NOMINATING COMMITTEE, 2016-17
David Barbour, Chairperson; Lighting & Sound America
Linda Buckwald, Off-Broadway editor,Theatre World
Peter Filichia, drama critic, Broadway Select; author
David Finkle, drama critic, The Clyde Fitch Report; blogger, Huffington Post
Sandy MacDonald, Theater News Online
Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
Doug Strassler, chief arts critic, Garden State Journal Charles Wright, ex officio
DRAMA DESK (VOTING) MEMBERS, 2015-16
Elizabeth Ahlfors, Cabaret Scenes; Curtainup; Theater Pizzazz!
Andrew and Andrew, AndrewAndrew; Paper Magazine; Hyperallergic
Linda Armstrong, New York Amsterdam News
Barry Bassis, New York Resident; Epoch Times; TheaterScene.com
Ira J. Bilowit, Scene by Me
Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Two on the Aisle
Retta Blaney, Life Upon the Sacred Stage, National Catholic Reporter; The Living Church
Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer, Drama Desk Awards
Suzanna Bowling, Times Square Chronicles
Michael Bracken, Theater Pizzazz!; Curtainup
Dr. Joy Browne, Genesis Communications Network; www.drjoy.com
Linda Buckwald, Freelance
Christopher Byrne, Gay City News; Community Media
Bill Canacci, Asbury Park Press; Home News Tribune; Courier News; Daily Record; Courier Post
Toshi Cappuchinno, Fujisankei Communications International
Robert Cashill, popdose.com; biography.com; New York Theater News
Joseph Cervelli, Suburbanite; North Jersey Media Newspapers
Patrick Christiano, theaterlife.com
Jason Clark, TV Guide
Alix Cohen, Woman Around Town; Theater Pizzazz!; Broadwayworld.com; Cabaret Scenes
Corine Dana Cohen, Broadwayshowbiz.com
Ron Cohen, Musical Theatre Review UK; indie theater now; nytheater now
Jamie deRoy, Jamie deRoy and Friends
Dan Dinero, Theater Is Easy
Philip Dorian, Sceneonstage.com; Two River Times newspaper; Forum Magazine
Jamie DeRoy, Jamie deRoy & Friends; Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Grazyna Drabik, Nowy Dziennik (The Polish Daily News)
Hal Drucker, 50 + Lifestyles (NY); Forever Young Information
Sandi Durell, Theater Pizzazz!
Sherry Eaker, bistroawards.com
Henry Edwards, Newsvine.com; a Life of Style; MainStreet Media Group
Arlene Epstein, South Shore Record; LIHerald.com
Helaine Feldman, Equity News (Dick Moore and Associates)
Peter Filichia, The Asbury Park Press; Filichia on Friday; Masterworks Broadway; MTI Music Theater International; Theater World Awards
David Finkle, The Huffington Post; The Clyde Fitch Report
Harry Forbes, Forbes on Film & Footlights
Jena E. Fox, Broadwayworld.com
Glenda Frank, Plays International; The New York Theatre Wire
Mario Fratti, America Oggi; Ridotto
Meredith Ganzman, Row J/The Jewish Channel
Elysa Gardner, USA Today
Victor A. Gluck, theaterscene.net
Isa Goldberg, The Broadway Channel; theaterlife.com
Barry Gordin, Dan’s Papers; theaterlife.com
Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate
Charles Gross, Two on the Aisle
Erik Haagensen, Broadwaytunes.com
Lawrence Harbison, Smith & Kraus, Inc.; www.playfixer.com
Susan Haskins, Theater Talk; CUNY TV
Harry Haun, Playbill, New York Observer
Joyce Hauser, Arts & Leisure News
Eva Heinemann, Hi! Drama
Kathy Henderson, Broadway.com; Broadway Direct
Judd Hollander,The Stage; The Epoch TImes; Stagebuzz.com
Stephen Holt, StephenHoltShow
David Hurst, Next Magazine; Opera News
Madoka Imura, NHK CosmoMedia America Inc.
Celia Ipiotis, Eye on the Arts; Voice of America
John Istel, managing editor, DramaDesk.org; freelance
Leonard Jacobs, The Clyde Fitch Report
Michall Jeffers, Michall Jeffers TV; TotalTheater.com; Theater Pizzazz!; TheaterScene.net
Yusei Kageyama, Shiki Theatre Company; Yukan Daily, NHK Cosmo Media America, Inc.
