AMERICAN THEATRE WING - Key Persons

Alia Jones-Harvey

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Alia Jones-Harvey is the only woman of color currently a lead producer on Broadway. Her company Front Row productions began with the revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2008, continued with A Streetcar Named Desire, was involved with The Trip to Bountiful, and most recently with Eclipsed, which was nominated for 6 Tony Awards® including Best Play - three of the four productions featuring all-black casts, the third (Streetcar) primarily people of color. She teaches a course entitled "Producing for Broadway" at the City College School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Amanda Dubois

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Independent Commercial Producer

Amanda Dubois had been an independent commercial producer since 2004, a Full Member of the Broadway League since 2005 and serves on the Advisory Council of the American Theater Wing. Credits include: Broadway: Grace, Spring Awakening (Tony Award Best Musical, Drama Desk Award), ‘night, Mother. Off-Broadway: Small Mouth Sounds, Shotspeare, Traces. National Tour: Small Mouth Sounds, Shotspeare, Traces, Spring Awakening. While on the producing team of Spring Awakening (Broadway and National Tour), Ms. Dubois was instrumental in devising and implementing the social media campaign on MySpace and Facebook, that served as the cornerstone of the marketing effort to the 18-35 year old audience. She also developed a program with Apple for both in-store and online promotion of the show on Broadway and the Road. Ms. Dubois, and her partners Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson and Tom Gabbard, created a commercial tour and sit down in New York for Traces, by the Montréal based modern circus company 7 Fingers. One of Time Magazine's Top Ten of 2011 and called "mad, pulse raising magic" by the New York Times. Traces traveled to Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver before sitting down for over a year Off Broadway at the Union Square Theater, where it was awarded "Best Special Event" by the Off Broadway Alliance. Subsequently, the show did a fifteen week tour in major road markets including: Tampa, Florida; Dallas, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. Ms. Dubois has several shows in various stages of development: Halftime debuted in Chicago in December 2015 and will have another pre Broadway stop at the Papermill Playhouse in May 2018. Most recently, Ms. Dubois has partnered with Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson and Robert Israel on Mad Hot Ballroom, directed by Jerry Mitchell with Book and Lyrics by Rick Elice and Music by Tom Kitt.

Andy Snyder

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Founder of Thinkwell NYC

Andy Snyder is the founder of Thinkwell NYC, a creative agency for the written word. Thinkwell specializes in strategic messaging, delivering meticulously crafted, stylish copy to a diverse range of clients. Prior to Thinkwell, Andy served as creative director and vice president of leading theatrical public relations firm DKC/O&M, overseeing communications strategy for dozens of award-winning Broadway, Off-Broadway, and international stage productions, public figures, and organizations. His past experience in public relations also includes tenures at PMK/HBH (now PMK·BNC), BlueCurrent, a division of FleishmanHillard, and Barlow-Hartman. Andy currently serves on the board of The Ally Coalition. ThinkwellNYC.com

Anna Deavere Smith

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher, and author. She is credited with having created a new form of theater. Smith's work combines the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. Smith has created over fifteen one-person shows based on hundreds of interviews. Her most recent play, Notes from the Field, looks at the vulnerability of youth, inequality, the criminal justice system, and contemporary activism. The New York Times named it among The Best Theater of 2016 and Time magazine named it one of the Top 10 Plays of that year. In 2018, HBO premiered the film version of Notes from the Field. Smith's play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 was recently named one of the best plays of the last twenty-five years by The New York Times. Smith has appeared on television programs including Shonda Rhimes's For the People, Black-ish, Nurse Jackie, and The West Wing. Her film work includes roles in The American President, Philadelphia, RENT, and Rachel Getting Married. President Obama awarded Smith the National Humanities Medal in 2013. Additional honors include the prestigious MacArthur Award and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for achievement in the arts. She has been honored with the George Polk Career Award in Journalism, a Ridenhour Courage Prize, and the Dean's Medal from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her work has received two Tony nominations and she was runner up for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Her honorary degrees include those from Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Juilliard, Dartmouth, Spelman, and Swarthmore. She is a University Professor at Tisch School of the Arts and the founding director of the NYU Institute in the Arts and Civic Dialogue.

Anna May Feige

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Advisor
Executive
Member of the Advisory Committee

Anna May is a graduate of Princeton University and earned an MBA at New York University. A business leader with over thirty years of experience, largely at Prudential, her responsibilities ranged from leading 1,500 financial planners in the Northeast, to managing the start-up of a 500-person mutual fund back-office, and leading a $5 billion, 3,300 staff health insurance operation. Anna May left the for-profit arena to become a Director of The Fund for Public Schools at the New York City Department of Education. Following that experience, she volunteered at Good Shepherd Services for four years. Anna May and her husband, Tim, are avid theater goers whether in New York, London, or Los Angeles. Among their most treasured theater moments are attending Tony Award rehearsals and awards ceremonies. They support a broad range of arts institutions including the New York Pops, The Drama League, Master Voices, and The Manhattan Theater Club. Anna May has served on the Executive Committees of half a dozen non-profits, including the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and the College Women's Association of Japan. While on The Drama League board, she provided substantial financial support, served as Secretary, chaired its Governance and Education Committees, served on the Human Resources and Strategic Planning Committees, and twice co-chaired its Annual Gala. Anna May is currently Board Chair of Asia Initiatives, serves on the Drama League Advisory Council and volunteers for New York Cares and Para Los Ninos which educates and supports children in the poorest neighborhoods of Los Angeles. She has mentored a New York foster care teen for five years.

Ayanna Prescod - Founder

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Advisor
Founder
Member of the Advisory Committee
Producer
Social Media Specialist

Ayanna Prescod is a Brooklyn-based theater professional, producer, social media specialist and founder. She has worked as a theater journalist with bylines in several esteemed publications such as Variety, Harper's Bazaar, Playbill, Theatermania, American Theatre, and Exeunt NYC. Ayanna's experience in theater production includes her role as co-producer on the Broadway production of Pass Over in 2021 and Associate Producer on the Broadway productions of Is This A Room and Dana H. Ayanna has worked with Situation Interactive on social media campaigns for Tony Award winning shows like MJ The Musical, Kimberly Akimbo and Topdog/Underdog. She is the founder of OurBKSocial.com, a digital platform dedicated to showcasing the people and places of Brooklyn, New York. Her passion for theater knows no bounds and is evident in all her work.

