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Thursday, December 1

Sam Gold ’96
is a Tony Award-winning director based in Brooklyn, NY. He recently directed Broadway productions of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga and King Lear starring Glenda Jackson. Other Broadway credits include Fun Home (Tony Award); Doll’s House, Part 2 (Tony Award nomination); The Glass Menagerie starring Sally Field; and The Real Thing starring Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Recent Off-Broadway credits include Corsicana, Hamlet starring Oscar Isaac, Othello starring David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig, The Village Bike starring Greta Gerwig, and five plays in collaboration with writer Annie Baker: John, The Flick, Uncle Vanya, Circle Mirror Transformation, and The Aliens. Gold will direct Oscar Isaac and Greta Gerwig in Clare Barron’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters next summer.
 
Joel Grey
In a career that was launched in the early 1950s, Joel Grey has created indelible stage roles each decade since. Grey made his theatrical debut at the age of 9 in On Borrowed Time at the storied American regional theater the Cleveland Play House. He recently directed a production of the play at New Jersey’s Two River Theater Company for their 20th Anniversary Season.  He made his Broadway debut exactly two decades later in Neil Simon’s first comedy hit, Come Blow Your Horn (1961).  Since then, his Broadway credits include the Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Half a Sixpence, Cabaret (Tony Award), George M! (Tony nomination), Goodtime Charley (Tony nomination), The Grand Tour (Tony nomination), Chicago (Drama Desk Award), Wicked, Anything Goes, and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
 
Joel’s dramatic stage roles include Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Give Me Your Answer, Do! (Drama Desk nomination), New York City Opera’s Silverlake (directed by Hal Prince) and Larry Kramer’s seminal The Normal Heart at the Public Theatre, which he also subsequently co-directed with George C. Wolfe in its Tony Award winning Broadway premiere (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination).  
 
Joel received the Academy Award, the Golden Globe and the British Academy Award for his performance in the 1972 film version of Cabaret (directed by Bob Fosse).  He is one of only nine actors to have won both the Tony and Academy Award for the same role.  Other film credits include Man on A Swing, Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians, The Seven Percent Solution, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka, Altman’s The Player, The Music of Chance, Michael Ritchie’s adaptation of The Fantasticks, Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark and Clark Gregg’s Choke.
 
Notable television appearances include Brooklyn Bridge (Emmy nomination), Law and Order: CI, House, Brothers & Sisters, Private Practice, Grey’s Anatomy, Nurse Jackie, Warehouse 13, and CSI. In 2010, Joel was honored for his illustrious television career by The Paley Center for Media in both NYC and Los Angeles.  
 
Joel is also an accomplished photographer.  He has five books of photographs, Pictures I Had to Take (2003), Looking Hard at Unexamined Things (2006), 1.3 - Images From My Phone (2009), and The Billboard Papers (2013) and The Flower Whisperer. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. His memoir, Master of Ceremonies, was published in February 2016 (Flatiron). 
 
Joel most recently directed the acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish which won the 2019 Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revival, the 2019 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Revival, and a 2019 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award Special Citation. It is now in its second life at New World Stages.
 
Joel is the father of Jennifer (Dalton Class of 1978) and James and is the grandfather of Stella.

Julián Mesri ’05 is a New York-based Argentinean-American composer and writer who makes multilingual plays and musicals in the US and around the world. He is a current member of the Public Theater Emerging Writers Group and received a 2020-2021 EST/Sloan Commission for his musical Favaloro: A Heart in Pieces. This spring he will be writing the songs for the Public Mobile Unit’s musical adaptation for Comedy of Errors directed by Rebecca Martinez. Recent productions include Telo (Live and In Color Finalist, O’Neill NMTC Finalist), Bartolomé de las Casas Ruins My Pool (O’Neill NPC Finalist) Immersion (Ingenio Festival at Milagro Theater, Columbia/Roundabout Finalist, BAPF Semi-Finalist. Mesri has been an Emerging Artist of Color Fellow and Usual Suspect at NYTW, a Van Lier fellow at Repertorio Español, and the recipient of an ASCAP Scholarship. His adaptation of Fuenteovejuna received the HOLA Outstanding production award. He has also translated dramatic works for the Lark US/Mexico Exchange and PEN World Voices. He received his MFA from Columbia University.

Arielle Tepper is Founder and CEO of WhatShouldWeDo.com, chair of the Board of Trustees of The Public Theater in New York City, former Board Member of The Dalton School and member of the Class of 1990, parent of 3 (Izzy Madover ’20, Jonah Madover ’26 and Sasha Madover ’28) and a Tony Award-winning theater and film producer.
 
At 25, she was the youngest active female producer on Broadway and then, after a 20-year career that included numerous Tony® Awards and countless other accolades, she launched What Should We Do?! In 2017 and has since been featured in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Forbes, Town and Country, and Wall Street Journal, among others. 
 
Ms. Tepper’s theater productions have earned 28 Tony® Awards, with credits including:
Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses starring Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer and directed by Josie Rourke, Dear Evan Hansen the 6 time Tony® Award winning Best Musical of 2017, The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper, The Cripple of Inishmaan starring Daniel Radcliffe, directed by Michael Grandage, Lucky Guy, by Nora Ephron, starring Tom Hanks, directed by George C. Wolfe, I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers written by John Logan, starring Bette Midler, Annie directed by James Lapine, Red, the 6 time Tony® Award winning Best Play of 2010 starring Alfred Molina, directed by Michael Grandage.
 
