Honorary Advisors

Honorary Advisors include high-profile individuals from the arts and business world offering advice, guidance and visioning for the Fund:

  • Wendy Crewson

  • Jayne Eastwood

  • Tara Parker

  • Dr. Charles Hayter

Selection Committee Members

The annual Cayle Chernin Awards selection committees consist of high-profile and talented juries of professional artists and arts management leaders. Past jury members include:

  • Gail Harvey, Film Director

  • Teresa Tova, Performer, ACTRA Past President

  • Kyra Harper, Performer and Dora Winner

  • Marsha Chesley, Marsha Chesley Casting

  • Kirsten Bishopric (1963 to 2013), Performer, Mentor, Activist

  • David Gale, Performer, ACTRA President

  • Chris Owen, Performer and Monday Night Force.

  • Janet-Laine Green, Performer, teacher.

  • Rosemary Dunsmore, Performer, Director, Mentor

  • Marcia Johnson, Playwright, Actress

  • Heather Allin, Performer, ACTRA President

  • Nicole St Martin, Performer, Activist.

  • Norma Dell’Agnese, Performer, Activist.

  • Shira Leuchter, Director, Performer.

  • Allegra Fulton, Performer.

  • Farah Merani, Performer, Writer, Director.

  • Laurel Paetz, Performer, Voice Teacher.

  • Rosemary Doyle, Performer, Proprietor Redsandcastle Theatre

  • Claire Sakaki, Managing Director, Bard on the Beach

  • Rosa Laborde, Performer, Director, Writer

  • Laura Pearlmutter, Producer, Filmmaker

  • *Collette Micks

  • *Susanna Fournier

  • *Fenulla Jiwani

  • *Audrey Dwyer

  • *Melissa D’Agostino

  • *Andrea Scott

  • *Jani Lauzon

  • *Ronit Rubinstein

  • *Jillian Rees-Brown

  • *Annie Bradley

  • *Briana Brown

  • *Shannon Fewster

  • *Jenn Forgie

  • *Dorothy Atabong

  • *Aisha Evelyna

  • *Rachel Cairns

  • *Katherine Gauthier

  • *Taylor Trowbridge

  • *Recipients sit on following year discipline’s Committee