CENTER STAGE

April 3, 2025

11:00 AM  ||  Reception and Registration
11:30-1:00 PM  ||  Seated Luncheon

Kinder HSPVA’s Denney Theatre
790 Austin Street
Complimentary valet

Tickets start at $500  ||  Tables start at $5,000

Chairs

Sally and Philip Edmundson

2025 Distinguished Alumnus

K. Todd Freeman ’83

Host Committee

Irma Alarcon and J. Alejandro Rauh-Hain || Evelyn and Frank Angelle || Lou and John Black || The Boblitt Family || Minnette and Peter Boesel || Patricia Bonner || Kristen Burke || Alice Chen and Lyle Ross || Molly and Chandu Chilakapati || Susan Cooley || Susie and Sanford Criner || Algenita Scott Davis || Rhetta Detrich and Bill Horwath || M. Kaye and Alex DeWalt || Angie and Grant Dorfman || Donna Lax-Edison and Andrew Edison || Cristina Esquivel || Catherine and James Evans || Jo and Jim Furr || Karen Ostrum George and Larry George || Chris Goins and Josh Pazda || Glenda and Russell Gordy || Christi and Keith Guerrini || Tissy and Rusty Hardin || Jennifer Hardy and Daniel Serrato || Janis and Paul Jarosz || Jill and Dunham Jewett || Carey Jordan and Brian Simmons || George C. Lancaster || Victoria and Alex Lazar || Megan and Bradley Lembcke || Christina and Damien Lyster || Simone and Sean Maher || Jenny Mohr and Matt Parker || Fan and Peter Morris || Kristina and Gerald Nemec || Betty and Bob Palmquist || Robbie Pape || Louise and Bob Parsley || Heather and Chris Powers || Julia Robinson || Jane and Dick Schmitt || Kimberly Hickson Spaw and David Spaw || Beth and David Speck || Amy Sutton and Gary Chiles || Judy and Charles Tate || Austin Thomas || Beth and Schuyler Tilney || Suzanne and Josh Vanlandingham || Randy and Pat Young || Dr. Priscilla Rivas, Kinder HSPVA Principal

About 2025 Distinguished Alumnus K. Todd Freeman ’83

K.Todd Freeman is a two-time Tony Award-nominated theatre, film, and TV actor. He has appeared on Broadway in The Minutes, Airline Highway (Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play and Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play),Wicked, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The Song of Jacob Zulu (Tony Award nominee for Best Actor in a Play).

Freeman’s other awards include the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play, and the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance for his acclaimed work in Downstate. Other Off-Broadway credits include Corruption and Fetch Clay, Make Man (Obie Award winner for Performance).

In addition to his stage work, Freeman has extensive experience on camera. His TV credits include Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events  and Amazon’s The Horrors of Dolores Roach, as well as Will Trent, The Rehearsal, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and guest roles on some of TV’s most enduring primetime dramas. Films include Peter Hedges’ The Same Storm, Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia, Naked Singularity, The Dark Knight, Cider House Rules, and Grosse Pointe Blank.

Freeman has been a Steppenwolf Theatre company member since 1993. He received his BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is a 1983 graduate of the HSPVA Theatre Department.