Jonathan Kalb, hotreview.org
Edward Karam, Offoffonline.com
David Kaufman, freelance; author
Jane Klain, Good Times Magazine
Lucy Komisar, The New York Theatre Wire; The Komisar Scoop; UK Theatre Network
Andrew Ku, Playbill.com
Peter Ledonne, Backstage with Peter LeDonne, AM 970 (WNYM)
Andy Lefkowitz, TheaterMania
David Lefkowitz, TotalTheater.com; “Dave’s Gone By;" Co-Publisher, Performing Arts Insider
Linda Lenzi, broadwayworld.com
Randie Levine-Miller, Drama Desk Special Events
Jeanne Lieberman, TheaterScene.com; FireIslandSun.com
Brian Scott Lipton, Cititour.com; IN New York; Where
Glenn Loney, The New York Theatre Wire; Arts Archive.com; TotalTheater.com
Sandy MacDonald, Theater News Online
Jonathan Mandell, NewYorkTheater.me; HowlRound, American Theatre, Playbill, Broadway Direct
James Marino, BroadwayStars
Marc Miller, NewYorkTheaterGuide.com
Stuart Miller, New York Times; Playbill; American Theatre
Robin Milling, Milling About/WENN
Oscar Moore, talkentertainment.com; www.oscaremoore.com
Ward Moorehouse, III, Broadway After Dark.net (TV TW56); Blacktiemagazine.com
Ellis Nassour, Playbill; Lifestyles Magazine; BroadwayStars.com
Adrienne Onofri, Broadwayworld.com
Eugene Paul, Rockland Review; TheaterScene.net
Brooke Pierce, Edge on the Net
Michael Portantiere, BroadwayStars.com; Talkinbroadway.com
Andy Propst, AmericanTheaterWeb; Broadwaytunes.com; Broadway Direct
Gerard Raymond, Broadway Direct
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Aubrey Reuben,15 Minutes Magazine; Blacktiemagazine.com; Theaterextras.com
Bethany Rickwald, TheaterMania
Richard Ridge, broadwayworld.com, Backstage with Richard Ridge
Mark Rifkin, This Week in New York
Carol Rocamora, Broad Street Review
David A. Rosenberg, nytheaterscene.com; Hour Newspapers (Norwalk, CT); CurtainUp
David Rothenberg, WBAI Radio
Mervyn Rothstein, Playbill
John Rowell, Show Business Weekly
Simon Saltzman, CurtainUp
Lauren Class Schneider, BroadwayStars.com; The Maggie Linton Show on Sirius XM
Steve Schonberg, Today in NY/NBC-TV; Center on the Aisle; The Huffington Post
David Sheward, ArtsinNY.com; theaterlife.com
Gretchen Shugart, CEO, Theatermania
Fern Siegel, The Huffington Post
Barbara Siegel, Theater Pizzazz!
Scott Siegel, Broadway By the Years; Theater Pizzazz!
Paulanne Simmons, CurtainUp.com, The New York Theatre Wire; theaterlife.com
Kyle Smith, The New Criterion
Raven Snook, Time Out New York; TDF Stages
Elyse Sommer, chief critic and editor, CurtainUp.com
David Spencer, Aislesay.com
Marcia Steiner, Marcia Steiner Show
Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
Douglas Strassler, NY Press, Garden State Journal
Stephen Suskin, Playbill; The Huffington Post
Jeffrey Sweet, Dramatics; author, The O’Neill: The Transformation of Modern American Theater
Elyse Trevers, Queens Tribune; LIHerald.com; Island Currents
Frank Verlizzo, FravorDesign
Iris Wiener, 25A Magazine; TheaterMania; Long Island Woman
Matt Windman, amNY
William Wolf, WolfEntertainmentGuide.com
Charles Wright, A&E TV Networks
Lauren Yarger, Reflections In the Light; Manchester Journal-Inquirer; theaterlife.com; BuddyHollywood.com
Roberta Zlokower, Robertaonthearts.com; Backstage with the Playwrights
DRAMA DESK PARTICIPATING (NON-VOTING) MEMBERS, 2015-16
Margot Astrachan, Producer
J.K. Clarke
Jordan Cohen, DD Researcher
Benjamin Coleman
Adrian Dimanlig
Leonard Feigenblatt
Susan Feinberg, American Theatre Wing; Drama League; New Dramatists; assoc. editor, Soul of the American Actor
Helen Freedman, freelance; NY Jewish Voice
Cathy Hammer
Linda Healey, On Stage Enterprises; Theaterhound.org
Pete Hempstead
Michael Kerker, ASCAP
Jonthan Landberg
Hayley Levitt
Michele LaRue Kliewer, freelance
Molly Marinik
Sandra McFarland
T.E. McMorrow, East Hampton Star; theaterlife.com
Tom McMorrow, Lifetime Honorary Member
Dick Miller, NJ Radio Magazine
Fran Norkin, Lifetime Honorary Member
Julius Novick, freelance
Myra Y. Outwater, Morning Call (Allentown)
Jil Picariello
Carey Purcell, TheTheaterSource.com
Rozanna Radakovich
Ronald Rand, founder/publisher/editor, Soul of the American Actor
Edward Rubin, The New York Theatre Wire; Theaterscene.net; associate editor, NY Arts Magazine
Jan Silver, The Hampton Sheet
Martha Wade Steketee
Vicki Stone, Broadway Theatre Newsletter
Junko Suzuki
Joan Ungaro, American Theater Wing; Henry Hewes Awards
Karen H. White, associate editor, Arts & Leisure News Service
Wayman Wong, Playbill.com
Doug Strassler, chief arts critic, Garden State Journal