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The Donor Dinner Committee
Frieda Arth, Christen Clifford, Tom Cole,
Ellie Covan, Sangeeta Ghosh Yesley,
Christian Hudson, Eric Jensen, Seth King,
Gale Mayron, Charlie Mileski, Emily Morgan

Eszter Balint is a singer-songwriter/performer/violinist/actress currently at work on a new musical I Hate Memory, co-created with Stew (Passing Strange, The Total Bent, Songs of a Native Song, The Negro Problem, etc.) premiering at DP in March 2020. She has 3 critically acclaimed solo albums, Flicker, Mud and Airless Midnight, and has appeared as a violinist and/or vocalist on numerous projects including albums: Michael Gira’s Angels of Light and Swans, John Lurie’sMarvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits; numerous projects by Marc Ribot; 2 tribute albums by John Zorn; several film soundtracks; and frequently performs with Tammy Faye Starlite. Eszter grew up as an acting member of the avant-garde theater company Squat Theatre, and has appeared in starring/featured roles in films by Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Steve Buscemi, alongside David Bowie, and in Season 4 of Louis CK’s FX TV show Louie.

Bright and Brave: A New Musical is a Dixon Place commissioned production running November 8 – 23, 2019. With music and lyrics by Peter Charney and Jack Saleeby and book by Noah Silva, the musical is inspired by a true story about the struggles of love and identity in a boarding school for boys in 1872 England.

Patricia Flanagan is a long-time supporter of Dixon Place, having served on the Board of Directors from 2009 to 2012, during the move to and opening of 161 Chrystie Street. Pat spent her career working in the world of finance, retiring a number of years ago as Vice President and Treasurer of Newmont Mining Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Denver.  She currently resides both in New York City and in the Hudson Valley, where she is the owner of Stanton Airport. Pat is an avid art collector and patron of the arts. She is a former Board member of the Stonewall Community Foundation, the Denver based Maria Droste Counseling Center and the Colorado Aids Project.

Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award-winning writer/performer of 13 solo plays which have been presented nationally and in New York at The Public Theater, Under The Radar Festival, La Mama ETC, and Dixon Place, which commissioned her critically acclaimed 2015 premiere of Pound (directed by David Schweizer). Marga also tours nationally as a stand-up comedian and is known for being one of the first out lesbian performers in the business. Selections from Gomez’s work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (Crown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge.)

John Kelly’s character based performance works focus on the struggles encountered by artists and social outsiders. Subjects include the Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, the cross-dressing aerialist Barbette, and Joni Mitchell. He has received Bessie Awards and Obie Awards, fellowships from The American Academy in Rome and The Sundance Theatre Institute. Underneath The Skin, based on the life of gay novelist and tattoo artist Samuel Steward, recently premiered at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. He has just completed his first graphic novel, A Friend Gave Me A Book.

Syd Straw was born singing and has been at it her whole long life, working fearlessly and happily with many of her heroines, and a number of men as well—such as Emmy Lou Harris, Rickie Lee Jones, golden palominos, Michael Stipe, Marc Ribot, Roseanne Cash, and Carlene Carter! Syd played the math teacher, Miss Fingerwood, on Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and glamorous hippie chick Laurel on the original Tales of the City—like everyone else, she is working on at least 3 books, and writing her first musical by flashlight in her tent, and she is probably sorry she walked off with your lighter in her pocket—aaaah, men.