Join us for Droste’s 2025 Spring Benefit

An Intimate Evening of Conversation with Griffin Dunne

Moderated by Cynthia McFadden

April 7, 2025

6-8pm

Upper East Side, NYC

(exact location to be provided upon ticket purchase)

We cordially invite you to join us for Droste’s 2025 Spring Benefit. Proceeds support Droste’s mission of providing affordable and accessible mental health services. The evening will start with an open bar and passed hors d’oeuvres followed by a transition into the main event: an intimate conversation with Griffin Dunne, moderated by Cynthia McFadden. The event will close with an additional open bar period with passed hours d’oeuvres.

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Griffin Dunne

While known for starring in such iconic films like An American Werewolf in London and Martin Scorsese's After Hours, Golden Globe Award nominee Griffin Dunne continues to charm audiences and critics alike almost 30 years later. He was in the hit NBC series This is Us, opposite Mandy Moore and Sterling K. Brown. Other credits include the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club, as well as a starring role in Joey Soloway’s provocative Amazon Studios dramedy I Love Dick opposite Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn. He can currently be seen in the HBO MAX series The Girls On the Bus.
Griffin debuted as a director with his Oscar nominated short film “Duck of Groove” and has since directed Addicted to Love with Meg Ryan, Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, and the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold about his aunt Joan Didion.
His New York Times best selling family memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club, was released in the summer of 2024.

Cynthia McFadden

Cynthia McFadden has been among the nation’s leading investigative journalists for more than four decades. A former co-anchor of ABC’s Nightline and the former Senior Investigative and Legal Correspondent at NBC NEWS, she is currently writing a book.
McFadden has been recognized with a host of journalism’s most prestigious awards including nearly 20 Emmy nominations and 3 wins; 2 Peabody Awards, an Edward R. Murrow award for hard news; the Overseas Press Club Award, along with a Loeb Award for business reporting.
Called “the most impactful” of journalists by the highly regarded Poynter Institute, McFadden’s in-depth reporting around the world, often about the abuses faced by women and children, has led to policy changes and increased support for victims. Known for her probing interviews she has interviewed policy-makers and Presidents, celebrities and criminals around the world. She’s not saying which were most difficult.

2024 Spring Benefit

Thank you for making our 2024 Spring Benefit a success!

Special thanks to Holland Taylor for being our featured guest, and Cynthia McFadden for moderating.

With your support, we raised almost $100,000 to support our Scholarship Fund that provides sliding scale fees to those clients otherwise unable to afford therapy.

Droste extends an additional thank you to our corporate sponsors:

2023 Spring Benefit

Thank you for making our 2023 Spring Benefit a success!

Special thanks to Delia Ephron for being our featured guest, and Marie Brenner for moderating.

With your support, we raised over $100,000 to support our Scholarship Fund that provides sliding scale fees to those clients otherwise unable to afford therapy.

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