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spotlightgala@home<br />
WELCOME!<br />
2 njpac.org/gala<br />
mission The New Jersey<br />
Performing Arts Center,<br />
by celebrating diversity,<br />
shall be America’s foremost<br />
urban presenter of arts and<br />
entertainment, a creative<br />
and effective leader in arts<br />
education for children,<br />
a convener of useful and<br />
enlightening civic engagement<br />
events, and a catalyst for<br />
economic development in<br />
its home city of Newark.<br />
4 Welcome from<br />
John Schreiber and<br />
Faith Taylor<br />
6 <strong>Spotlight</strong> <strong>Gala</strong> @ <strong>Home</strong><br />
Sponsors<br />
9 Welcome from the<br />
<strong>Spotlight</strong> <strong>Gala</strong> @ <strong>Home</strong><br />
co-chairs<br />
12 Letter from New Jersey<br />
Senator Cory A. Booker<br />
13 Letter from Senate<br />
President Pro Tempore<br />
M. Teresa Ruiz<br />
14 Letter from Governor<br />
Philip D. Murphy<br />
15 Letter from Newark<br />
Mayor Ras J. Baraka<br />
16 Heavenly Harmony—<br />
Meet Your Host,<br />
Kelli O’Hara!<br />
17 Sing, Sing A Song...<br />
Tonight’s Performers<br />
24 <strong>2021</strong> Founders Award:<br />
Toby and Leon Cooperman<br />
and the Cooperman Family<br />
34 A Year Like No Other -<br />
Women@NJPAC<br />
42 The Future is Bright<br />
44 From New Virtual Vistas<br />
to Full Theaters<br />
46 Finding Their Voices,<br />
Virtually<br />
55 History of <strong>Spotlight</strong><br />
<strong>Gala</strong> Honorees<br />
60 Women@NJPAC Board<br />
of Trustees<br />
63 Production Credits<br />
CONTENTS<br />
advertisers<br />
Prudential.......................................................8<br />
The MCJ Amelior Foundation.............10<br />
PSEG................................................................11<br />
PwC................................................................20<br />
Chubb Corporation.................................21<br />
Mindy Cohen and<br />
David Bershad....................................22<br />
Nina Mitchell Wells, Esq. and<br />
Theodore V. Wells Jr. ........................23<br />
Merck Foundation...................................30<br />
Rutgers University - Newark................31<br />
Arthur F. Ryan............................................32<br />
Tanenbaum Keale LLP..........................22<br />
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield<br />
of New Jersey......................................38<br />
Bank of America......................................39<br />
Audible.........................................................40<br />
Panasonic Corporation<br />
of North America.................................41<br />
Mario J. Gabelli and<br />
Regina M. Pitaro.................................48<br />
A. Michael and Ruth C. Lipper...........49<br />
Mazars USA, LLP.....................................50<br />
NJ PBS............................................................51<br />
Gibbons, P.C. ............................................ 52<br />
Shelley and Steven Einhorn................52<br />
Meg and Howard Jacobs...................53<br />
RWJBarnabas Health............................54<br />
NJM Insurance Group...........................58<br />
ADP................................................................58<br />
Genova Burns...........................................59<br />
Advanced Parking Concepts ............ 62<br />
Atlantic, Tomorrow’s Office.................64<br />
Elberon Development Co. ...................65<br />
BD...................................................................66<br />
njpac.org/gala 3<br />
Arts Education, NJPAC ..........................67
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