ISRAELI ARTISTS CONDEMN SETTLEMENTS
North American and UK artists support Israelis who refuse to perform in settlements.
When some 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights signed a letter stating they would refuse to play in the new theatre in Ariel, one of Israel's largest settlements, the attacks from Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel's Minister of Culture and Sport and many others were swift and intense. Over 150 leading Israeli academics and writers- including Amos Oz and David Grossman- came to their defense. It was the first time such mainstream figures had drawn a line around normalizing settlements which are illegal according to international law, and which constitute one of the main impediments to a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Inspired by their courage, and responding to a call for international support, Jewish Voice for Peace has developed a statement thathas been signed by over 150 theater and film professionals representing some of the most respected and renowned artists in theater, film and television – including Four Pulitzer Prize winners, several recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Medal of Honor,and scores of recipients of the highest U.S. acting honors, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and the Oscar.
Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace: "The response of American and UK artists to the courageous actions of their Israeli counterparts is just phenomenal. It is especially notable that so many of the signatories are Jewish with long-standing connections to Israel. We hope that the strong show of solidarity by Americans and UK actors in response to these brave Israelis will help spark a new conversation in both countries, one that acknowledges that the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories are illegal by every measure of international law, contribute to the daily violation of human rights of Palestinians, and are a major obstacle to a just peace in the region."
For further background and frequently asked questions, click here.
JVP supports divestment from and boycotts of companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. This includes companies operating in or from occupied Palestinian territory, exploiting Palestinian labor and scarce environmental resources, providing materials or labor for settlements, or producing military or other equipment or materials used to violate human rights or to profit from the Occupation. Download our full statement on the Palestinian-led BDS movement.
COVERAGE OF GROWING ISRAELI SUPPORT FOR CAMPAIGN:
Associated Press: Israeli artists boycott new theater in settlement
Voice of America (with Audio): Group of Israeli Academics Move to Support Palestinian Plight
Christian Science Monitor: As Netanyahu pushes for settlement freeze deal, suburban Ariel could be sticking point
Al Jazeera: Israel Academics to Boycott College
Jewish Telegraph Agency: Israeli TV, Film directors join Ariel theater boycott
Jewish Telegraph Agency: Ariel theater opening pits left and right in fight over who is hurting Israel
Jewish Telegraph Agency: Education students boycott Ariel
Ha'aretz: Prominent film, television artists join boycott of West Bank arts center
Ynet: Students join Ariel boycott
Project Democracy: The Ariel Cultural Center: A crucible for Israeli democracy
+972 Magazine:My prime minister called me a backstabber
Did Remez: Yaron London endorses cultural boycott of Ariel
COVERAGE OF OUR SUPPORT CAMPAIGN:
Guardian: Architects against Israeli occupation
Ha'aretz: Frank Gehry, Daniel Barenboim join Ariel boycott campaign
Jerusalem Post: Gehry, Barenboim join boycott of W. Bank settlements
Jewish Chronicle: Frank Gehry backs settlement boycott
Architectural Record: Gehry Signs Letter in Support of Israeli Performers’ Boycott
Building Design: Gehry joins Israel boycott over West Bank settlements
Archiitect's Newspaper: Gehry Supports Israeli Settlement Boycott
New York Times: A West Bank Enclave is on the Edge
Forward: Why Some Jewish Stars Support Israeli Artistic Boycott
Jerusalem Post: US artists’ support for settlement boycott spreading fast
LA Times: Hollywood shows some support for Israeli actors' refusal to perform in West Bank settlement
Theodore Bikel Op-Ed in Huffington Post: Legitimizing an obstacle to peace
Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon in the Nation: An Unsettling Protest in Israel
Yale Daily News: Professors support Israeli artists’ boycott
Associated Press: US artists support Israelis' settlement protest.
