LaChanze consistently brings women of complexity and triumph into the cultural lexicon with a career that has spanned nearly forty Broadway seasons.
In 2022, LaChanze made her debut as producer on two shows, the 20th anniversary revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-Winning play, Topdog/Underdog, as well as Kimberly Akimbo, a new musical by Tony-Winning Composer Jeanine Tesori and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, earning a combined 11 Tony Award nominations and 6 Tony Award wins, including Best Revival of a Play and Best Musical, respectively. In Spring 2023, she produced Here Lies Love by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim and Jaja’s African Hair Braiding written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, earning a combined 9 Tony Award nominations. The following Spring 2024, she joined the producing team of The Outsiders, a new musical based on S.E. Hinton’s beloved novel, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. This season, she made her New York City directorial debut with Alice Childress’ Wine in the Wilderness at Classic Stage Company, while also serving as a producer on Buena Vista Social Club and the Pulitzer Prize winning play Purpose. They earned a combined 16 nominations and 7 Tony Awards wins, with Buena Vista Social Club receiving a special award acknowledging the band and Purpose winning Best Play. She was also honored as a 2025 TIME’S Closer.
LaChanze won a Tony Award for her performance as Celie in The Color Purple, originated the role of Ti Moune in Once on This Island (Tony Award nomination), and upheld her commitment to artistic excellence as Wiletta in Alice Childress’ historic play, Trouble In Mind (Tony Award nomination). Other notable stage performances include roles in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Tony Award nomination), A Christmas Carol, The Secret Life of Bees, If/Then, The Wiz, Ragtime, Uptown… It’s Hot! and Dreamgirls.
On screen, she has delivered memorable roles in both TV and film including: East New York, The Blacklist, Handel’s Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise (Emmy Award), Melinda, The Help, HBO’s The Night Of, Law & Order: SVU, The Good Fight, Sex And The City, and Disney animated feature film Hercules, among other titles. Upcoming films include Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest which will be shown at Cannes Film Festival and By Any Means directed by Elegance Bratton, and starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
In June of 2024, LaChanze launched LaChanze Productions, a production company that is “Making Broadway Cool.” LaChanze Productions discovers, develops and delivers groundbreaking Broadway and commercial entertainment projects. Their mission is to nurture untapped talent both on and off stage, as we usher in a new era of entertainment. You can learn more about her company at www.lachanzeproductions.com.
She is the President of Black Theatre United, recipient of a honoree Made in NY Award for Theatre and Live Performance, a community of creatives dedicated to awareness, accountability, and advocacy. Proud mother of Celia Rose and Zaya LaChanze. She resides in Westchester, New York with her three cats and gardening hats.
Nicole Ansari Cox is a tri-lingual, internationally working actor, director, writer, and producer of TV, film, and theatre – and also uses her platform to raise awareness about climate change and human rights abuses. She has won several awards, including best director for the web series Messy at the British Web Awards and the Socially Relevant Film Festival; AFI Best Ensemble for the Civil Rights movie Son of the South; The Vanya Exerjian Award for empowering women; and Person of the Year by My New York Magazine for raising awareness for the woman, life, and freedom movement. She is currently working on the NY version of a show she created a few years ago in upstate NY and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival titled She/her.
Dani Barlow co-leads Producer Hub as Programming Director, a non-profit serving independent producers and artists. She previously served as Foundation Director of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. She has also worked at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company as the Interim Associate Producer and Executive Assistant to the Managing Director and Artistic Director and has held positions at Studio Theatre and Round House Theatre. Dani holds an MFA in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama and a BA in Theater and Business Administration from Muhlenberg College. Dani currently serves on the Tony Awards Nominating Committee.
Julie Boardman is an entrepreneur and 3-time Tony winner. She is the Executive Producer & Co-Founder of the award-winning Museum of Broadway, which opened in Times Square in 2022 and on numerous “best of” lists, including USA Today, National Geographic, Time Out and Condé Nast Traveler. Upcoming: Damn Yankees. Current: Buena Vista Social Club, Waiting For Godot. Select credits: A Doll’s House, An American in Paris, Cabaret, Company, Funny Girl, Head Over Heels, Indecent, Peter & the Starcatcher, Romeo+Juliet, Sunset Blvd, The Inheritance, The Son. Julie is a member of The Broadway League and NYPL for the Performing Arts’ Theatre Committee. Proud USC alum.
