UnRavelled a new play by Jake Broder

Special Live Event June 25, 2021 PANELISTS

Jake Broder (Playwright/Producer) David Milch (Writer and Special Guest) lives in Los Angeles. He trained at graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa the Guildhall School of Music and cum laude from Yale College, where he Drama, London, and worked there received the Tinker Prize for highest for 10 years before returning to the achievement in English. He then earned United States. He studied saxophone an MFA with Distinction from the with Lee Konitz in NY and attended Writer's Workshop at the University the New England Conservatory, of Iowa. During his nine-year teaching and Tufts University. Recently, his career at Yale, David assisted Robert play "Our American Hamlet," about Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in Edwin Booth (nominated Best New the preparation of several college Play, IRNE’s Boston), premiered at textbooks on literature. In addition, his the Commonwealth Shakespeare poetry and fiction have been published Company. Jake co-wrote and originated the role ‘Louis’ in in various journals, including The Southern Review. In 1982, "Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara," winning Ovation, LADCC, while a lecturer in English literature at Yale University, David Garland and LA Weekly awards for Best Actor and Best wrote a script for Hill Street Blues which won an Emmy Award, Production, running at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by a Writers Guild Award, and the Humanitas Prize. He spent five Oscar winner, Taylor Hackford, since touring Chicago and seasons on Hill Street Blues, first as executive story editor SoCal. "His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley" played Off-West and subsequently as executive producer, earning two more end and Off-Broadway at 59e59 and in LA. He wrote the Writers Guild Awards, a second Humanitas prize, and another book and music for "Miravel," awarded the LADCC award for Emmy Award. In 1992, David co-created NYPD Blue, which Best Score. Currently, "UnRavelled," is the result of his time set a record by garnering 26 Emmy Award nominations in its as Hellman Visiting Artist for Neuroscience at UCSF, who premiere season and later winning the Emmy Award for Best generously commissioned this play. In addition, he is writing Drama Series in 1994–95. David took home Emmy Awards for the new musical "Max & Willy’s Last Laugh" with Conor Duffy, Best Writing in a Drama for the 1996–97 and 1997–98 seasons. about Max Ehrlich and Willy Rosen, players stuck in transit The first season of NYPD Blue also earned David a Humanitas camps during World War II. He is developing a TV series with Prize and an Edgar Award for screenwriting. He created, wrote, Revolution Studios, with Dan Rather as an EP, called Typewriter and was executive producer for HBO’s Deadwood, which Days. Inspired by his uncle’s life, it is set in Beirut, 1982, where a received 11 Emmy Award nominations in its first season. David gaggle of print journalists gather at the bar at the Commodore was also creator and executive producer of the HBO series Hotel to fight off the rise of cable TV news. Jake founded the John From Cincinnati as well as Luck starring Dustin Hoffman. Maine Summer Dramatic Institute, directing Shakespeare’s He wrote a two-hour film of Deadwood for HBO. He is currently "Midsummer Night's Dream,” "Pericles," "Twelfth Night" and working on a memoir. "The Tempest." Also, he directed "All in the Timing" by David Ives at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London. As an actor, he Bruce Miller, MD (Co-Director, Global has a recurring role on HBO’s Silicon Valley and is on The Brain Health Institute; Director, Morning Show on Apple TV+. Theatre credits include: "Mozart UCSF Memory and Aging Center) in Amadeus" directed by Sir Peter Hall (West End London, holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Broadway, L.A.), “When Harry Met Sally" with Alyson Hannigan Clausen Distinguished Professorship and Luke Perry (West End), Lord Buckley in "His Royal Hipness in Neurology at the University of Lord Buckley” (Off Broadway, Off West End, L.A.) and Ophelia California, San Francisco, directs & Juliet in the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s "Complete the UCSF Memory and Aging Center Works of Shakespeare" in London. Ira Gershwin in "Words By: and is a director of the Global Brain Ira Gershwin" at the Colony Theatre. Film includes: Bad Milo!, Health Institute. He is a behavioral Beyond the Sea, In A Day and The Barn (awarded a British neurologist who studies the underlying Independent Film Award in 2004), and the thriller Sleepwalker. mechanisms of neurocognitive Television Includes: recurring role on Silicon Valley (HBO), How disorders and is a world-renowned I Met Your Mother (CBS), Roman Mysteries (BBC), Strange expert in the diagnosis and management of dementia. He (BBC), Line of Beauty (BBC), and recurring on The Eagle became interested in the emergence of art and creativity in (Denmark – Winner, International Emmy). frontotemporal dementia in the 1990s. When Anne Adams came to the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, he oversaw her Lucy Davenport (actor playing Anne diagnosis and care. He has been featured in Fortune Magazine, Adams) was born and grew up in the The New York Times, 60 Minutes and the PBS Newshour. He UK. She trained at the RADA in London has received many awards including the Potamkin Award from and has since worked extensively on the American Academy of Neurology, and he is an elected both sides on the Atlantic. Theater member of the National Academy of Medicine. includes "Our American Hamlet" (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), "Yes Prime Minster" (Geffen Playhouse) and lots of UK theatre Stefanie Piña Escudero, MD including four seasons with the Oxford (Geriatrician and Moderator) is an Shakespeare Company. TV includes Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain NCIS, Doctor Who and playing Mary Health at the Global Brain Health Shelley in Frankenstein for the BBC. Institute. She is a geriatrician working Film includes playing Betty Friedan in the forthcoming Roe to understand and reduce the impact v Wade, Thor: Ragnarok, Dr. Strange, Jay Roach’s Dinner for of social vulnerability on older adults Schmucks, Gangster Squad, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland with cognitive impairment. She is and Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Lucy lives in LA with her collaborating with the Multi-Partner husband Jake and her two children Ella and Louis. She is proud Consortium to Expand Dementia and excited to bring this new play to life and to work with such Research in Latin America to develop amazing colleagues – especially during a pandemic. a better understanding of dementia in the region with a special focus on social factors such as mistreatment. To reduce the scale and impact of dementia, Stefanie believes we need to encourage multidisciplinary, creative and passionate minds to work in favor of brain health and address dementia from the genetics to the social perspectives. Stefanie is using novel approaches to understand social vulnerability in Latin American populations with cognitive impairment. In Latin America, inequities, poor access to health services, and other social conditions might be playing an important role as determinants of brain health. In Mexico, violence is a significant social problem and people with cognitive impairment are vulnerable to mistreatment. Stefanie Piña Escudero received her medical school training from the National University of Mexico where she completed her training in Geriatrics. She received her Internal Medicine training from La Salle University. She is now working in Mexico City as a clinician and researcher.

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