John B. Beinecke is vice president and a director of Antaeus Enterprises, Inc., a private investment company in New York. Mr. Beinecke attended Yale University, attaining a B.A. in 1969. He serves as chairman of Lincoln Center Theater and is a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is also the president and a director of The Prospect Hill Foundation and a director of The Sperry Fund. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Yale School of Drama. He is a resident of New York City and Darien, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Gaily, and their son, Barrett.

Sarah Bernard (Treasurer) was the President of 23/6, a comedic news collaboration between IAC/InterActiveCorp and The Huffington Post. In this role, she was responsible for the development, operations and management of the company. Previously, she served as General Manager for HuffingtonPost.com since its launch in May 2005. From 2000 to 2005, Ms. Bernard held various roles at AOL, Inc., most recently as Vice President of Program Strategy & Promotion charged with audience growth for AOL’s media business. Before that position, she served as Vice President & General Manager of AOL for Small Business, overseeing the launch and ongoing business strategy, programming and product development for AOL’s first line extension. Ms. Bernard was first recruited to AOL for advertising sales development, where she led technology and consumer electronics sales strategies across Time Warner’s interactive properties. Prior to joining AOL, Ms. Bernard was a Director at WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, where she was responsible for guiding business and product development for washingtonpost.com’s recruitment classifieds property, washingtonjobs.com. Ms. Bernard began her career in advertising, where she held account management roles at both TBWA/Chiat/Day and Ketchum Advertising agencies. Ms. Bernard holds a BA in English from UCLA and an MBA from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU.

Allison Blinken was born and raised in New York City.  She is a graduate of The Brearley School and has served on its Alumnae Board.  She has worked on Look Magazine and at The Museum of Modern Art.  Allison has been a trustee of The Rippowam Cisqua School (Bedford, New York), The Taft School (Watertown, Connecticut), and the WPA Theatre (NYC). Since 1989 she has served on the Board of  Directors of Lincoln Center Theater.  She lives in Manhattan and has two daughters and five grandsons.

Jonathan Busky (President) works at CafeMom.com, the leading social networking site for moms, running social media marketing services programs. Prior posts have included the Interactive Advertising Bureau, where he launched a professional development program for this leading trade association for digital publishers, the NYC Economic Development Corporation, where he was a Vice-President for Strategy and Media Policy, and the management consulting firm Booz & Co., where he was an engagement manager in the Media and Entertainment practice, advising clients on growth strategies and opportunities relating to digital media. Jonathan has an MBA and an MFA from Yale’s Schools of Management and Drama respectively, as well as a BA from Yale College – thereby ensuring that all his various diplomas will fit into matching frames. He lives in Brooklyn’s Park Slope with his wife, Galen Sherwin, an attorney at the ACLU and his one-year-old daughter, Julia. Hobbies include many more baby-activities than they used to, but there’s still time for some reading, art, cooking, and outdoors activities (hiking / sailing / skiing), in addition to theater.

Jonathan Couchman is the President of Couchman Advisors, Inc., a management and advisory company. Mr. Couchman is also the Managing Member of Couchman Capital LLC, the general partner of both Couchman Partners, LP and Couchman Investments LP, which are New York based private investment partnerships established in 2001. In addition, he has been the Chairman of the Board of Footstar, Inc. since February 7, 2006. Mr. Couchman has been a Director of Golf Trust of America, Inc. since December 14, 2007 and a Director of 160 Riverside Corporation, a private housing cooperative in New York City, since June 2007. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Liz Jones is a founder of Page 73 Productions. From 2002 through 2005 she served as the Manager of Development and Communications for National Corporate Theatre Fund, where she created and managed several programs aimed at marketing theater to corporate audiences, designed and pitched multi-city theater sponsorship proposals, and helped to increase the organization’s annual fund support by $200,000 in three years. From 1996 to 2000 she was on the Artistic Staff of Manhattan Theatre Club, where she assisted Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and served as a consultant to the literary department, and for whom she still reads scripts. Other positions include Company Manager for the 2001 National Tour of Camp Broadway, Events Management Associate for the 2002 Tony Awards, and Associate Producer for Stage Blue, the bi-coastal celebration of Yale’s contribution to the theater industry. She is a member of the Board of Directors of ART/NY and the Yale University Dramatic Association Alumni Associates. She holds a BA from Yale in American Studies and an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Dave Kausch, a freelance film and television editor.

