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EDGEWOOD ENTERTAINMENT
Edgewood Entertainment, led by Producer Dale A. Mott, is a Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning producing entity focused on supporting works by historically marginalized people, including the BIPOC and LBGTQIA+ communities, female artists, and other stories not often told on stage. Edgewood’s projects as lead producers include the new musicals Wanted and Long Way Down, Sam Morrison’s Sugar Daddy, the original musical, Grace, currently in development, and the new play, La Egoista by Erlina Ortiz, directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo.
Dale A. Mott is a leading producer of critically acclaimed and award-winning productions including the Tony Award-nominated play Appropriate, currently on Broadway; New York, New York; August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson; and the Tony Award-winning musical A Strange Loop. Other seminal Broadway productions include Thoughts of a Colored Man and The Lifespan of a Fact. Mott is also a three-time Telly Award recipient, winning the Best Social Impact Video Bronze Prize for “I Have A Right To Vote”; Best Online Non-Scripted Series Bronze Prize for the #ByGrace Live Chat Series hosted by celebrity chef Carla Hall and producer/composer Nolan Williams, Jr. and featuring guests Broadway legend Brian Stokes Mitchell, James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dr. Jessica B. Harris, and others; and Best Food & Beverage Online Series Bronze Prize for the #ByGrace Live Chat Series. Before producing, Dale enjoyed a thirty-year non-profit development career serving in leadership roles with The Smithsonian, CARE USA, The Phillips Collection, Arena Stage, Halcyon, Penumbra Theatre Company, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Mott is a member of the LGBTQ+ Committee of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, a trustee of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and is a member of The Broadway League, The Off-Broadway League, and The Drama League. He is also a preliminary judge for the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, more commonly known as the Jimmy Awards, given annually to recognize musical theatre performances by high school students in the United States.