Board of Directors

Young Playwrights benefits from the outstanding support of our Board members — leaders from the corporate, civic, educational and artistic communities, including program alumni. Most proudly, the Board welcomed high school student playwrights to its membership in 2005.

Officers

Nancy Stuski, Associate Publisher, Philadelphia City Paper - Chair
Joseph Conners - President
James A. Geier, President, Human Capital Consulting Partners- Vice President
Debra A. Kahn, Executive Director, Delaware Valley Grantmakers - Vice President
E. Matthew Steinberg, Vice President-Investments, Oppenheimer and Company - Treasurer
A. Taylor Williams, Legal Counsel, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania - Secretary

Trustees

Honorable Blondell Reynolds Brown, ex officio, Councilwoman, Philadelphia City Council
Joellen Brown, Executive Communications Director, Verizon
Nessa R. Forman, Consultant
Samuel Hirsch, Vice President of Student Affairs, Community College of Philadelphia
Quiara Alegría Hudes, Professional Playwright, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize Nominee
Piper Kelly, Audit Senior Manager, Ernest and Young LLP
Brian Kirby, Attorney at Law
Alan Magner, Physician
Aron Magner, Musician, Disco Biscuits
Lori Odum, Teacher, School District of Philadelphia
Michael E. Plunkett, Attorney at Law, Blank Rome LLP
Brian Rhodes, Senior Counsel-Litigations, Sunoco Inc.
Kevin Robinson, Sirios Capital Management
Antonio Williams, Government Affairs, Comcast
Joanne Wills, Partner, Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers LLP

Please contact Lindsay Mauck, Development Associate, at (215) 665-9226 if you are interested in future board membership.  Thank you for your initiative!

Board News

Taylor Williams, our Board Secretary, was profiled in the most recent issue of AOPC Connected, the official newsletter of the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, after being honored with the President’s Award at Write On! 2010. Click HERE for the newsletter. The article appears on page 5.