Chairman

• Frank Mancuso - Chairman of The Board

Board Members

• Patricia Kiernan Applegate
• Randall Arney
• Dr. Gene D. Block
• Harold A. Brown
• Gil Cates Jr.
  
• Mary Ann Cloyd
• Dennis Doty
• John Ebey
• Mark Fleischer
• Herbert M. Gelfand - Chairman Emeritus
• Patricia L. Glaser
• Adi Greenberg
• Arthur Greenberg
• Martha Henderson
  
• Pamela Robinson Hollander
• Joan Kaloustian
• Glorya Kaufman
• Dr. Gerald S. Levey
• Carla Malden
  
• Susan Mallory
• Ginny Mancini
• Susanna Midnight
• Ken Novice
  
• Steven A. Olsen
• Loren Rothschild
• Linda Bernstein Rubin
• Teri Schwartz
  
• Richard Sherman
• Andy Spahn
• Fred Specktor
• DeeAnna Staats
  
• Cynthia P. Stafford
• Howard Tenenbaum
  
• Dr. Charles E. Young - Chairman Emeritus

Founding Trustees

• Suzanne Deal Booth
• Kirsten Combs
• Robert A. Daly
  
• David Geffen
• Quincy Jones
• Jeffrey Katzenberg
• Ron Meyer
• Leslie Moonves
• Jerry Moss
• Jerry Perenchio
  
• Bruce M. Ramer - Founding Chairman
• Victoria Mann Simms
• Steven Spielberg
• Steve Tisch

In Memoriam

• Gilbert Cates - Founder 
• Marcia Israel-Curley
  
• Audrey Skirball Kenis
  
• Charles Kenis
  
• Karl Malden
  

Legal Counsel

• Peter Rosen - Legal Counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP
  
  

Frank Mancuso - Chairman of The Board

Frank G. Mancuso has had a distinguished career in the entertainment and communication industry spanning four decades, culminating with his leadership of Paramount Pictures Corporation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. He most recently served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. In addition to his business responsibilities, Mr. Mancuso has given freely of his time and talents to numerous charitable and industry-related organizations.

These have included serving as a board member and officer of such organizations as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Variety Clubs International, The Will Rogers Memorial Fund (affiliated with the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center), the Sundance Film Institute, the Museum of Television and Radio, the Motion Picture Pioneers and the American Film Institute, for which he chaired its Second Decade Council. In January 2003 he assumed the Chairmanship of the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund an industry institution established in 1921 that provides financial, health and social services, including housing, for those in the entertainment industry in need.

Gilbert Cates - Founder

Gilbert Cates is recognized as a leader in television, film and theater.

Currently presiding as the Producing Director of The Geffen Playhouse, he is dedicated to enriching the Los Angeles theatrical spectrum by presenting the finest in contemporary and classical theater.

In November 1996, Cates was the recipient of the Jimmy Dolittle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theater. He received the 1999 Ovation Award for best play for Collected Stories, starring Linda Lavin and Samantha Mathis, which he directed at the Geffen.

The accolades for Cates expand into other areas of the entertainment industry. He produced and directed the 1970 film version of the Broadway hit I Never Sang for My Father, starring Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations. Cates also directed Joanne Woodward and Sylvia Sidney in the 1973 film Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, which received two Oscar nominations. Other film directing credits include: The Promise, One Summer Love, The Last Married Couple in America, Oh! God Book II and Backfire. He further distinguished himself as director and/or producer of a number of television dramatic specials. These include NBC's 1972 Emmy Award-winning To all My Friends on Shore, starring Bill Cosby; ABC's 1974 The Affair starring Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner; NBC's 1975 After the Fall starring Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer. Other credits include: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, The Kid from Nowhere, County Gold, Faerie Tale Theater's Rapunzel and Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Hobson's Choice, Burning Rage, Consenting Adults, Fatal Judgment, Do You Know the Muffin Man, Call Me Anna, Absolute Strangers, In My Daughter's Name, and Tom Clancy's Netforce (Cates directed James Agee's A Death in the Family for Masterpiece Theater's American Collection of PBS and Donald Margulies' Collected Stories for PBS Hollywood Presents). In September 2002, he directed David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky for The Geffen Playhouse and directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2005, the inaugural production in the newly-renovated Geffen Playhouse. In February 2007 he directed Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.

Mr. Cates served two terms as President of the Directors Guild of America from 1983 to 1987. In 1989, he received the Guild's Robert B. Aldrich Award for extraordinary service and, in 1991, he received the DGA's Honorary Life Membership. He also served as Dean of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television (which he founded) from 1990-1998.

In 2006, Cates produced the 78th Annual Academy Awards show for ABC, his 13th occasion producing the Awards, for which he has already garnered 84 nominations and 17 Emmy Awards.

Mr Cates was born in New York City and attended Syracuse University. Married to Dr. Judith Reichman, he has four children, two stepchildren and a proud grandfather.