Nora Daley Chair, Illinois Arts Council Citizen Advocate Award
Amanda Williams MacArthur Foundation Fellow Creative Voice Award
Honorary Co-Chairs
Governor JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker
Co-Chairs
Michelle T. Boone Nick Cave and Bob Faust Lynn M. Lockwood Abby Pucker
Host Committee
Ellen Alberding Joyce Chelberg The Crown Family Amina Dickerson Brooke Flanagan Marilynn Gardner Gwendolyn Perry Davis Anne Kaplan Abby M. O’Neil and D. Carroll Joynes Rabb Family Trisha Rooney Scott Fetters Pratima and Niranjan Shah Family Helen Zell Neal Zucker and Marko Iglendza
Sponsors
Premier
The Crown Family Abby Pucker
Benefit
Joyce Chelberg Anne Kaplan Lynn M. Lockwood Abby M. O’Neil and D. Carroll Joynes Rabb Family Pratima and Niranjan Shah Family Helen Zell Neal Zucker and Marko Iglendza
Patron
Chanel Coney Choose Chicago Elissa Efroymson and Adnaan Hamid Goodman Theatre Vicki and Bruce Heyman McAndrews, Held & Malloy Navy Pier PNC The Poetry Foundation The University of Chicago
Partner
Auditorium Theatre Clayco Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts IFF Ingenuity Joffrey Ballet The Salvino Team of Performance Wealth Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Northlight Theatre Old Town School of Folk Music Steppenwolf Theatre Company United States Artists Writers Theatre