Our Team
Dale A. Mott
Producer | Managing Director
Dale is a leading producer of critically-acclaimed and award-winning productions including the Tony Award®-nominated musical NEW YORK, NEW YORK; the Tony Award®-nominated revival of 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.
Dale is also a three-time Telly Award® recipient winning the Best Social Impact Video Bronze Prize for “I Have A Right To Vote,” which garnered over 1.2 million views during the 2020 national election cycle; 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.
Prior to producing, Dale enjoyed a thirty-year non-profit fundraising career serving in leadership roles with the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, CARE, The Phillips Collection, Arena Stage, Halcyon, Penumbra Theatre Company, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Dale serves on the board of directors for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and is an associate member of The Broadway 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.
Dale and his husband, Ken Hyle, split their time between New Orleans and New York.
Charles D. Urstadt
Producer | Managing Director
Charles D. Urstadt is focused on bringing new voices to commercial audiences. As producer/managing director of Edgewood Entertainment, he is part of a Tony Award®-winning winning team that is unwavering in its commitment to supporting and sharing artists’ stories that are beautiful, authentic, relatable, and deeply affecting.
Current projects include acting as lead producer of Long Way Down, La Egoista, Sugar Daddy and Sugar Daddy and producer of Appropriate, Gun & Powder and Power of Sail.
In addition to his work with Edgewood, Charlie is also chairman and president of Urstadt Property Company, Inc., a privately held commercial real estate investment corporation. Past real estate 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. The company, based in Greenwich, CT, owned 77 properties containing approximately 5.3 million square feet. The company merged with Regency Centers in August 2023. Other past real estate positions include serving as executive vice president of Brown Harris Stevens Inc. and senior vice president of Pearce, Urstadt, Mayer & Greer, Inc.
As a resident of New York, Charlie was a board member of the Ensemble Studio Theater, the Friends of WNET/Thirteen, and the New York State Board of Historic Preservation.
In New Orleans, Charlie is president of the Preservation Resource Center where he has been a director for the last five years. He is also 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.
Charlie resides in New Orleans with his husband David Bernard and their Boston Terrier Dolly.