Leadership

Andrew Hamingson, A. D. Hamingson & Associates

Andrew Hamingson is the former Executive Director of The Public Theater. Before joining The Public in September 2008 Andrew served as the Atlantic Theater Company's Managing Director beginning in August 2004.  While there, Andrew oversaw all administrative and fiscal matters at Atlantic, including institutional development, Board recruitment, budgeting, marketing and fundraising.  In addition, he oversaw the negotiations, planning and construction of Atlantic's new state of the art $6 million theater complex on West 16th Street. In 2006 Atlantic Theater Company transferred SPRING AWAKENING and THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE to Broadway.  SPRING AWAKENING went on to win 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2007.
Prior to Atlantic, he was Manhattan Theatre Club's Director of Development for 5 years.  While there he managed all aspects of the annual fundraising campaign, including Board development and strategic planning. In addition to the $8 million annual fund, he was responsible for raising $35 million for the Capital Campaign for the renovation of the historic Biltmore Theater.  Beyond his fundraising responsibilities, Andrew helped to redesign the new facility and led the team to create operational policies at the Biltmore.
Andrew has a B.S. in Accounting from the John Wiley Jones School of Business, State University of New York at Geneseo, and an M.A. in Performing Arts Administration from New York University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Drama for nine years, and an Adjunct Professor at New York University's Steinhardt School for Education and Arts Professions for three years.  Andrew is a Board Member of Theater Communications Group.

James Bundy, Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre

James Bundy is in his fifth year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. Under his artistic leadership, Yale Rep has produced a dozen world, American, and regional premieres, two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. Yale Rep has also formalized its commitment to the development and production of new work with the creation of a new play commissioning program. Will Power!, Yale Rep’s newest and largest educational initiative, has served more than 6,000 middle and high school students from Greater New Haven since its founding in 2004.

At Yale Rep, Mr. Bundy has directed The Psychic Life of Savages and The Ladies of the Camellias, and co-directed last season’s All’s Well That Ends Well.  His other directing credits include work at Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and the Juilliard School Drama Division.

Mr. Bundy has previously served as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival.  He has also been a Drama League fellow and a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; he is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Drama.

Joseph V. Melillo, BAM

Joseph V. Melillo, BAM's Executive Producer since 1999, is responsible  for the institutional artistic direction of BAM. In the years that he has held this role, BAM has enjoyed increases in both programming and audience attendance in its Harvey Lichtenstein Theater, Howard Gilman Opera House, Rose Cinemas, and BAM cafe. In addition to continued critical acclaim, in 2003 BAM was awarded a special OBIE Award in recognition of a body of work in international programming and a special Drama Desk Award for bringing works of distinction from around the world to New York audiences. Over the years, Melillo has fostered the work of emerging artists such as choreographer John Jasperse, director Anne Bogart, and musician/composers David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe while continuing to provide an artistic home for BAM regulars such as choreographer Pina Bausch, directors Peter Brook and Sam Mendes, and composer John Adams.
Prior to his current role, Melillo served as BAM's producing director, following a six-year tenure as founding director of the Next Wave Festival. During the first festival, Melillo produced the premiere productions of The Photographer/Far From The Truth and The Gospel at Colonus. He worked closely with Philip Glass and Robert Wilson on the first revival of Einstein on the Beach in 1984, a production Melillo considers a professional benchmark. In addition to these productions, Melillo's hand can be seen in broad-ranging Next Wave productions such as The Mahabharata and Nixon in China.
As part of the 2001 Next Wave Festival, Melillo produced a multi-disciplinary celebration of Australian art and culture entitled Next Wave Down Under, which included music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts. In the fall of 2002, he produced BAM’s critically acclaimed 20th Next Wave Festival, which featured returning artist like Sankai Juku, Meredith Monk, and Steve Reich as well as works by festival newcomers such as Osvaldo Golijov, Sasha Waltz, and Tan Dun. As BAM's Spring Seasons have grown in recent years, Melillo has developed innovative and artistically wide-ranging projects such as the complete Monteverdi opera cycle and developed artistic partnerships with companies such as the Donmar Warehouse and the Mark Morris Dance Group.
In addition to his work at BAM, Melillo has had extensive experience in artistic programming, producing, and general management. In 1990, Melillo served as one of the artistic directors of the second New York International Festival for the Arts. He was general manager of the 1982 New World Festival of the Arts in Miami; theater program director of Foundation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theater (FEDAPT); marketing director for the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia; thematic specialist in contemporary American Theater for the Institute of International Education, Department of State, USIA; and producing director of the Chelsea Theater Center of New York. He was named a Chevalier (1999) and an Officier (2004) of the French Legion of Honor. Also in 2004, Melillo was awarded an honorary OBE for his outstanding commitment to British performing arts in America.
Melillo currently serves on the faculty of the Brooklyn College Graduate Program in Arts Management. He has served on the boards of directors for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and En Garde Arts and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts Dance Program and the New York State Council on the Arts. Most recently, he served as Panel Chair of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts 2003 Awards. Melillo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Theater at Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Connecticut and a Masters of Fine Arts in Speech and Drama at Catholic University of American in Washington, DC.

