EDGEWOOD ENTERTAINMENT

Edgewood Entertainment (Producers Dale A. Mott and Charles D. Urstadt) 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. In addition to Sugar Daddy, Edgewood’s projects as lead producers include the new musicals Gun & Powder and Long Way Down (May 22-June 23, 2024 at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, MD and at The Apollo’s Victoria Theater in Harlem, (Dates TBA), Sam Morrison’s Sugar Daddy (September 20-October 13, 2024 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, CA), 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.

 Charles D. Urstadt is focused on bringing new voices to commercial audiences. In his role as Producer/Managing Director of Edgewood Entertainment, Urstadt serves as lead creative producer of Long Way Down, La Egoista and Grace, and as co-producer of Gun & Powder and the Tony Award-nominated Appropriate. Past experience includes serving as chairman of the board of directors of Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc, a real estate investment trust traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Urstadt was a board member of the Ensemble Studio Theater, the Friends of WNET/Thirteen, and the New York State Board of Historic Preservation. Urstadt is currently president and director of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans, and a trustee of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, where he served a four-year term as chairman. In honor of his service, the museum named him chairman emeritus and created the Charles D. Urstadt Acquisition Fund.

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