Barbara Waldman

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Life Trustee and Former Board Chair of the American Craft Council

Barbara Waldman is a passionate supporter and advocate for the fields of craft, design, and performing arts. She is a trustee of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, where she is a member of the Executive Committee. Barbara is a life trustee and former board chair of the American Craft Council, as well as a recipient of the Council's Aileen Osborn Webb Award for Philanthropy recognizing exceptional contributions to the field of contemporary craft. She is a director emeritus and former board chair of the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, and a founding and former board member of the Art Jewelry Forum where she continues to be an active committee member. Now retired, Barbara was principal of a firm marketing the services of interior designers and architects. Prior to that, her background includes many years in the corporate world working in strategic planning and marketing for the financial services and industrial products industries. Also involved in community service, Barbara is a long-time Steering Committee member of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) in San Francisco. She is a sustaining member of the San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary and a past member of the AIDS Leadership Council at the University of California San Francisco. A lifelong fan of the performing arts, Barbara enjoys theater, cabaret, ballet and symphony. Her primary residence is in San Francisco.

Ben Sands

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Agent and Partner at Artists & Representatives

Ben Sands is an agent and partner at Artists & Representatives, a talent agency, where they run the New York office. They have been an agent at the company for over 12 years, and prior to joining A&R they were an agent at another NY agency for 5 years. Artists & Representatives represents actors bicoastally with offices in Los Angeles and New York. A&R clients are currently working on Broadway, off-Broadway, as series regulars on every major television and streaming network, and in lead roles in many features from big budget franchise films to independent features. In addition to their work as an agent, they have taught a "Business of the Business" class to actors and aspiring industry professionals across the country at numerous prestigious Universities and Institutions.

Bernard Telsey

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
New York Vice President of the Casting Society of America

Bernard Telsey graduated from New York University in 1981 with a degree in Theater Administration and Acting. Soon after, he co-founded MCC Theater with Robert LuPone. Simultaneously, Telsey began working at Meg Simon and Fran Kumin's office as an assistant for six years, and then as a casting director at Risa Bramon & Billy Hopkins Casting. He opened his own casting office in 1988. Since then, he, along with his staff of 22 casting directors, associates, and assistants, have cast such Broadway shows as Rent, Wicked, Hairspray, In the Heights, Kinky Boots, Hamilton, and many more, including countless national tours, Off-Broadway productions, and regional theatre productions across the country. Telsey won an Emmy Award for casting the pilot of "Ugly Betty" and was nominated for another for "The Big C." He won an Independent Spirit Award for his work on Margin Call and was the 2016 recipient of the Casting Society of America's Hoyt Bowers Award for his contributions to the profession. As an office, Telsey + Company has won 14 Artios Awards. Telsey serves as the New York Vice President of the Casting Society of America and on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He remains one of the Artistic Directors of MCC Theater with Robert LuPone and William Cantler.

Binta Niambi Brown

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Brisa Carleton

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Brooke DeVard Ozaydinli

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Member of the Advisory Committee

Bryony Romer

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Development and Strategic Planning Consultant

CeCe Black

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Celso Gonzalez-Falla

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Born in La Habana, Cuba and educated at Colegio de Belen, (Bachiller de Letras), (1940-1953), Universidad Catolica de Santo Tomas de Villanueva and graduated from law school, (1953- 1958). He worked with his family in the cattle and sugar business. His family properties were confiscated by the Castro government under the guise of an Agrarian Reform starting in June of 1959. To avoid arrest, he had to seek political asylum in the Embassy of Chile from April of 1961 to June of 1961 when he left Cuba as a political asylee and arrived in Texas in June of that year. His first job was as a landman with Coastal States Gas Producing Company in Corpus Christi, Texas (1961-1966), and worked for Cattle Land Oil Company as Vice-President from 1966 to 1968. He is a member of the Texas Bar and was licensed to practice law in Texas on September,18, 1967. In 1968 he was a founder of the law firm of Porter, Taylor, and Gonzalez and was involved in the oil and gas business as Vice President of Integral Petroleum Company and after its sale to Matagorda Oil and Exploration Company, he was its short-term president. He was in the banking business in Corpus Christi, first as Vice President of the Bank of Commerce, which merged with the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, and became its Vice Chairman of the Board, until it was sold to the Texas Bank of Commerce. He was also involved in several smaller oil exploration projects. He is presently President of Soncel Financial Inc. who is a privately held company founded with his deceased spouse Sondra M. Gilman and in 1968 thru is affiliated companies own The Lakes, a 1,400 acre a real estate planned unit development in Kingsland, Ga. He is President of the Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation, Inc, Gilman and Gonzalez Falla Arts Foundation, private Foundations, Cintas Foundation, based in New York and Miami, that was created to encourage artists, writers, musicians, and architects born in Cuba or of Cuban descent, who annual awards of twenty-five thousand dollars for each category to selected fellows. He was President and Trustee of Aperture Foundation, (2005-2014). Texas Governor George Bush appointed him as Texas Art Commissioner served from 1997 to 2003. He is a member of the Whitney Museum photography committee. His wife and him created the Gilman and Gonzalez Arts Foundation in 1989 to support lyricists and playwrights working in the American Musical Theatre. Were honored with Theatreworks USA's Lee Salk "Good Works" Award for distinguished contributions to Musical Theatre, and Urban Stages for work in promoting and supporting musical theatre. His deceased wife, Sondra M. Gilman, before they married, was an avid collector of art, including photos. She was instrumental for the Whitney Museum to start collecting photography, and the curator of photography is named after her. Their collection has more that 1200 photos and their collection has had three shows. The first one "From the Heart" curated by Adam Weinberg opened at the Art Museum of South Texas. Corpus Christi on March 6, 1998, traveled to Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, and the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama. A book on the show was published by the Aperture Foundation: "From the Heart. The Power of Photography, A collector's choice. The second show was "Shared Vision: The Sondra and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography", was curated by Ben Thompson, and Paul Karabinis, and opened in September of 2011 it went to Aperture Foundation in New York, 2012, Princeton University Museum, 2013, Brooks Museum in Memphis, TN and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Alabama, 1999. A book for the exhibit was published by Aperture Foundation. The first show in Europe was at the Musee l'Elysee in Lausanne, curated by Tatyana Franck and Pauline Martin called "The Beauty of Lines" and traveled to the Caillebotte Museum, Yerres, France and Fundación Foto Colectania in Barcelona. The book was published by The Musee de l'Elysee. ART NEWS listed Sondra and Celso in 2004 as one of the top 25 collectors, and in 2011 as one of the top 10 photo collectors. An interview in 2015 published by the Spanish magazine "Tendencies del Mercado del Arte" featured the Gonzalez-Falla's as owners of an "admirable collection". Celso's main passions are Cuba, photography, and writing. His first novel "My Lost Cuba" was published in October of 2013, and a translation "La Cuba que Perdímos" was published in September of 2016. He also has privately published two books of poems. Pa'Ella, Paris November 2011, and "Cuántas Veces" a book of poems and photographs, November 2017. He is presently working on a book on short stories.

