Advisory Board
An Advisory Board of distinguished artists and practitioners suggests and endorses potential mentors.
Nina Ananiashvili
ballerina
Pierre Audi
performing arts director
the late Pina Bausch
choreographer and dancer
Tahar Ben Jelloun
novelist, poet, essayist
Manuel Borja-Villel
art historian and museum director
André Brink
writer
Trisha Brown
choreographer and dancer
Jonathan Burrows
choreographer and performer
Dame Antonia S. Byatt
novelist, short-story writer and critic
Peter Carey
author
Carolyn Carlson
choreographer and dancer
Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude
visual artists
Alain Coblence
attorney and philanthropist
María de Corral
curator and critic of visual arts
Alfonso Cuarón
film-maker
Guy Darmet
cultural producer, dance
Ariel Dorfman
author
Martin T:son Engstroem
cultural producer, music
Nuruddin Farah
novelist, playwright and translator
Gian Arturo Ferrari
publisher
William Forsythe
choreographer
Jane Friedman
publisher
Jonathan Galassi
publisher, translator, poet
Frank Gehry
architect
Amitav Ghosh
novelist and essayist
Gilberto Gil
singer, composer and guitarist
the late Charlie Gillett
radio broadcaster, author and music producer
Osvaldo Golijov
composer
the late Paul Gottlieb
editor and publisher
Gary Graffman
pianist and educator
Cynthia Gregory
prima ballerina
Agnes Gund
collector and philanthropist
Cai Guo-Qiang
visual artist
Sir Peter Hall
theatre and opera director
Geraldine James
film, television and stage actress
Joseph Kalichstein
pianist
Anish Kapoor
visual artist
Alex Katz
visual artist
Marthe Keller
actress and opera director
Angélique Kidjo
singer and songwriter
Jirí Kylián
choreographer
Elizabeth LeCompte
theatre director
Reynold Levy
philanthropist and producer
Harvey Lichtenstein
cultural producer, performing arts
Cho-Liang Lin
violinist
Sir Neville Marriner
conductor
Frances McDormand
actress
Sonny Mehta
publisher
Joseph V. Melillo
cultural producer
the late Anthony Minghella
film director, producer and writer
Yoko Morishita
prima ballerina
the late Elizabeth Murray
painter
Ivan Nabokov
publisher
Mira Nair
film-maker
Claude Nobs
music festival director
Cees Nooteboom
novelist and poet
Jessye Norman
soprano
Michael Ondaatje
novelist and poet
Gabriel Orozco
visual artist
Giuseppe Penone
visual artist
Julia Peyton-Jones
curator
Aidan Quinn
film, television and stage actor
the late Lynn Redgrave
film, television and stage actress
Eve Ruggieri
cultural producer, music
Carlos Saura
writer and film director
Peter Sellars
theatre and opera director
Sir Nicholas Serota
museum director and curator
Fiona Shaw
actress
Anna Deavere Smith
theatre artist
Valerie Solti
author and philanthropist
Wole Soyinka
author
Alistair Spalding
cultural producer, dance
Thomas Struth
photographer
Hiroshi Sugimoto
photographer
Julie Taymor
theatre, film and opera director
Jennifer Tipton
lighting designer
José van Dam
bass-baritone
Robert Wilson
theatre artist
Lin Zhaohua
theatre director