretchen Amanda Foreman Rubin, Dan Stevens, Amor Towles, Dana Vachon, Amanda Vaill, Harriet Walter, Caroline Weber, and Simon Paul LeClerc Winchester. Camille Massey Uma Thurman Central to SpeakEasy's mission is the insight that for writers to continue to earn a living from their craft, a new Elizabeth Wagley economic model is required. As a first step, in addition to selling books and dvds at every event, SpeakEasy Lucas Wittmann compensates its performers by sharing the box office with them. Second, SpeakEasy is creating a digital platform to distribute recordings of the evenings, promote our participants' books and music, and create a community of passionate readers online. To extend SpeakEasy's reach to a broader literary community, however, it is our hope that the success of the gala and the 2014 program will enable us to take the SpeakEasy mission to schools and other educational settings in ways that will inspire future generations of writers. Whether that is connecting established writers with high schools and educational institutions ('A writer in every classroom') or providing supplementary teaching materials and tickets to teachers for SpeakEasy events (SpeakFreely'), SpeakEasy aims to introduce young people to the best writing of today. About the founders SpeakEasy is the brainchild of Dr. Amanda Foreman. An internationally best-selling and prize-winning author, Amanda has long been involved in the broader literary community as a scholar, writer, and judge for prizes such as the Man Booker and the National Book Award. Last year, together with Lucas Wittmann, she established and hosted a series of speaking events in New York for a UK-based organization called 5x15. These events featured five speakers, each discussing their work for 15 minutes. There were some outstanding evenings in the company of such luminaries as Paul Muldoon, Edward Hirsch, Hari Kunzru, Nathaniel Rich, Dambisa Moyo, Philip Gourevitch, Niall Ferguson, Peter Godwin, Jim Holt, Gretchen Rubin, Amber Tamblyn, Grace Coddington, and Andrew Solomon. Following the success of those NY events, Amanda and Lucas wanted to do more for the literary community at large, and so decided to establish SpeakEasy. They assembled an exceptional board comprising Paul LeClerc, former head of the New York Public Library; Camille Massey, VP at the Council on Foreign Relations; Uma Thurman, actress, Elizabeth Wagley, founder of the National Memo; Susan Fales-Hill, author; and Jonathan Barton, a partner of a New York-based hedge fund. www.houseofspeakeasy.org EFTA00314489