West End: My Night with Reg, Piaf, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Frost/Nixon and Guys & Dolls both directed by Michael Grandage, Mary Stuart, A Voyage Round My Father and Sunday in the Park with George.
  
Board Chair of The Public Theater: The Public has earned countless awards during her tenure including: Hamilton 12 Tony® Awards, 7 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical written and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Fun Home, the 5 time Tony® Award winning Best Musical of 2015 starring Michael Cerveris and directed by Sam Gold ’96, among others.
  
Ms. Tepper has had a long-standing relationship with The Donmar Warehouse working with Artistic Director Michael Grandage from 2005 to 2012 and Josie Rourke from 2012 to 2016.
 
Ms. Tepper is Executive Producer of the film Genius by John Logan directed by Michael Grandage starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Laura Linney.
 
In 2005 Ms. Tepper formed The Living Room for Artists a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization to sustain and support the Summer Play Festival (SPF) which was first presented in 2004.  
 
In her effort to promote Theater Education, in 2001, Ms. Tepper created The Tepper Center for Careers in Theatre, which through Syracuse University’s Tepper Theater Program in New York provides opportunities for college seniors to develop specific strategies for pursuing their career goals in the entertainment industry. In 2016 she received the George Arents Award, Syracuse University’s highest alumni honor.

Sharon Washington ’77 is celebrating over 30 years as a working actress and her new journey as a writer. Her most recent television appearances include guest star roles on Bull and Power Book III; the award-winning short film Birdwatching co-starring Amanda Seyfried, and Down with The King starring Freddie Gibbs which premiered at Cannes ACID; Other film/television work: Joker, The Kitchen, On The Basis of Sex, Michael Clayton, Long Kiss Goodnight, Malcolm X, Die Hard With A Vengeance, and all the NY Law & Order franchises. You may also recognize her voice as the narrator of several documentary series for Animal Planet, Discovery, NOVA and TV One.

Sharon made her debut as playwright at City Theatre with the world-premiere of her solo play Feeding The Dragon which subsequently played at Hartford Stage and made its Off-Broadway debut at Primary Stages where she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award and won an Audelco Award. Sharon was the Primary Stages 2017-18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. Feeding the Dragon is available as a best-selling Audible Original audio play and has been published by Oberon Books. Sharon is Co-Writer/Executive Producer of the screenplay adaptation of Feeding the Dragon which has been optioned by a major Hollywood studio and is currently in development.

Sharon is currently co-writing the libretto for the new musical New York New York with David Thompson and music by Kander & Ebb, directed & choreographed by Susan Stroman, and set to premiere on Broadway in the Spring of 2023. Sharon’s other acting credits include the Tony-Award nominated The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway. Off-Broadway: Richard III (Public Theater/Shakespeare-in-the-Park 2022 & 1990 productions); Dot (Vineyard Theater); Wild with Happy (Public Theater/NYSF) for which she received a Lucille Lortel nomination and an Audelco Award; Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Public Theatre/NYSF); While I Yet Live and String of Pearls at Primary Stages among many others.

She has also appeared at award-winning regional theaters around the country including: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theater, Denver Center, Yale Rep and Arena Stage and workshopped numerous new plays at The O’Neill, Sundance, Powerhouse at Vassar and New York Theater Workshop.

Michael Shulman ’00 is a Tony-winning producer, actor, and Dalton alum (Class of 2000). He is the founder of Sand & Snow Entertainment (2021), a stage and screen production company dedicated to artist-driven, uplifting work that stirs conversation, especially with younger generations. 
 
He was the co-founding member of Starry Night Entertainment, a company which has since retired its active role in producing.
 
Current productions include Orlando, starring Emma Corrin and directed by Michael Grandage on the West End. His most recent Broadway production, The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Sam Mendes, won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play. Other productions include Hamilton (Broadway, and all National/International Tours) and The Ferryman, by Jez Butterworth, also directed by Sam Mendes, and winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play.

Other credits include Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan (Broadway), McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore (West End), Hedwig and The Angry Inch (Tony Award, Best Musical Revival), The Last Ship by Sting (Broadway), The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper (Broadway, West End), Photograph 51 with Nicole Kidman (West End), among others.

In 2020, with theater shuttered, Shulman expanded into screen, optioning and developing several projects with major creative elements attached, and now set up at various studios.
 
Known for forging deep relationships with artists, both well-established and up-and-coming, and believing fervently in supporting the artistic process, Shulman is driven by the belief that art can lift up and unite communities. 
 
On the corporate side, he has, in recent years, been among the innovators of new financing models for theater, an ethos he carries over to his work for screen. 
 
A Yale graduate with a major in the History of Art, he is member of the Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute, and helped launch and spearhead an initiative at Yale University called HAPPY, which seeks to merge the Yale School of Public Health with the Schools of the Arts and Humanities to improve public health outcomes.
 
Married to Sara Shulman, his greatest productions are his two, too-early-to-rise young kids, whose middle names are “Sand” and “Snow.”
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