Leon Addison Brown / Broadway: Misery, The Trip to Bountiful. Off-Broadway: The Swamp Dwellers, Soft, Transfers, Master Harold…and the Boys, The Train Driver, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Swamp Dwellers. TV/Film: The Penguin, Ben is Back, Atrabilious, Paris is in Harlem, The Knick, Chicago Med, Law & Order, New Amsterdam, American Rust. Awards & nominations: Drama Desk, Connecticut Critics Circle, Drama League, AUDELCO, Lucille Lortel.
Kerry Butler is an acclaimed veteran of a dozen Broadway shows. She has originated roles in Broadway productions of Beetlejuice, Mean Girls (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Xanadu (Tony and Drama League nominations), Little Shop of Horrors (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Catch Me If You Can (Drama Desk nomination), and Hairspray (Clarence Derwent Award for most promising female performance, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations). She also starred in Rock of Ages, Disaster!, The Best Man, and Les Misérables on Broadway.
Notable Off-Broadway credits include the cult hit Bat Boy and Clinton: The Musical, in which she portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Television: 30 Rock, The Mindy Project, Rescue Me, Law & Order, The Mysteries of Laura, White Collar, Blue Bloods, Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, American Sports Story - Aaron Hernandez, Law and Order SVU.
Film: Honor Society, The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
Album: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust.
Best credit: mom to Segi and Sumi.
Kristin Caskey is Chief Content Officer, North America for ATG Entertainment, where she oversees the producing department and theatrical programming for ATG’s North American venues. Together with her producing partner Mike Isaacson, Kristin has produced a number of Broadway and award-winning shows including Gutenberg! The Musical, Parade (Tony Award), Appropriate (Tony Award), Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, David Byrne’s American Utopia, (Special Tony Award), Fun Home (Tony Award), The Humans (Tony Award), Red (Tony Award), and Legally Blonde (Olivier Award).
Brian Cox is an Emmy, Olivier and Golden Globe award-winning actor, best known for the HBO hit series Succession, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Cox is also the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Goering in Nuremberg (2000), and has appeared in numerous films including, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Boxer, Rushmore, Super Troopers, The Ring, 25th Hour, Troy, Red Eye, Zodiac, The Escapist, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Coriolanus, Manhunter, Churchill, and The Bourne trilogy to name a few. His most recent films include; Little Wing, The Parenting, The Electric State and Glenrothan, which he also directed.
Cox is also a veteran of the London stage, having won two Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his performances in Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Rat in the Skull for the Royal Court. He starred in The Score at the Theatre Royal Bath which transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Long Days Journey Into Night at the Wyndhams Theatre opposite Patricia Clarke. His New York theatre credits include St. Nicholas, which earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Actor as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critic’s Circle nominations.
Cox has written three books: Salem to Moscow: An Actor's Odyssey, The Lear Diaries, and his autobiography Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. In 2004, he was honoured at the BAFTA Scotland Awards with an Outstanding Achievement Award, and at the 2004 Great Scot Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Empire Magazine awarded him the Empire Icon Award for his film achievements in 2006, and the UK Film Council named him one of the Top 10 powerful British film stars in Hollywood in 2007. In 2003 Brian was made a CBE, a Commander of the British Empire.
Charles Flateman is Executive Vice President at the Shubert Organization, America’s oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on Broadway. Mr. Flateman is also CEO of Audience Rewards, The Official Loyalty Program of Broadway and the Arts; and is a board member at Entertainment Benefits Group, which provides travel, consumer goods, and entertainment e-commerce solutions for brands and consumers in the United States.
Mr. Flateman is Chairman of the Board of NYC Tourism and Conventions, the official destination management and marketing organization of New York City. Additionally Mr. Flateman serves on the Board of Governors and Executive Committee of The Broadway League and is an appointee to the New York City Live Performance Industry Council.
Before coming to Shubert, Mr. Flateman was co-founder of Broadway Inbound, which provides the marketing and technical bridge between Broadway's primary ticketing entities and global online wholesale distribution partners. Earlier in his career, he was President of Gray Line New York, and was a producer of Broadway’s Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Harlem Song at the Apollo and other theatrical productions. Mr. Flateman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University and a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Classics.
Andrew Flatt is the Managing Director of Disney Theatrical Group, where he has served in a variety of roles across the production, marketing and licensing of Disney’s stage and arena shows for the past 25 years. He now drives the strategy and business operations for the organization’s broad slate of production activity, including such iconic musicals as The Lion King, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast, and is leading the division’s expansion into emerging forms of live entertainment through immersive and location-based events.
Catherine Coleman Flowers is an internationally recognized environmental activist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient and author. She has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for environmental justice, primarily equal access to clean water and functional sanitation for communities across the United States.
Founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ), Flowers has spent her career promoting equal access to clean water, air, sanitation and soil to reduce health and economic disparities in marginalized, rural communities. Flowers sits on the Board of Directors for the Climate Reality Project, the Natural Resources Defense Council and RMI, as well as serving as a Practitioner in Residence position at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
In 2021, her leadership and fervor in fighting for solutions to these issues led her to one of her most notable appointments yet — Vice Chair of the Biden Administration’s inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. In 2023, she was recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the world and was featured on Forbes’ 50 Over 50 list. In 2025, she was awarded the prestigious TIME Earth Award.
Flowers is the author of the newly-released Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope and Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. Holy Ground is an inspiring collection of unflinching essays, personal and political, that frames the challenges we face as a society and — with grace, generosity, and hope — charts the way toward equity, respect, and a brighter future. In Waste, Flowers shares her inspiring story of advocacy, from childhood to environmental justice champion, and discusses sanitation and its correlation with systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that affects people across the United States.
Flowers and her work have been profiled by CBS’s 60 Minutes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, PBS Newshour and more.
Learn more at www.catherinecolemanflowers.com
Sue Frost is a founding member of Tony Award and Olivier Award-winning Junkyard Dog Productions, which is dedicated to developing and producing new musicals. New musicals in development: 3 Summers of Lincoln (Executive Producers), The Heart and Freak the Mighty. Previous Broadway productions include Come From Away; Memphis; First Date; Doctor Zhivago (Executive Producers).
Sue is a member of adjunct faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, and serves on The Broadway League’s Board of Governors, the Executive, Tony Administration, Audience Engagement, Intra-Industry, EDI, and Business Development Committees.
Jenn Gambatese is proud to be a member of the Broadway Green Alliance Advisory Council. Having performed for many BGA events and participated in their planning processes, she is more aware than ever of how theater makers can make a measurable difference in creating environmentally friendlier practices both on Broadway and beyond! Jenn has starred in 8 Broadway shows, guest-starred on television, appeared in films, and performed with world-class orchestras and intimate cabaret combos. She teaches private voice lessons and performing arts masterclasses globally. More info at www.jenngambatese.com
Montego Glover is a Tony Award Nominee, Two-time Drama Desk Award Winner, Outer Critics’ Circle Award Winner & Honoree, and Drama League Nominee. Glover's talent extends to television, film, concerts, commercials, gaming, animation, narration and scripted audio. Beyond her artistic endeavors, Glover is actively involved in arts advocacy, earth preservation and conservation, as well as artist committees at leading theatre institutions around the country. Ms. Glover is based in New York City.
Miranda Gohh is a producer and the Founder of Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC). She currently serves as Associate Producer at Mike Bosner Production (Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Proof, 10 Things I Hate About You). Miranda is the 2025 Prince/TTLP Fellow and a member of the Shubert Artistic Circle.
Sarah G. Harris (she/her) is a Broadway stage manager, educator, and mentor dedicated to creating sustainable, inclusive practices in the theater industry. She is currently the Stage Manager of Maybe Happy Ending, the six-time Tony Award-winning musical, and has previously worked on Broadway productions including The Heart of Rock & Roll, Parade, A Christmas Carol, Come From Away, and Once On This Island. Sarah serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s MFA Stage Management Program and is an Advisory Board Member for Open Stage Project. She is proud to support the Broadway Green Alliance’s mission of environmental stewardship and community engagement.
Terry Kinney is a co-founder of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His directing credits there include The Violet Hour, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Clockwork Orange, Of Mice and Men and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, which moved to Broadway and won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. NYC directing credits include the world premiere of Checkers by Doug McGrath, reasons to be pretty for MCC and Broadway, After Ashley and Beautiful Child at the Vineyard Theatre, The Money Shot by Neil LaBute for MCC and others. Upcoming projects include Sins of the Mother by Israel Horowitz and Rear Window, adapted by Keith Reddin. Mr. Kinney’s film directing credits include the short film Kubuku Rides (This Is It) for Steppenwolf Films and Diminished Capacity with Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda. Film appearances include Save the Last Dance, Sleepers, Fly Away Home, Last of the Mohicans, The Firm, Devil in a Blue Dress and Turn The River. TV credits include Tim McManus in HBO’s prison drama Oz, The Black List, The Mentalist, The Unusuals, The Laramie Project, 30something, Kidnapped, George Wallace and The Good Wife with Julianna Margulies.
