Robyn Goodman

Robyn Goodman produced Avenue Q, which received the Tony Award for Best Musical of 2004, In The Heights winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical of 2008, and the current revival of West Side Story. Other Broadway credits include Metamorphoses (Drama Desk Award), A Class Act (Tony nomination), Steel Magnolias, Barefoot in the Park, and High Fidelity. Off Broadway she produced Bat Boy, tick, tick... BOOM!, Our Lady of 121st Street, Red Light Winter and the award winning Altar Boyz. She was Co- founder and Artistic Director of the Second Stage Theatre for 13 years, Supervising Producer of ABC's "One Life To Live" for 4 years and is currently the Artistic Consultant to The Roundabout Theatre Company where she is also the curator of the Underground Series. Robyn is proud that many of her productions have featured positive portrayals of characters of all sexual orientations. She lives with her partner, set designer Anna Louizos, on the Upper West Side.

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

Rabbi Kleinbaum has been the spiritual leader of CBST, the world largest synagogue serving people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, since 1992, and is ranked among the top 50 rabbis in America by The Forward, New York Jewish Week and Newsweek's Top 50 Influential Rabbis in America (2007-2009). The subject of a profile in The New York Times, featured in many other books, magazines, television and radio interviews and movies, Rabbi Kleinbaum has worked, organized, protested, lectured and published widely and received numerous awards for her leadership. As a human rights advocate -for people of color, women, gays and lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, immigrants and Palestinians -she has been jailed, arrested, vilified, and lauded, all with equal aplomb. She has been a leader in the struggle against the radical right wing's use of religion as a weapon against LGBT people everywhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, where they raised two daughters, Liba and Molly.