Jewish Telegraph Agency: Artists fight over Israel: The sequel
Jewish Telegraph Agency: U.S. television, film artists join West Bank boycott
Ha'aretz article with quotes from Wallace Shawn: US actors back boycott of Ariel theater
Ynet: Boycotts are legitimate
Ynet: Artists' boycott of Ariel goes international
Jewish Chronicle: Hollywood joins West Bank protest
Daily Star: British and American thespians support Israeli theater boycott
Ma'an News: Support for Israeli actors' boycott grows
Ma'an News: US actors back boycott of West Bank theater
Irish Examiner:Israeli minister warns on settlement slowdown
Mondoweiss: PACBI: Artists support for Ariel boycott is ‘a groundbreaking, precedent-setting initiative that will significantly contribute to ending Israel’s impunity’
TPM Cafe: Clarity on what the artists are saying about performing in Ariel
MJ Rosenberg on Huffington Post: Hollywood joins Israeli artists in boycotting West Bank
Magnes Zionist:A Fiddler On the Roof in Ariel? Sounds crazy, no?
Mitchell Plitnick: 'Mainstream' peace groups need to support this initiative from JVP
Arutz Sheva: US actors support Israeli Ariel protest
Mondoweiss: Groundbreaking Letter
Tikkun Olam:Hollywood, Broadway stars support Israeli cultural boycott
COVERAGE OF ORIGINAL ISRAELI ARTISTS' PROTEST:
CNN: Israeli Actors Threaten to Boycott Cultural Center in West Bank Settlement
Ha'aretz Magazine:Dramatic effects
Jewish Journal:L.A. donors play role in Israeli settlement
Ynet: Artists to refuse to perform in Ariel culture hall
New York Times: Boycott of Theater in Israeli Settlement Grows
UK Guardian: Actors boycott West Bank Theater
Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz: Puppet Theater
Ha'aretz Editorial: Stalin's Commissar in the PMO
Tikun Olam: Israeli Cultural Figures Appeal to Actors to Boycott Ariel
Text of the statement:
On August 27th, dozens of Israeli actors, directors, and playwrights made the brave decision not to perform in Ariel, one of the largest of the West Bank settlements, which by all standards of international law are clearly illegal. As American actors, directors, critics and playwrights, we salute our Israeli counterparts for their courageous decision.
Most of us are involved in daily compromises with wrongful acts. When a group of people suddenly have the clarity of mind to see that the next compromise looming up before them is an unbearable one -- and when they somehow find the strength to refuse to cross that line -- we can't help but be overjoyed and inspired and grateful.
It's thrilling to think that these Israeli theatre artists have refused to allow their work to be used to normalize a cruel occupation which they know to be wrong, which violates international law and which is impeding the hope for a just and lasting peace for Israelis an Palestinians alike. They've made a wonderful decision, and they deserve the respect of people everywhere who dream of justice. We stand with them.
*Statement organizers and signatories represent a wide range of political opinions and perspectives, but have come together for the sole purpose of making a joint statement on this one critical issue.
**All identifications and affiliations are for identification purposes only and do not imply endorsements by any institutions
Ed Asner
Actor
8-Time Emmy Award winner; Former President Screen Actors Guild,
Daniel Barenboim
Conductor, Pianist
7 Grammy Awards; Wolf Award; numerous other awards
Roseanne Barr
Actor, Comedienne, Writer, Television Producer
Roseanne, Emmy, Golden Globe, 6 People's Choice Awards, 3 American Comedy Awards, TV Land Innovator Award
Theodore Bikel
Actor, Singer, Musician
Co-founder of the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv; President of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America; Academy Award nominee; Tony Award nominee; Actor in Theatre, Film and Television
Eve Ensler
Playwright, Performer
The Vagina Monologues; Obie Award; Guggenheim Fellowship
Frank Gehry
Architect
National Medal of the Arts, Pritzker Prize Winner, Designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Experience Music Project in Seattle.
