IT Awards Board
Jason Bowcutt - is one of the Executive Directors for the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation. Upon graduating from the University of Utah's Actors Training Program, Jason received the Kenneth Washington Scholarship to move to Washington, DC and work with the Shakespeare Theatre. Jason's acting career eventually brought him to New York where he received a Drama Desk nomination, Helen Hayes Award nomination and recognition from the Drama League for his role as Nathan Leopold in the Outer Critics Circle Award winning play Never the Sinner. Jason continued to act in New York as well as many Regional Theatres including Signature Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Rep Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse. Jason's varied work activities have had him working in theatrical casting agencies as well as non-theatrical businesses throughout New York. Artistically Jason began directing and producing Off-Off-Broadway leading to his co-founding of the IT Awards. Since that time Jason has produced and event managed with many organizations including serving as Conference Planner for the Utah Arts Council's 2007 'Mountain West Conference on the Arts'.
Shay Gines - graduated from the Actors Training Program at the University of Utah with a dual degree in theatre and marketing. Since then she has done everything from spackling walls at the Pasadena Playhouse and running follow-spot for the Pioneer Theatre Company to serving as the Artist in Residence for Touchstone Theatre. She has performed in theatres of all sizes from 30 seats to 1,000 across the country, from L.A. to NYC. She is an award winning producer whose Off and Off-Off-Broadway shows include: Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig, What the F**k?!, Hamlet and Muse of Fire. For 5 years, she was the Event Manager at Time4 Media and the Outdoor Company at AOL Time Warner. Shay was a Founding Member and the Producing Director for Esperance Theatre Company. She is one of the Executive Directors for the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation.
Robert E. Lee, III - Vice President, Tullet Prebon a money market brokering firm. Bob has been a Federal Funds broker since 1980 and lectures on the funds market to professional organizations including at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. President of the Board of American Opera Projects, a Fort Greene based Opera Company devoted to the revitalization of contemporary opera and musical theater in the United States through its exclusive devotion to creating, developing, and presenting new American opera and music theatre projects. Bob is an at-large judge and 4 year Honorary Awards Committee member of the New York IT Awards and on the Honorary Board of TOSOS II.
Roger LeFevre - Chief Executive Officer, Target Interact US, LLC, New York, NY. Roger spent the five years previous to joining Target Interact as Executive Vice President of ACI Telecommunications Corporation (ACI). Prior to ACI, he served as Vice President of Consolidated Leasing Company, an affiliate of McDonnell Douglas Finance Corporation. Roger brings a wealth of successful experience in marketing, finance, and law. Mr LeFevre is a contact/call center trailblazer and a nationally recognized expert for his leadership in advancing multimedia call center technologies. In 1996-97, he led a successful development collaboration between ACI and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) to develop an IP-based Automatic Call Distributor (ACD). Roger attended the University of Utah and The Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School. He is actively involved in community and civic affairs and serves as Chairman of The Center for Justice Reform, is a member of the University of Utah's President's Club and an advisory member of Pioneer Theatre Company.
Leone Rendón de Litt, Esq. - is an attorney at Starr Associates LLP, a boutique law firm specializing in new construction, condominium and cooperative conversions in New York City. She graduated from New York Law School in 2003, and is a member of the New York Bar. She serves on the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and is a member of the City, State and American Bar Associations. She has previously worked at The American Museum of Natural History, Debovoise & Plimpton, LLP and Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP.
Nick Micozzi - is one of the Executive Directors for the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation and an Off-Off-Broadway producer, actor, and director. He has worked with Esperance, Pure Pop, Emerging Artist Theatre, and Blessed Unrest, among others. He trained and worked with Jim Slowiak (Grotowski's Objective Drama) and Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, MA. He also works as a marketing communications professional and consults businesses in brand strategy and visual communication, as well as technology application. An art/science hybrid, Nick has a B.S. in Natural Science (biology/chemistry) and completed Masters level research in Molecular Biology and Genetics. In 1998 he founded the first free Off-Off-Broadway theatre listings service, nyonstage.com, and since has created numerous web sites and interactive applications for OOB companies and artists, from single-production minisites, to artist portfolios, to large theatre festival web portals.
Michael Mitchell - has nearly two decades of experience as a community organizer, especially around LGBT and HIV/AIDS issues. Most recently, he served as the marriage campaign manager for ACLU's Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Project. He spent four years as executive director of Equality Utah and before that was a senior advisor to Donald Dunn's 2000 run for Congress in Utah. Michael was also executive director of the Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMA), which he co-founded in 1995.
He has served on the national board of the Equality Federation, the national association of LGBT statewide advocacy organizations; was board chair of the award winning Plan B Theatre (Salt Lake City, UT) and currently serves on the board of the critically-acclaimed John Jasperse Dance Company here in NYC.
Tim Pinckney - has produced over a dozen events for the Actors Fund, including Dreamgirls, Funny Girl, Chess, Hair, Charles Busch & Julie Halston: Together on Broadway, On the 20th Century, A Wonderful Life, Die Mommie Die!, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and most recently Brian Stokes Mitchell at Carnegie Hall. Tim has written benefits for WNYC, The Drama League, and The New York Chapter of the Recording Academy among others and is a contributing writer to Passport Magazine. As a playwright, Tim's first play, Message to Michael, was produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York City. His other plays include A Perfect Blendship, First Refusal, Ever So Humble and To Get to the Other Side. He also adapted On the Twentieth Century, HAIR, Chess, and Funny Girl for The Actors Fund. He is a proud member of the advisory board of The Fred Ebb Foundation. Mr. Pinckney is a member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre's Playwrights group, the BMI Librettist Workshop as well as The Dramatists Guild.
