NOMINATING COMMITTEE, 2018-2019
Martha Wade Steketee (Chair, freelance; The Clyde Fitch Report, TDF Stages, HowlRound)
Linda Buchwald, (freelance: Theatre is Easy, Playbill, American Theatre, TDF Stages)
Peter Filichia, (Broadway Select; Broadway Radio: author, most recently Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks – St. Martin’s Press)
Helen Shaw, (Time Out NY; Village Voice)
Jose Solis
Zachary Stewart, (TheaterMania.com)
Doug Strassler, (Garden State Journal; Center on the Aisle; Back on the Block; TDF Stages)
Charles Wright, (Drama Desk President), ex officio
DRAMA DESK (VOTING) MEMBERS, 2018-2019
Elizabeth Ahlfors, CityCabaret.com; cabaretscenes.org; curtainup.com; theaterpizzazz.com
Linda Armstrong, New York Amsterdam News
Barry Bassis, New York Resident; cabaretscenes.org; curtainup.com; theaterpizzazz.com
Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Two on the Aisle
Retta Blaney, National Catholic Reporter; The Living Church; Life Upon the Sacred Stage
Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer, Drama Desk Awards
Aaron Botwick
Suzanna Bowling, Times Square Chronicles; T2Conline.com
Michael Bracken, Theater Pizzazz!
Jeryl Brunner
Christopher Byrne, Gay City News
Bill Canacci, Asbury Park Press; Home News Tribun
Toshi Cappuccino, Shukan New York Seikatsu; Shukan New York S
Robert Cashill, popdose.com; New York Theater
Patrick Christiano, Theaterlife.com
Joseph JK Clarke
Alix Cohen, Woman Around Town.com; Theater Pizzazz; Cabaret Scenes; Broadway
Ron Cohen, Musical Theatre Review; Theaterscene.com
David Cote, freelance; The Village Voice
Jamie deRoy, Jamie deRoy & Friends
Dan Dinero, Theater Is Easy
Carole de Tosti
Philip Dorian, Sceneonstage.com; Mensa publications (U.S. & Canada)
Grazyna Drabik, Nowy Dziennik (The Polish Daily News)
Sandi Durell, Theater Pizzazz!
Henry Edwards, Newsvine.com; A Life of Style
David Finkle, The Clyde Fitch Report
Harry Forbes, Film & Footlights
Jena E. Fox, freelance
Glenda Frank, Plays International
Stan Friedman,
Thefrontrowcenter.com; Newyorktheatregide
Ruthie Fierberg
Meredith Ganzman, WPIX 11; Center On The Aisl
Elysa Gardner, freelance; Entertainment Weekly; New York Times; Town & Country
Anita Gates, pressnights.com
Victor A. Gluck, theaterscene.net
Isa Goldberg, East Hampton Independent; Theaterlife.com
Barry Gordin, Theaterlife.com; Dan’s Papers, DramaDesk.org
Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate; Hearst newspapers
Charles Gross, Two on the Aisle
Lawrence Harbison, smithandkraus.com; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books; www.playfixer.com
Susan Haskins, Theater Talk
Harry Haun, Playbill.com
Pete Hempstead
Judd Hollander, The Epoch TImes; Stagebuzz.com
David Hurst, Talkin’ Broadway; NY Arts Review
Madoka Imura, NHK CosmoMedia America Inc.
Celia Ipiotis, Eye on the Arts; Eye on Dance
Leonard Jacobs, The Clyde Fitch Report
Michall Jeffers, TotalTheater.com; Michall Jeffers TV
Yusei Kageyama, Shiki Theatre Company; The Yukan Daily; La Harpe; WOWOW
Jonathan Kalb, Something the Dust Said
Edward Karam, Offoffonline.com
David Kaufman, TheaterScene.net
Jane Klain, Good Times Magazine
Lucy Komisar, The New York Theatre Wire; The Komisar Scoop
Hayley Levitt
Andy Lefkowitz, Broadway.com
David Lefkowitz, TotalTheater.com; Performing Arts Insider/Dave’s Gone By
Samuel Leiter, Theatre’s Leiter Side; The Broadway Blog, Theater Pizzazz!, Theaterlife.com
Linda Lenzi, broadwayworld.com
Jeanne Lieberman, TheaterScene.com; FireIslandSun.com
Brian Scott Lipton, Cititour.com; IN New York; Theater Pizzazz; New York Theatre
Sandy MacDonald, Time Out NY; Theaternewsonline
Jonathan Mandell, NewYorkTheater.me; NewYorkTheater.m
James Marino, BroadwayStars.com
Jane Metzler
Marc Miller, NewYorkTheaterGuide.com; theaterscene.com;TalkinBroadway.com
Stuart Miller, American Theatre; Theater Pizzazz
Eugene Paul, Rockland Review; theaterscene.com;
Brooke Pierce, newyork.edgemedianetwork.com
Michael Portantiere, BroadwayStars.com; TalkinBroadway.co
Carey Purcell, The Culture Trip; The Village Voice; DAME
