Charlie Deull has served as co-chair of the BGA since its founding in 2008. Along with other family members, he owns and operates Clark Transfer, which has been the leader in theatrical transportation since 1949. He helped create the Touring Green program through which touring productions have offset over 50,000 tons of carbon since the beginning of 2008. He has served on many for-profit and not-for-profit boards including Ecovative Design and The Hunger Project. He previously served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Scholastic Inc. and before that practiced law with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton.

Colleen Jennings-Roggensack is Vice President for Cultural Affairs and Executive Director of Arizona State University Gammage with responsibility for ASU Gammage, ASU Kerr, Desert Financial Arena and ASU 365 Community Union, an initiative to activate Mountain America Stadium 365-days-a-year, which has transformed the facility into a year-round hub of cultural activity. She serves on the Board of Directors for Creative Capital and The Broadway League and co-chair of Broadway Green Alliance. She serves on Black Theatre United Summit and the 7G Committee. Colleen was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the US Senate to serve on the National Council on the Arts 1994-1997. She also served three years as the President of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. She is a consultant to several universities, colleges and international governments and a featured speaker at conferences. Colleen has been the recipient of numerous awards including 2024 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, 2023 Distinguished Service Award from The Broadway League, 2021 Arizona's 48 Most Intriguing Women, 2021 City of Tempe Arts and Culture Community Impactor, 2019 Valley Leadership Woman of the Year, 2019 ASU West Pioneer Award, National Society of Arts and Letters Medallion of Merit, Valle del Sol’s Mom of the Year, Arts Presenters’ Fan Taylor Award, Black Philanthropy Initiative Honor, The Broadway League's Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management and Arizona's Governor’s Arts Award. She previously served as the Vice Chair of the Road and on the Board of Governors Executive Committee.

David Alpert is an NYC-based theatre director, professor, and activist. As a director David has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway and across the country. In addition to their work as a director, David serves on the Acting Faculty at NYU, created and hosts the “E-Ticket to Broadway” podcast, and can be seen in the “Which Way to the Stage” documentary on Disney+ starring Idina Menzel. With his family, David runs Gilana’s Fund, an organization dedicated to supporting non-profits focused on making the world more accepting, just, and fair. Proud member of SDC, and was named a distinguished alum of Western Michigan University. www.david-alpert.com

Damian Bazadona is the founder of Situation Interactive, a digital marketing agency for entertainment and experience-based brands. Since its inception in 2001, the agency has delivered industry-leading campaigns for some of the biggest names in entertainment including the 2014 NY/NJ Super Bowl, One World Observatory, NBCUniversal, and Wicked on Broadway, among many others. Damian also founded The Situation Project, a nonprofit organization whose efforts nurture untapped talent pools by investing in the cultural capital of students in high-performing, arts-deficient NYC public schools through exposure to cultural experiences, institutions, and working professionals.

Mara Davi is an actress, an arts educator, an advocate for environmental sustainability, and a mama of two young nature lovers. She is proud to be a founding board member of the Broadway Green Alliance, having served on the steering committee since 2015. Mara is also co-project manager of Cornwall Community Composting through the Cornwall Youth Garden Club, and a member of the sustainability committee at the Hudson Highlands Nature Center. Mara is currently completing a B.S. in Environmental Studies at SUNY Empire State College.

Tim Guinee is the President of Climate Action Now and serves as the Legislative Action Director for the New York Climate Reality Project Chapters Coalition. He has given presentations about the climate crisis all over the U.S., Canada and North Africa. He enjoys giving talks to underserved and oppositional audiences including such diverse groups as conservative fire departments, Houston oil-industry executives and maximum-security inmates. He is the founder of The Climate Actors, serves on the Advisory Council of Riverkeeper, the Advisory Board of the Center for Earth Ethics, the Executive Committee of the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, the Advisory Board of Project Green Schools, and the Boards of Directors at the Ashokan Center (New York's oldest outdoor environmental education center), and the Board of the Climate Reality Action Fund. He is the official climate change liaison for the town of Marbletown, NY with the Climate Mayors and served as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Solutions. In 2020 he was awarded the prestigious Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award by Vice-President Gore. As an actor, he has appeared in hundreds of plays, television shows and films.

Jim Joseph was born and raised in The Bronx, NY and is the Director of Operations for Second Stage Theater, winner of the 2022 TONY Award for Best revival of a Play (Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg) & the 2024 TONY Award for Bes New Play (Appropriate by Brandon Jacob-Jenkins). At Second Stage, he oversees the operations of The Hayes Theater as well as their Off-Broadway productions.

Previously, he was the House Manager on the inaugural staff of The New Victory Theater, the city’s first theater dedicated to kids and family programming. He was part of the team that created The New Vic Usher Corps – a groundbreaking, youth development program for NYC youth. From 1995 until 2008, Jim hired over 400 teens and young adults, giving most of them their very first job and helping some of them launch careers in the professional theater as artists and administrators. 

