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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

Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron is a film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist.

Nora graduated from Wellesley College and was briefly an intern in the White House of President John F. Kennedy. She has been a journalist at the New York Post and had her own column in Esquire magazine.

Her film career includes many iconic films, such as When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, Silkwood, You've Got Mail, and Michael. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Writing three times.

She recently authored a best-selling collection of essays entitled I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, as well as wrote and directed the film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.