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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

Susanna Styron

Susanna Styron is a screenwriter, director and documentary film-maker. Her writing credits include the feature film Shadrach, which she also directed, In From the Night and Back When we were Grown-Ups for Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Crossing the Line and Taking Back Our Town for Lifetime. She has written and directed for the television series 100 Centre Street created by Sidney Lumet. Her most recent documentary 9/12: From Chaos to Community examines the relationships formed between volunteers and recovery workers at Ground Zero.

Susanna serves on the Advisory Board of The Unusual Suspects, an organization devoted to bringing theater workshops to at risk youth in Los Angeles. She has published articles in The New York Times, the Yale Revue, and Spin Magazine. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the American Film Institute. Susanna teaches directing at Columbia University in the MFA film program, and screenwriting in the MFA film program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.