Tom Kirdahy is a Tony/Olivier Award-winning producer. Select credits: Just In Time starring Jonathan Groff; film adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman starring Jennifer Lopez and directed by Bill Condon; Caroline a new play by Preston Max Allen and directed by David Cromer at MCC; Gypsy (Drama Desk, Best Revival) starring Audra McDonald and directed by George C. Wolfe; Hadestown (eight Tonys, Best Musical); Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Desk, Best Revival); The Inheritance (Tony/Olivier, Best Play); Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are; The Piano Lesson (Drama Desk, Best Revival); Frankie and Johnny; Anastasia; It’s Only a Play; The Visit; The Jungle.
Senator Liz Krueger was first elected to the New York State Senate in 2002, and is the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee. She is a strong advocate for women’s rights, tenants’ rights, affordable housing, improved access to health care, social services, environmental sustainability, and public education. She has made reforming and modernizing New York State’s governmental processes, electoral system, and tax policy central goals of her legislative agenda. Before her election, Sen. Krueger worked for 15 years as Associate Director of the Community Food Resource Center (CFRC). Prior to that, she was the founding Director of the New York City Food Bank.
Kenny Leon is a Tony Award-winning director. Broadway: Othello; Our Town; HOME; Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch; Topdog/Underdog; Ohio State Murders; A Soldier’s Play; American Son; Children of a Lesser God; Holler If Ya Hear Me; A Raisin in the Sun; The Mountaintop; Stick Fly; August Wilson’s Fences, Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf. Off-Broadway: King James; The Underlying Chris; Everybody’s Ruby; Emergence-See! (The Public); Smart People (Second Stage). Opera: Margaret Garner. Television: Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia; Colin in Black & White; 4400; Amend: The Fight for America; American Son (adapted for Netflix); Hairspray Live!; The Wiz Live!; Steel Magnolias; Dynasty; In My Dreams. Author: Take You Wherever You Go. Artistic Director Emeritus: Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company. Senior Resident Director: Roundabout Theatre Company. Awards: Obie, Actors Fund Medal of Honor, George Abbott Lifetime Achievement for American Theatre, Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre.
Juliette Maners (she/her) is an actor and stage manager based in NYC who seeks to use her art to inspire positive change. She recently attained her BFA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Arts and Entertainment Industries Management from Rider University, where she developed and led the Rider chapter of the Broadway Green Alliance College Green Captain program. Juliette thanks Molly and Austin for their unwavering support over the years, and is thrilled to continue her involvement with the BGA in her career post-grad!
@juliettemaners // www.juliettemaners.com
Dr. Michael E. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He also serves as Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action and Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM).
Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. His research interests include the study of Earth's climate system and the science, impacts and policy implications of human-caused climate change.
Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003. He has received a number of honors and awards including NOAA's outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and was awarded the National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife Federation in 2013. He made Bloomberg News' list of fifty most influential people in 2013. In 2014, he was named Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and received the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education. He received the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate One in 2017, the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union in 2018. In 2019 he received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and in 2020 he received the World Sustainability Award of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He received the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society in 2021 and was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 2023. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2024. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is also a co-founder of the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.
Dr. Mann is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and six books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, The Tantrum that Saved the World and The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet and Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.
Idina has won a Tony, Obie, and Drama League Award for her work in the theater. Broadway: If/Then, Wicked, Aida, Rent. Off-Broadway: Skintight (Roundabout), See What I Wanna See (Public Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (West Side Theatre), The Wild Party (MTC), Hair (Encores). Regional: Wicked (San Francisco), If/Then (Washington, DC). Menzel also premiered Wicked in the West End, receiving the Theatregoers Choice Award. Film: You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Which Way to the Stage? (Documentary), Enchanted 2: Disenchanted, Frozen 2, Uncut Gems, American Murderer, Cinderella, Frozen, Enchanted, Ask the Dust, Rent. TV: “Beaches,” “Glee,” PBS special, “Barefoot at the Symphony,” (accompanying live album). Idina prides herself on the importance of new musicals, creating original roles, and promoting young composers. Thanks to the two amazing men in her life, her son Walker and husband Aaron, for their love and support. Thank you to the redwoods for teaching us about resilience, patience, and nature’s ability to help us heal.
Abbey Rayburn Hirons (she/her) is proud to be a member of the inaugural BGA Advisory Council. She has been working in the Wardrobe departments of various professional theater organizations for over 25 years. With a career spanning national and international touring, supervising numerous Broadway musicals and plays, working with full-body costume characters, keeping magicians’ secrets, and filming Diana in the fall of 2020, she loves all aspects of bringing the live theater experience to audiences. Abbey is excited to work and communicate with others within and outside the theater community to practice our craft in a more sustainable and efficient manner.