Doreen Oliver has been on both the business and creative sides of the media and entertainment industry for over a decade. For the last few years, she has served as both a producer and VP, Development for Lee Daniels Entertainment (LDE). Aside from managing the script review process, Doreen was closely involved with the production of The Woodsman (Kevin Bacon, Mos Def), served as Associate Producer on Shadowboxer (Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, and Macy Gray) and Co-Producer on the upcoming Tennessee, starring Mariah Carey. At LDE, Doreen produced several commercials, including a voter registration campaign sponsored by President Bill Clinton’s foundation featuring Grammy award-winning artists, LL Cool J and Alicia Keys. She began her career in film and television reviewing comedy and long-form series scripts at HBO Original Programming in Los Angeles, and worked in New Media Business Development at Fremantle Media (producer of “American Idol”). Prior to film, Doreen was the Creator/Executive Producer of the successful New York City talent showcase series “Frustrated Artists in Corporate America,” which was featured on CBS Evening News. Doreen featured then undiscovered artists such as comedian Demetri Martin (The Daily Show), novelist Erica Simone Turnipseed ( A Love Noire, Hunger) and Broadway performer Anika Larsen (Rent; Xanadu). In addition, Doreen spent several years in marketing and advertising at Bozell Worldwide ad agency (for which her teams won two American Marketing Association EFFIE awards) and GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical company. Doreen has also donated time to the Harlem Theatre Company and increased membership through her marketing efforts. She served as Co-Chair for her Yale College Class year reunion, which achieved the highest attendance, both in percentages and absolute numbers, than any other 10 ^th reunion in Yale history. Doreen has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and resides in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

Asher Richelli (Secretary) is a founder of Page 73 Productions.   He has worked as Assistant Company Manager (original productions of William Finn’s A New Brain directed by Graciela Daniele and Parade by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry, directed by Harold Prince; Ring Round The Moon directed by Gerald Gutierrez) and Company Manager (Far East by A.R. Gurney, directed by Dan Sullivan and Ancestral Voices by A.R. Gurney; second workshop of Contact directed by Susan Stroman) at Lincoln Center Theater. He served as a Management Associate for Benjamin Mordecai & Associates, where he company managed the tour of the Donald Byrd Dance Foundation’s The Harlem Nutcracker and the U.S. tour of the Moscow Art Theatre’s production of The Three Sisters; he also served as the assistant company manager on the original Broadway production of Golden Child by David Henry Hwang. He holds a BA (magna cum laude) from Yale in history and international studies.  He practices law at Shearman & Sterling LLP and has also practiced entertainment law.   As an attorney, he primarily represents senior and subordinated lenders in connection with domestic and international acquisition and leveraged buyout financings. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law (Sol Kopehlson Award for Excellence in a Note on Labor Law). He was born and raised in Naples, Italy.

Pamela Ryckman is a freelance journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and The New York Sun, among other publications. Before becoming a writer, she performed internal consulting roles for Merrill Lynch’s Global Markets and Investment Banking group and Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Equities Financial and Strategic Management group. She began her career at Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm. Pamela earned her A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and her Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University. She is fluent in French and proficient in Italian, and was on the board of The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York) from 2004 to 2010. Pamela lives in Manhattan with her husband and their three sons.

Daniel Shiffman is a founder of Page 73 Productions. He is also on the faculty of ITP at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction. For more information, please visit www.shiffman.net.

Amanda Woods. For the past 13 years, Amanda has worked both nationally and internationally in various capacities for several artistic institutions including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Theater, English National Opera, Yale Repertory Theatre and LAByrinth Theater Company. A former theater scout for Paramount Pictures, she holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Currently, she is also an Associate at Jane Bergère Productions, a Broadway producing office, as well as a Steering Committee Member for Lincoln Center Theater’s Young Patron Program. She is a Co-Founder of Entourage a new young donor program supporting The New Group, an Off-Broadway company. In April 2007, Amanda was asked to oversee the re-launch of The Old Vic’s American donor program and now helms the New York office as Manager of the American Associates.

Founders – Nicole Fix, Liz Jones, Asher Richelli & Daniel Shiffman

Nicole Fix is a founder of Page 73 Productions.  In 2008, the Elizabeth George Foundation awarded her a grant to conduct research in Romania, Turkey and Israel in order to complete her short fiction collection.  She received a merit fellowship to attend the SLS Kenya Writers’ Conference and was a finalist for The Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project Fellowship.  In 2008, she was a featured reader at Sunday Salon in Brooklyn, NY.  As a consultant and arts professional, she has worked with The Kitchen, Foundation for Jewish Culture, Theater Development Fund, The Wooster Group and New York Theatre Workshop, among others.   She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.