NEW DRAMATISTS' BOARD OF DIRECTORS

As of 10/4/07

 

Seth Gelblum, Chairman

 

Entertainment Attorney – Loeb & Loeb, LLP (New York).

Isobel Robins Konecky, President

 

 

 

Theatrical Producer, Broadway, Off-Broadway, including works by David Story, Charles Strouse.  Board Member, Theatreworks/USA.

 

Robert Kuchner, Vice President/Secretary

 

 

CPA – Rosenberg, Neuwirth & Kuchner, (New York).

Robin Lynn, Vice President

 

 

Planned Giving Manager - Jewish Museum (New York).  Former Director of Alumni Relations, University of Rochester, NY.  Daughter of former Board President Amy Lynn.  Board Member, the Amy and Eugene Lynn Foundation.

 

 

David A. Rahm, Vice President

 

 

Partner (retired) - Stroock, Stroock & Lavan, LLP Real Estate law, (New York).

 

David C. Rosenzweig, Treasurer

 

 

CPA – Janover Rubinroit LLP, (New York).

Sargent Aborn

 

 

Vice President - Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc, (New York).

Charlotte Ackert

 

Trustee - Educational Broadcast Corporation (WNET-Channel Thirteen and WLIW-Channel 21), member of the EBC Executive Committee, vice chair of WLIW.  Co-Founder – Off-Broadway Angels.

 

Liz Duffy Adams

 

Resident Playwright.  Plays include: Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes, Dog Act, The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It, or The Train Play, Poodle with Guitar and Dark Glasses, among others.

 

Susan Heller Anderson

 

 

Writer, Journalist (New York). Reporter for The New York Times for twenty-plus years, primarily in culture and the arts.  Covered events throughout Western Europe for all sections of the Times.  Contributor to many national magazines.

 

Allan J. Arffa

 

 

Partner, General Commercial Litigator – Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (New York).

Brooke Berman

 

 

Resident Playwright.  Plays include: Smashing, Dancing with a Devil, Sam and Lucy, among others.

Luis Castro

 

 

Director, Education & Arts Programs - Time Warner Foundation (New York).

Betsy Cohn

 

 

Former Director of Pay Television, MGM and Paramount Pictures.  Member, Patrons Committee, Lincoln Center Theater.  Member, the President’s Committee on Arts & Humanities.  Member, WLF/Democratic National Committee. Member, National Committee of NARAL.  Fundraiser, 1996 Presidential Re-election Campaign, Bill Clinton.

 

Ellen Corcoran

 

 

Senior Vice President, Consumer Sales, Verizon, Inc. (New York).

Stephanie Dalton

 

 

Vice President - Chase Manhattan Bank (New York).

Gordon Dahlquist

 

Author/Playwright Alumnus (class of 1996-2003).  Novel: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.  Plays include: Messalina, Babylon is Everywhere, Delirium Palace, The Secret Machine, Vortex Du Plaisir, Island of Dogs, Severity’s Mistress, Mission Byzantium!, and Reticence, among others.

 

Eisa Davis

 

Resident Playwright.  Plays include: Bulrusher (2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Angela’s Mixtape, Hip Hop Anansi, Paper Armor, The History of Light, Six Minutes and Umkovu.

Peter Franklin

 

 

Theatrical Agent – William Morris Agency (New York).

David Grimm

 

Resident Playwright.  Plays include: The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, Measure for Pleasure, A Few Bad Apples, The Savages of Hartford, Kit Marlowe, Sheridan Or, Schooled in Scandal and Once in Elysium.

 

John Guare

 

Playwright Alumnus.  Plays include: House of Blue Leaves (Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play of 1970-71; four Tony Awards during its 1986 revival), Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (nominated for four Tony Awards), and Six Degrees of Separation.

 

Willy Holtzman

 

 

Playwright Alumnus.  Plays include San Antonio, Boover Boys, Inside Out, Sabina (adapted for Samuel Goldwyn Company) & Hearts (Arthur Miller Award, Barrymore Award).  Winner 1991 HBO Prize at the O’Neil Playwrights Conference.

 

Joanne Jacobson

 

 

Theatrical Producer.  Co-Produced: Bouncers, Anyone Can Whistle, My Life in Art and Heartbreak (Los Angeles); Don’t Go Away Mad (London) and The Double Bass (Boston).

 

Susan Kraus

 

 

 

Director, Arts & Business Council; Art Bench Committee Member, Central Park Conservancy; Theatreworks/USA (New York). 

 

Harding (Pete) Lemay

 

 

 

Playwright Alumnus, Novelist.  Former editor, Alfred Knopf Publishers.


Samuel (Biff) Liff

 

 

Theatrical Agent - William Morris Agency (New York).

Sarah K. Lippmann

 

 

 

Actress (New York). Daughter of the late John Lippmann, president of the John Golden Fund and former Board Member.

Scott Mauro

 

 

Producer & President, Scott Mauro Entertainment, Inc. (Hollywood).  Producer of live events and television specials.  Board Member, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids.

 

Francis Neuwirth

 

 

CPA/Attorney (retired) - Rosenberg, Neuwirth & Kuchner, for the Broadway Theatre community (New York).

Chuck Spence

 

 

Managing Director, Head of FX/IRD Sales - ING Capital Markets (New York), President of the West 44th Street Block Association, Former Board President of MCC.

 

Jolyon Fox Stern

 

 

Chairman, DeWitt Stern Group. 

Entertainment Insurance, (New York).

John W. Weidman

 

President of the Dramatists’ Guild of America (New York).  Wrote Books to: Assassins; Big; Pacific Overtures; Bounce; Anything Goes (new book); Contact (co-creator), among others. Has written for “Sesame Street” since 1986.

George C. Wolfe

 

 

Tony-Award winning Director, Producer, Writer.  Directing Credits: Elaine Stritch: at Liberty; Spunk; Jelly’s Last Jam; Angels in America; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; The Tempest; Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk (among others).  Writing Credits: The Colored Museum, and the books for Jelly’s Last Jam and The Wild Party (among others).

 

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