Charles Randolph-Wright

Job Titles:

Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Charles Randolph-Wright has built a dynamic and diversified career in directing, writing, and producing for theatre, television, and film. He directed the smash hit Motown The Musical (Broadway, National Tour, and London), the Broadway bound musical Born For This (which he co-wrote with gospel icon Bebe Winans), the Pulitzer prize winning play Ruined and the musical Sophisticated Ladies (starring Maurice Hines), at Arena Stage, the 75th anniversary tour of the opera Porgy and Bess, Brian Stokes Mitchell in Love/Life at Lincoln Center, Guys and Dolls (the 50 th anniversary national tour), They're Playing Our Song (in Portuguese in Brasil), Cabaret Verboten at the Mark Taper Forum (with Bebe Neuwirth and Roger Rees), and The Diva Is Dismissed (starring Jenifer Lewis) at the Public Theater. Charles wrote the play Blue, starring Phylicia Rashad, which broke box office records at Arena Stage (where Charles is an inaugural resident playwright), and has had productions throughout the United States, including the Roundabout Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse (which starred Ms. Rashad, Diahann Carroll, and Clifton Davis). Charles also wrote Cuttin' Up (based upon the book by Craig Marberry), The Night is a Child (starring JoBeth Williams), Love in Afghanistan, and co-wrote the Tony nominated Just Between Friends starring Bea Arthur. Television credits include directing the series Greenleaf, Katy Keene, Step Up Highwater, Lincoln Heights, South Of Nowhere, and Live At Lincoln Center. He directed the award winning film Preaching To The Choir, the European Freestyle campaign for Nike, and produced and wrote the series Linc's. Charles is the Executive Producer of the film Maurice Hines:Bring Them Back which recently won the Grand Jury Prize at the NY Doc Film Festival. www.Randolph-Wright.com

Charles Tolbert

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Charles Tolbert is an intellectual property attorney handling legal and business matters for entertainment and technology businesses and counseling an eclectic roster of designers, authors, production companies, and artists. He has provided legal services for stage and film including the documentary feature Brooklyn Castle and the Oscar®- nominated best documentary feature How To Survive A Plague. Prior to private practice, Tolbert managed intellectual property rights for Pearson the UK based media and publishing group where he was responsible for global partnerships and managed the Dick and Jane and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer properties. He previously worked in business affairs for Dove Audio in Beverly Hills a pioneer in the audiobook business. Tolbert serves on the Board of Directors of Save Venice, is a Trustee of Adelphi University, and is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. He formerly served as Vice President of the Board of Directors of Grand Street Settlement.

Clint Ramos

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Costume Designer
Professor of Design and Head of Design and Production at Fordham University

Clint Ramos is a scenic and costume designer. He is the recipient of a TONY Award for Best Costume Design of a Play (the first person of color to win in his category) and is also a three time TONY nominee, 2 OBIE Awards including one for Sustained Excellence in Design, 3 Lucille Lortel Awards and 6 nominations, 2 American Theater Wing Henry Hewes Awards and 8 nominations, TDF Irene Sharraf Young Master Award, Helen Hayes Award, Craig Noel Award, and 3 Drama Desk nominations, among other awards. He is also the recipient of the Ani ng Dangal Presidential Medal for dramatic arts from the President of the Philippines-he received this honor twice. He has designed sets and/or costumes for over a hundred theater, opera and dance productions. Selected credits include the Broadway productions of Burn This with Adam Driver and Keri Russel, Torch Song, Once On This Island, Six Degrees of Separation with Allison Janney, Sunday in the Park With George with Jake Gyllenhaal, In Transit, Eclipsed with Lupita Nyong'o, Violet with Sutton Foster and The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper (also West End). New York highlights also include Slave Play, White Noise, Wild Goose Dreams, Bella, Kid Victory, Sweet Charity, Bootycandy, Barbecue, Here Lies Love (NY, Seattle and at the National Theatre, London), Dry Powder with Claire Danes and John Kazinsky, TheGood Person of Szechuan, Appropriate, Angels in America, Wild With Happy, and many more. He is the principal costume designer for City Center Encores! Off-Center having designed all 7 seasons since its inception under Jeanine Tesori's leadership. In New York, his designs have been seen at the Public Theater where he has designer over 20 shows, New York Theater Workshop, Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Signature Theater, Classic Stage Company, Ma-Yi, NAATCO, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Women's Project, Soho Playhouse, Mint Theater, Red Bull Theater, The Asia Society, and many others. Mr. Ramos is a Professor of Design and Head of Design and Production at Fordham University. He was professor of scenic design at SUNY Purchase and has been a visiting professor/artist at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Georgetown University.

