Olivier Award winner Sam Tutty is among the performers announced for A Tectonic Cabaret, the annual benefit held by Tectonic Theater Project at the Edison Ballroom in New York on Monday 26 October.
Sam Tutty, who won an Olivier Award for his West End performance in Dear Evan Hansen, will sing in New York next month at A Tectonic Cabaret. Tectonic Theater Project has announced the full line-up for its annual benefit, and two of the four Tony Award winners and nominees on it are billed off the same British musical.
Tutty appears alongside Christiani Pitts, nominated for a Tony Award, as he was, for Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) — the musical that began at the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn before transferring to the Criterion Theatre in the West End. Tony Award winner Nikki M. James, of The Book of Mormon, and Tony Award nominee Robin de Jesús, of In the Heights, complete the quartet of principal names.
The bill also carries the all-female percussive dance trio Soles of Duende, the pop, jazz and R&B choir New York Vocal Collective, and the cast of The Gorgeous Nothings, a new piece by Travis Russ that premieres at PAC NYC in winter 2027.
Tony Award nominee Jenn Colella hosts, and the evening starts at 6.30pm on Monday, 26 October at the Edison Ballroom. Emilio Ramos directs, with musical direction by Julianne Merril. Tectonic will honour the producer Ruth Hendel with the James C. Hormel Spirit of Tectonic Award.
Hendel is the second London thread running through the evening. With her husband Stephen Hendel she developed and produced FELA!, which ran on Broadway, at the National Theatre in London and on tour worldwide, and the pair executive produced the documentary Finding Fela!. Ramos, meanwhile, is currently associate director of Hadestown and Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway.
Money raised goes to Tectonic's new play initiatives, which have more than ten works in development, and to its Moment Work education programmes in New York public schools and across the United States. The company was founded in 1991 by Moisés Kaufman and Jeffrey LaHoste and is led today by Kaufman and Matt Joslyn; its plays include The Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife and Here There Are Blueberries, a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
There is nothing here for a London audience to book. A Tectonic Cabaret is a one-night benefit in New York, with tickets handled by Tectonic Theater Project itself, and the two London productions behind those credits — Dear Evan Hansen at the Noel Coward Theatre and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) at the Criterion — have both closed.
