Staff & Board

Staff

Executive Director & Producer  Isaac Robert Hurwitz
Director of Development J. Phillip Burgess

Director of Programming Lily Hung
Operations Manager  Lynn Spector

Senior Associate Producer  Eric Louie
Associate Producers  Melanie Hopkins, Eve Rybnick, Carrie Sherriff, Jennifer Ashley Tepper
General Press Representatives  David Gersten & Associates | David Gersten, Shane Marshall Brown
Resident Casting Director  Michael Cassara
Identity Graphic Designer  Lisa Clayton
Additional Graphic Design Bryan Young
Web Programming  Tilson Technology | Ben Birney
Legal Services  Feldshon & Schwartz LLP | Lee A.G. Feldshon & David F. Schwartz
Interns  Melanie Bafitis, Bonnie Gleicher, Karl Hinze, Matthew Kaufmann, Chiara Klein,
Meaghan Monahan, Samantha Sewell

The Next Link Project

2009 Grand Jury  Susan Birkenhead, Jason Robert Brown, Robyn Goodman,
Bobby Lopez, Kathleen Marshall, Sergio Trujillo, Francesca Zambello

Dramaturgs  Terry Berliner, Marc Bruni, Laura Butchy, Christie Evangelisto, Jack DePalma, Melanie Hopkins, Lee Johnson, Padraic Lillis, Eric Louie, Emily Paul, Judith Stevens-Ly, Mark Dundas Wood

Reading Committee  David Alpert, James Beaudry, Amanda Berkowitz Feldman, Marc Bruni, Jane Caplow, Anika Chapin, David Chapman, Scott Embler, Julia Furay, Travis Greisler, Julie Haverkate, Melanie Hopkins, Kristin Johnson, Chiara Klein, Julie Kramer, Michael Lluberes, Eric Louie, Elizabeth Lucas, Robin Mishik-Jett, Julie Novacek Godsoe, Mark Steven Robinson, Tom Rowan, David Ruttura, DJ Salisbury, Samantha Sewell, Carrie Sherriff, Andrew Shoffner, Natasha Sinha, David Solomon, Jennifer Tepper, James Valletti, Andrew Volkoff, Jordan Young

Festival Production Staff

General Manager  La Vie Productions LLC | R. Erin Craig
Associate General Manager Christopher Jenkins,
Assistant General Manager Julie Schwartz

Production Manager   James E. Cleveland
Assistant Production Manager Katy J. Ross

Board of Directors

Chair  Sharon Fallon
Vice-Chairs  Charlie Fink, Jon Kimbell
Treasurer  Richard Rivero
Secretary  Bonnie Freundlich
President  Isaac Robert Hurwitz
Melinda Atwood, Sherry Eaker, Martin Grant, Tim Jerome, Adam Josephs,
Constance Mortell, Joseph Nicholson, Janet Pailet, Bryan Tallevi

Artistic Advisors

Lynn Ahrens, Rob Ashford, Hinton Battle, Jane Bergere, Patricia Birch, Norbert Leo Butz, Theodore S. Chapin, Victoria Clark, Thomas Cott, Jack DePalma, Jim Dale, Raul Esparza, Adam Epstein, Jules Fisher, Rob Fisher, Sutton Foster, John Frost, Joanna Gleason, Robyn Goodman, Aaron Harnick, Sheldon Harnick, Paulette Haupt, George Hearn, John Kander, Michael Korie, Michael John LaChiusa, Margo Lion, John Lithgow, Robert Lopez, Santo Loquasto, Kathleen Marshall, Jeff Marx, Kevin McCollum, Galt McDermot, Audra McDonald, Alan Menken, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Casey Nicholaw, John Rando, Rachel Sheinkin, Susan H.Schulman, Scott Schwartz, Stephen Schwartz, Thomas Z. Shepard, Susan Stroman, Jack Viertel, Tony Walton, Barry Weissler, Elizabeth Williams, BD Wong, Randall Wreghitt

Founder Emeritus  Kris Stewart
Founding President Tim Jerome