Join us for a one-night-only special event featuring a post-show celebration, incredible seats to the performance, and unique opportunities to meet the cast and creatives of our fall play. No stuffy gala here. It’ll be fun, we promise. It’s a fun-draiser!
Our event serves to raise much-needed funds to build a home for tomorrow’s artists and creatives, reignite our artistic spark, and expand our community reach as we continue to serve the community of Pasadena and beyond for over twenty years.
Honoring Necar Zadegan
Co-chaired by Jered Gold & Yvette Sanchez
ABOUT THE EVENT
WHEN: Sunday, September 29, 2024
VENUE: Boston Court Pasadena
ADDRESS: 70 N Mentor Pasadena, CA 91106
PARKING: Boston Court Pasadena
Bold, colorful party attire encouraged!
SCHEDULE
3:00PM – Performance of A Going Away Party Play
5:00PM – VIP Cocktails, Music, & Bites
ABOUT THE PLAY
by Keyanna Khatiblou
Directed by James Fowler
Mina is throwing a party for her closest friends and for you, the audience. Over the course of the party, the friends play games, reflect on the current American socio-political landscape, and discover truths about the story of Mina’s parents falling in love and staying in love while fleeing the Iranian Revolution. A Going Away Party Play is a celebration of multicultural identities and an exploration of what it means to leave or lose your home country.
ABOUT THE HONOREE
Necar Zadegan is a versatile actress known for a career on stage and screen She currently portrays Evelyn Foley on Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown and made her Broadway debut when she originated the role of the Leper in Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize nominated and multi Tony award accoladed play The Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo opposite Robin Williams. She stars as Special Agent Hannah Khoury in the CBS global franchise series, “NCIS: New Orleans” and has joined the cast of the much anticipated and newest installation of the Star Trek franchise, “Picard”. Ms. Zadegan has worked at some of the world’s most prestigious theaters including The Mark Taper Forum, the Royal Dramatic Theater of Stockholm, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and many more, and toured internationally in the Persian language production of “Satellite with Love”.
Necar Zadegan was born in Heidelberg, Germany and raised in Northern California. She studied theater and dance on a performance scholarship at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with honors and a BA degree in English Literature. She also studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She speaks Persian, French and German and has learned Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew while working in those languages. She works with USAID in supporting opportunities for education across the globe and is an ambassador for BuildOn.org and travels with them around the world building schools for children.
TO OUR SPONSORS
The success of our event would not be possible without the generosity of businesses and individuals with a strong connection to our mission of nurturing innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity. Proceeds of our benefit will support our artistic programming and community engagement efforts for the community of Pasadena and beyond. Now, more than ever, our recovery and the replenishment of our programs is possible only in partnership with you!