Mary Rodgers Guettel
Composer, Author
Once Upon A Mattress; Freaky Friday; Free to Be You and Me; The Hot Spot; From A to Z; The Mad Show; Working; The Madwoman of Central Park West; Director of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
Sheldon Harnick
Lyricist
Pulitzer Prize winner; Tony Award winner;Fiorello!; Fiddler on the Roof
Ethan Hawke
Actor, Writer, Film Director
Bill Irwin
Actor, Mime, Choreographer
Winner two Tony Awards; Winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship; Guggenheim, Fulbright and MacArthur Fellowships
Tony Kushner
Playwright, Screenwriter
Pulitzer Prize for Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia; Caroline or Change; Tony, Emmy, Drama Desk Award winner; Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee; Co-author of Munich
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Actor
Miriam Margolyes
Actor
BAFTA winner; Wicked; Little Dorrit; James and the Giant Peace; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Julianne Moore
Actor
Boogie Nights; Magnolia; Far From Heaven; The Hours; The Big Lebowski; A Single Man; The Kids Are All Right
Mira Nair
Director
Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay!
Cynthia Nixon
Actress
Sex and the City; The Heidi Chronicles; Angels in America; Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award-winning actress
Lynn Nottage
Playwright
Pulitzer Prize winner for Ruined; MacArthur Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship
Mandy Patinkin
Actor, Vocalist
Evita; Sunday in the Park with George; Tony and Emmy Award winner; The Princess Bride, Yentl; Mamaloshen (Vocalist)
Harold Prince
Director, Producer
Pajama Game, Cabaret, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Zorba; Follies (a short list of an impossibly long list); multiple Tony Award Winner National Medal of the Arts recipient
Vanessa Redgrave
Actress
Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Golden Globe, Cannes Film Festival and the Screen Actors Guild awards; BAFTA Fellowship; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Julia; The Trojan Women; Blowup; Isadora; Mary Queen of Scots; Atonement
James Schamus
Producer, Screenwriter, Film Historian
BAFTA Award Winner; producer of Brokeback Mountain; co-writer and producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Ice Storm, Eat Drink Man Woman, Academy Award nominee, CEO Focus Features
Wallace Shawn
Actor, Playwright, TranslatorMy Dinner With Andre; The Princess Bride; Vanya on 42nd St; playwright of The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon; translator of The Threepenny Opera
Stephen Sondheim
Composer, Lyricist
Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Multiple Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, Obie Award winner; Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award; West Side Story; Gypsy; A Funny Thing Happenend on the Way to the Forum; Company; A Little NIght Music; Sweeney Todd; Sunday in the Park with George; Into the Woods (a short list of a remarkably long list)
Jennifer Tilly
Actress
Bullets Over Broadway, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Liar Liar, Bound; Academy Award Nominee
Ben Achtenberg
Filmaker, Refuge Media Project
David Adjmi
Playwright
Stunning; Steinberg Playwright Award, the Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Fellowship for Drama
Bruce Allardice
Managing Director
Ping Chong & Co.
Philip Arnoult
Director, Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)
Anthony Arnove
Author and Editor
Co-Directed (with Howard Zinn and Chris Moore) and Executive Produced "The People Speak."
Caron Atlas
Cultural Organizer and Consultant, Project Director, Arts and Democracy Project
Arthur Aviles
Artistic Director, The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre
Sheila Balter
Actor, Director
Word for Word Performing Arts Company
David Barlow
Actor, Writer, Performance Artist
Ken Barnett
Actor, Teacher
Laura Barnett
Theater Educator, Performance Artist, Director
George Bartenieff
Actor
Obie Award Winner
Bruce Barthol
Composer, Lyricist
San Francisco Mime Troupe
Mark Barthol
Composer, Lyricist
Mark Barton
Lighting Designer
John Bell
Director, Puppeteer
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, Great Small Works.
