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Want to have dinner with the cast of “Heated Rivalry” after you film a walk-on role in Season 2?
Here’s your chance. The dinner and role are being auctioned off during the NYC LGBT Community Center’s Center Dinner gala taking place in April.
The benefit will also honor the show’s creators — writer-director-producer Jacob Tierney and executive producer Brendan Brady — with the Cultural Impact Award.
“Tierney and Brady have elevated and centered queer characters as fully realized leads whose desires, conflicts and tenderness are treated with dignity,” center CEO Dr. Carla Smith said in a statement Thursday. “By championing our voices, they have brought queer joy and storytelling to the mainstream media and have created work that affirms and advances our community.”
The Center Dinner takes place on April 16 at Cipriani Wall Street and serves as the organization’s largest annual fundraiser.
Prior to creating “Heated Rivalry,” Tierney co-created, co-wrote and directed the acclaimed Crave/Hulu television series “Letterkenny” and the first two seasons of its spinoff show “Shoresy,” winning nine Canadian Screen Awards in the process. Before his success as a showrunner in television, Tierney wrote and directed four feature films, including “Twist,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the Genie-winning “The Trotsky” starring Jay Baruchel and the cult hit “Good Neighbors” starring Baruchel, Emily Hampshire and Scott Speedman.
Brady is a Canadian Screen Award-nominated producer, writer and director based in Toronto. In 2023, Brady and Tierney formed Accent Aigu Entertainment. “Heated Rivalry” is their first production for Canadian streamer Crave and has become a global sensation, selling to HBO Max in the U.S., Australia, Europe and Asia, as well as to Sky U.K. and New Zealand. Prior to starting Accent Aigu Entertainment, Brady served as a producer on a number of feature films such as “Giant Little Ones” and “Fitting In,” as well as “Letterkenny” and “Shoresy.”
For more information about The Center and the gala, go to gaycenter.org.
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