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ERIC EMAUNI (he/him) is a Tony nominated producer, world builder, and Founder of Iconic Vizion Productions; creating transformative spaces for artists and fueling truth. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, he has been fortunate to work with esteemed cultural institutions such as Harlem Stage, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, LAByrinth Theater Company, The TEAM, National Black Theatre, And PAC NYC. He has also worked with several commercial producing offices including Maximum Entertainment Productions. Eric is an alum of TedxBroadway Young Professionals, Theater Producers of Color, and Beth Morrison Producers Academy. He is also the recipient of the AKA 500 Hour Producers of Color Initiative, the I AM SOUL Producer in Residence at National Black Theatre, Petri Project Artist with The TEAM and a Fellow Member of the Broadway League. Eric graduated from Morehouse College with a BA in Psychology and Theater and earned an MFA in Acting from LIU Post. Credits: Off-Broadway: Kinky Boots. Broadway: Is This A Room, Dana H (2 Tony Awards️), A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Fat Ham (Pulitzer-Prize Winner, 5 Tony Nominations). For more please visit www.iconicvizion.com; IG: @iconicvizion
GEORGE STRUS (they/them) is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning non-binary Latiné producer and dramaturg based in New York. They are the Founding CEO of theatrical production company Benson Drive Productions, whose recent credits include TRISHA PAYTAS’ BIG BROADWAY DREAM (raising over $150,000 for the Entertainment Community Fund), A PLAY ABOUT DAVID MAMET WRITING A PLAY ABOUT HARVEY WEINSTEIN (raising over $15,000 for the NYCLU), BECOMING EVE at New York Theatre Workshop, and Stephen Sondheim’s THE FROGS in London. Upcoming projects include Amber Ruffin's BIGFOOT!, Neil Simon's RUMORS, THE DANISH GIRL, and over 30 projects in various stages of development. They were also a proud co-producer of the 2023 world premiere production of Stephen Sondheim's final musical, HERE WE ARE, off-Broadway; Cole Escola's OH, MARY! (2025 Tony Nomination), Jackie Sibblies Drury, Justin Peck, and Sufjan Stevens’ ILLINOISE (2024 Tony Nomination), Sam Gold’s ROMEO + JULIET (2025 Tony Nomination), and Simon Rich’s ALL IN on Broadway; and Jamie Lloyd's EVITA on the West End. Future co-producing credits include CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL and numerous other TBA Broadway and West End projects. Additionally, they founded the Obie-Award winning Breaking the Binary Theatre: a new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ the atermakers. They were awarded the 2024 Prince Fellowship and are a member of the 2025 Shubert Organization Artistic Circle www.georgestrus.com
MAXWELL BEER is a Tony Award-winning theatrical producer and composer based in New York City. He is a co-founder of Mix and Match Productions, the producing company behind the Off-Broadway hit Cellino v. Barnes, which ran for nine months and was named Best Comedy of 2024 by Time Out New York. Mix and Match Productions is also a co-producer of the Tony Award-winning musical Maybe Happy Ending. Their latest play, Marcel on the Train, will have its world premiere at Classic Stage Company in Winter 2026, following a developmental workshop at Williamstown Theater Festival in 2024. Mix and Match Productions is also producing Broadway in Battery Park City, a star-studded concert celebrating the reopening of the Wagner Pavilion following a 12-year renovation. Max serves as the Associate Producer at Hendel Productions and is a co-executive producer and engineer of the GRAMMY-nominated concept album, Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater’s Some Lovers. He is a proud graduate of Northwestern University and a member of the BMI Musical Theater Writing Workshop.
AMY MARIE HAVEN (goes by ‘Yes’ and uses she/her) is an acclaimed producer/director and Prince Fellow (2023). She serves as Creative Executive at Universal Theatrical Group, currently represented on Broadway by Death Becomes Her. Independently, she is the lead producer of Trophy Boys, playing off Broadway at MCC Theater summer 2025. Other Broadway credits include: The Music Man - sponsored by Hugh Jackman (Producing Fellow), Almost Famous (Creative Development Manager), and SUFFS (Associate Producer). Other credits: Creative Development Manager at Michael Cassel Group; member of the Shubert Artistic Circle; inaugural fellow with Black Theatre Coalition. Yes co-founded and serves as board president for Tomorrow Youth Repertory; has held artistic leadership positions at Throckmorton Theatre, Oakland School for the Arts, and African-American Shakespeare; and holds international experience spanning Australia, Mexico, South Korea, and Honduras.
JAMILA PONTON BRAGG (she/her) is the founder of JamRock Productions LLC, a theater production company committed to works for women, about women and by women. After nearly twenty years in the nonprofit industry, Ms. Bragg transitioned to theater production. JamRock Productions current projects include developing the Jean Genet play THE BLACKS for Broadway in 2026 and producing playwright a.k. payne’s 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn prize winning LOVE I AWETHU FURTHER. JamRock is also working with the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust to stage a production of Betsey Brown (1985), a semi-autobiographical book about Ms. Shange’s time with her family as a thirteen-year-old in St. Louis in 1955.