Melia Bensussen
Director
Obie Award Winning Director; Chair of Emerson College Department of Performing Arts
Eric Bentley
Theatre Scholar, Critic, Author, Playwright, Editor and Translator
Margo Berdeshevsky
Poet, Actor, Author, Photographer
Jonathan Berger
Artist, Curator
Theodore S. Berger
Executive Director of the New York Foundation for the Arts for thirty years
Susan Bernfield
Artistic Director, New Georges
Philip Bither
Senior Curator, Walker Arts Center
Chana Bloch
Poet, Translator
Paul Boesing
Actor, Composer
Valerie Brinton
Playwright
Abigail Browde
Writer, Actor, Director
Stefan Brün
Theater Director
Robert Brustein
Theatrical Critic, Producer, Playwright and Educator. Founder - Yale Repertory Theatre
James Bundy
Dean, Yale School of Drama; Artistic Director, Yale Repertory Theatre
Kathleen Chalfant
Actor
Obie Award winner (2x), Drama Desk winner, Tony Award Nominee; Angels in America: Millenium Approaches; Wit
Linda Chapman
Director, Playwright, Performer
Associate Artistic Director, New York Theatre Workshop
Rachel Chavkin
Director
Founder and Artistic director of the TEAM (the Theater of the Emerging American Moment); Obie Award winner
Trudi Cohen
Puppeteer, Theater Artist
Great Small Works
Becky Cole
Writer, WGAE
Kia Corthron
Playwright
Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Playwright
Clare Coss
Playwright
Alex Courtney
Stage, Film and Television Actor
Tim Cusack
Artistic Director
Theatre Askew
Savitri D.
Director
The Church of Life After Shopping
Aaron Davidman
Actor, Director, Playwright
Matthew Dellapina
Actor
Ivor Dembina
Comedian
David J. Diamond
Producer, Theater Consultant
Elin Diamond
Critic, Scholar
Liz Diamond
Director
Chair, Directing Department - Yale School of Drama
Tamar Diesendruck
Composer
Awarded Rome Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship
Sally Eberhardt
Producer, Actor
Theatres Against War (THAW)
Edward Einhorn
Director, Playwright, Novelist
Artistic Director of Untitled Theater Company #61 and of the Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas
Deborah Eisenberg
Playwright, Author, Actor
MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, O. Henry Awards
John Clinton Eisner
Artistic Director, Lark Play Development Center
Linda Elbow
Company Manager
Bread and Puppet Theater
Rebecca Ennen
Dramaturg
Oskar Eustis
Artistic Director, The Public Theater
Phyllis Ewen
Artist
Bertie Ferdman, Ph.D.
Director, Theatre Artist, Curator, Producer, Educator
Artistic Director - ExPgirl
Corey Fischer
Actor, Playwright
Playwright of See Under: Love; co-founder of the Traveling Jewish Theater (now the Jewish Theater San Francisco)
Elinor Fuchs
Critic; Scholar
Yale School of Drama
Juliette Galant
Publisher
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
Playwright
2004 finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Adam Greenfield
Director of New Play Development, Playwright Horizons
David Greenspan
Actor, Award-Winning Playwright
Andre Gregory
Actor, Director
My Dinner With Andre
Kathryn Grody
Actor, Writer
Obie Award Winner
Jason Grote
Playwright, Screenwriter
Marilyn Hacker
Writer, Translator, Editor
Anne Hallinan
Actor
Woman's Will
Del Hamilton
Co-Founder and Artistic Director
7 Stages
Josh Hamilton
Actor
Hali Hammer
Musician
Jeremy Hardy
Comedian
Karen Hartman
Playwright
Suzanne Hayes
Actor, Producer, Director
Word for Word PerformingArts Company
David Herskovits
Founder and Artistic Director
Target Margin Theater
Ian W. Hill
Director
Gemini CollisionWorks
Joan Holden
Playwright
Jeffrey Horowitz
Director
Founder and Artistic Director, Theater for a New Audience
