Julie Halston | 2020 Isabelle Stevenson Award Acceptance Speech
Channel: The Tony Awards
Date: 2021-09-15

Julie is an inspirational talent both on and off the stage. Her unwavering commitment to our Broadway community and to the Pulmonary Fibrosis community is unparalleled.  Her commitment has resulted in millions of dollars raised to help the people and caregivers afflicted by PF. We are honored to present the Isabelle Stevenson Award to her.

---About the Isabelle Stevenson Award----
The Isabelle Stevenson Award is presented annually to a member of the theatre community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations.

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---About Julie Halston---
Miss Halston appeared on stage most recently in the Broadway production of Tootsie. For her performance in the Broadway revival of You Can’t Take It With You, she received the Richard Seff Award from Actors’ Equity Association, as well as Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Her other Broadway appearances include On the Town, Anything Goes, Hairspray, Gypsy and Twentieth Century, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Halston is a founding member of Charles Busch’s legendary theatre company Theatre in Limbo, and has co-starred with Mr. Busch in numerous productions including Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, The Tribute Artist, and her Drama Desk Award nominated performances in The Divine Sister and Red Scare on Sunset. Her one person off-Broadway show Julie Halston’s Lifetime of Comedy earned an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Halston was last seen off-Broadway in The Babylon Line and will next be seen in the world premiere of Fairycakes. Her film credits include the forthcoming The Sixth Reel and Simchas and Sorrows. Halston has appeared on television in a variety of series including the new Gossip Girl, The Good Fight, Divorce, and Sex and the City, for which she reprised her role in the feature film. Episodes of her talk series Virtual Halston are available on YouTube. She founded the annual Broadway Belts charity event in 2010 to and has grown the event into a fundraiser that has raised innumerable funds and awareness for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. She was happily married to newscaster Ralph Howard for 27 years.

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Filmed at Birdland Jazz Club
Director/Producer: Ian Weiss
Editor/Producer: Kayla Williamson
Video: Michael D’Angora and Tom D’Angora
Hair: Allen Lyons
Makeup: Nathan Johnson
Wardrobe: Alejo Vietti
Hair/Wig Design: Charles Lapointe
Production: D. Michael Dvorchak, L. Glenn Poppleton 
Thanks to Alaina Gonzales, Gianni Valenti, Jim Caruso and Birdland Jazz Club