{"id":6307,"date":"2026-02-01T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/?page_id=6307"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:44:35","slug":"the-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"The-Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chair of the Board, has worked on stages throughout the United States, abroad, on Broadway, off-Broadway, in television and film. He received a Virtuoso Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his work in August Wilson\u2019s Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis; and in the 2010 Broadway revival of Fences, he received a Tony nomination for featured actor. That season he was presented with the Richard Seff Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor from Actor\u2019s Equity Association. His OBIE and Lucille Lortel awards in the outstanding lead actor category are for his work as Pops in Stephen Adley Guirgis\u2019 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Between Riverside and Crazy.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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His film work includes performances in six Oscar Nominated films: Denis Villeneuve\u2019s, Dune; Greta Gerwig\u2019s, Lady Bird; Steven Spielberg\u2019s, Lincoln; DenzelWashington\u2019s, Fences, Kenneth Lonergan\u2019s, Manchester by the Sea and Stephen Daldry\u2019s,Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Noteworthy television work includes the FX\/HULU series, Devs; Halle Berry\u2019s directorial debut, Bruised for Netflix; HBO\u2019s, The Newsroom; HBO Films\u2019 Everyday People presented at Sundance Film Festival in 2004; and William Duke\u2019s PBS American Playhouse film of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Danny Glover and Esther Rolle.\n\nHis six Broadway shows include two Tony winners for best Revival of a Play, A Raisin in the Sun, 2014 and Fences, 2010. His last Broadway appearance was as Torvald in the heralded replacement cast of A Doll\u2019s House Part 2 led by Julie White in 2017. Off-Broadway his roles include Pontius Pilate in the LAByrinth Theatre Company\u2019s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He has been part of several productions at Kennedy Center, most notably as a member of the acting company for Kenny Leon\u2019s historic Century Cycle Readings in 2008.\n\nStephen delivered the commencement address and was conferred Juilliard\u2019s Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, May 19, 2017. Nearly 50 years earlier he auditioned for and became a member of Group l, Juilliard Drama Division. John Houseman cited Stephen\u2019s work as a student in his memoir, Final Dress. Stephen completed his conservatory training at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) where he served as president of the student government. He recently received UNCSA\u2019s Honorary Doctorate when he delivered their 2020\/2021 commencement address. During his 30 years as faculty for the Department of Theatre and Dance, State University of New York at Buffalo, he served periods as Head of Performance and Department Chair. He retired Professor emeritus in 2016.\n\nIn an eloquent obituary for playwright August Wilson, Michael Feingold of the Village Voice wrote,\n\u201cTo think of the great characters and scenes in August\u2019s plays is to think of an epic parade of great African American actors who have seized their moment to make theater history: James Earl Jones and Mary Alice in Fences, Charles S. Dutton in Ma Rainey and The Piano Lesson, S. Epatha Merkerson confronting him in the latter, Roscoe Lee Browne sagely ironic in Two Trains Running, Stephen McKinley Henderson oozing malice in Jitney, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Lisa Gay Hamilton glaring a skyful of weaponry at each other in Gem of the Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Michele Shay has performed in August Wilson\u2019s plays from inaugurating the role of Louise in Seven Guitars on Broadway in 1996 to Aunt Ester in Gem of the Ocean directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (2006 San Francisco), Phylicia Rashad (2007 Seattle) and Kenny Leon (2008 as part of August Wilson\u2019s 20th Century Cycle at the Kennedy Center). Michele has also directed six of his plays, Seven Guitars (2003 Salisbury NC, 2013 San Francisco CA, 2014 Arlington VA), Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone (2003 Santa Clarita CA), Gem of the Ocean (2007 Winston-Salem NC), Fences (Salisbury NC 2009), King Hedley II (2017 Los Angeles CA) and Two Trains Running (2018 Los Angeles CA).<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Michele is a Tony nominated award-winning actress, director and producer, and also a Coach, healer and teacher. She has taught acting at UNCSA in North Carolina, American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, Actors Theater of Louisville, Cal Arts, David Kagen\u2019s on-camera Film Acting Studio in Los Angeles and currently at NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts. She also served on Theater Panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, New York and New Jersey State Arts Councils, the Princess Grace Foundation and the Board of directors for Theater Communications Group.\n\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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American Actress, vocalist and a classically trained pianist recognized for her role as Terri Angelou from 2002 to 2004 in the television comedy series \u201cThe Parkers,\u201d also in \u201cHappily Ever After Fairy Tales for Every Child\u201d and, in 2017, \u201cShe\u2019s Gotta Have It\u201d as well as roles in several films including, \u201cBeloved,\u201d \u201c90 Days,\u201d and \u201cThe Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story.