Board/Staff

Staff
Executive Director: Willow Jade Norton
Registrar/Finance: Teresa Conway
Podcast Technical Producer: Danny Debner
Administrative Associate: Alize Francheska Rozsnyai

Executive Board
President: Jesse Bernstein
(Artistic Director, Theatre Ariel, Actor, Director, Writer; Philadelphia, PA)
Treasurer: David Lloyd Olson (Managing Director, Theater J; Washington D.C.)
Secretary: Danielle Levsky (Writer, Clown, Performer, Producer; Chicago, IL)
Hank Kimmel (Immediate Past President, Working Title Playwrights; playwright, attorney; Atlanta, GA)
Vice-president: David Y. Chack (Producing Artistic Director, ShPIel – Performing Identity; Chicago, IL)
Vice-president: Shawna James (Board Liaison, Theatre Communications Group, director and producer, Brooklyn, NY)

Members-at-Large
Leah Hamos (Theatre Agent, The Gersh Agency; New York, NY)
Yehudah Jai Husband (Artistic Director, SH’MA Theatre Group, NAACP Award; Louisville, KY)
Rebecca Myers
Adam Immerwahr
(Artistic Director, Village Theatre; Issaquah and Everett, WA)
Kendell Pinkney 
(Theatre Maker, Creative Producer, Founding Artistic Director of The Workshop)
Ronda Spinak (Co-Founder, Artistic Director, The Braid; Los Angeles, CA)
Gwydion Suilebhan (Writer, Project Director of the New Play Exchange, and Executive Director of PEN/Faulkner; Washington D.C.)
Ali Viterbi (Playwright; Providence, RI)


Previous Board Members
(Tenure ended in 2021)
Toby Klein Greenwald (Artistic Director, Raise Your Spirits Theatre/Na’na Playback Dance Theater; Israel)
Ralph Meranto
(Artistic Director, Center Stage Theatre; Rochester, NY) Rmeranto@jccrochester.org
Deborah Baer Mozes (Artistic Director, Theatre Ariel; Philadelphia, PA) dbmozes@theatreariel.org
Debórah Eliezer (Social Activist, Artistic Director, foolsFURY Theater; San Francisco, CA)

Honorary Board

Theodore Bikel (z”l) (Actor, Musician, Union Leader, Civil Rights Activist)
Tovah Feldshuh
Mira Hirsch
(Theatre Director, Educator; Atlanta, GA)
Adam Kantor (Actor; NYC)
Ellen Schiff (Scholar and Professor Emerita; New York)
Robert Skloot (Scholar and Professor Emeritus; Madison, WI)

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