He spent 9 seasons as the Theatre Manager at The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, the Broadway home of Manhattan Theatre Club, where he welcomed 27 different Broadway shows into the theater, including the Tony Award winning production of August Wilson’s Jitney

Jim has worked in the Off-Off Broadway community as a director and producer, working with the groundbreaking Latino Theatre Company Vaso de Leche Productions and the actress/poet/activist La Bruja on her 1 woman show Boogie Rican Boulevard among others.

As an arts administration consultant, Jim has worked with The United Palace for Cultural Arts in Washington Heights, The Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, 59E59 Theatres and The Apollo Theater.

In addition to his theater operations consulting work, he has been an advisor to the theatre program at Borough of Manhattan Community College since 2010 and has served as an adjunct instruction of theatre management.

He is a graduate of the Arts Leadership Institute (2010) and the Commercial Theatre Institute (2014). He has served on the Broadway Security Steering Committee and The Broadway League's Diversity & Inclusion Committee. In 2018, he presented at TEDx Broadway, speaking on diversity and inclusion on Broadway and currently serves on their Leadership Committee. He is also the Co-Chair of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee for the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers (ATPAM) – the Broadway union for managers and press agents.

Anika Larsen (she/her) is an actor, singer, director, writer, teacher and climate advocate who has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in national tours and regionally. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her role as Cynthia Weil in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and she also appeared on Broadway in Almost Famous, Avenue Q, Xanadu, All Shook Up, and Rent. Anika wrote and performed in a musical about her childhood growing up in Cambridge, MA with nine brothers and sisters from different races and countries, she released an album of lullabies for all ages called Sing You to Sleep, and she gigs with her trumpet-playing husband in the Larsen Maxwell Quintet. She is the mother of two little boys who are delightful slash relentless. Anika is on the board of the Broadway Green Alliance, she created and hosted “The Broadway Vlog to Save the Planet” for the Broadway Podcast Network, and she co-wrote and directed a play about climate action for NYC Children’s Theater called The Pocket Park Kids. She majored in theater at Yale University and she is a proud member of Actors Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild. @GreenMomAF. www.anikalarsen.biz

Susan Sampliner was the company manager for the Broadway production of Wicked since it started rehearsals back in March 2003, until retiring in December 2022. She was a company manager for thirty years, dividing her time between the commercial and not-for-profit theater in New York, both on and off Broadway, and spent 8 years as a general manager. Susan is a graduate of Brown University and holds a certificate in arts management from SUNY Purchase, where she also taught for two years. In 2008, she helped co-found the Broadway Green Alliance, and proudly served as co-chair for 16 years.

Christina Selby is the Vice President of Production and Touring at Nederlander Producing Company of America. Her role is two-fold and includes booking tours and staff oversight in 40 Nederlander markets across the country and developmental work and investor relations on shows Nederlander produces and in which it invests. She serves on various committees of The Broadway League, including the Board of Governors and Executive Committee. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor for Columbia University’s Theatre Management and Producing MFA Program. She is on the board of the Broadway Green Alliance and has served as a mentor for the NYU Tisch Drama Women’s Mentorship Program. Over her career, she has participated in a number of industry panels and speaking engagements, including the Broadway Speakers Bureau, Black Theatre Coalition, SphinxConnect Conference, CTI (Commercial Theatre Institute), International Salsa Congress, IMPACT, Theatre Producers of Color, and the Sol of El Barrio. In the past, she has held numerous positions throughout the Broadway industry including Associate General Manager at Charlotte Wilcox Company, Labor Relations at The Broadway League, Accounting and Company Operations at Jujamcyn, and positions at Roundabout Theatre Company and various Broadway general management offices. She is a graduate of Brown University and of Columbia University’s Theatre Management and Producing MFA Program.

Lauren Reid, President of the John Gore Organization (JGO), has channeled her lifelong passion for live entertainment into a storied, three-decade career working at the highest levels of the theater industry to extend the reach of Broadway. Throughout her tenure at JGO, Lauren has helped steer the company to become a leading presenter, distributor, and marketer of commercial theater from coast-to-coast. In addition to its dozens of productions currently on Broadway and around the world, JGO presents and/or operates theater in more than 40 markets across North America. JGO’s family of companies, all of which are under Lauren’s operational oversight, includes Broadway Across America, Broadway.com, The Broadway Channel, BroadwayBox.com, Broadway Brands and Group Sales Box Office.

Lauren served as Chair of The Broadway League during a key period from 2020 to 2023. Her leadership was particularly significant as she guided the industry through the unprecedented pandemic shutdown, and then helped lead the Broadway industry through its successful reopening. Lauren also serves on the boards of trustees for The Entertainment Community Fund, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, The Hobby Center in Houston, and the Board of Governors and Executive Committee for The Broadway League.