\u201d In 2021 Pauletta lovingly played Aretha Franklin\u2019s grandmother Rachel Franklin in the limited series, \u201cGenius: Aretha.\u201d Other recent credits include Mama Lu in the HULU series \u201cReasonable Doubt,\u201d and Doctor Olivia in the Tubi film \u201cSteps\u201d.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pauletta is also a Trustee at Spelman College, a global leader in the education of women of African descent, and one of the founding and executive members of The Brain Trust of Cedars-Sinai \u2013 a group that raises awareness and funds for brain care and research. She and her husband both have been involved with the organization for over 20 years. Their family has also established the Pauletta and Denzel Washington Gifted Scholars Program \u2014 a community outreach program that enables undergraduate, graduate and medical students, with an interest in science, to work on exciting research projects underway in neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai. More than 25 Washington Scholars have completed the program and many of them have continued their work at prestigious institutions throughout the United States and United Kingdom.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phylicia Rashad is an accomplished actor and stage director, and the newly appointed Dean of the of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University. \u00a0Her stage performances include Lena Younger in Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s \u201cA Raisin in the Sun;\u201d Aunt Ester in August Wilson\u2019s \u201cGem of the Ocean;\u201d The Witch in Stephen Sondheim\u2019s \u201cInto the Woods;\u201d Violet Weston in Tracey Letts\u2019 \u201cAugust Osage County;\u201d and Shelah in Tarrell Alvin McCraney\u2019s \u201cHead of Passes;\u201d etc. She has directed August Wilson\u2019s \u201cGem of the Ocean\u201d at the Seattle Repertory Theater; \u201cMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom\u201d and \u201cJoe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone\u201d (winner of the 2014 NAACP Theatre Award for best director) at the Mark Taper Forum; \u201cFences\u201d at the Long Wharf Theatre and McCarter Theatre. Her awards include the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, BET Honors Theatrical Arts Award, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre\u2019s Spirit of Shakespeare Award, the inaugural Legacy Award of the Ruben Santiago Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center, and the Lucille Lortel Award. In 2016, she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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She became a household name when she portrayed Claire Huxtable on \u201cThe Cosby Show,\u201d earning\u00a0 numerous honors and awards for over two decades. More recent roles in television and film include appearances as Carol on NBC\u2019s \u201cThis Is Us;\u201d Diana Dubois on the Fox TV series \u201cEmpire;\u201d Dr. Woods-Trap in Tarrell Alvin McCraney\u2019s Peabody Award-winning series \u201cDavid Makes Man\u201d on the OWN Network; Libba Gardner in Pixar\u2019s Academy Award-winning animated feature, \u201cSoul;\u201d Grandmother Journey in the Netflix holiday musical \u201cJingle Jangle;\u201d and Dr. Jones in \u201cBetween the World and Me\u201d on HBO Max.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Randy Bryant is a preservationist and architectural historian. He is the President and CEO of Ten Chimneys Foundation, the estate created by theatre legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, open to the public as a world-class house museum and national resource for theatre, arts, and arts education as well as nationally renowned for its Programs for American Theatre and Programs for the Public. \u00a0He leads the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program which brings actors from across the country to participate in a week-long master class and retreat with a world-renowned master teacher. During his tenure, he has brought renowned talents such as Alan Alda, Jason Alexander, Phylicia Rashad, Alfred Molina, David Hyde Pierce, and hundreds of other Broadway and regional theatre talent to Wisconsin through the Lunt-Fontanne Program.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Annouchka de Andrade was until 2021, director of the Amiens International Film Festival (FIFAM) in France where she hosted movie makers from all continents. Previously she was French cultural attach\u00e9 in Colombia with a cultural outreach to Bolivia Chile and Peru, and then cultural attach\u00e9 in Spain.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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She was born in the Kremlin because her mother, Sarah Maldoror, was studying film in Moscow at the time and was taken to the city\u2019s best clinic for the birth. She spent her early childhood in Rabat and Algiers while her father, M\u00e1rio Pinto de Andrade, one of the founders and first President of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) was being hunted by Salazar\u2019s Portuguese police and army. At the age of 10, she settled in France where she was educated and lives.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phylicia Rashad<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Armando<\/span><\/div>
Comedian<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

