Board of Directors

Young Playwrights honors Nessa Forman and salutes her for her years of service to young people and Young Playwrights. Nessa is pictured here with David Glickstein and Student Playwright Moses Adenaike.

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, Executive Vice President & CFO, McGraw Hill Federal Credit Union -President 
James A. Geier, President, Human Capital Consulting Partners- Vice President
Debra A. Kahn, Executive Director, Delaware Valley Grantmakers - Vice President
Brian P. Kirby, Attorney at Law - Vice President
E. Matthew Steinberg, Executive Director-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
Marc Goodman, CPA, Bush, Tecosky, Goodman, Feldman LLC
Shelly Goodman, Firm Administrator, Bush, Tecosky, Goodman, Feldman LLC
Karen Y. Greene, VP Financial Services, AmerisourceBergen Corporation
Samuel Hirsch, Vice President of Student Affairs, Community College of Philadelphia
Bernard L Hirsh, Financial Advisor, PIA Program Portfolio Manager, Merrill Lynch
Quiara Alegría Hudes, Professional Playwright, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize Nominee
Piper Kelly, Audit Senior Manager, Ernst and Young LLP
Alan Magner, Physician
Aron Magner, Musician, Disco Biscuits
Lori Odum, Teacher, School District of Philadelphia
Michael E. Plunkett, Attorney at Law, Blank Rome LLP
Kevin Robinson, Program Alum, Dartmouth MBA Candidate
Antonio Williams, Government Affairs, Comcast
Joanne Wills, Consultant

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

Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown recently released a YouTube video for the It Gets Better Campaign to help put an end to bullying. Click HERE to watch!

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.