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Gyllenhaal is currently appearing on Broadway as Iago in 'Othello.'

Jake Gyllenhaal Named Manhattan Theatre Club’s Spring Gala Honoree(Exclusive) (3)

Jake Gyllenhaal will be honored at Manhattan Theatre Club’s spring gala.

Gyllenhaal is currently performing on Broadway as Iago in Othello, opposite Denzel Washington. He made his Broadway debut in MTC’s 2015 production of Nick Payne’s Constellations, opposite Ruth Wilson, and has appeared on Broadway in the 2017 revival of Sunday in the Park With George and in the 2019 production of Sea Wall/A Life.

The actor also served on MTC’s Board of Directors from 2015 to 2023 and has been a supporter of the nonprofit theater’s student outreach programs.

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The gala is scheduled to take place May 19 at Cipriani in Manhattan. Bernadette Peters, who is currently starring in Old Friends, playing at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, will host. The evening will also honor Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

The funds raised at the gala will support Manhattan Theatre Club, one of Broadway’s nonprofit theater companies, which also produced Eureka Day and was a producer on The Hills of California this season.

Castmembers from Dead Outlaw, Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mincemeat, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends and Sunset Boulevard are scheduled to perform at the gala.

MTC Spring Gala co-chairs are Marie T. Gallagher, Hirofumi Otsuka, Thomas F. Secunda and Nigel Smith.

The Host Committee will include Opal H. Bennett, Mary Ann and Vincent Q. Giffuni, Joanna Gleason, Andy Hartman, Jessica Hecht, Laurie B. and David C. Hodgson, Clyde B. Jones III, Lea Salonga, and Laura Weil and EJ Camp.

Tony Award winner Jason Michael Webb will be the musical director for the gala.

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