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Salma Hayek<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Colman Domingo<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Reni Eddo-Lodge<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Rufus Norris<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Rebecca<\/span><\/div>
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Rebecca Hall<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Paula Patton<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Barbra<\/span><\/div>
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Barbra Streisand<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Archie<\/span><\/div>
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Archie Madekwe<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"orlando<\/span><\/div>
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Orlando Bloom<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Keith<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Keith David<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"randy<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a><\/h6>

Randy Bryant<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Carl<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a><\/h6>

Carl Cofield<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Claire<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Claire Foy<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Stephen<\/span><\/div>
Composer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Stephen Sondheim<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Kenny<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Kenny Leon<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Wunmi<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Wunmi Mosaku<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Indira<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Indira Etwaroo<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Mark<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Mark Dornford-May<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Dame<\/span><\/div>
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Dame Helen Mirren DBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Nathan Stewart-Jarett<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Patrick<\/span><\/div>
Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Patrick Chamoiseau<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Paulette<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a><\/h6>

Paulette Randall<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Ken<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a><\/h6>

Ken Loach<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Clarke<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Singer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Clarke Peters<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Martin<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Martin Scorsese<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Daniel Craig<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Francis<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Francis Ford Coppola<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Seret<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Seret Scott<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Roy<\/span><\/div>
Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Roy Williams OBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Nikkole<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Nikkole Salter<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Fiona<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Director<\/a><\/h6>

Fiona Shaw<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Lemn<\/span><\/div>
Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Lemn Sissay<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"nikki<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Nikki Amuka-Bird<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Mathew<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Mathew Rhys<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"sterling<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Sterling K Brown<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Robert<\/span><\/div>
Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Robert Silman<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Sanaa<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Sanaa Lathan<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"edward<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Edward Norton<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Toby<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Toby Jones OBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Annouchka<\/span><\/div>
Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Annouchka de Andrade<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Kiell<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Comedian<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Kiell Smith-Bynoe<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"steve<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Comedian<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Steve Coogan<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"angela<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Angela Bassett<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Euzhan<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Euzhan Palcy<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Mike<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Mike Leigh OBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Trevor<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Singer<\/a><\/h6>

Trevor Dion Nicholas<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Lenny<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Comedian<\/a> & Singer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Sir Lenny Henry CBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Octavia<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Octavia Spencer<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Vanessa<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Singer<\/a><\/h6>

Vanessa Williams<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Taraji<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Taraji P. Henson<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Robert<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Robert Lepage CC, OQ<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Ruth<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Ruth Negga<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Pauletta<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Pauletta Pearson Washington<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Lily<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Comedian<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Singer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Lily Tomlin<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Nadia<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Nadia Fall<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Michele<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Michele Shay<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Dame<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Dame Vanessa Redgrave DBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"LaTanya<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

LaTanya Richardson Jackson<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Alfre<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Alfre Woodard<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Aisha<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Comedian<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Aisha Tyler<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Thea<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a><\/h6>

Thea Sharrock<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"George<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

George C. Wolf<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Sir<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Sir Jonathan Pryce CBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"blanche<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Blanche Marvin MBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Michael<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Michael Potts<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Caroline<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Caroline Ducrocq<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"jean-jacques<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Jean-Jacques Annaud<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Cornel<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Cornel West<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Paapa<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Paapa Essiedu<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Sharon\"<\/span><\/div>
Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Rick Pappas<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Rufus<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Rufus Sewell<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Jeremy<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Jeremy Irons<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"dominic<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Dominic Cooke CBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"josette<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Director<\/a><\/h6>

Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Sir<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Sir Mark Rylance<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Marianne<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a><\/h6>

Marianne Elliott OBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Kwame<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Singer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Kwame Kwei-Armah<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"sharon-d-clarke\"<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Singer<\/a><\/h6>

Sharon D Clarke<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Jamil<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Jamil Jude<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Michael<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Michael Sheen<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Deborah<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Deborah Weston<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Sir<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Sir Richard Eyre CH\/CBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Stephen<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a><\/h6>

Stephen McKinley Henderson<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Imelda<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Singer<\/a><\/h6>

Imelda Staunton<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Layton<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Singer<\/a><\/h6>

Layton Williams<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Tracy<\/span><\/div>
Actor<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Tracy Letts<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Katie<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a><\/h6>

Katie Mitchell OBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Viola<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a> & Producer<\/a><\/h6>

Viola Davis<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Dame<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas DBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Costa-Gavras\"<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/a> & Producer<\/a> & Writer<\/a><\/h6>

Costa-Gavras<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Lesley<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Lesley Manville CBE<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span>\"Carey<\/span><\/div>
Actress<\/a><\/h6>

Carey Mulligan<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Board Stephen McKinley Henderson Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chair of the Board, has worked on stages throughout the United States, abroad, on Broadway, off-Broadway, in television and film. He received a Virtuoso Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his work in August Wilson\u2019s Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis; and in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wavo-elementor-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nt-post-class",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":127,"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7383,"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6307\/revisions\/7383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bardofpittsburgh.com\/BOPW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}