15th Annual Carolina Arts Brunch
Posted: May 11th, 2012Fellow Tar Heels-
15th Annual New York Arts Brunch
A Celebration of Arts at Carolina
Sunday, May 20 • Noon – 2 p.m.
The University Club
1 W. 54th St., New York
You are cordially invited to attend our 15th annual arts brunch in New York to celebrate the arts at Carolina and to honor Bryan Tucker ’93 (read about Mr. Tucker below) as the 15th recipient of the John L. Haber ’70 (“Habey”) Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts. The program will include comments by last year’s honoree Nova Thomas ’77.
GAA members attend for $35; nonmembers pay $50.
Alumni are urged to register promptly due to the popularity and limited capacity of the event. Online deadline is Thursday, May 17. On-site registration will be unlikely.
University Club Dress Code
Jacket and tie for men, business attire for women. No denim permitted.
University officials expected to attend are GAA President Doug Dibbert ‘70, School of Journalism and Mass Communications Dean Susan King, Dramatic Arts Department Chair McKay Coble ‘79, ‘81 (MFA), Music Department Chair Terry Rhodes ‘78, Susan Robinson King, Dean, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Bland Simpson, Professor of Creative Writing, Carolina Performing Arts Director of Development Raymond Farrow and PlayMakers Repertory’s Managing Director Hannah Granneman and Director of Development Stacy Payne. Also expected are past Habey honorees Nova Thomas ‘77, Michael Wilson ‘87, Ruby Lerner ‘74, Godfrey Cheshire ‘73, Michael Cumpsty ‘82,’85 MFA, Brian Hargrove ‘77 and Mary Pope Osborne ‘71.
Questions? Contact Casey Privette ’01 at clubs@unc.edu or (919) 962-6705.
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About Bryan Tucker
Bryan Tucker ’93 is a stand-up comedian and sketch actor, but he’s mostly known as a comedy writer. Bryan has written for some of the top TV sketch shows in the past decade including The Chris Rock Show, Chappelle’s Show and Saturday Night Live, for which he, in his seventh season, currently serves as writing supervisor.
Bryan is a five-time Emmy nominee, the recipient of a Peabody Award, and three Writers Guild Awards. A sketch that Bryan wrote for Chappelle’s Show (“The Race Draft”) was picked as No. 12 on Nerve and IFC.com’s “50 Greatest Sketches of All Time.”
Before he broke into television, Bryan was a performer who played more than 500 shows around the country as a stand-up and as a player in the sketch/ improv group Selected Hilarity. He still does stand up occasionally in New York.
Bryan is still active in the Carolina community. He and his wife, Rachael ’96, started the Tucker Family Scholarship, awarded to one student each year in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Bryan also has participated numerous times in the annual Carolina Comedy Festival, where he performs with special guests and leads seminars on comedy writing. While in New York, Bryan enjoys spending his time yelling at the television during Carolina basketball games, breaking several rules of his co-op apartment building. Bryan lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
