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Tom Viola |
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TOM VIOLA is the Executive Director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), the nation's leading industry-based not-for-profit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization. Since its founding in 1987, BC/EFA has raised over $130 million for critically needed services for people living with HIV/AIDS and their families nationwide. BC/EFA presents six major annual events each year ? The Broadway Flea Market, The Gypsy of the Year Competition, The Broadway Bears Auction, Nothing Like a Dame, The Easter Bonnet Competition and Broadway Bares in addition to other on-going efforts and scores of other one-time fundraising events. BC/EFA supports six programs at The Actors'Fund of America: The AIDS Initiative; The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative; The Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic at The Aurora; two supportive housing residences and The Actors'Work Program. In addition, BC/EFA awards grants to over 450 AIDS and family service organizations in 47 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico. Viola was the founding administrative director of Equity Fights AIDS in 1988, saw through its merger with Broadway Cares in 1992 and has been Executive Director of BC/EFA since 1997. From 1996-2000 he wrote Broadway On Broadway, a live outdoor concert in Times Square for The League of American Theatres and Producers ? which was televised by WNBC for the first time in September 2000. He wrote the script for Carnegie Hall's Lerner And Loewe And.."A Tribute to Alan Jay Lerner" (June, 2000) as well as A Celebration Of The Hollywood Musical (January, 2000) for the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and Carnegie Hall's A Tribute To Comden And Green (September 1999). He co-wrote with Ms. Dewhurst and completed Colleen Dewhurst: Her Autobiography published by Scribner (1996) and is the co-author of Broadway: Day & Night, published by Pocket Books (1992).
Bio as of December, 2006.
Downstage Center (audio)
The Actors Fund and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids - December, 2006
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