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ABOUT THE TEAM
BARRY LEVEY - PLAYWRIGHT
Barry Levey’s plays have been developed at Arena Stage, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, the Lark, Ars Nova, the New Group, the Cleveland Play House, PlayLabs and the Baldwin New Play Festival at the University of California, San Diego, where Barry received his MFA.
New York productions include All the Way From China for Mad Dog at the Gene Frankel; Critical Darling at the New Group; Downeaster Alexa and Yale Law School, both at Ars Nova; and Hoaxocaust!, previously produced by Prospect Theater Company. Barry’s plays have been finalists for the Heideman Award (Yale Law School), the O’Neill (Citizens of Rome) and Hangar Lab (Lunchmeat).
He is a graduate of Yale College, a New Group Artist, an Ars Nova Playgroup alumnus, and a member of the Dramatists Guild.
JEREMY GOLD KRONENBERG - DIRECTOR
Jeremy Gold Kronenberg is a freelance director whose recent production of Caroline, or Change was nominated for a 2010 New York Innovative Theatre award as outstanding production of a musical. Additionally, Playbill.com’s Matt Blank chose that production as one of the “unforgettable experiences of 2010.” Jeremy holds an MFA in Directing (Musical Theatre Focus) from The University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. At CCM, his production of Side Show was nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award as Outstanding Musical of the 2004-2005 season.
Recent directing credits include: Side Show (Post Theatre Company/Long Island University), Caroline, or Change (Gallery Players), HOAXOCAUST! (The Cell), Is There Life After High School? and Drat! The Cat! (Opening Doors Theatre Company), Wicked Moon (4th Wall Theatre), The Fantasticks and Scrooge, The Musical! (Ozark Actors Theatre), My Life As A Bald Soprano (Ted Bardy Studio), My Salvation Has A First Name; A Wienermobile Journey (NYC Fringe), and Disappeared, which was part of Prospect Theater Company's Dark Nights Series and workshopped as part of the 2009 Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Jeremy has served as an assistant director at Prospect Theater Company, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The MUNY, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (where he did an observership of John Doyle’s production of Company). 2
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Abroad, Jeremy worked at the Bridewell Theatre in London as an assistant stage manager, conducted youth theater seminars, and assisted in the casting of the European premier of Floyd Collins. Following his tenure in London, Jeremy spent three years as the associate to the director of Stagecrafters Theatre where he taught and directed students in second grade through college.
Jeremy holds a BFA in Acting from The Ohio University School of Theatre and did post-graduate work at Sarah Lawrence College. www.jeremygoldkronenberg.com
ADAM GREEN - SPECIAL APPERANCE
Adam Green: New York: The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull), Election Day, All this Intimacy (Second Stage), Dov and Ali (Playwrights Realm/Cherry Lane), None of the Above (Lion Theatre), The Last Word (Theater at St. Clement's), The Mines of Sulphur (New York City Opera), Bone Portraits (Walkerspace/SoHo Rep).
Regional: Two Gentlemen of Verona, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Liar (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nomination, Emery Battis Award - The Liar), My Name is Asher Lev (Barrington Stage Company), Peter and the Starcatchers (La Jolla Playhouse/Disney), Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Pride and Prejudice (Geva Theatre), The Chosen (Actors' Theatre of Louisville), Awake and Sing (Arena Stage), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Alliance Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare on the Sound). Affiliated Artist with DC's Shakespeare Theatre. MFA (Acting): NYU; BA (English): Harvard University.
KATHRYN VELVEL JONES – STREAMING MEDIA
Kathryn Velvel Jones is the founder of VirtualOvationTV llc - Turning the Performing Arts into an Interactive Global Event. A leader and innovator in the live-streamed performing arts, Kathryn conceived of and produced many first of their kind live-streamed events, among them "35”, the first ever scripted web drama to be filmed with multiple cameras and streamed live to the internet, "Women Respond to Palin", one of the first live political webathons which streamed to over 17, 000 live viewers , and "Better Left Unsaid TV", the first of its kind, interactive live-streamed digital play, which streamed to over 50,000 unique live viewers.
As an actor, Kathryn has performed throughout New York City, in numerous regional theaters and in festivals as far abroad as the Edinborough Fringe Festival. 3
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As a new media expert Kathryn served as Vice-President of Branded and Sponsored Entertainment at online video startup, For Your Imagination, and has spoken at conferences throughout the United States about online video and social media.
IVA KAUFMAN - PARTNERSHIPS
Iva Kaufman has focused her lifelong career in the areas of philanthropy and non profit management – consulting to NGOs; supporting the efforts of artists and media makers; and helping to build networks of donors and refine the practice of giving. She has devised opportunities for donor education and donor organizing that continue to provide a significant boost to social change and social justice organizing and movement building through philanthropy. In 2008, Ms. Kaufman organized the UJC/JFNA Social Venture Fund for Jewish Arab Equality and Shared Society, now in its fourth year of operation.
In the same year she assisted the Jewish Partisans Education Foundation to produce a traveling exhibition of photographic works by partisan and Holocaust survivor, Faye Schulman. As Executive Producer of Art Culture & Technology (ACT), Ms. Kaufman worked with artists and technologists on programs for the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing. Between 1995-2002 she produced and presented inter-disciplinary performing arts and digital media installations for venues in Atlanta, Paris, and New York.
In 1998 she co-founded the Storm King Music Festival to bridge the gap between composers working in acoustic and electronic forms. Through 2010, Ms. Kaufman collaborated with Common Ground 2008 on the creation of a global platform for digital arts on environmental themes on-line and for display in Los Angeles and Beijing.