Linda Brumbach, Pomegranate Arts

Linda Brumbach is the Founding Director of Pomegranate Arts. Founded in 1998 Pomegranate Arts is an independent production company based in New York City dedicated to the development of international performing arts projects that are bold, provocative and emotionally charged. By design Pomegranate Arts is a modular company adaptable to the needs of its projects and the interests and the vision of its key staff.

With a hands-on approach, Pomegranate works closely with artists, arts institutions of all types and select corporate partners to realize singular work in all artistic mediums. Whether creating a new work with established artists at the peak of their career or introducing the vision of a younger artist, Pomegranate specializes in producing provocative performance events of the highest quality.

Current artists include Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Dan Zanes, and Sankai Juku.

Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital Foundation

Ruby Lerner is the founding Executive Director and President of the Creative Capital Foundation, an innovative arts foundation modeled on venture capital concepts. Creative Capital was established in 1999 to provide support to individual artists in all disciplines and has funded 242 artists' projects to date. Prior to Creative Capital, Ms. Lerner served as the Executive Director of the Association of Independent Film and Videomakers (AIVF) and as Publisher of the highly regarded Independent Film and Video Monthly. She has worked regionally in both the performing arts and independent media fields. She served as the Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS, a coalition of Southeastern performing artists, and IMAGE Film/Video Center, both based in Atlanta. In the late 1970's, she was the Audience Development Director at the Manhattan Theatre Club, one of New York's foremost nonprofit theatres.

A native of North Carolina, Ms. Lerner worked in the state's visiting artist program following graduate work in theatre at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her undergraduate degree is in comparative religion from Goucher College where she currently serves on the Committee of Visitors. During nearly 30 years in the arts, she has written and lectured extensively on arts issues, served on many boards, steering committees and grantmaking panels, and has consulted with hundreds of arts organizations on audience development and related areas of arts management. She is currently on the advisory committee for City at Peace and the annual Documentary Festival at the Museum of Radio and Television, on the steering committee for WNET's REEL New York, and was recently elected to the board of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield,Connecticut.

Ms. Lerner was the keynote speaker at the annual Arttable luncheon in April 2001, and in 2003 she received a Special Citation from Artists Space for her support of individual artists and the Artist Advocate award from the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations.

Greggory Gordon, CPA

Jane Gullong, former Executive Director New York City Opera

Jane M. Gullong is a fundraiser and arts manager who has served as Executive Director of the New York City Opera and held leadership positions with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Arts International, the Municipal Arts Society, the New York Shakespeare Festival and Lincoln Center Inc.  She is a former Chairman of the  Board of Ballet Hispanico and an author of Money for International Exchange in the Arts and her blog Giving to Get: How Philanthropy Can Change Your Life.  Currently she is Director of the Next Stage Campaign at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a Preferred Provider Fundraising Consultant for Opera America.

Ralph Dandrea, LLP

Tim and Carol Cole, Retired business persons, former amateur musicians, and lovers of contemporary music.

Tim holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from Stevens IT.  His first job was with Columbia Records working on the design of recording studio systems and in record and tape manufacturing.  He later founded a manufacturing company engaged in producing high-speed tape duplicating equipment.  His last position, before retiring, was at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a technical manager with focus on computer systems and business process reengineering.  He also taught for several years at Montclair State.  Tim served on several boards in Montclair including Unity Concerts, YMCA, United Way and other social service organizations.

Carol holds a BA in History and an MS in Applied Psychology from Stevens IT.  During her 25 years at Bell Laboratories and Telcordia, Carol held a variety of positions including Director of Program Development and Executive Director of Recruiting & Staffing.  Her last position, before retiring, was Corporate Vice President of Human Resources.  She is especially skilled in organizational development and business operations/IT.

Carol and Tim have lived in Brooklyn since 2006 and are active concert goers and patron/contributors of NY City Opera, WNYC/WQXR, BAM and City Harvest.