Cynthia Erivo

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Dale Cendali

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Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

Dasha Epstein

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Member of the Board of Trustees

David Brown

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Member of the Board of Trustees

David Henry Hwang

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Immediate past Chair
Member of the Board of Trustees

David Zinn

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Costume and Set Designer

David Zinn is a costume and set designer for theater and opera. On Broadway he's designed scenery and costumes for THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MUSICAL, FUN HOME, CHOIR BOY, AMELIE, and THE LAST SHIP; scenery for KIMBERLY AKIMBO, FUNNY GIRL, THE MINUTES, DIANA, TORCH SONG, and THE HUMANS; and costumes for A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2, AIRLINE HIGHWAY, BENGAL TIGER…,OTHER DESERT CITIES, THE VIBRATOR PLAY and XANADU. Off-Broadway he's designed at Playwright's Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center, MCC, 2d Stage, Elevator Repair Service, Target Margin, and the Public. He's also designed for A.C.T. in San Francisco, ACT Seattle, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, CTG, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles Opera. Overseas he's designed at the National, Young Vic, and The Hampstead (UK); The Berlin Staatsoper, and Theater Basel. He's received Tony, Drama Desk, Hewes and Obie Awards for his work.

Di Glazer

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Co - Head of the Theater Department at ICM Partners

Di Glazer is a partner and Co-Head of the Theater Department at ICM Partners. She began her tenure as an assistant in 2011 and quickly rose to become the youngest department head at ICM and the youngest theater department head across any agency. She has been featured as part of Variety's New Leaders and New Power of New York issues. Glazer's clients include Tony Award winners Rachel Chavkin, Justin Peck and Kelli O'Hara as well as Theresa Rebeck, Sarah DeLappe, Halley Feiffer, Antoinette Nwandu, Danya Taymor, Suzanne Heathcote, Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen, PigPen Theater Company, Lauren Yee and Martin Zimmerman.

Drama League

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NY - Board Member for Approximately 18 Years, Supporter of the Directors Project

Edward Pierce

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Advisor
Designer
Member of the Advisory Committee

Edward Pierce is a TONY® Award Nominated Designer and operates a NYC-Based design studio specializing in production design of Broadway, Touring, and International Live Stage Productions.

Elaine C. Wilson

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Elaine C. Wilson is a native of London with a corporate background in Human Resources. After residing and working in several countries throughout Europe, she relocated to New York. Her career has focused in the areas of Training and Development, Recruitment, and Executive Compensation for some of the top Fortune 100 companies. Elaine's philanthropic interests concentrate on the Arts and Education. She has underwritten numerous Public Television productions for WNET New York Public Media, including Theater Close-Up, Shakespeare Uncovered, and most recently Inside The Met: An Unforgettable 150th Year. She also has served on the Advisory Board for National Public Radio, station WSHU in Fairfield, Connecticut. She received a BA from Fairfield University.

Elizabeth R. Kabler

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
President of the Rosenstiel Foundation

Elizabeth Kabler is a graduate of the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and Bennett College, New York. Mrs. Kabler is President of the Rosenstiel Foundation and is a Fellow at the Rosenstiel School of Basic Bio-Medical Research at Brandeis University. She supports marine biology research at Miami University where her father, Lewis S. Rosenstiel, founded The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Her mother was Leonore Annenberg. She is on the board of trustees of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. The trust preserves the historic estate as a place where world leaders meet to discuss matters of national and international importance. Mrs. Kabler supports the arts through the Rosenstiel Foundation. She is a member of the Photography and Drawing Committees of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a board member of Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE). Mrs. Kabler's philanthropic interests include problems of adolescence especially addiction and eating disorders. She has devoted her efforts to the National Eating Disorders Association. In the spring of 2008 she founded The New York Center for Living, a licensed out-patient rehabilitation center concentrating on the problems of adolescent addiction. She was a board member for over ten years at the Chapin School only resigning to devote herself full time to The New York Center for Living. One of Mrs. Kabler's great passions is the theater. She a member of The American Theater Wing. She is a Tony Voter and has produced Broadway shows. The Rosenstiel Foundation, in collaboration with the Director's Company, has produced two successful plays: "Goodwill" (an adaptation of a Jane Smiley novella) starring Dana Reeve and "The Passion of Frieda Kahlo" starring Priscilla Lopez, which moved to off-Broadway. She is currently producing a play with Michael Parva at the Directors Company on the works of British children's author Enid Blyton.

Emilio Sosa

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Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Elected Next Chair

Emily Elliott

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Development Manager

Emily Tow

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
President of the Tow Foundation

Emily Tow (she/her/hers) is the president of The Tow Foundation, a family foundation that envisions a society where all people have a voice in their community and the opportunity to enjoy a high quality of life. Emily joined the Foundation's Board of Directors at its inception in 1988 and has served as the Foundation's president since 1995. The Tow Foundation funds innovative programs and system reform in the fields of youth and adult criminal justice, medicine and public health, higher education, journalism and culture. The Tow Foundation is deeply invested in New York-based nonprofit theater. Under Emily's leadership, The Tow Foundation developed a playwright residency program that offers playwrights a full-time salary and immersion into their sponsoring New York-based nonprofit theater's day-to-day operations. The goal of the Tow Playwright Residency program is to offer artists the opportunity to focus on their craft, gain experience and insight into all aspects of the nonprofit theater world and debut their work. The Tow Foundation has also supported linking New York institutions of higher education with nonprofit theaters for collaborative partnerships. In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of the American Theatre Wing, Emily is a trustee of  New York Public Radio and  The Marshall Project. She was appointed by New York's governor to serve on the  New York State Juvenile Justice Advisory Group and engages with numerous other local, state and national committees and coalitions. Emily formerly served as board chair of  Philanthropy New York and as a trustee of  Barnard College. Emily speaks nationally and internationally about the Foundation's work, its commitment to advocacy as a key to achieving social change, and the value of family philanthropy.

