CHARLOTTE COHN - Producing: off-broadway – Rated P… For Parenthood, Baltimore in Black and White (by Jason Odell Williams). Founding producer: NYMF, Mainstreet Musicals. Directing: Insurgent…NYC, Emancipation, 1,934 Days. Performing: Broadway – La Boheme, Coram Boy. Regional favorites: Handle With Care, Happy End, Murder of Isaac, Marketplace. Ovation Award winner. Most proud of being Jason’s wife and Imogen’s mom. www.ratedpthemusical.com

JANE DUBIN (Producer) is a TONY Award winning producer and the President of Double Play Connections, a theatrical production and management company committed to supporting emerging artists and playwrights in the creation and development of new works. Jane is a graduate of the CTI 14-week (NYC) and O’Neill Center Intensive (CT) Producing Workshops and recent Director of TRU’s Producer Development Program. Productions: Peter and the Starcatcher (opening on Broadway April 15, 2012), unFRAMED, by Iyaba Ibo Mandingo (next up at the InterAct Theater, Philadelphia, March, 2012), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (London), The 39 Steps (OB, Tour), The Norman Conquests (TONY, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Best Play Revival), Groundswell (the New Group); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008 GLAAD Media Award for Theatre).

Ms. Dubin is on the Board of Directors of Houses on the Moon Theater Company and the co-curator of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center New Play Reading Series (now accepting submissions – http://bit.ly/PlayReadingSeries). She is a member of the Broadway League and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She holds an MS in Public Policy from the University of Rochester and an MBA in Finance from NYU.

LAURA FREDRICKS operates Laura Fredricks, LLC, a boutique consulting company that provides hands-on expert fundraising and best practices to a select number of non-profit organizations, to raise significant money, efficiently and effectively from a variety of existing and new sources. Areas of expert consulting services include:

Increasing small gifts into major gifts without increasing overhead;
Identifying new major gift investors;
Assessing and training executive administration, boards, staff, donors, and volunteers on How to ASK for Money;
Strategic planning for organizational growth; crisis transition; management; financial resource allocation; and positioning for upcoming fundraising campaigns;
Executing and evaluating capital campaigns, including raising major gifts for capital and endowment campaigns.

In addition to consulting, Laura is a motivational speaker and best-selling author of The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture, (2010), The Ask: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount for Any Purpose, (2006) and Developing Major Gifts: Turning Small Donors into Big Contributors (2001).

WALTER GOWENS, CFP, EA, is the President and founder of Prudential Vanguard Financial Services, Inc.. He offers to you the benefits of more than 30 years of experience gained from positions in accounting, finance, budgeting and investments. He has worked in industry and Wall Street as well as for the Internal Revenue Service and in the non-profit sector. He received a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Indiana University and Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University.

He is an Enrolled Agent, Certified Financial Planner, listed in Who's Who In America and a member of the National Society of Accountants and National Society of Tax Professionals. Additionally, he has spoken on topics concerning financial and tax issues before numerous groups and has been interviewed for television, radio, newspaper and magazine

BEN SPRECHER is currently bringing the musical version of Daphne DuMaurier's classic Rebecca to Broadway. Other Broadway productions include: David Mamet’s American Buffalo directed by Robert Falls starring John Leguizamo; Eugene O’Neil’s Moon For The Misbegotten starring Eve Best and Kevin Spacey; James Kirkwood’s comedy Legends! starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans, the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple starring Nathan Lane and Mathew Broderick; the Tony award-winning Broadway production of Fortune’s Fool starring Alan Bates and Frank Langella; Larry Gelbart’s hit Broadway comedy Sly Fox starring Richard Dreyfuss and Eric Stoltz; the Tony award winning production of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight and the Broadway thriller Voices In The Dark starring Judith Ivey.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Sprecher was at the center of Off-Broadway. He reconstructed and operated the Theatre de Lys (now known as the Lucille Lortel Theatre) from 1981 until 1999. In 1982, he built the Promenade Theatre which was in continuous operation until 2006. In 1992, he built the Variety Arts Theatre which was in continuous operation until 2005. With the Shubert Organization, he was integral in construction of the Little Shubert Theatre which opened in 2004. During this period, productions Mr. Sprecher was responsible for include: the Pulitzer prize winning production of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; Steve Martin’s Picasso At Lapin Agile; Terrence McNalley’s Lisbon Traviata; Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures; and many more. As an independent, Mr. Sprecher productions include the original New York productions of: the musical Annie Warbucks; Elaine May’s Adult Entertainment starring Danny Aiello; Yazmina Reza’s Unexpected Man starring Alan Bates and Dame Eileen Atkinson; Neil LaBute’s The Shape Of Things starring Rachel Weitz and Paul Rudd. His shows have received two Tony awards, two Pulitzer prizes, eleven New York Drama Critics awards, fourteen Outer Critic Circle Awards, five Lucille Lortel Awards and numerous Obie Awards.

Mr. Sprecher is a member of the League of American Theatres and Producers. He served as Vice President of the League of Off Broadway Theatres and Producers for fifteen years.

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