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  David Bryan

David Bryan, keyboardist and Founding Member of Bon Jovi, has been an active Honorary OMB Board Member since 2004. In 2005 he co-wrote "Rockin' All Over the World," with OMB founder Dena Hammerstein. In addition to his work with OMB, David works with the Music for All Foundation, and is a spokesperson for VH1's Save the Music Program. David has also established the IFH Eddie Rashbaum Trumpet Fund in memory of his father. In addition to his work with Bon Jovi, David is currently working with Joe DiPietro on two musicals, Memphis and Toxic Avenger . http://www.davidbryan.com/

 
    Jonathan Cramer

Bio pending.

 
    Kathie Lee Gifford

Kathie Lee Gifford is best known as the former co-host of "Regis & Kathie Lee."   In her fifteen years on the show, Mrs. Gifford received nine Emmy nominations as co-host and two as executive producer.   She has starred on numerous television programs, and been a successful businesswoman with a variety of products.   As a humanitarian she has lobbied to change laws regarding HIV children and inhumane working conditions. In addition to her numerous appearances on television and the stage, Mrs. Gifford is also a playwright, singer, songwriter and producer. http://www.kathieleegifford.com

 
    Josh Lucas

In the last number of years, he has starred alongside Jon Voight in Jerry Bruckheimer's Glory Road. Lucas also starred with Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss in Wolfang Petersen's Poseidon, with Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford in Lasse Hallström's An Unfinished Life, and opposite Jamie Bell in David Gordon Green's Undertow, produced by Terrence Malick. Additionally, he starred alongside Christopher Walken in Around the Bend, with Jennifer Connelly and Eric Bana in Ang Lee's Hulk, with Russell Crowe in Ron Howard's Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind, and opposite Reese Witherspoon in Disney's smash hit Sweet Home Alabama. http://www.joshlucas.com/

 
    Cecelia McCarton, MD

Cecelia is the Founder of The McCarton Center for Developmental Pediatrics, a diagnostic and treatment center dedicated to childhood development disorders. Dr. McCarton is also the Founder and Executive Director of The McCarton School, serving children with autism spectrum disorders. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. Dr. McCarton received two post-doctoral fellowships from the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Rose F. Kennedy Center of Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development. She has taught pediatrics for over 30 years and is currently Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. McCarton's work has been published extensively in medical books and journals. http://www.mccartonschool.org/about_executivedirector.htm

 
    Sir Ian McKellen, CH, CBE

Ian McKellen is an English stage and screen actor, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. McKellen is best known to moviegoers in recent years for his roles as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men trilogy. His work has spanned genres from serious Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979, and knighted in the 1991 New Year Honours for his outstanding work and contributions to the theatre. In the 2008 New Year Honours he was made a Companion of Honour (CH) for services to Drama and to Equality. http://www.mckellen.com/

 
    Brad Oscar

Brad Oscar originated the role of Franz Liebkind in the Broadway production of The Producers, and received a 2001 Tony nomination for his performance. He later went on to play the role of Max Bialystock over 1200 times on Broadway, on tour, in London and most recently in the Las Vegas production. Other stage work includes the original Broadway casts of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love and Jekyll and Hyde, Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway in NY and LA, Santa in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the devilish Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees, David O. Selznick in Moonlight and Magnolias, and as director of the Broadway by the Year 1968 concert at Town Hall in NY. Brad is a graduate of Boston University's College of Fine Arts, and has taught musical theater technique at Marymount Manhattan College. http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=74379

 
      Julia Stiles

After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet. Her film career has included both commercial and critical successes, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to dark art house pictures such as The Business of Strangers (2001). Stiles also actively supports a variety of progressive causes. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005466/

 
      Zoë Wanamaker, CBE

Zoë Wanamaker may be best known by a world-wide audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Wanamaker is best known in the UK for playing Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family. She played Clarice, one of the dimwitted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast, a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. She has also appeared in a variety of films, programmes, and plays. Successful television series have included Love Hurts with Adam Faith. Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra, for which she won an Olivier Award, was widely acclaimed. Wanamaker voiced a CGI character named Lady Cassandra in the Doctor Who episode "The End of the World" (2005), and reprised the role (also appearing in the flesh this time) in the episode "New Earth". http://www.zoewanamaker.com/

 
      Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz won an Academy Award for her performance in The Constant Gardener. Born and raised in London, Weisz has also appeared in The Mummy films, About a Boy, Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemy at the Gates, Beautiful Creatures, Swept from the Sea, and Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty.Weisz made her London stage debut in Noel Coward's Design for Living, directed by Sean Mathias, for which she received the London Drama Critics Award for Outstanding Newcomer. She reunited with Mathis for the West End production of Suddenly Last Summer. In 2001, she worked with Neil LaBute in London and then off-Broadway in the stage production of The Shape of Things. Weisz studied English at Cambridge University, where she also co-founded the Talking Tongues Theater Group. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001838/