Ben Holtzman Named 2019 T. Fellow

7/10/2019 2:32pm


T. Fellowship, in association with Columbia University School of the Arts has announcesd the next T. Fellow is Ben Holtzman, the eighth fellow in the one‐year program designed to educate and empower new creative producers. The fellow will receive a stipend of $10,000 with a $20,000 budget for the development of a new theatrical production, and will have access to courses in Columbia’s MFA Theatre Management & Producing Program. The T. Fellowship mentors are Harold Prince (Mentor and Founder), Sue Frost, Margo Lion, Tom Schumacher, Jeffrey Seller and David Stone. The program is managed by Columbia University School of the Arts. Other advisors and staff for the T. Fellowship program include Co-Director Orin Wolf (President of NETworks Presentations), Co‐Director Steven Chaikelson (Head of the MFA Theatre Management & Producing Concentration at the School of the Arts), Co-Director Aaron Glick (Producer, Former T. Fellow), Victoria Bailey (Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund), Gregory Mosher (Director), Assistant Director Hannah Rosenthal, and Co‐Founder Ed Wilson. The T. Fellowship was established to honor the legacy of Broadway producer T. Edward Hambleton by supporting and developing a new generation of gifted, emerging creative theatrical producers, who initiate work from the ground up, following a path all their own. Orin Wolf and John Pinkard were awarded the first two T. Fellowships in 2006. Aaron Glick (2013), Jen Hoguet (2015), Christopher Maring (2016), Allison Bressi (2017) and Rachel Sussman (2018) are past recipients of the fellowship. The T. Fellowship is supported by The Broadway League, The Geraldine Stutz Trust and The John Gore Organization. Press contact: Polk & Co(917/261-3988)...