Erik Jackson

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Erik is a playwright, musical bookwriter and novelist. Raised in Texas and now living in Harlem, he is the recipient of residency grants/fellowships at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Chulitna Lodge Research Institute, the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, and Monson Arts. Erik adapted his award-winning comic drama LIKE A BILLION LIKES into the new musical MISTY MAKES IT BETTER (lyrics by Jill Abramovitz, music by Brad Alexander). His other musicals include BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka (co-book Ben Winters, arrangements by Tom Kitt), and the upcoming adaptation of the Warner Bros. classic CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (co-book Patrick Pacheco, music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz). Five of Erik's plays premiered Off Broadway, and he adapted the beloved TV series CHEERS for a live stage event. He's also the author of the MUPPETS MEET THE CLASSICS humor series for Penguin Books and Disney. Erik has proudly served on the Advisory Committee of the American Theatre Wing for a decade. erikforrestjackson.com

Erik Kearney

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Manager of New Donor Development

Fred P. Hochberg

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Member of the Board of Trustees

George Cheeks

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel
Role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the CBS Entertainment Group

George Cheeks assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the CBS Entertainment Group in March 2020. Cheeks oversees CBS-branded assets within ViacomCBS, including CBS Television Network, which encompasses CBS Entertainment, CBS News and CBS Sports, as well as CBS Studios, CBS Television Stations, CBS Media Ventures, its first-run syndication business, and CBS-branded digital assets. Prior to joining CBS, Cheeks served more than seven years at NBCUniversal in senior executive positions that spanned creative, business and operational roles. Most recently, he was Vice Chairman, NBCUniversal Content Studios and was also in charge of late night programming for NBC Entertainment. Previously, Cheeks was Co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment and was jointly responsible for overseeing primetime, late night and scripted daytime programming for the network, including business affairs, marketing, communications, scheduling, West Coast research and digital operations, as well as first-run syndication. Prior to being named Co-Chairman, Cheeks served as Co-President, Universal Cable Productions and Wilshire Studios as well as President, Late Night Programming, NBC Entertainment, where he oversaw the network's lucrative and successful late night slate. Prior to that role, Cheeks was President of Business Operations and Late Night Programming, NBC Entertainment. Cheeks joined NBC in 2012 after serving as Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel, Viacom Music and Entertainment Groups, Content Distribution and Marketing, as well as Head of Standards and Practices for Viacom Media Networks, in New York. In his first stint with Viacom starting in 1998, he began working as Senior Counsel for MTV Networks in the Business and Legal Affairs Department for the Nickelodeon Group. While there, he ascended to positions of increasing responsibility, and in 2005 he was elevated to Executive Vice President and General Counsel for MTV, MTV2, MTVu, MTV Films, VH1, CMT and LOGO. Cheeks began his career as an Entertainment Associate at Loeb & Loeb from 1992-1994. In addition, he served as Senior Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs, for Castle Rock Entertainment from 1995-1997 and worked as an entertainment attorney at the boutique entertainment firm of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren & Richman, in Beverly Hills from 1997-1998. A graduate of Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa), Cheeks received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School (cum laude).

Grace Chon

gr..@americantheatrewing.org

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Equity and Inclusion Consultant

Hattie K. Jutagir

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Advisor
Director of Development
Member of the Advisory Committee

HATTIE K. JUTAGIR joined the staff of Lincoln Center Theater in 1989 as Director of Development. She became Executive Director of Development and Planning from 2013 until 2023 when she retired after 34 years at the Theater. Mrs. Jutagir was responsible for all fundraising activities, including annual and capital campaigns, special events, and board development as the organization's primary liaison with the Board of Directors. She was a member of LCT's senior management team. Before coming to Lincoln Center Theater, Mrs. Jutagir was Director of Development at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. and an Account Executive at Joseph Dermer and Associates, a private fundraising consulting firm. Previously a teacher in the Oakland Public Schools in California, she began her career in fundraising in the school district's Resource Development Office, working with the Intertribal Friendship House to secure funding for special projects offered by the school district for Oakland's American Indian community. Mrs. Jutagir has been a Full Member of the Broadway League since 2015. She was a Board Member of the Grand Marnier Foundation which funded French-American cultural projects, and was Grants Administrator for a peace education program at the Institute for World Order. She also served on the Board of Women in Development/NY, and as a Panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts Theater Program and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Development Program.

Heather A. Hitchens - CEO, President

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CEO
President

Ian Weiss

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Senior Director of Digital Content Marketing & Strategy

Jack O'Brien

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, from 1981-2007, where he directed more than 60 productions, ranging from the musical How The Grinch Stole Christmas to Chekhov's Three Sisters in a new version by Tom Stoppard. In other notable projects for the Globe, O'Brien directed Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, starring John Goodman; the world premiere of Stephen Sondheim & George Furth's The Doctor Is Out; Hamlet, starring Campbell Scott, which was cited by Time Magazine as 1990's "finest classical revival"; Uncle Vanya and The Snow Ball, also commended by Time Magazine as "Critics' Voices" selections in 1991; and the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's The Cocktail Hour (1988), which went on to a celebrated run at the Promenade Theatre as well as engagements in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center. O'Brien has staged major productions at such theatres as the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, Berkeley Repertory, Hartford Stage Company, Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, N.Y., the Huntington Theatre in Boston, and the St. Louis Repertory Theatre. He directed six movies for PBS's "American Playhouse." Among his many, many awards: Artserve Michigan 2008 International Achievement Award; 2008 Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee; National Theatre Conference 2007 Person of the Year; 2005 John Houseman Award; 2007 and 2001 Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity; 2002 "Mr. Abbott" Award (SDCF); the Drama League's 2001 Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and has Honorary Doctorates from the University of San Diego and the University of Michigan.

James D. Marver

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Member of the Advisory Committee
Co - Founder and Managing Director at VantagePoint Capital Partners

James D. Marver is Co-Founder and Managing Director at VantagePoint Capital Partners, a $4.5 billion venture capital firm focused on technology investments in IT, CleanTech and digital media. Prior to co-founding VantagePoint , Marver was a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Global Technology Group at Bear Stearns, Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Technology at L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, and earlier in his career an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. Before that he spent five years as a Senior Consultant at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) and served as a Consultant to the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. Until recently he was Vice Chairman and Trustee of San Francisco Ballet as well as President of the San Francisco Ballet Endowment Foundation, where he served both for 25 years and was an officer on the Board of the Asian Art Museum for a decade. Marver was Chairman of the Board of Advisors at Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, and served on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association. He is also an overseer for the Hoover Institution and on the Global Council of American Ballet Theatre. He has published, lectured, and consulted frequently on financing entrepreneurial companies, R&D, IPOs, and public policy. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and an M.P.P. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