Gwendolyn Quinn, Eurweb.com; Huffington Post; Black Enterprise; Medium.com
Gerard Raymond, freelance
Bethany Rickwald, TheaterMania.com
Richard Ridge, broadwayworld.com
Mark Rifkin, This Week in New York
Frank Rizzo
David Roberts
Carol Rocamora, American Theatre; “Rocamora Reviews” on Smith & Kraus website
David A. Rosenberg, nytheaterscene.com
Curtis Russell, Offoffonline.com
Robert Russo
Lauren Class Schneider, BroadwayRadio.com; ArtsAmerica.org
Steve Schonberg, freelance; WNBC; HuffPost Contributor; Center On The Aisle Editor
Nicole Serratore, freelance
David Sheward, ArtsinNY.com; Theaterlife.com; CulturalWeekly.com; ShowTickets.com
Gretchen Shugart, Executive Producer, Drama Desk Awards
Fern Siegel, The Huffington Post; Travelers USA Noteboo
Paulanne Simmons, The New York Theatre Wire; Theaterlife.com, CurtainUp
Kyle Smith, The New Criterion; New York Post, National Review
Raven Snook, TDF Stages; Time Out New York; Show-Score managing editor
Diane Snyder, The Telegraph; Cititour.com; Billboard
Jose Solis, StageBuddy.com
Elyse Sommer, CurtainUp.com
David Spencer, Aislesay.com; Times Square Chronicles
Steven Suskin, The Huffington Post; Playbill
Jeffrey Sweet, Dramatics Magazine; American Theatre
Elyse Trevers, LIHerald.com; Island Currents
Jennifer Vanasco, WNYC Radio
Frank Verlizzo, Fravor Design
Iris Wiener, freelance; Theaterlife.com; Long Island Woman; Long Island Herald Newspapers; Luxury Living
James WIlson
Matt Windman, amNY
Charles Wright, freelance; Offoffonline; CurtainUp
Lauren Yarger, Reflections In the Light; BroadwayWorld.com
Roberta Zlokower, Robertaonthearts.com
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEMBER
Glenn Loney, nytheatre-wire.com; theartsarchive.com
DRAMA DESK PARTICIPATING (NON-VOTING) MEMBERS, 2018-2019
Margot Astrachan, producer
Michael Block, Theater in the Now
Aaron Botwick, scribicide.com
Jason Clark, TV Guide
Carole DiTosti, blogcritics
Sherry Eaker, bistroawards.com
Sue Feinberg, The Soul of the American Actor, The Drama League, New Dramatists, Around the Town productions
Randy Gener, Culture of One World
Thomas Gentile, elconocedor.net
Robert Gilbo
Leonard Golubchick, Labor Press
Linda Healey, Theaterhound.org
Pete Hempstead, TheaterMania
Donna Herman, The Front Row Center
Stephen Holt, The Stephen Holt Show
John Istel, freelance
Michael Kerker, ASCAP
Kathryn Kitt, BrowadwayWorld; Theater Pizzazz
Hayley Levitt, TheaterMania
Tulis McCall, The Front Row Center
Edward Medina, TheatreReview.NYC
Jane Metzler, Fox On Stage
Dick Miller, NJ Radio Magazine
Iskritsa Ognianova, Arts & Culture Consultant; Certified Multilingual Interpreter
Jil Picariello, ZealNYC; Huffington Post, Show-Score, Apple News
Rozanna Radakovich, theatrechitchat.webs.com
Ronald Rand, Soul of the American Actor
David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited; OnStage Blog
Ed Rubin, Artes Magazine; Totaltheater.com, BerhshireFine Arts
Jan Silver, The Hampton Sheet; The Advisor
Jack Smart, Backstage
Michael Summers, Special assistant for talent; project manager for productions and events
Junko Suzuki, Jappy Editorial Productions
Board Members Emeritus
William Wolf
William Wolf is a former Drama Desk President. He currently works as an Adjunct Professor at New York University and is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Online. His theater, film and cabaret reviews can be read on the internet site wolfentertainmentguide.com.
Arlene Epstein
Arlene Epstein, a member of the Drama Desk since 1982, and former Secretary of the Board, has contributed her “Critic-at-Leisure” column to the South Shore Record for 40 years and for 12 years to Herald Community Newspapers. A member of the American Theatre Critics’ Association and the Outer Critics Circle, she has worked variously as a publicist, copywriter, private and corporate art consultant, a lecturer and leader of continuing education courses on the arts, an entertainment and charity promotions director, and the anti-war voice for Mothers for Peace in Washington, D.C.