JamRock Productions co-producer credits include PASSOVER (2021), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (2022), Tony Nominated Best Play FAT HAM (2023), THE WIZ (2024), Tony Nominated Best Revival of a Musical GYPSY (2024).
Jamila Ponton Bragg also serves as the Managing Member of the Broadway Women’s Fund. The BWF mission is to champion gender equality on Broadway by partnering with industry leaders and investing in projects led by women and those identifying as women, aiming to achieve meaningful social impact and favorable returns.
Ms. Bragg was the 2022-23 Prince Fellow in the MFA program at the Columbia School of the Arts. The Prince Fellowship honors the legacy, career and memory of the Broadway producer, Harold Prince. The Fellowship is designed to support the development of gifted emerging theatrical producers. Ms. Bragg was named on the Broadway Women’s Fund 2023 “Women to Watch on Broadway.”
Ms. Bragg graduated from Duke University in 1996 with a BS in Psychology and earned an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1999. She is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and resides in Harlem, NY with her husband and her two children.
CYNTHIA L. DORSEY is a multidisciplinary artist dedicated to centering stories of women and communities of color in both theatre and film. She holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MA from Syracuse University, and has spent over a decade as an arts educator, earning a Tony Award nomination for Excellence in Theater Education.
Cynthia is the co-founder of SoulFLY Theatre Society and has directed and produced nationally recognized work. Her short film JUST earned her Best Inspirational Director, and Critical Missing won Best Social Justice Film at the Urban Film Festival. In the commercial producing space, she served as the Producing Fellow at P3 Productions, working on Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. She is also a Creative Producer at Musical Theatre Factory. Cynthia is a 2022 Theatre Producers of Color alum and was named a 2024 Woman to Watch on Broadway. Cynthia was also honored as the 2022–23 Prince/TTLP Fellow.
As a writer, her work has been featured on the Netflix award-winning podcast Mortified and in popular lifestyle blogs, Madame Noire and XoNecole. As a member of the inaugural 23/24 BIPOC Critics Lab at the Public Theater, Cynthia is committed to liberating silenced stories through art and critical discourse.
OSH ASHRUF is an associate producer at the Frederick Zollo Company and a co-producer of three upcoming Broadway musicals, including Sing Street. He is also a writing contributor on the multi-theatre collaboration American Dreams. In 2012, he founded Broadway For All, an equity, diversity, and inclusion national training program and movement for the arts and entertainment industry. A Teach For America alum, Ashruf holds a BA in Theatre and English Literature and a BS in Education from Loyola University Chicago and an MFA in Acting from Harvard University.
LAWRYN LaCROIX is a Tony Award-Nominated producer based in New York City. Producer with Lia Vollack at Lia Vollack Productions (MJ the Musical). A co-producer on GYPSY (2025 Tony Nomination) starring Audra McDonald at the Majestic Theatre. Past credits include co-producer DEAD OUTLAW Broadway (2025 Tony Nomination - Longacre Theatre). Co-producer on OLD MAN & THE POOL Broadway (Vivian Beaumont Theatre - Lincoln Center) & West End (Wyndham Theatre). An associate producer on POTUS (Shubert Theatre). A past resident producer at New York Theatre Workshop. A recipient of The Prince Fellowship and The Theater Leadership Project (TTLP) along with being in the inaugural group of resident producers for The Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle. A Broadway League fellowship recipient. A graduate of the MA Creative Producing program at The Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (London). And Marymount Manhattan College BFA program (NYC).
BEN HOLTZMAN is a producer, content creator, and educator passionate about uplifting new artists. He is a co-founding partner of P3 Productions, an artist-driven commercial production company. With P3, Ben has produced HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, JOB (July 2024), and the upcoming GUN & POWDER (2025) on Broadway. Co-producing credits include A STRANGE LOOP (Tony Award), JUST FOR US, SUNSET BOULEVARD (2024), and BE MORE CHILL on Broadway, as well as NEXT TO NORMAL and ORLANDO on the West End. Ben worked closely with Hal Prince from 2016 until his passing, whereupon he produced his memorial celebration at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway directed by Susan Stroman. Ben is also the co-founder and executive producer of RANGE music. With RANGE, he has arranged and produced content with Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, Billboard, the E! Network, and more. Proud Prince Fellowship recipient and a proud graduate of Syracuse University. For more, visit www.p3.productions.