Advisory Board of The Shakespeare Society and Artistic Directorate of London’s Globe Theatre, Artistic Advisor to the Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA)
Holly Hughes
Performance Artist
Guggenheim Fellow; one of the "NEA 4", whose proposed grants were vetoed for gay content
Birgit Huppuch
Actor
Julia Jarcho
Playwright, Director, Performer
Morgan Jenness
Dramaturg
John Jesurun
Writer, Director, Multi-Media Artist
Jeffrey M. Jones
Playwright, Curator
Little Theatre @ Dixon Place, Pataphysics @ The Flea
Melanie Joseph
Artistic Producer, The Foundry Theatre
Chris Kam
Independent Producer
Audrey Kalajian
Producer
Stephen Kaplin
Puppeteer, Theater Designer/Performer
Great Small Works and Chinese Theatre Works
Melissa Kievman
Director
Dwayne King
Actor
Lauren Klein
Actor
Maxine Klein
Director
Zachary Klein
Writer
Josh Kornbluth
Monologist
Gail Kreigel
Playright, Composer
Aaron Landsman
Independent Artist
Paul Lazar
Co-Artistic Director Big Dance Theater
Herbert Leibowitz
Writer and Editor
Maxinne Rhea Leighton
Author
Robert H. Leonard
Director
Professor, Department of Theatre Arts - Virginia Tech
Gideon Lester
Dramaturg and Curator
Former Associate and Acting Artistic Director, American Repertory Theatre
Roberta Levitow
Co-Founder, Theatre Without Borders
Kathryn Levy
Writer
Sheila Lewandowski
Executive Director, The Chocolate Factory Theater
Irene Lewis
Artistic Director, Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland
Ethan Lipton
Playwright
Casey Llewellyn
Theater Artist
Jason Loewith
Executive Director, National New Play Network
Quincy Long
Playwright
John Carroll Lynch
Actor
Body of Proof; Fargo; Zodiac; Shutter Island; Big Love; The Drew Carey Show
Kirk Lynn
Co-Producing Artistic Director- Rude Mechs, Austin, TX
Henry MacWilliams
Director, Writer, Producer
Matthew Maguire
Co-Artistic Director, Creation Production Company
Matthew Maher
Actor
Judith Malina
Actor, Director
Founder and Artistic Director, The Living Theatre
Karen Malpede
Playwright, Theater Three Collaborative
Bezalel Manekin
Teacher
Encore! Educational Theater Company (Israel)
Nina Mankin
Dramaturg, Writer
Emily Mann
Artistic Director/Playwright
McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, NJ
Elizabeth Mansfield
Performer; Writer
Deborah Margolin
Playwright, Actor, Educator
Vijay Mathew
Co-Director, American Voices New Play Institute
Marin Mazzie
Actress, Singer
Ellen McLaughlin
Playwright; Actor
Erin Mee
Director, Educator
Swarthmore theater arts professor
Greg Mehrten
Actor, Director, Writer
David Michalek
Artist, Photographer
Visiting Faculty Member - Yale Divinity School
Tyler Micoleau
Lighting Designer
Tim Miller
Performance Artist
One of the "NEA 4", whose proposed grants were vetoed for gay content
Jennifer Miller
Performance Artist,Founder and Artistic Director of Circus Amok
Barbara Miluski
Actor
Jennifer Monson
Dancer, Choreographer, iLand
Guggenheim Fellowship
Steve Moore
Artistic Director, Physical Plant Theater
Susan Mosakowski
Playwright,Co-Artistic Director Creation Production Company
David Moscow
Actor
Erika Munk
Critic, Writer, Educator, formerly at the Yale School of Drama
Tom Nelis
Actor
Harry Newman
Playwright
Jim Nicola
Artistic Director, New York Theatre Workshop
Alicia Ostriker
Poet
Carol Ostrow
Producing Director, The Flea Theater
Annie-B Parson
Co-Founder, Artistic Director Big Dance Theater, NYFA and Guggenheim Fellow
Sally Ann Parsons
Costumer, Craftsman, Designer
Shailja Patel
Sundance Theatre Fellow 2010
Katie Pearl
Director
Sybille Pearson
Playwright