Luis Salgado is an award-winning director, choreographer, performer, and educator from Puerto Rico whose work bridges Broadway, film, Cirque du Soleil, international stages, and community empowerment. He has directed concerts for Viva Broadway and serves on its advisory board. An original cast member of In the Heights, his directing and choreographic credits include Aida, Ragtime, Matilda, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, On Your Feet!, and In the Heights, among others. Most recently, he has helped developed new works such as ¡Americano!, Barba: El Musical, This Is Not a Drill, Aguardiente, and a Latin Rhythms re-imagining of Jesus Christ Superstar. Through Salgado Productions and his nonprofit R.Evolución Latina, he champions “Art with a Purpose,” creating spaces that empower artists, celebrate Latin culture, and build community worldwide.
Stasia Savage is the Assistant Director of Stagecraft for the IATSE and Chair of the International’s Green Committee as well as sits on the Executive Committee of the IATSE Women’s Committee. She has previously served as the Business Representative and President for local 26 in West Michigan and is the current Business Representative for local 757 out of Detroit. Stasia is an avid recycler, lover of shoes, coney dogs, dance and likes to spend her free time rehabbing old homes. She holds a B.S. in Labor Relations from Rutger’s University.
Marc Shaiman is a composer/lyricist/arranger and performer who has earned seven Oscar nominations (for Mary Poppins Returns, Sleepless in Seattle, Patch Adams, The First Wives Club, The American President and South Park), a Tony Award (for Hairspray), two Grammy Awards (for Hairspray and Some Like It Hot) and is a two Emmy Awards for The Oscars with Billy Crystal and Only Murders In The Building. He has earned additional nominations and huzzahs for the films Beaches, When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers, The Addams Family, Sister Act, A Few Good Men, The Bucket List, the Broadway shows Martin Short: Fame Becomes Him, Catch Me If You Can and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, the television shows Saturday Night Live, The Academy Awards and Prop 8:The Musical, and for recordings with Bette Midler, Harry Connick Jr., and Mariah Carey. Born and raised in New Jersey, he currently lives in New York with his husband Lou Mirabal.
David Stone is a theatre producer, currently represented around the world by productions of Wicked, for which he is Lead Producer. He has also acted as Lead Producer of The Boys in the Band, War Paint, If/Then, Next to Normal, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Three Days of Rain, Man of La Mancha, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Lifegame, The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Gallop, The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theatre. David has lectured on theatre at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.
Shaina Taub is a songwriter/performer whose honors include two Tony Awards, an Obie Award, and nominations for a Grammy and an Emmy. An artist-in-residence at the Public Theater, she created and performed in Broadway’s Suffs (now touring nationally) and Public Works’ Twelfth Night and As You Like It. She was included on the 2024 Time100 Next list, and has been recognized with the Workers Circle Activism Award; the League of Women Voters’ Tribute Award; and the Michael Friedman Freedom Award from the NYCLU Artist Ambassadors program which she co-chairs. www.shainataub.com
Alexandria Villaseñor co-founded the US Youth Climate Strike movement while organizing for Fridays for Future International at the age of 13 and has since gone on to found the climate education non-profit Earth Uprising. Now, at age 18, Alexandria is an internationally recognized activist, author, and speaker at three UN Conference of Parties, NATO, the World Economic Forum, and the 2020 Democratic National Convention. She was a child petitioner for the ground-breaking international complaint to the United Nations, Children vs. Climate Crisis, and has sat on the youth advisory boards for the American Lung Association and IKEA. She's looking forward to graduating from high school in May and is excited to be attending Harvard University this fall.
TJ Witham has been with the Times Square Alliance since 2014 and is currently the Vice President of Communications. Prior to this, he made a tour of the New York City nonprofit arts community having worked for Robert Wilson and The Watermill Center as the Director of Programs and Communications, as well as making previous stops at the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York, and Roundabout Theater Company. He is an alumnus of the New York City Coro Neighborhood Leadership program.
Alex Timbers is a Tony Award-winning writer and director and the recipient of Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards. His many Broadway credits include Moulin Rouge!, Beetlejuice, David Byrne’s American Utopia, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Oh Hello on Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Disney’s Peter and the Starcatcher. For television, he co-created Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle and has directed numerous concert specials, including the Emmy-winning John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City for Netflix. Alex lives in Times Square with his partner Rebekah and three mischievous parakeets.