Syracuse Stage has announced a gift of $1 million from the estate of the late George Wallerstein. The gift honors Wallerstein’s late wife, Julie Haynes Lutz, by establishing the Julie Lutz New Play Development Fund.
The generous gift establishes a distinguished professorship, a teaching excellence award, and a science and mathematics scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences to honor Tom and Julie Lutz.
Julie Haynes Lutz died Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at her daughter’s home in West Sacramento, Calif., at the age of 77. She was the daughter of the late Willard Damon