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Tom Fontana
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

Richard LaGravenese

Warren Leight

Kenneth Lonergan

Jenny Lumet

Marsha Norman

Eric Overmeyer

John Patrick Shanley

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

David Simon

Susanna Sytron

Michael Weller

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.