* Gary Mascaro; Award-Winning Choreographer

Gary Mascaro, 43, choreographer for the Los Angeles, New York and Italian productions of “Tamara.” Mascaro won the L.A. Drama Critics Circle, L.A. Weekly and Drama-Logue awards for his works and was named as an artist of the year by the Los Angeles County Music Center. Designing more than 20 productions, he worked regularly as choreographer for the Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theater. Much of his work was done with the Taper’s youth theater, the Improvisational Theater Project. On Wednesday in Los Angeles of the complications of AIDS.