James Higgins

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Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

Jane Chu

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Jane Chu served as the eleventh chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, having completed her term in June 2018. With a background in arts administration and philanthropy, Chu is also an an artist, and currently serves as an arts advisor for PBS. During Chu's four-year tenure at the National Endowment for the Arts, Chu traveled to all 50 states, 200 communities and made more than 400 site visits to visit visual artists, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, arts educators and arts administrators. The agency awarded $430 million over the four years to support the arts in 16,000 communities covering all 50 states, U.S. territories, and in every Congressional District. She led the agency through increases in the arts endowment budget for three consecutive fiscal years (2016, 2017, 2018). The NEA's Creative Forces military healing arts initiative expanded from two sites to 12 across the nation, to connect arts therapy with service members and veterans with brain recovery conditions. She launched another new program - Creativity Connects - to connect $2 million in grants for art programs that linked with science, technology, health, agriculture, aging, and other non-arts sectors, and she cultivated two international performing arts exchange programs with Cuba and China. Chu partnered with the American Theatre Wing to launch a national Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for high school students to identify the next generation of songwriters from across the nation, and provide these students with opportunities to be mentored by Broadway artists. The NEA was also the recipient of a 2016 Special Tony Award and a 2018 Drama League Award for its support of theater and musical theater, as well as two Emmy nominations for the creation of a storybank of personal arts stories from the general public across the nation. The NEA was ranked number one in 2016 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, in the small agency category. Prior to coming to the National Endowment for the Arts, Chu served as the president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, overseeing a $413 million campaign to construct and open the performing arts center in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Jane Chu was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and raised in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She studied music growing up, receiving bachelor's degrees in piano performance and music education from Ouachita Baptist University, as well as a master's degree in piano pedagogy from Southern Methodist University. Additionally, Chu holds an MBA from Rockhurst University, a Ph.D. in philanthropic studies from Indiana University, as well as five honorary doctorate degrees.

Janine Nabers

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Advisor
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TV Writer

Janine Nabers is a playwright and TV writer who is currently developing pilots at Amazon, HBO and Hulu. Most recently, Janine was a Co-Executive Producer writing on the forthcoming seasons 3 and 4 of ATLANTA on FX. Prior to that, Janine was a Co-EP on Netflix's drama series AWAY. Other credits include HBO's WATCHMEN for which she won a WGA Award, Max Borenstein's SHOWTIME mini-room and GAME OF THRONES spinoff room both for HBO, and across several series created by Marti Noxon including DIETLAND for AMC, UNREAL for Lifetime, and all five seasons of GIRLFRIEND'S GUIDE TO DIVORCE at Bravo. Janine won the Yale Drama Series prize from over 1,600 entries around the world for her play SERIAL BLACK FACE. She was Page 73's 2011 Playwriting Fellow and is an alumna of the Center Theatre Group's LA Writer's Workshop, Ars Nova Playgroup, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellowship, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and the 2010 and 2011 Sundance Theatre Labs. Her musical "Mrs. Hughes" was developed as the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival fellowship musical and was part of both the 2013 Yale Institute for Musical Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club's 7@7 series. A native of Houston, Texas, Janine is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship at Juilliard.

Jeanine Tesori

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Jeffrey Bolton

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Jeff Bolton started his theatrical career in 1950 at the age of eleven appearing in Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theatre. He was an understudy in the Broadway productions of Maxwell Anderson's Barefoot in Athens, and The Climate of Eden directed by Moss Hart. After years of summer stock, over sixty television appearances, stints at Tamiment, and Green Mansion, and twenty weeks as the production dancer at the infamous Copacabana, he joined the original cast of Gypsy with Ethel Merman. He played the juvenile lead as Tulsa both in New York and the National tour. At the age of 25, Jeff made a career change to Wall Street, joining Merrill Lynch. He moved on to Oppenheimer and Company, a partner at Furman Selz, and joined Neuberger Berman in 1987. He became a partner in 1995 and has gone on to build a highly regarded investment management business, aptly titled The Bolton Group. Jeff is married to Tina Faye, a former Broadway dancer. Tina was a Peter Gennaro Dancer, has six Broadway credits, and appeared regularly on The Ed Sullivan Show. Tina is currently a trustee of The Palm Beach Drama Works. Jeff has been a trustee of Actor's Fund since 1995, a trustee of Adelphi University, and Save Venice.

Jeffrey Eric Jenkins

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Professor of Theatre at the University of Illinois

JEFFREY ERIC JENKINS is Professor of Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and affiliate faculty to Discovery Partners Institute in Chicago. Prior to his current appointment, Jenkins served as Head of the Department of Theatre from 2012 to 2017, where he oversaw a restructuring of administration and helped set the department on a course that resulted in greatly enhanced engagement with online education, financial stability, and improved national rankings. With his creative partner, Tony Award-winning director and Swanlund Professor Daniel Sullivan, Jenkins also developed The Sullivan Project, which provided new plays with fully realized productions, including works by David Auburn (2014) and Donald Margulies (2016). He was a key collaborator on the Spotlight on Broadway documentary series, a forty-part series on Broadway theatres commissioned by the Mayor's Office of the City of New York. Before his appointment at Illinois Theatre, Jenkins served as Director of Theatre Studies at New York University, where he taught dramatic literature, theatre history, and criticism for fourteen years. He also taught directing at the University of Washington, graduate dramaturgy at SUNY-Stony Brook, and served as a curricular consultant to Primary Stages. Jenkins has directed more than two dozen productions in theatres across the United States, and was a member of the management team for Peter Brook's acclaimed productions of The Mahabharata and The Cherry Orchard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Jenkins was named president of the International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT-IATC) in 2021 after serving three terms as vice president. He has been executive editor of the bilingual, peer-reviewed journal Critical Stages/Scènes critiques since 2013. A former chairman of the American Theatre Critics Association, Jenkins has published articles in major newspapers, reference books and scholarly journals. He took degrees in research and studio concentrations from the University of East Anglia (PhD, American Studies), Carnegie Mellon University (MFA, Directing), and San Francisco State University (BA, Directing). His books include Under the Copper Beech: Conversations With American Theater Critics, eight volumes of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook series, and chapters in titles such as Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance; Angels in American Theatre: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy; Shakespearean Criticism; and Intertextuality in American Drama. Jenkins served four consecutive terms on the board of trustees of the American Theatre Wing, before returning to its advisory committee, and has chaired the Henry Hewes Design Awards since 2002. His service to the profession includes a dozen years on the executive committee for the Theatre Hall of Fame and as a continuing dramaturgical consultant to productions in development.

