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Michael Weller
President

John Markus
1st Vice President

Rick Dresser
2nd Vice President

Jim Hart
Secretary

Lulie Haddad
Treasurer

Chris Albers
Andrew Bergman
Eric Bogosian
Marshall Brickman
Nora Ephron
Tom Fontana
Richard LaGravenese
Warren Leight
Kenneth Lonergan
Jenny Lumet
Marsha Norman
Eric Overmeyer
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
David Simon
Susanna Styron
Jim Yoshimura

Michael Winship
Lowell Peterson
Ex-officio


Marsha Manns
Executive Director

Jim Yoshimura

James Yoshimura is a Japanese American writer and producer, best known for his screenwriting work on the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street and the short-lived Fox series The Jury, for which he served as a co-creator. He also co-wrote Homicide: The Movie, a made-for-television film that came out in 2000, after the series ended.

Yoshimura began his career writing for theater after attending the Yale School of Drama. His plays include Union Boys and Mercenaries.

He has received two Emmy Award nominations: one for Homicide: The Movie and one for the Homicide episode “Subway,” which also won a Peabody Award for excellence in television broadcasting.

He is currently working on Courtroom 302, a new series for HBO, with Tom Fontana, Tom Kelly and Frank Pugliese.