Hanna Theater, which is a 1921 building also located in Playhouse Square. An extensive fundraising campaign ($19.2 million) enabled renovations that maintained the Hanna's historic interiors but updated staging mechanisms as well as reducing seating to accommodate 550 audience members. Having raised $14.7 million independently, final funding assistance came from a matching grant from the Kresge Foundation as well as donations from Tom Hanks, who had interned at the theater in 1977-1979. In addition to financial contributions, Hanks also raised funding through his performance of "Tom Hanks at the Hanna," which earned him the honorary title: chair of the campaign. The theater reached its goals for the renovation as well as securing an endowment that would support operations in years to come. In 2005, the GLTF won the Northern Ohio Live Magazine Award for Excellence in Theater and in 2006 won The Free Times Readers Choice Award for Best Performing Arts Group. Further accolades include the prestige as one of two Cleveland theaters, alongside the Cleveland Play House, with membership in the League of Resident Theaters, a designation that makes Cleveland only one of 11 US cities with that acclaim. "Festival" was eliminated from the title in 2011 to better reflect its September through May season and programming format. Having staged over 300 productions, the theater celebrated its 50th season in 2011-2012 and commemorated the milestone with a gala hosted at the InterContinental Hotel & Conference Center in April 2012. Notable alumni One of the most well-known alumni of the GLTF is Tom Hanks, who went on to become an Academy Award winning actor. Having worked with the theater in the summers of 1977-1979 as an intern and core company member, Hanks credits that time for teaching him to act. Other Academy Award-winning alumni include Olympia Dukakis, recognized for her performance in the film Moonstruck (1987), Ruby Dee who won for her performance in the film American Gangster (2007), and Cloris Leachman best known for her roles in The Facts of Life and the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The theater's reputation and strong artistic direction attracted talented actors across the years. In 1994, years after she played opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961), Piper Laurie performed Lyuba Ranevsky in the GLTF production of The Cherry Orchard. Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the comedy series All in the Family, performed on the GLTF stage in 1986 (Arsenic and