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

Richard LaGravenese

Born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Emerson College and NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing.

LaGravenese’s first professional gig was as a contributing writer for the Off Broadway revue “A MY NAME IS ALICE” directed by Joan Micklin Silver.

Screenwriting credits include; THE FISHER KING (directed by Terry Gilliam, Oscar nomination): THE REF, (directed by Ted Demme), A LITTLE PRINCESS (directed by Alfonso Cuaron)… UNSTRUNG HEROES (directed by Diane Keaton)….THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (directed by Clint Eastwood), BELOVED (directed by Jonathon Demme), RUDE AWAKENING (w/Neil Levy), and WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (directed by Francis Lawrence).

LaGravenese has written and directed: LIVING OUT LOUD starring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito and Queen Latifah…PARIS J'TAIME, with Fanny Ardent and Bob Hoskins… FREEDOM WRITERS, starring Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey (HUMANITUS Award Winner for Screenplay) … and P.S. I LOVE YOU starring Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Kathy Bates Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Harry Connick Jr.

He co-directed and co-produced with Ted Demme the Seventies film documentary for IFC, entitled “A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE” (National Board of Review William K. Everson Award winner for film history and an Emmy nomination for best documentary). He has also taught a 14 week Master Class for Screenwriting at Emerson College.

He lives in New York City and Connecticut with his wife and daughter.