RACHEL SUSSMAN is a Tony Award-winning creative producer, educator, and entrepreneur. She is a partner at Soto Productions, overseeing all theatrical development and a co-founder of The Business of Broadway, an educational venture with the aim of democratizing commercial producing knowledge. Broadway credits include: Parade (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Award); Suffs (Tony nom and Outer Critics Circle Award); Special Tony and Emmy Award winner Alex Edelman's Just for Us (on HBO Max); What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nom and Pulitzer Prize finalist); Romeo & Juliet (Tony nom); Gypsy (Tony nom); Prima Facie. Select Off-Broadway credits: The Woodsman (Obie Award), All Nighter, and Lightning Rod Special's The Appointment. A former WP Theater Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel received the 2018 Prince Fellowship in Creative Producing and was named one of Variety’s “10 to Watch on Broadway.” She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts and NYU Tisch. www.rachel-sussman.com
ALLISON BRESSI is the President and Producer for Lively McCabe Entertainment where she oversees theatrical development and licensing. With Lively McCabe she developed musicals such as Mystic Pizza and May We All, and is currently developing musical adaptations of the films Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Can't Hardly Wait. Other favorite producing credits include: Songbird, Broadway Bounty Hunter, The Strangest, Tell Them I'm Still Young, Tyrants, Blood/Love, among others. Prior to working for Lively McCabe, Allison spent 10 years working for Signature Theatre in New York City. She has also worked for and developed new work with companies such as Octopus Theatricals, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, and Foresight Theatricals.
CHRISTOPHER MARING is a New York-based producer. Broadway credits include Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Tony nominee, Best Musical); Green Day's American Idiot (and National Tour); and On A Clear Day... starring Harry Connick Jr. Maring also helped develop and produce the new musical Futurity (A.R.T. and Walker Art Center). In 2016, Maring formed CM Stage Productions with a focus on creating new projects for theater and television. Prior to that, he worked for producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman, where he was part of the management team for the original Tony Award-winning production of Spring Awakening (Broadway, National Tour, and West End) and oversaw developmental readings and workshops. Maring was the recipient of the 2016 T. Fellowship for creative producers, co-founded by Hal Prince in association with Columbia University. www.CMStageProductions.com
JEN HOGUET co-founded FourthWall Theatrical, a theatrical production company, with Jana Bezdek. Producing credits include the original musicals Shelter (New York Stage & Film) and The Lonely Few (MCC Theater, Geffen Playhouse), as well as the live streamed theatre piece This American Wife. FourthWall has also supported John Proctor is the Villain, Illinoise, Water for Elephants, Kimberly Akimbo, Jagged Little Pill and the UK premiere of The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse), among others. A graduate of Northwestern University, Jen also holds an MFA in Theatre Producing and Management from Columbia University and was the 2015 recipient of Hal Prince's T Fellowship. Jen lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
AARON GLICK is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer. Broadway, Touring, and West End Producing credits include: Purpose (Tony Award), A Wrinkle in Time (Arena Stage), Hello, Dolly! (West End), Next to Normal (West End), Sweeney Todd (Tony Nomination), Kimberly Akimbo (Tony Award), What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony Nomination), & Juliet (Olivier Nomination), The Boys in the Band (Tony Award), Fully Committed, Gypsy (Olivier Award), and The Old Man and the Old Moon. Aaron is also a producer with David Stone and has worked on such shows as: Three Days of Rain, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Next to Normal, If/Then, War Paint, the Tony-Winning Topdog/Underdog, and all productions of Wicked. Aaron is a Full Member of the Broadway League, a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, and the recipient of Hal Prince's T Fellowship.
JOHN ARTHUR PINCKARD is a two time Tony Award winning Broadway producer and financier last represented on Broadway by the critically acclaimed return of the international hit Slava's Snowshow, and before that by the Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and Drama Desk Award winning best musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder. His previous Broadway outing, Clybourne Park, won the Tony Award and Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. As co-founder and partner at Tilted Windmills Theatricals, he produced the record breaking Off Broadway run of PUFFS. John's history as producer and financier includes Green Day's American Idiot, the Tony Award winning revival of HAIR, and the long running Off Broadway hit Silence! The Musical!, which he originated at the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival.
John's notable collaborators include Tony winners Greg Kotis & Mark Hollman (Urinetown), Drama Desk winner Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, international music sensations the Scissor Sisters, and renowned author Armistead Maupin, among others. He has lectured at Columbia University, the Commercial Theater Institute, and the University of Florida, where he was named an Outstanding Young Alumnus in 2009 and where he currently sits on the Alumni Advisory Council for the Arts.
ORIN WOLF Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club (Tony Nominated), The Band’s Visit (Tony Award), Illinoise (Tony nominated), Once (Tony Award), Beautiful - The Carole King Musical (Tony Nominated) among others. Orin served as the Executive Producer on the 2021 Broadway reopening of To Kill a Mockingbird. He is the first recipient of The Prince Fellowship at Columbia University, under the mentorship of Hal Prince, and is the CEO of NETworks Presentations.