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Roland Nichols - Community Outreach Coordinator
Roland Nichols is a South Jersey native, who works in Sales and Marketing. His passion and knowledge in the film industry are assets to making PRINDIE a premiere festival in the area. Roland also has a background in Production and Fund Finding for Independent Films.
Colin McClusick - Sales & Marketing
Colin McClusick is a Business professional with a background in Marketing. His passion for film has driven him to help PRINDIE become one of the fastest growing film festivals in the world. He is excited to be working with PRINDIE's visionary team.
Tarik Tull - Liason & Content Stylist
Tarik Tull is a visual artist who hails from Philadelphia, PA & has a background in both fashion and film. Has hopes of not only changing the world through film but also helping make PRINDIE one of the leading film festivals in the world through his innate creative visions.
Monica Cookes - Event Coordinator/Executive Assistant
Monica Cookes received her degree at Antonelli Institute In Graphic design and later obtained her certificate in Wedding/Event Planning. Monica started with PRINDIE Film Festival as a volunteer in September 2019. She enjoyed her experiences with the festival so much, she inquired about becoming part of the staff and was later offered a position as the Event Coordinator Assistant under Claire Elaine - Executive Director. In her spare time, Monica can be found playing with her daughter Madison, volunteering at an event or writing and enjoying movies.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Emily Mann
Emily Mann, award winning Playwright and Director, is in her 30th and final season as Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Her nearly 50 McCarter directing credits include acclaimed productions by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, and Williams and the world premieres of Christopher Durang’s Turning Off the Morning News and Miss Witherspoon; Ken Ludwig’s Murder on the Orient Express; Rachel Bonds’ Five Mile Lake; Danai Gurira’s The Convert; Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why; and Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I. Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, Anna in the Tropics, Execution of Justice, Having Our Say. Her plays: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard, and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Adaptations: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, Antigone. Currently in development: The Pianist.
Liz Lempert
Liz Lempert is the Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey. She is the first mayor of the consolidated Princeton, following the merger of the former Princeton Borough and Township in 2012. She was re-elected in 2016, and is currently serving her second term. In recent years Princeton has been recognized for its leadership in governmental innovation, bicycle mobility, and environmental sustainability by organizations such as the New Jersey League of Municipalities, the League of American Bicyclists, and Sustainable Jersey. Princeton was named a Champion City in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2018 Mayors Challenge, and Princeton often tops national surveys of best small cities and towns for its quality of life and unique sense of place.
Liz worked as a journalist before turning to politics, including ten years as a producer and editor at the National Public Radio environmental program, Living On Earth. Liz began her local political career as co-chair of the Mercer for Obama campaign where she grew the organization from a dozen volunteers to over 3000 members. Liz received undergraduate degrees in History and Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, and a Masters degree in Science Journalism from Boston University.
Jill Dolan
Jill Dolan is the Dean of the College and the Annan Professor in English and Professor of Theater at Princeton University. She is the author of many books, including The Feminist Spectator as Critic; Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre; The Feminist Spectator in Action; and a critical study of the plays of Wendy Wasserstein. Dolan received the 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Scholarship from the American Society for Theatre Research. In 2011, she received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism for her blog, The Feminist Spectator. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Joyce Carol Oates
Erika Kiss
Susan Conlon
Susan Conlon has spent the last 20 years working as a librarian at the Princeton Public Library. She is the Head of Youth Services and her life-long love of books and films is an inspiration for many of the public programs she has created at the library. Susan is the Founding Director of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival and the Princeton Student Film Festival, which are held annually and sponsored by the library. These events and her day-to-day interaction with children, teenagers, adults and community partners provide Susan with the opportunity to listen and talk to people about the things they most love and value. She has a B.A. as well as a Masters in Library Science degree from Rutgers University.
ADVISORY BOARD
Roland Nichols - Community Outreach Coordinator
Roland Nichols is a South Jersey native, who works in Sales and Marketing. His passion and knowledge in the film industry are assets to making PRINDIE a premiere festival in the area. Roland also has a background in Production and Fund Finding for Independent Films.
Colin McClusick - Sales & Marketing
Colin McClusick is a Business professional with a background in Marketing. His passion for film has driven him to help PRINDIE become one of the fastest growing film festivals in the world. He is excited to be working with PRINDIE's visionary team.
Tarik Tull - Liason & Content Stylist
Tarik Tull is a visual artist who hails from Philadelphia, PA & has a background in both fashion and film. Has hopes of not only changing the world through film but also helping make PRINDIE one of the leading film festivals in the world through his innate creative visions.
Monica Cookes - Event Coordinator/Executive Assistant
Monica Cookes received her degree at Antonelli Institute In Graphic design and later obtained her certificate in Wedding/Event Planning. Monica started with PRINDIE Film Festival as a volunteer in September 2019. She enjoyed her experiences with the festival so much, she inquired about becoming part of the staff and was later offered a position as the Event Coordinator Assistant under Claire Elaine - Executive Director. In her spare time, Monica can be found playing with her daughter Madison, volunteering at an event or writing and enjoying movies.