John B. Beinecke is vice president and a director of Antaeus Enterprises, Inc., a private investment company in New York. Mr. Beinecke attended Yale University, attaining a B.A. in 1969.  He serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee, and is past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center Theater and is a member of the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.  He is also the president and a director of The Prospect Hill Foundation and a director of The Sperry Fund. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Yale School of Drama. He is a resident of New York City and Darien, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Gaily, and their son, Barrett.

Allison Blinken was born and raised in New York City.  She is a graduate of The Brearley School and has served on its Alumnae Board.  She has worked on Look Magazine and at The Museum of Modern Art.  Allison has been a trustee of The Rippowam Cisqua School (Bedford, New York), The Taft School (Watertown, Connecticut), and the WPA Theatre (NYC). Since 1989 she has served on the Board of  Directors of Lincoln Center Theater.  She lives in Manhattan and has two daughters and five grandsons.

Jonathan Busky (President) works at CafeMom.com, the leading social networking site for moms, running social media marketing services programs. Prior posts have included the Interactive Advertising Bureau, where he launched a professional development program for this leading trade association for digital publishers, the NYC Economic Development Corporation, where he was a Vice-President for Strategy and Media Policy, and the management consulting firm Booz & Co., where he was an engagement manager in the Media and Entertainment practice, advising clients on growth strategies and opportunities relating to digital media. Jonathan has an MBA and an MFA from Yale’s Schools of Management and Drama respectively, as well as a BA from Yale College — thereby ensuring that all his various diplomas will fit into matching frames. He lives in Brooklyn’s Park Slope with his wife, Galen Sherwin, an attorney at the ACLU and his one-year-old daughter, Julia. Hobbies include many more baby-activities than they used to, but there’s still time for some reading, art, cooking, and outdoors activities (hiking / sailing / skiing), in addition to theater.

Eliza Clark’s plays have been developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre, Page 73 Productions, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Provincetown Playhouse, The New York International Fringe Festival, and Yale University. She received a commission from the Yale O’Neill Studio in 2006 and is currently working on a commission from South Coast Repertory. Eli was a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s emerging writers group, Youngblood. She was the 2010 P73 Playwriting Fellow. Her play Edgewise was co-produced by Page 73 and The Play Company in November-December of 2010. Eli graduated from Yale University in 2007 and is currently living in Los Angeles where she wrote for Season One of AMC’s Rubicon, and is developing a pilot for Teen Nick.

Liz Jones is a founder of Page 73 Productions. From 2002 through 2005 she served as the Manager of Development and Communications for National Corporate Theatre Fund, where she created and managed several programs aimed at marketing theater to corporate audiences, designed and pitched multi-city theater sponsorship proposals, and helped to increase the organization’s annual fund support by $200,000 in three years. From 1996 to 2000 she was on the Artistic Staff of Manhattan Theatre Club, where she assisted Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and served as a consultant to the literary department, and for whom she still reads scripts. Other positions include Company Manager for the 2001 National Tour of Camp Broadway, Events Management Associate for the 2002 Tony Awards, and Associate Producer for Stage Blue, the bi-coastal celebration of Yale’s contribution to the theater industry. She is a member of the Board of Directors of ART/NY and the Yale University Dramatic Association Alumni Associates. She holds a BA from Yale in American Studies and an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Dave Kausch, a freelance film and television editor.

Doreen Oliver is a writer and producer. During her years as head of development for Lee Daniels Entertainment, she played an instrumental role in the production of film such as The Woodsman (Kevin Bacon, Mos Def), Shadowboxer (Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding, Jr) and was involved in the development of Tennessee (Mariah Carey) and Precious (Mo’Nique, Gabourey Sidibe). Prior to film, Doreen was the Creator/Executive Producer of the successful NYC talent showcase, “Frustrated Artists in Corporate America” and started her career as an advertising and marketing executive. Her writing has been published in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine and she currently consults for directors and screenwriters. Doreen has served on the board of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York and is also a graduate of Stanford Business School. She is married with two delicious children.

