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The People of ProjectExplorer
Board of Directors

Jenny M Buccos, Director & Founder

Simon Goddard, Chairman

Jeff Elgart, Acting President

Colin Teichholtz, Treasurer

Michael Bishara

Matthew Boggie

Billy Burgess

Dean Cycon

José Ramón González

Amy Kleisner

Razvan Popescu

Chavaughn Raines

Karin Schall

 


Creative Council
 
Mario BataliChef, Restauranteur & TV Host: Molto Mario, Iron Chef America.
Kate BurtonActor. Three Tony Award nominations. Emmy nomination for Grey’s Anatomy.
Michael CumpstyActor. Obie-Award Winner. Broadway: Copenhagen, Democracy,
The Constant Wife.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Chair of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Host/Executive Producer of African American Lives.
Tony GerberDirector/Executive Producer. Recipient of 2 Emmy Awards for the series Behind The Screen. Films: Full Battle Rattle and Side Streets.
Dulé HillActor. NY stage: Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk and The Dutchman. Television: NBC’s The West Wing and USA’s Psych.
Beth Levison 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 Musician. Board of Directors of Southern African Musician Rights Organisation (SAMRO).
Lynn Nottage Playwright. 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Ruined. 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Works include: Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, and Las Meninas.
Brían F. O'ByrneActor. Coast of Utopia and Doubt (Tony Nominations), Frozen (Tony Award).
Paul RuddActor. 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 WoodWriter, 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.
Andrew ZimmernChef, Writer & TV Host: Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.

 

Contributing Educators

Scott Ausplemyer, Celeste Beck, Kailee Bialaszewski, Claudia Buccos, Nicole Duell, Ishai Jacob, Ewen Ku, Sharon Menotiades, Chris Mills, Erin Morris, Cindy Hastings Sakaan.

Writers and Researchers

Matthew Baggetta, Celeste Beck, Kailee Bialaszewski, Matthew Boggie, Maisie Bornstein, Dominick Casazza, Stephanie Cowan, Kathleen Davis, Kristina DeSantis, Clare Fogerty, Zack Friedman, Elizabeth Hammett, Nicholas Harris, Shawna Irish, Lauren Johnson, Ewen Ku, Rebecca Marks, Patrick McKenny, Nidia Medina, Sharon Panelo, Gabrielle Pasternak, Linda Saucerman, Jackie Sawiris, Adam Seall, Erica Slutsky, John Stokvis, Hajar Yazdiha

Editors

Maisie Bornstein, Steven Flack, Emily Goodwin, Ewen Ku, Korina Langlie, Rebecca Marks, Jonathan Monk

Additional Contributors

Margo Ferri, Nathi Gcabashe, Hannah Jantsch, Lauren Johnson (Co-Founder), Cromwell Majavu, Rebecca Marks, Henry Martone, Patrick McKenny, Marc Morris, Daylin Paul, Gabrielle Pasternak, Michaela Potter, Amall Saffouri, Robin Wachsberger