NOMINATING COMMITTEE, 2023-2024
Martha Wade Steketee (Chair; freelance: UrbanExcavations.com)
Linda Armstrong (New York Amsterdam News)
Daniel Dinero (Theatre is Easy)
Peter Filichia (Broadway Radio)
Kenji Fujishima (freelance: Theatermania)
Margaret Hall (Playbill)
Charles Wright (ex officio)
DRAMA DESK (VOTING) MEMBERS, 2023-2024
Linda Armstrong, New York Amsterdam News
David Barbour
Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Two on the Aisle
Retta Blaney, National Catholic Reporter; The Living Church; Life Upon the Sacred Stage
Bob Blume, Executive Producer, Drama Desk Awards
Aaron Botwick
Suzanna Bowling, Times Square Chronicles; T2Conline.com
Jeryl Brunner
Christopher Byrne, Gay City News
Bill Canacci, Asbury Park Press; Home News Tribun
Robert Cashill, popdose.com; New York Theater
Patrick Christiano, Theaterlife.com
Joseph JK Clarke
Alix Cohen, Woman Around Town.com
Allison Considine
Jamie deRoy, Jamie deRoy & Friends
Dan Dinero, Theater Is Easy
Carole de Tosti
Diedre Donava
Grazyna Drabik, Nowy Dziennik (The Polish Daily News)
Sandi Durell, Theater Pizzazz!
Ron Faster
Peter Filichia
Harry Forbes, Film & Footlights
Jena Tesse Fox, freelance
Glenda Frank, Plays International
Stan Friedman, Thefrontrowcenter.com; Newyorktheatregide
Kenji Fujishima
Meredith Ganzman, WPIX 11; Center On The Aisl
Elysa Gardner, freelance; Entertainment Weekly; New York Times; Town & Country
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
Jen Gushue
Margaret Hall
Peter Hempstead
Judd Hollander –The Epoch TImes; Stagebuzz.com
Madoka Imura -NHK CosmoMedia America Inc.
Celia Ipiotis
Yusei Kageyama
Jonathan Kalb
Edward Karam – Offoffonline.com
Genevieve Rafter Keddy
Cameron Kelsall
Charles Kirsch
Jane Klain
Barry Kleinbort
Lucy Komisar – The New York Theatre Wire; The Komisar Scoop
Andy Lefkowitz
David Lefkowitz – TotalTheater.com; Performing Arts Insider/Dave’s Gone By
Tim Leininger
Samuel Leiter – Theatre’s Leiter Side; The Broadway Blog, Theater Pizzazz!, Theaterlife.com
Hayley Levitt
Jeannie Lieberman
Colin Macdonald
Sandy Macdonald
Jonathan Mandell
James Marino
Howard Miller
Marc Miller
Stuart Miller
Loren Noveck
Adrienne Onofri
Jesse Oxfeld
Charles Passy
Michael Portantiere – BroadwayStars.com; TalkinBroadway.co
Carey Purcell
Gerard Raymond
Darryl Reilly
Doug Reside
Richard Ridge – broadwayworld.com
Mark Rifkin – This Week in New York
Frank Rizzo
David Roberts
Carol Rocamora
David Rothenberg
Lauren Class Schneider – BroadwayRadio.com; ArtsAmerica.org
Nicole Serratore
David Sheward –ArtsinNY.com; Theaterlife.com; CulturalWeekly.com; ShowTickets.com
Fern Siegel
Paulanne Simmons –The New York Theatre Wire; Theaterlife.com, CurtainUp
Janice Simpson
Kyle Smith
Raven Snook
Diane Snyder
David Spencer
Martha Wade Steketee
Zachary Stewart
Douglas Strassler
Stephen Suskin – The Huffington Post; Playbill
Jeffrey Sweet – Dramatics Magazine; American Theatre
Diep Tran
Elyse Trevers
Frank Verlizzo
Iris Wiener – freelance; Theaterlife.com; Long Island Woman; Long Island Herald Newspapers; Luxury Living
Lane Williamson
James Wilson
Matt Windman
Charles Wright – freelance; Offoffonline; CurtainUp
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEMBER
Glenn Loney (deceased)
DRAMA DESK PARTICIPATING (NON-VOTING) MEMBERS, 2023-2024
Margot Astrachan, Producer
Leonard Golubchick, Labor Press
Ed Rubin, Artes Magazine; Totaltheater.com, BerhshireFine Arts
Dick Miller, NJ Radio Magazine
Joseph Verlezza
Board Members Emeritus
Arlene Epstein (deceased)
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.
William Wolf (deceased)
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.