Monday, May 11 at 6pm
The Manhattan Penthouse
80 Fifth Avenue, E 14th St, New York, NY 10011

 

The 2026 Bridge Awards and Benefit honors two leaders whose work has shaped the cultural and labor landscape of our city and beyond. This year, Working Theater is proud to honor Brendan Griffith (President of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO), a tireless advocate for working people across New York City, and Gregory Mosher (former Director of Lincoln Center Theater and former Artistic Director of the Goodman Theatre), whose visionary leadership helped define generations of American theater. Together, these leaders embody the bridge between art and labor that sits at the heart of Working Theater’s mission.

More information on performers, hosts, and tickets coming soon! 

Brendan Griffith was elected President of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO in July 2025. He joined the NYCCLC in 2009 and had previously been its Chief of Staff since 2011. He is also a proud member of Iron Workers Local 40 and the United University Professions.

Brendan’s work has involved coordination of various CLC programs as well as oversight of day to day operations, but some of his most rewarding efforts have been his work on the Annual Workers Memorial Day Commemoration, the Annual Commemoration to the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and the CLC’s Annual Labor Day Parade.

He currently serves on the boards of the American Labor Museum – Botto House and the Worker Justice Project. He is on the Advisory Board of the Mount Sinai Selikoff Center for Occupational Health and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety & Health. Additionally, Brendan is an Adjunct Instructor at SUNY Empire State College’s Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies.

Brendan completed an apprenticeship with Iron Workers Local 40, is a graduate of the NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute and is also a graduate of Fordham University where he majored in Political Science.

Gregory Mosher is the former Director of the Lincoln Center Theater and Artistic Director of Goodman theater in Chicago. He has produced and/or directed over 200 plays, nearly half of which were world or American premieres, at those theaters and from Broadway and London’s West End to South African townships. He focused on new work, accessibility – Member tickets to Lincoln Center Theater were $10 during his tenure – and diverse programming. He worked with many of the 20th century’s legendary theater artists, including Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Leonard Bernstein, and the Nobel Prizewinners Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Samuel Beckett. Mosher presented the premieres of new plays by David Mamet, Richard Nelson, John Leguizamo, John Guare, and Spalding Gray, including the premieres of Sarafina!, FreakSix Degrees of Separation, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston’s Mule Bone, Glengarry Glen Ross, and many more. He currently serves as Executive Director of Hunter College’s Office of the Arts.