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Kitt Lavoie, President Eileen S. Silvers, Secretary Debbie Monk, Treasurer
Kitt is an award-winning director and playwright, having directed more than eighty shows in New York City and authored twenty-one produced plays and musical books. Kitt served as Producing Artistic Director of The CRY HAVOC Company from 1997 until 2008, when the company incorporated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and he became Artistic Director and Board President. Debbie is a Canadian chartered accountant and Director in Finance for Citigroup Global Banking. Prior to moving to the United States she was an independent consultant working as controller for various companies including Smith Barney Canada and Bell Global Solutions.
Eileen recently retired from the practice of law, specializing in taxation matters, after 33 years. During her career, she was a partner at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison and at the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche; the Vice President of Taxes at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; and the Senior Vice President of Taxes and Corporate Affairs at Genpact Limited. She currently serves as a Trustee on the Board of Theatre Development Fund and the University of Buffalo Foundation and is the Chair of the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Buffalo.
Timothy Davis, Board Member Jenny Kirlin, Board Member Deborah Rath, Board Member
Timothy Davis is the Director of Peak Performance, which was recently named in Men's Health magazine as one of the ten best gyms in America. He holds an MFA in acting from the New School University and a BFA in Theatre Media Studies from Iowa State University. Jenny Kirlin has worked on scores of productions in and around NYC, both as an actor and as a stage manager. She spent seven years working on the general management staff at the Hilton Theatre (where 42nd Street, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Young Frankenstein played) and recently joined The Road Company, touring Broadway musicals across North America. Debbie is currently a Media Planning consultant. Previous experience includes VP Group Director positions at advertising agencies in New York and Los Angeles, including including Carat, Merkley Newman Harty, McCann Erickson and J. Walter Thompson, where she provided strategic services to clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Mercedes-Benz, and Nestle. Debbie is also an active member of Fred's Team, a fundraising arm of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
David Vigliano, Board Member Bob Hawk, Advisory Board Lonny Price, Advisory Board
David Vigliano is a literary agent and Founder and CEO of Vigliano Associates, which has represented eight number one New York Times bestsellers, with over 50 books hitting the Times list since 2000. The foremost agency in the industry at representing celebrity books, Vigliano Associates has scored major best sellers for a vast array of marquee names, including magician David Blaine; Grammy winner Alicia Keys; rock icon Anthony Kiedis; NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal; pop princess Britney Spears; NFL Hall of Famer Walter Payton; country great Willie Nelson, the estate of Elvis Presley; Steven R. Schirripa of The Sopranos; legendary rock band Aerosmith; actress Jenny McCarthy; and the one and only Yogi Berra. David is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
Bob Hawk, independent film producer and consultant, has been credited with discovering and/or nurturing the talents of such filmmakers as Kevin Smith (beginning with Clerks), Joe Carnahan (from Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane to Pride and Glory), and Ed Burns (The Brothers McMullen). Film producing credits include Prodigal Sons, Ballets Russes, Trick, Chasing Amy and The Slaughter Rule. As film consultant: The Laramie Project (HBO), My Architect and the Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, among many others. He has served on the advisory board for IFP/NY's Independent Film Week, AIFA at the Berlin Film Festival, First Look (Tribeca Film Center/Eastman Kodak), the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and numerous others. He has served on many festival juries and has curated special film series for the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the Kennedy Center, the International Documentary Congress, the Melbourne Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. Before his involvement in film, Hawk worked in theater, first in various technical and managerial capacities, later as a production stage manager. Shows included MacBird!, Dames at Sea, Sal Mineo's version of Fortune and Men's Eyes and Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning No Place to Be Somebody. He continues to support and produce new plays for the theater. He has had his own business, ICI (Independent Consultation for Independents), for more than 15 years. www.filmhawk.com Lonny Price recently completed directing his first feature film, “Master Harold”… and the boys, starring Freddie Highmore and Ving Rhames. He directed Gabriel Byrne in the PBS Live From Lincoln Center broadcast of Camelot (also starring Christopher Lloyd, Stacy Keach and Fran Drescher). For Great Performances, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (starring Kristin Chenoweth and Patti LuPone), as well as Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (with Ms. LuPone and George Hearn), for which he won the Emmy. His production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Passion (starring Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and Michael Cerveris) won an Emmy as well. Other television credits include his filming of the acclaimed Broadway revival of Company, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Lonny is former Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Works. Favorites among his off-Broadway work include Visiting Mr. Green starring Eli Wallach, Jules Feiffer’s Grown Ups, and Mary Pat Gleason’s Stopping Traffic for the Vineyard Theatre. On Broadway, Lonny directed Audra McDonald in 110 in the Shade for the Roundabout Theatre Company, Danny Glover in Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”… and the boys, Joan Rivers in Sally Marr and her Escorts (which he co-wrote with Ms Rivers and Erin Sanders), Jenn Colella in Urban Cowboy, and himself in A Class Act, for which he also co-wrote the book (with Linda Kline) and was nominated for a Tony Award.