ADVISORY BOARD
blythe danner
earned a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in Butterflies Are Free and has received nominations for her roles in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, A Streetcar Named Desire and Stephen Sondheim's Follies. Her other Broadway credits include Blithe Spirit and Nice Work if You Can Get It and she has also appeared in Shakespeare in the Park’s Much Ado About Nothing, 4 plays with the Roundabout Theatre Company, and 20 years with The Williamstown Theatre Festival in plays by Chekov, Williams, Shaw and many more including last summer's The Blue Deep by Lucy Boyle.
On television, she won two Emmy Awards for her role on Showtime’s Huff and was nominated twice for “Will and Grace” and for Joyce Carol Oates’ We Were the Mulvaneys. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Anne Tyler's Back When We Were Grownups. She also appeared in St. Elsewhere and Tattingers, both created by her late husband Bruce Paltrow. Her film roles include Woody Allen's Alice, The Great Santini, Meet The Parents Series, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Sylvia, The Lucky One, Hello I Must be Going, 1776, and many more.
Blythe serves on several environmental boards as well as the National Board of Advocates of Planned Parenthood and through her late husband's fund at the Oral Cancer Foundation serves to bring awareness to the epidemic and ever-increasing of numbers of oral cancer cases.
Job potter
has been an environmentalist and local political figure for many years, a former Town Councilman and presently Chairman of the East Hampton Planning Board.
He is a singer/songwriter in the Americana tradition, who often sits in with bands on harmonica, and has produced two albums of original music. He enjoys creating events to that bring people together.
With the painter Janet Jennings, Job raised two children in East Hampton, Cary and Ben Potter, who presently are working and thriving in Brooklyn.
ANNA SKRENTA
received a BA in Theatre Arts from Marymount Manhattan College and hoofed it around the NYC off-off Broadway scene for a few years. After living in London for 8 years, she is currently raising three spectacularly complex and wonderfully kind hearted human beings on the East End of Long Island. She is an active member of the East Hampton Democratic Committee. Anna is beyond delighted to be able to contribute to the life affirming work of the vibrant, heart centered and fearless Neo-Political Cowgirls.
Eugene Pack
is the creator of the long running hit comedy sensation “Celebrity Autobiography” which ran on Broadway this past year. This is the critically acclaimed comedy show where celebrities act out other celebrity memoirs on stage. Packwon the Drama Desk Award for “Unique Theatrical Event." The show tours the United States and abroad, including London’s West End, Australia’s Sydney Opera House, and the Edinburgh Festival.
His podcast www.thepackpodcast.org compiles Eugene's original short comedies with all star casts including Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, Blair Underwood, Marisa Tomei, Lewis Black and many more.
Pack is also an Emmy Award-nominated writer and producer. He was nominated for Outstanding Writing for Variety, Comedy or Music for the special “America: A Tribute to Heroes,” which won the Emmy for Outstanding Special. Pack is the creator and executive producer of CMT's longest running series, “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team." He has written and performed the critically acclaimed one man comedy shows “Something Flexible With Meaning,” and “Undisputed: My Night with the Queen of Soul.”
