Visual Art/Photography
Jason Hackenwerth
Ira Flatow of NPR’s Science Friday filmed him bending balloons into sculpture—serious sculpture, that’s been in galleries on both coasts, as well as at the Venice Biennale.
David Schild
Schild’s current work revolves around the recycling, reuse, and remixing of European trade paintings and abandoned contemporary paintings. He cheerfully cannibalizes themes, contexts, and aesthetics, subverting their original intent.
Lisa Sanditz
She’s a painter who finds the sublime in landscapes of casinos and strip malls. Curators in Turin, Italy, and Caracas, Venezuela, have taken note.
Scott Lowenbaum
A contemporary artist, art historian, and antiques savant, he grinds his own paint from gemstones. He just installed sculptures in Kiev and opened a show in London.
Ellie Balk
A muralist whose heart is in collaboration, she’s covering Brooklyn with her Paint the Pavement project and painting murals in the public schools.
Don Bryant Jr.
A collector, winemaker, and trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, he sold his Alberto Giacometti bronze at auction for $23 million. His NYC co-op, a few doors down from Jackie O’s former residence, is a miniature museum.
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Daughter of art dealer Ronnie Greenberg, she comes by her gallerist’s instincts honestly. Rohatyn founded Salon 94, an experimental project space, and is a judge on the new Bravo show Work of Art.
Theater/Music
Mike Isaacson
The youngest recipient of a prestigious Broadway League Award. With Fox Theatricals partner Kristin Caskey, he produced Red, which won this year’s Tony Award for Best Play.
Norbert Leo Butz
Tony and Drama Desk awards, and no wonder: The seventh son of the wholesome Butz family has enough range to play the CEO of Enron and act in Wicked, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Catch Me If You Can.
Sara Dobbs
She starred as Romeo’s Juliet, sang and danced in West Side Story on Broadway, performed in The Vagina Monologues, acted in two indie films…and it all started with Irish dancing classes back home.
Terry Schnuck
Formerly general counsel of the family grocery company, Schnuck is now a two-time Tony Award–winning producer of musical theater. In 2009 alone, he produced Blithe Spirit, Superior Donuts, and Race. Then he brought the Hair revival to Broadway.
Kurt Deutsch
He acted on Broadway, guest-starred on Sex and the City, and founded Sh-K-Boom Records with his wife, an actress. He won a Grammy Award for producing the Best Musical Show Album, In the Heights.
Chris Werkmeister
A rock star—literally, in a recent Denny’s commercial—Werkmeister is a musician, as well as an actor and model. He’s been Hamlet, and Arthur in Rabbit Hole, and he’s working on a new Western in Weston, Mo.
Nikki Snelson
An exercise queen in Legally Blonde, Velma Kelly in Chicagothis summer, Cassie in A Chorus Line, and a guest onDesperate Housewives…
Kate Egan
She’s assistant company manager for Shrek the Musical’s first national tour (she did Gypsy and The Pajama Game, too). Her years as a rock ’n’ roll promoter were good prep.
