HUMANITAS LEADERSHIP
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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ADVISORY COUNCIL
LEADERSHIP EMERITIUS
PRESIDENTS EMERITI
ADDITIONAL EMERITI
Dozens of filmmakers, writers, and executives have served on a variety of board and advisory bodies since Humanitas’s founding in 1974. This select list of emeriti is sourced from internal documents. Compilation is ongoing.
Kevin Arkadie
Peter Benedek
Betty Birney
Ray Bradbury
Allan Burns
Marcy Carsey
Charles Champlin
Cindy Chupack
Paul W. Cooper
Barbara Corday
Elias Davis
Suzanne de Passe
Carmen Finestra
Bill Finnegan
John Furia, Jr.
Gary David Goldberg
Barbara Hall
Charlie Hauck
Arthur Hiller
Fay Kanin
Meg Kasdan
Nicholas Kazan
Ellwood E. Keiser
David E. Kelley
Kathleen Kennedy
Chris Knopf
Gregg Maday
Joseph Mauer
Glen Mazzara
Frank Pierson
Tony Plana
David Pollock
Gene Reynolds
Alvin Sargent
Jeffrey Scott
Susan Seeger
David Seltzer
Terry Sweeney
Dick Wolf
John Sacret Young
Steven Zaillian
Ed Zwick
Jenny Bicks is a television and film writer and producer. Her series credits include Seinfeld, Dawson’s Creek, and HBO's Sex and The City. She wrote on Sex and The City for all six seasons, rising to the rank of executive producer. Her work on the series earned her several major awards, including an Emmy® Award, multiple Golden Globes and Producers Guild Awards and three WGA nominations.
Bicks created comedy Leap of Faith, starring Sarah Paulson, for NBC and dramedy Men In Trees, starring Ann Heche, on ABC. She Executive Produced and Show-ran Showtime’s critically acclaimed The Big C, starring Laura Linney, for all four seasons. Her work on that show earned her a Golden Globe nomination. She is currently shooting the second season of her half hour mockumentary series Welcome to Flatch for Fox.
In the feature world, her writing credits include What a Girl Wants, Rio 2 and The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman. That film garnered three Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture. She is currently adapting Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel Sex and Vanity for Sony Pictures.
Bicks has taught and mentored at The Sundance Labs, Hedgebrook, Humanitas and The Austin TV Festival, among others.
A born and bred New Yorker, Bicks divides her time amongst New York, Maine and Los Angeles.
“As writers, we owe a great debt to the storytellers that influenced and came before us. Humanitas’s New Voices Fellowship allows us to support and nurture the new voices that will continue our tradition. I am honored to be a part of empowering these emerging writers.”
– JENNY BICKS