Officers

Cheever Tyler, Esq. - President
Founder and President of Partnership for Connecticut Cities and the Center for Nonprofit Strategies, Inc. and formerly a partner at the law firm Wiggin and Dana. Former Chairman of the Board of the University of New Haven and Immediate Past President of the New Haven Arts Council. Mr. Tyler is past Chairman of the Schubert performing Arts Center, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, The United Way of Greater New Haven and the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce.

Frank Logue - Vice President
Former Mayor of City of New Haven. Later taught at Yale School of Management and is currently an Arbitration Attorney. He is a founding member of: Cold Spring Group Home, New Haven Youth-At-Risk, Artspace and Citizens Television.

John Conte - Treasurer
Center Manager Westfield Trumbull and former general manager Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre.  Lecturer and consultant to nonprofit organizations.  Former faculty member Yale University School of Drama.

Hyla F. Crane - Secretary
Tri-State Program Director, Prevent Blindness Tri-State.  Former Education Coordinator, Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT.

Directors 

Sheila Allen Bell
Assistant Executive Director, Community and Economic Development, New Haven Housing Authority.

Andrew P. Boone
Financial Advisor with UBS Financial Services in New Haven, who has supported the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Ronald McDonald Camp, and the Arts.

William E. Curran
Retired Senior Partner at Halsey Associates, a premier investment advisory firm.  Board memberships have included Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Habitat for Humanity, Dwight Hall at Yale.  The director of the Elmina B. Sewell foundation from its inception twenty three years ago, with current annual grants of ten million dollars.  Currently a Board member and Treasurer.

Louise Endel
Board Member of Long Wharf Theatre, LEAP (Leadership, Education & Athletics in Partnership), Regis Board of the Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, Dixwell Community House Board Member.

Karyl Evans
Five time Emmy Award winning television director, producer, writer, and editor.

Maria Freda

Gwendolyn Gunn, Honorary Trustee

Eliza Halsey

B. Joan Hickey
Founding Director of The Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University (1976-1996) Director, East Shore League of Women Voters and Director, Hartford Critical Creative Thinking Center. Professional Artist in Painting, Collage and Metal Sculpture.

Kirk T. Hughes

Kenneth J. Julian
Executive Vice President, Halsey Associates Investment Management Firm, New Haven, CT. Finance Chair, New Britain Foundation for Public Giving. Endowment Committee, New Haven Symphony

Donald Margulies, Honorary Trustee
2000 Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright. Mr.Margulies currently has his award winning play Dinner with Friends playing at the Variety Arts in New York and other works playing in London. Involved with promotion of the arts to inner city youth.

Dr. Jerome H. Meyer, Honorary Trustee
Practicing psychoanalyst, community activist and children's advocate. Founding Board member of LEAP and Chairman of Development for LEAP. President, Long Wharf Theatre Board of Directors.

William Minter, Honorary Trustee

David I. Newton
David is President of Elm Advisors, LLC-a real estate development and consulting firm in New Haven.  Prior to founding Elm Advisors, he served as the Associate Vice President and Director of University Properties at Yale University.  He is active in the New Haven community serving as President of the Committee of Trustees at the Hopkins School, Trustee of the Long Wharf Theatre, and member of the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, as well as the Festival of Arts and Ideas and the New Haven Road Race.

Mary Pepe
Vice President of Operations at the Regional Water Authority in New Haven.  In addition to being on the board of Elm Shakespeare, Mary is Chair of the Board of Long Wharf Theatre and a member of the Board of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.   She is an associate fellow of Calhoun College of Yale University and is a former Chair of the Board of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

Jennifer Spinach Schiavone

Maureen Q. Wolyniec
Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club.  Founder of Quinlan-Wolyniec & Company, LLC specializing in planning, public relations, and philanthropy.