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Board of Directors

Jenny M Buccos, Executive Director / Founder

Simon Goddard, Chairman, Board of Directors

Nkem Nwuneli, President, Board of Directors

Colin Teichholtz, Treasurer, Board of Directors

Michael Bishara

Matthew Boggie

Dean Cycon

Raahim Don

Tariq Jawad

Razvan Popescu

Michaela Potter

Karin Schall

Nancy Taubenslag

 


Creative Council
 
Mario Batali Chef, Restauranteur, and TV host: Molto Mario, Iron Chef America.
Kate Burton Actor. Three Tony Award nominations. Emmy nomination for Grey’s Anatomy.
Michael CumpstyActor. Obie-Award Winner. Broadway: Copenhagen, Democracy,
The Constant Wife.
Olympia Dukakis Actor. Academy Award Winner for Moonstruck.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Chair of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Host/executive producer of African American Lives.
Tony Gerber Director/Executive Producer. Recipient of 2 Emmy Awards for the series Behind The Screen. Films: Full Battle Rattle and Side Streets.
Dulé Hill Actor. NY stage: Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk and The Dutchman. Television: NBC’s The West Wing and USA’s Psych.
Beth Levinson Producer & Director of Documentary Television & Film. Credits include e2 design, HBO's Classical Baby (Emmy Award), and PBS' EGG the arts show (Peabody Award).
Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse World-renowned South African musician. Board of Directors of Southern African Musician Rights Organisation (SAMRO).
Lynn Nottage Playwright. 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Works include: Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, and Las Meninas.
Brían F. O'Byrne Actor. Coast of Utopia and Doubt (Tony Nominations), Frozen (Tony Award).
Paul Rudd Actor. Broadway: Three Days of Rain, Twelfth Night. Film: The Shape of Things, Romeo + Juliet, The Cider House Rules, and many more.
Michael StuhlbargActor. Drama Desk Winner & Tony Nominee for The Pillowman.
Over two dozen NY stage credits including numerous Shakespeare roles.
Michael Wood Writer, Presenter & Historian. Among his critically acclaimed television series: Conquistadors, In Search of Shakespeare, In Search of Myths & Heroes, and In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great.

 

Academic and Creative Contributors

Celeste Beck - Contributing Educator and Writer, South Africa & Shakespeare’s England
Kailee Bialaszewski - Contributing Educator, South Africa
Dominick Casazza - Writer, South Africa
Stephanie Cowan - Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Kristina DeSantis - Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Margo Ferri - Associate Producer, South Africa
Steven Flack - Video Editor and Multimedia Consultant
Zack Friedman - Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Emily Goodwin - Editor, South Africa
Elizabeth Hammett - Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Nicholas Harris - Writer, South Africa
Hannah Jantsch - Associate Producer, Shakespeare’s England
Lauren Johnson - Co-Founder and Writer for Shakespeare’s England
Ewen Ku - Editor and Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Cromwell Majavu - Cultural Guide, South Africa
Rebecca Marks - Editor and Writer, South Africa
Henry Martone - Assistant to the Director/Producer, South Africa
Kate McKenny - Outfitter, Shakespeare’s England
Patrick McKenny - Writer and Photographer, Shakespeare’s England
Nidia Medina - Editor and Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Sharon Menotiades - Contributing Educator, Shakespeare’s England
Sharon Panelo - Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Daylin Paul - Photographer, South Africa
Gabrielle Pasternak - Associate Producer, Writer for South Africa & Shakespeare’s England
Cynthia Hastings Sakaan - Contributing Educator, Shakespeare’s England
Linda Saucerman - Writer, Shakespeare’s England
Adam Sewall - Writer/Researcher, South Africa
John Stokvis - Writer, South Africa & Shakespeare’s England
Hajar Yazdiha - Writer, Shakespeare’s England