Rockefeller Playwrights Fellowship; founding member of The Playwrights Circle at The New York Theatre Workshop; Artistic Resident at the Vineyard Theater
Ralph Pena
Artistic Director, Ma Yi Theater
Carla Peterson
Artistic Director, Dance Theater Workshop
Brian Pickett
Theater Artist and Educator, Member Steering Committee - Theaters Against War (THAW)
Catherine Porter
Director
Co-Artistic Director Peculiar Works Project, Obie Award Winner
Maria Soledad Cervantes Ramirez
Actor, Translator
Ruth Reichl
Writer and Editor
Former Editor-in-Chief - Gourmet magazine, Memoirist, 6-time James Beard Award winner
Reno
Comedian
Kate Ritter
Musician, Actor
Gordon Rogoff
Theater Critic; Director; Professor of Theater
Yale School of Drama; Obie Award Winner
Jenny Romaine
Puppeteer, Theater Artist
Great Small Works
Avital Ronell
Writer, Academic, Literary Critic
Najla Said
Actor, Playwright
Richard Schechner
Director
Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of Performance Arets, NYU; Editor of the Drama Review; Artistic Director of East Coast Artists
Ken Rus Schmoll
Director
Laura Schleifer
Writer, Actor
Theaters Against War
Lisa Schlesinger
Playwright
Sarah Schulman
Playwright, Novelist, Historian
Peter Schumann
Director
Founder, Bread and Puppet Theater
Brian H. Scott
Theatrical Designer
Regine Anna Seckinger, Ph.D.
Advisory Board Member, Rude Mechanicals, Austin, TX
Jamil Shamasdin
Actor
Peggy Shaw
Performance Artist, Actor, Playwright
Sloane Shelton
Actor, Writer, Producer
Jonathan Marc Sherman
Playwright
Christopher Shinn
Playwright
Obie Award winner, Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize finalist
Misha Shulman
Playwright
Jeanmarie Simpson
Theatre/Film Artist
Blair Singer
Television Writer
NBC Universal
Michael Singer
Television News Producer
Former producer, CBS News
Peter Snoad
Playwright, Actor
Alisa Solomon
Theater Critic, Dramaturg
Director of Arts Concentration, Columbia School of Journalism
Bonnie Stein
Performing Arts Administrator; Manager; Project Producer and Coordinator; Executive Director - GOH Productions
Kris Stone
Stage Designer
Mark Sussman
Scholar, Puppeteer, Director
Great Small Works; Concordia University
Caridad Svich
Playwright, Songwriter, Translator, Editor
Luciana Talamonti
Actor, Director
Bill Talen
Director
The Church of Life After Shopping
Jonathan Tasini
Writer
Former President, National Writers Union
Astra Taylor
Director
Zizek!; Examined Life
Zohar Tirosh-Polk
Playwright
Kathleen Tolan
Playwright, Actor
Basil Twist
Puppeteer
Obie Award Winner
Rob Urbinati
Director, Playwirght, Screenwriter
Director of New Play Development at Queens Theatre in the Park
Charlie Varon
Playwright, Performer
Paula Vogel
Playwright, Scholar
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Eugene O'Neill Chair, Playwriting Department -Yale School of Drama
Irena Wachendorff
Writer, Musician
Angela Waldegg
Director, Actor, Teacher
Naomi Wallace
Playwright, Screenwriter
Anne Wangh
Choreographer, Lecturer on Dance
Founder, Dance Library of Israel
Stephen Wangh
Playwright, Director, Acting Teacher
Naropa University
Anne Washburn
Playwright
Guggenheim Fellow
Donya K. Washington
Director
Stephen Webber
Actor
Brenda Wehle
Actor
Evan Weissman
Actor, Playwright
Buntport Theater Company
Mac Wellman
Playwright, Author, Poet, Scholar
Donald I. Fine Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College
Anabelle Winograd
Writer, Critic, Educator
Eunice Wong
Actor
Kristina Wong
Award-Wnning Solo Performer and Writer
Robert Woodruff
Director
Susan Yankowitz
Award-Winning Playwright and Librettist
David Zellnik
Playwright, Screenwriter, Lyricist