Asher Richelli (Secretary) is a founder and executive director of Page 73 Productions. He is the General Counsel of DF King Worldwide, a global corporate financial communications and stakeholder services company. He was an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he focused primarily on the representation of senior and subordinated lenders in connection with domestic and international acquisition and leveraged buyout financings. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law (Sol Kopehlson Award for Excellence in a Note on Labor Law). His professional experience in the theater includes working as Assistant Company Manager (original productions of William Finn’s A New Brain directed by Graciela Daniele and Parade by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry, directed by Harold Prince; Ring Round The Moon directed by Gerald Gutierrez) and Company Manager (Far East by A.R. Gurney, directed by Dan Sullivan and Ancestral Voices by A.R. Gurney; second workshop of Contact directed by Susan Stroman) at Lincoln Center Theater. He served as a Management Associate for Benjamin Mordecai & Associates, where he company managed the tour of the Donald Byrd Dance Foundation’s The Harlem Nutcracker and the U.S. tour of the Moscow Art Theatre’s production of The Three Sisters; he also served as the assistant company manager on the original Broadway production of Golden Child by David Henry Hwang. He holds a BA (magna cum laude) from Yale in history and international studies. He was born and raised in Naples, Italy.

Hannah Ramsden was raised in the United Kingdom and gained a BA Honors in from Nottingham University. After graduating, she embarked on a round the world trip exploring China, South America, South East Asia and Australasia, gaining a wealth of experience in local culture and the arts.  On her return, Hannah established a career as a recruitment consultant for the media industry, working closely with clients such as the English National Opera, the BBC and the Royal Festival Hall. Prior to moving to New York City Hannah was a Human Resources Consultant.  Always keen to explore new and exciting opportunities, in 2000 Hannah won a British reality TV challenge which involved continuous filming over several weeks, and demanded proactive leadership and teamwork.  She is a former state-level competitive swimmer. Further hobbies include horse riding, skiing, and a creative flair for dress design including designing and producing her own avant-garde creations.  Hannah developed a keen interest for the arts at a young age, and continues to be a frequent theatergoer. She lives in Manhattan with her husband Richard, a partner at Goldman Sachs, and her adorable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Jasper.

Pamela Ryckman is a freelance journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and The New York Sun, among other publications. Before becoming a writer, she performed internal consulting roles for Merrill Lynch’s Global Markets and Investment Banking group and Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Equities Financial and Strategic Management group. She began her career at Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm. Pamela earned her A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and her Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University. She is fluent in French and proficient in Italian, and was on the board of The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York) from 2004 to 2010. Pamela lives in Manhattan with her husband and their three sons.

Anuj A. Shah (Treasurer) is a Vice President in Private Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley where he focuses on business management and strategy issues for the division. He previously worked as a Consultant to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney on their Global Wealth Management joint venture, planned and led strategic initiatives as a Vice President in the Investment Management Division at Lehman Brothers/Neuberger Berman and was an Associate in Private Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley. He began his career as an Analyst at Bankers Trust. Anuj holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Boston College and a Master of International Affairs degree from the School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. He serves on the Executive Committee of the SIPA Alumni Council. Anuj’s hobbies include following the New York Mets, hiking, kayaking, skiing and travel. He lives in Harlem, New York City with his wife, playwright Heather Lynn MacDonald.

Daniel Shiffman is a founder of Page 73 Productions. He is also on the faculty of ITP at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction. For more information, please visit www.shiffman.net.

Amanda Woods (Vice President) For the past 15 years, Amanda has worked both nationally and internationally in various capacities for artistic institutions including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, English National Opera, Lincoln Center Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company and LAByrinth Theater Company. In April 2007 she was hired to oversee the re-launch of The Old Vic’s American Associates for Artistic Director Kevin Spacey and then spent two years running The Old Vic’s New York office. Throughout her career she has taken on consulting projects in marketing, fundraising and strategic planning and currently she is working with Southern Rep in New Orleans. She is also a co-founder of Entourage, a donor program at The New Group. A former theater scout for Paramount Pictures, she holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama.  Amanda lives with her husband, Eric Wasserstrom, and their sons Will and Hugo in Manhattan.

Founders – Nicole Fix, Liz Jones, Asher Richelli & Daniel Shiffman

Nicole Fix is a founder of Page 73 Productions.  In 2008, the Elizabeth George Foundation awarded her a grant to conduct research in Romania, Turkey and Israel in order to complete her short fiction collection.  She received a merit fellowship to attend the SLS Kenya Writers’ Conference and was a finalist for The Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project Fellowship.  In 2008, she was a featured reader at Sunday Salon in Brooklyn, NY.  As a consultant and arts professional, she has worked with The Kitchen, Foundation for Jewish Culture, Theater Development Fund, The Wooster Group and New York Theatre Workshop, among others.  She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.