Jennifer Daly

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Chief Operating Officer at Hunter Peak Investments

JENNIFER DALY is the Chief Operating Officer at Hunter Peak Investments. In 2014 she joined Avenue Capital Group, one of the largest money management hedge funds in the United States. She was one of the leaders of Prime Accounts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to that, she was an attorney and partner at King & Spalding and Davis, Polk & Wardell. She is a graduate of Fordham Law and Georgetown University.

Jess Cagle

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

JESS CAGLE was named Editorial Director of People and Entertainment Weekly in January 2014. He is responsible for the print and digital editorial leadership of the two brands, with a day-to-day focus on PEOPLE, the world's most popular celebrity weekly. Prior, Cagle served for five years as Editor of Entertainment Weekly (2009-2014), where he increased EW's audience and presence in Hollywood, transformed EW.com into a 24/7 breaking news site, and launched the Entertainment Weekly Radio channel on SiriusXM, where he continues to make regular appearances. Frequent television appearances on Good Morning America, TODAY, CBS This Morning, and every major entertainment program has made Cagle one of the most recognizable entertainment journalists in the country. In addition, he has co-hosted the official ABC Academy Awards red carpet pre-show four times in the past five years. Over the span of his career, Cagle has interviewed Hollywood's biggest celebrities including Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, and Elizabeth Taylor. Cagle joined Time Inc. in 1987 as a reporter for PEOPLE. In 1990, he helped launch Entertainment Weekly, where he played a key role in defining the brand's voice. He covered the entertainment industry as a Senior Editor at TIME from 2000-2002, and returned to PEOPLE as Entertainment Editor, where he broke some of the biggest celebrity stories. Jess Cagle was born and raised in Texas and is a graduate of Baylor University. He lives in New York City.

Jim Glaub

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Advisor
Leader
Member of the Advisory Committee

Jim Glaub is a recognized leader in innovative marketing, social media, web design and video production for the theatre and has worked on over fifty Broadway shows and major events like the Tony Awards. He's excited to create Super Awesome Friends, a strategic digital and content experience company dedicated to connecting brands and communities to live experiences. Before this, he was the Deputy Head of Content and Digital Media for The Society of London Theatre, where he helped raise the profile of London Theatre via OfficialLondonTheatre.com , TKTS and the Olivier Awards. Back in NYC, he was the VP of Content and Community at SERINO/COYNE, the nation's longest-running live-entertainment advertising agency. He is the co-founder of Miracle on 22nd Street which connects families in need with real life elves since 2010. The origin story of the non-profit is soon to be a major motion-picture written by Tina Fey! Jim is on the advisory committee for the American Theatre Wing. A member of the Broadway League, the board of trustees for the Woodshed Collective. He's the proud winner of two 2016 Webby Awards, Telly Awards in 2018, 2017 and 2016 and a 2014 Webby Honor.

John Voege

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

John Voege is active in arts philanthropy serving as Trustee of the Case Graber Foundation, dedicated to supporting arts and AIDS related charities and as Grants Coordinator for the Paul Foundation of Essex, Connecticut. John has served as a Trustee of Goodspeed Musicals since 2016, where he is active on the Education, Development, and Nominating & Governance Committees. In addition, John has been an active supporter and Angel's Circle Member of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Originally from Clearwater, Florida, Mr. Voege attended the University of Toledo on a swimming scholarship. At Toledo, he earned dual degrees in marketing and management. After a 10 year career in advertising as a media buyer and planner, he shifted his focus to real estate, managing a variety of investment properties he and his husband, Geoffrey Paul own in Essex. Mr. Paul is an investment executive representing many clients in the arts and entertainment community. Mr. Voege and Mr. Paul split their time between Essex and New York City.

Jolie Schaffzin

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Jolie Schaffzin is a lifelong New Yorker who grew up with a passion for theater and the performing arts. Graduating from Northwestern University in 1984, Jolie returned to Manhattan to begin a career in advertising; first working at advertising agencies and later moving into advertising sales positions at magazines including Vanity Fair, House & Garden, Cosmopolitan and The New Yorker. In 1998, Jolie was approached to join the sales team at PLAYBILL, which allowed her to align her professional talents with her passion for Broadway. As Associate Publisher of PLAYBILL she has been a successful revenue producer for the company and an advocate for theater to her clients which include major players in the area of fashion, beauty, retail and non-theatrical entertainment. Jolie resides on the Upper East Side with her puppy, "Stevie" Sondheim (yes…she's a girl).

Julie Halston

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Miss Halston is one of New York's busiest actresses and was the recipient of the 2021 Isabelle Stevenson TONY AWARD for her advocacy on behalf of The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Her Broadway credits are numerous , including Tootsie, Hairspray, Gypsy, Anything Goes, and The Twentieth Century. She received the Richard Seff Award for her acclaimed performance in You Can't Take it with You and has garnered four Drama Desk nominations for her Broadway and off- Broadway work. Miss Halston was a founding member of Charles Busch's legendary theatre company and co-starred with Mr. Busch in many productions including The Divine Sister, Red Scare on Sunset and The Lady in Question. They starred together in the independent feature film , The Sixth Reel. Mr. Busch has written over 14 roles expressly for her.

