Sheryl Lee Ralph and The DIVA Foundation Announce DIVAS Simply Singing! 2023

The event returns on Nov. 19 for a live taping at Los Angeles's Wilshire Ebell Theatre

Sheryl Lee Ralph is ready for another year of giving back!

The Abbott Elementary star and longtime HIV/AIDS activist and her nonprofit, The DIVA Foundation, have announced the return of the annual DIVAS Simply Singing! Raising Health Awareness benefit concert on Monday.

Set to take place on Nov. 19, the concert will be filmed in front of a live audience at Los Angeles's Wilshire Ebell Theatre, marking the show's return to being in-person again after going virtual in 2020 as a result of the pandemic.

Now in its 33rd year, the show — executive produced by host Ralph and her longtime producing partners Stephanie Lilly Smith and foundation executive director Norman Lee — will continue to assist HIV/AIDS programs in raising funds and awareness, and extend its work as the longest-running benefit concert for HIV/AIDS and health awareness in the U.S., per a release.

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While additional names for this year's talent have yet to be announced, past concerts have included Patti LaBelle, Raven Symoné, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson, Whoopi Goldberg and hundreds more.

The DIVA Foundation itself recently expanded programing "centered across five pillars" — including health awareness, women and girls, LGBTQ+, social justice and racial equity, and food and housing insecurity, according to a release.

And as Ralph told PEOPLE in March, she used to have to "nickel and dime" to put the yearly event together, but now her organization has raised over $3.5 million.

"I have always felt that health and well-being are of the utmost importance," she previously shared. "And when I saw my friends literally dropping dead during that last pandemic (the last virus was HIV), the fact that people didn't want to help, didn't want to do anything, ignored it like their lives didn't matter, I said, 'Somebody's got to do something.'"

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Ralph's benefit show initially included the likes of dancer Debbie Allen and The Supremes' Mary Wilson, and her efforts were inspired by what she saw in her everyday life while living in New York during the 1980s.

Now making a difference in the three decades since launching the benefit concert, Ralph told PEOPLE that the work had "been hard at times, very hard," but emphasized that "if you can reach one person, that is everything."

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Ralph may be focused on the health of others and giving back, but she's also been opening up about her own mental health. While speaking with PEOPLE in August, the actress opened up about her journey with therapy.

“My daughter said to me, 'Mommy, you need therapy because you have been traumatized,’” she said at Project Angel Food's Rise to the Challenge ceremony. “And I was like, 'No, I haven't.' And she said, 'See? You're the kind of person that really needs it.' The more you deny it the more you need it. And I was just like, ‘Wow.’”

“You're literally set up to be hurt by the forces that come for you, and I think that I've been in that position my whole life, that it's like, ‘Okay, what's one more back stab?’” Ralph added. “But we will get through it, because I have gotten through it in the past. And I think in some way, I've been made stronger by it all.”

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