Donna R. Barnes Ed. D.
, a
philosopher and historian of education, is a professor at Hofstra University,
teaching graduate courses on aesthetics and the arts. A specialist in museum
education, Professor Barnes is an internationally respected curator specializing
in 17th century Dutch Art. (Board Vice-president)
Arch Brown has written theater criticism and essays on
media and the arts, for over a dozen publications. His published and/or produced
plays include News Boy, Samson, Sex Symbols, Brut Farce, Heavy Hangers, and
FREEZE!, which won the 1998 Eric Bentley Playwriting Prize. He is
founder of the Foundation and of G-MAN, the Gay Men’s Arts Network. Dance
to the Music, Arch’s double biography of his life with Bruce, was
recently published in Longtime Companions by Haworth Press. (Board
President)
Jameson Currier, is a past winner of an Arch and Bruce
Brown Foundation Fiction Grant for his novel, Where the Rainbow Ends published
by Overlook Press, which was also a Lambda Literary nominee. He is the
author of Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories about AIDS and the film Living
Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness. A member of the National Book
Critics Circle, he has written for The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, The
Dallas Morning News, Newsday, Body Positive, Metrosource and The New York
Blade.
John David Earnest, composer, has written extensively for
orchestra, opera, chorus, voice and film. His Scherzo for Orchestra, Chasing
the Sun, has been recorded by The Warsaw Symphony. He has had works
commissioned by the Midland-Odessa Symphony, The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra,
The Goldman Memorial Band, The U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants, and the New
York City Gay Men’s Chorus. His fellowships include The NEA and the MacDowell
Colony. His music is published by E.C. Shirmer of Boston. (Board Secretary)
David Brendan Hopes is professor of literature and
language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, an actor,
singer, painter, and widely produced playwright. He is the
author of the Juniper Prize and Saxifrage Prize winning book, The
Glacier’s Daughters, and of Blood Rose (Urthona Press,
1997), the Pulitzer-and-National-Book Award-nominated A Childhood
in the Milky Way (Akron University Press), and A Sense of the
Morning (Milkweed Editions, 1999). His recent book
of nature writing, Bird Songs of the Mesozoic, appeared from
Milkweed Editions. His latest volume of poetry, A Dream of
Adonis, appears later this summer Pecan Grove Press. His
works has appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker,
Audubon, Christopher Street, Orion, and The Sun.
David Johnston is a playwright and actor from New York. He
is a previous recipient of a Brown Foundation award for Candy &
Dorothy, which also won a GLAAD Award for Off Off
Broadway. He is the author of over twenty plays, including
Busted Jesus Comix, Leaving Tangier (published by Samuel
French) and his recent adaptation of The Oresteia.
Awards include the B.W. Morris Playwright Residency at the
University of Cincinnati, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the
Berrilla Kerr Foundation. He is a member of the Dramatists
Guild, Charles Maryan’s Playwrights/Directors Workshop, Actors
Equity and Blue Coyote Theater Group.
Sean Meriwether’s work has been published in
Lodestar Quarterly, Skin & Ink and Best of Best Gay Erotica 2. He is the editor of Outsider Ink (outsiderink.com) and Velvet Mafia:
Dangerous Queer Fiction (velvetmafia.com) online, and Men of Mystery. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits. Stalk him
online @ seanmeriwether.com.
Cecilia Tan
is a noted writer, editor, and publisher.
She is the author of several books, ranging from a collection of erotic short
stories (Black Feathers, HarperCollins, 1998) to a history of the New
York Yankees (The 50 Greatest Yankee Games, Wiley, 2005). She is the
founder and editor of Circlet Press, Inc.--the world's only publisher dedicated
to broadening erotic horizons through science fiction. She has been nominated
for many awards, including the Lambda Literary Award, The Firecracker
Alternative Book Award, and many others. She formerly directed programming for
the OutWrite conference, and has served as a judge for the Astraea Lesbian Arts
awards, The James Tiptree Jr. Award, and others.
Francine L. Trevens has directed over 100 plays in New
York and New England, including the Off-Broadway productions of Jane Chamber's A
Late Snow, and Arch Brown's Brut Farce, as well as the world premiere
of William Gibson's The Butterfingers Angel. Twice plays she
directed were Samuel French finalists. She wrote and directed the
bi-centennial revue in Springfield MA. She is a Dramatists Guild member
and Producing Director of Hasslefree Mysteries.