In 2011 Ms. Kaufman acted as co-coordinator of the GreenWorld Campaign and Earth Day New York project in Time Square – a digital surround environment designed to educate the public and raise funds for sustainable agro-forestry projects using cell phone technology. Signature accomplishments include the formation of the People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning; and the establishment of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam - the only bi-national, bi-lingual community of Arabs and Jews in Israel and the Middle East.
SUZANNE ROZENBERG – CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Suzanne Rosenberg is an idea person. She has been a dancer, academic, educator, television producer and is actively engaged in development and forecasting for businesses and non-profits. 4
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Suzanne has had numerous and varied work experiences which have all contributed to making her a knowledgeable and effective communicator.
She taught Politics at Marymount College where she nurtured in her students good citizenship values and passion for civic participation and social responsibility. Teaching in an all women’s environment, she encouraged her students to actively engage in charting a course for their futures.
Suzanne then migrated to television working first as a production assistant and then segment producer for Saturday Night Live (Weekend Update) for over twenty years. She went on to develop her own television, film and CD projects several of which are currently in development.
More recently Suzanne has consulted to numerous non-profits, educational and international organizations and institutions; including, Vermont Law School, the People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning, and a leading national defense department contractor where she served as liaison to the ombudsmen.
Suzanne created one of the earliest on-line blogs entitled, A Voice of Our Own which ran for many years intended to be an outlet for women of all types to share their everyday life and work experiences and reflections. As a contributor to Editor and Publisher, her column, Trail Mix, ran as a daily editorial feature commenting on press coverage leading up to the 2008 Presidential election. The column was nominated for a Jesse H. Neal Award for its coverage of the media during the course of the campaign.
Suzanne is a native Californian and graduate of Berkeley and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received a Master’s degree and M.Phil., in Political Science from Columbia University. She holds a certificate in Middle Eastern Studies and Master’s in International Relations from the School of International Affairs.
Suzanne is a member of a number of local performing arts boards and international charitable organizations including a emerging affiliate of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Suzanne has two daughters and a foster child and resides with her family in Northern New Jersey. 5
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PRODUCERS
DAVID MILCH
David Milch is a 1980 graduate of Harvard Medical School, having completed his undergraduate studies in biology at Stanford University in 1976. Upon finishing his clinical and research responsibilities in 1984, Dr. Milch moved to New York City to pursue a business career.
Since 1980 Dr. Milch has been a principal of Bermil Industries. After a part of Bermil was sold to a public company in 1989, Dr. Milch turned a significant portion of his time and attention to venture investments in technology and the life sciences. Dr. Milch and his associates have invested in and advised on a wide variety opportunities including The American Blood Institute (private sale), Intelligent Medical Imaging (IPO), Biofield (IPO), Nitinol (IPO), Datatec Systems (reverse merger), Warp Technologies (reverse merger), MiniMed (bought by Medtronic), Advanced Bionics (bought by Boston Scientific), Theravance (IPO), and others. These investment activities continue, both domestically and abroad.
Recently his activity has focused on early stage medical device companies from Israel including Althera Medical,Endogun, HDH, and Nicast. He is co-founder and Vice Chairman of Israel Biomedical Innovations, a fully integrated medical device company based in Israel.
Over the past 10 years Dr. Milch has invested and participated in producing a number of live theatrical shows including Avenue Q, In The Heights, West Side Story, and Finian’s Rainbow for which he received a “Best Musical” Tony Award nomination as a Producer in 2009.
Dr. Milch participates in a number of charitable organizations including ADL, Middle East Forum, Musical Theater Works, The New Group, Demos, Drum Major Institute, The Metropolitan Foundation, The Dr. David M. Milch Foundation, and others.
Dr Milch resides in NYC with his wife and son. Both of his parents are Holocaust survivors.
JONATHAN PILLOT
Jonathan Pillot is a director, writer, creator, developer and producer in film, television, theater, live events, branded content, new media, music and publishing. He is a principal of The Creative (Re)Directors, a company specializing in idea incubation, business development, branding and the production of content in all areas of media and entertainment, focused in projects and ventures that “entertain and elevate.” 6
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Jonathan was an entertainment lawyer in private practice, and he is able to understand and appreciate the genesis-to-execution process of any project. Prior to becoming an attorney, Jonathan had extensive television production experience, primarily at PBS/Channel 13 in New York and at ABC News.
Recently, Jonathan has been working with Deepak Chopra and Paulette Cole in the producing/ directing of programming from ABC Home in New York, including conversations with the likes of Mark Ruffalo, Fran Drescher and 50 Cent, as well as directing 3 full-length yoga videos with esteemed yogi Elena Brower. He is currently producing/directing CrazyRebelMisfit and The Curly Project, projects that connect media with social movements, sponsorship, the web and user- generated engagement.
On the feature film side, Jonathan was the Producer of THE NAKED BROTHERS BAND, a “mockumentary” feature film that spawned Nickelodeon’s television series. He was the Executive Producer of AGAINST THE ROPES, starring Meg Ryan, Omar Epps and Tony Shalhoub and ALAN AND NAOMI, starring Lukas Haas.
On the television side, Jonathan was the Executive Producer of “LlVING WELL With Oz Garcia” and he is in development on NAKED, a talk show about the relationships between men and women. Among the book projects that Jonathan developed/packaged are I WUZ THERE, by Walter Yetnikoff, ESSENTIALLY LILLY, by Lilly Pulitzer, THA' DOGGFATHER, the autobiography of Snoop Dogg, MY NAME IS LOVE, by Darlene Love with Rob Hoerburger, BLUE ROAD ONE, by Emilio Scotto, LOOKING GREAT and LIVING GREAT, by Linda Dano, HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT, by Jackie Kallen, and BODYGUARD, by Frank Alexander. Jonathan produced Darlene Love's triumphant engagements at Rainbow & Stars, he was the associate producer of the Broadway revival of DAMN YANKEES.
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