Julienne Hanzelka Kim

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Founding Member of the Asian American Performers Action Coalition

Julienne was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up there and in Seoul, Korea and California before moving to New York where she currently lives and works. As an actor, Julienne has performed on Broadway in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and David Henry Hwang's Golden Child . Off-Broadway credits include: Among the Dead and Chairs and a Long Table with Ma-Yi Theater Co.; Yellow Face at The Public; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at The Atlantic Theater; The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci at Second Stage; Blood Orange at the Cherry Lane Theatre and the Blue Heron Arts Center; and The House of Bernarda Alba for NAATCO. Regional and Int'l credits include: David Greenspan's adaptation of The Bridge of San Luis Rey at Two River Theater; Phaedra Backwards at the McCarter Theater, Language Rooms at the Wilma Theater; Krystian Lupa's adaptation of Three Sisters at A.R.T. and the Edinburgh Int'l Festival; Yellow Face at the Mark Taper Forum; Golden Child at the Kennedy Center, A.C.T., Singapore Rep. and Seattle Rep.; and Everything That Rises Must Converge and The World is Round with Compagnia de' Colombari. Her TV/Film credits include: playing Kelly Taylor on Manifest ( recurring, NBC); Castle Rock (Hulu); The Affair (Showtime); Blue Bloods (CBS); Elementary (CBS); The Good Wife (recurring, CBS); Royal Pains (USA); Law and Order, CI (NBC); Rescue Me (FX); One Life to Live (recurring, ABC); Children of the Northern Lights (ITVS, FutureStates); When We Dead Awaken , The Adderall Diaries ; Shadows and Lies ; The Tested ; Robot Stories ; Split ; and Life in Bed. Julienne was recently awarded the 2019 Ron Van Lieu Teaching Fellowship by the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. She holds an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program where she was the recipient of an NYU Departmental Scholarship and studied under Ron Van Lieu, Zelda Fichandler and Janet Zarish. She is a long-time company member of the "Workshop Company" at The Actors Center, a resident company devoted to the process-oriented practice of artistic development in the craft of acting. As an activist for equality in the arts and a writer, Julienne is a founding member of the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC) where she is on the steering committee and is the acting co-chair and co-author of their widely quoted annual report on diversity which tracks ethnic and gender representation across Broadway and New York City's major non-profit theaters. She is also the recipient of a Van Lier Literary Fellowship.

Kenny Leon

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Kevin Lin

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee
Talent and Literary Agent

Kevin Lin is a talent and literary agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where he represents top actors, writers, directors, composers and choreographers, including Leslie Odom, Jr., Matthew López, Whitney White, David Henry Hwang, Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss, Emilio Sosa, Celine Song, James Alsop, Ashley Park, Jordan E. Cooper, Anthony Ramos, Danielle Brooks, Teyonah Parris, and Darren Criss. He is also Co-Head of Cultural Business Strategy, working to strengthen companywide initiatives that maximize creative opportunities and business growth for the agency's diverse clients and build corporate culture best practices. Lin has been featured on Variety's Inclusion Impact Report and sits on the American Repertory Theater's Board of Advisors. He began his career at CAA as an intern in 2012 and is a graduate of Harvard University.

LaTanya Richardson Jackson

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Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

Laura Michele Talbot

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Director of Development

Laura Stevenson Maslon

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Laura Stevenson Maslon was born into the world of theatre as the daughter of Isabelle Stevenson. She attended drama classes at the 92nd Street Y and the American Theatre Wing, and did a summer at the Ogunquit Playhouse. She majored in theatre at Wellesley and left college to be an actress, appearing in an Off- Off-Broadway play by Bruce Jay Freidman. Persuaded by her father, John Stevenson, to take a real job, she's worked in public relations for Crown and Dell and was a reporter for People magazine. Maslon moved to Los Angeles in 1977 to marry Jim Maslon. After a stint at Judi Davidson and Co. she became director of PR for the West Coast of Sotheby's Auction House for ten years. She serves on the Executive Committee for the United Jewish Fund of Greater Los Angeles; is a member of the Cultural partnership between L.A. and Tel Aviv; Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors of Otis College of Art & Design; Board member of the Modern and Contemporary Art Council of LACMA; on the Drawings Committee of MOCA and is on the national board of the American Friends of the Israel Museum.

Laurie Brockway Bodor

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

After having graduated from the Marlborough School (Los Angeles) and Briarcliff College (New York) where she received her degree in Theatre Arts, Laurie Brockway Bodor was a senior fashion editor at Vogue Magazine for over seven years before moving to Paris to work as a stylist with Chanel. Throughout her career, she has worked with top fashion designers, editors and photographers around the world and produced and hosted the fashion webcast "A La Mode with Laurie Bodor." Laurie is also a renowned marketing, public relations and advertising consultant for the fashion and luxury lifestyle market with clients such as Yves St. Laurent, Valentino, Bulgari and Harry Winston, among many others. Ms. Bodor has been honored with two Clio Awards for her Chanel and Revillon advertising campaigns and named one of Town & Country Magazine's "Top Trendsetting Coeds" and Shiseido's "International Working Beauties." Laurie helped create the National Design Awards which was originally launched at the White House in 1999. Laurie travels extensively and has lived in Beverly Hills, New York, Palm Beach, Paris and London. Laurie is active in several philanthropic organizations such as The American Cancer Society, The French Heritage Society and The Palm Beach Preservation Society.

Lee H. Perlman

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Vice - Chair of the Board of Trustees

Leigh Silverman

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Leslie Papa

le..@vivacityny.com

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Executive Support Manager and Board Liaison

Lia Vollack

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Advisor
Member of the Advisory Committee

Lia Vollack is considered one of the leaders of music for film. She started her career in NYC as a theatre sound designer and eventually went to California where she became the President of Worldwide Music of Theatrical for Sony Pictures Entertainment. She created the digital label Madison Gate to publish film music that otherwise may have never seen the light of day. Some of its latest releases include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' soundtrack to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the jazz score to Midnight in Paris, a second volume for Country Strong as well as the soundtrack for The Social Network. She was also involved with Adele's Oscar-winning song Skyfall for the James Bond film of the same name. Additional projects she has spearheaded include the soundtrack for The Amazing Spider Man and the remake of Annie. Other artists she has worked with include Paul McCartney, Pharrell Williams, Britney Spears, One Direction, Hans Zimmer, and Danny Elfman, to name a few. More recently, Ms. Vollack was appointed the Executive Vice President of Theatrical for Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she is helping develop a number of film-to-stage projects, including the West End musical Groundhog Day, based on the 1993 Bill Murray comedy.