Leadership
Artistic Director
Arin Arbus
Executive Director
Dorothy Ryan
Dorothy Ryan joined Theatre for a New Audience in 2003. As Executive Director, she is the management leader of the organization, and oversees the areas of Finance, Development, Education, Board relations, and the Capital Campaign. She also managed the Theatre’s capital project to build its first home, Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Fort Greene Brooklyn, which opened in 2013.
From 2000-2008, Dorothy served as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Pratt Institute’s Arts and Cultural Management Program, teaching courses in fundraising.
Before joining Theatre for a New Audience, Dorothy spent the previous ten years devoted to fundraising for the 92nd Street Y and the Brooklyn Museum. After graduating from Brown University with a music degree, she began her career in the arts with Hillyer International, a classical music management that also toured international attractions. She has also served as Company Manager for Chautauqua Opera, Managing Director for the Opera Ensemble of New York, and General Manager of Eugene Opera.
Founding Artistic Director
Jeffrey Horowitz
Jeffrey Horowitz began his career in theatre as an actor and appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theatre. In 1979, he founded Theatre for a New Audience. Horowitz has served on the Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts, on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group, the Advisory Board of the Shakespeare Society and Artistic Directorate of London’s Globe Theatre.
Awards: 2003 John Houseman Award – The Acting Company; 2004 Gaudium Award – Breukelein Institute; 2014 Alfred Drake Award – Brooklyn College; 2019 Obie Lifetime Achievement Award; 2020 Samuel H. Scripps Award.
Board of Directors
Board Chair
Robert E. Buckholz
Vice Chair
Kathleen C. Walsh
Executive Committee
Alan Beller
Robert E. Buckholz
Constance Christensen
Seymour H. Lesser
Larry M. Loeb
Philip R. Rotner
Kathleen C. Walsh
Josh Weisberg
Members
Arin Arbus
Ben Campbell
Jonathan R. Donnellan
Matthew E. Fishbein
Catherine Maciariello
Alan Polonsky
Dorothy Ryan
Eric B. Sloan
Doug Steiner
Artistic Council
John Berendt
Bianca Vivion Brooks
Robert Caro
Sharon Dunn
Riccardo Hernandez
Kathryn Hunter
Tom Kirdahy
John Lahr
Harry J. Lennix
Marie Maignan
Lindsay H. Mantell
Audrey Heffernan Meyer
J.T. Rogers
John Douglas Thompson
John Turturro
Emeritus
Francine Ballan
Sally Brody
William H. Burgess III
Monica Gerard-Sharp
Caroline Niemczyk
Janet C. Olshansky
Theodore C. Rogers
Mark Rylance
Daryl D. Smith
Susan Stockel
Jane Wells