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Roberto Dutesco
Roberto Dutesco is a New York based photographer, poet and film-maker.
Romanian born, he studied Photography in Montreal, where he moved when still a teenager. Dutesco soon became a sought-after fashion photographer. With the spirit of a globe-trotter, he portrayed prominent personalities of our times, such as Pierre Trudeau, the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev.
After moving to New York in the early nineties, he devoted much of his time to several now completed projects: “The Wild Horses of Sable Island”, “The American Sandscape”, “Rocks and Things”, “Flowers & Dreams”, “Brincusi - The Endless Column”, “The Human Landscape”, “Waters” “The 14th Dalai Lama”
and the poetry book “Ethereal Reflections.” Roberto’s travels have taken him through more than sixty countries and left him with a fascination for this “One World” in which we all live and share.
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His short films “Times Square” and “Sable Horses” have been screened and favorably reviewed in several film festivals across the U.S., culminating with the multiple award winning documentary “Chasing Wild Horses” - a CBC / Arcadia Production.
The “Sable Island Journey” has been his main focus and dedication. Since 1994 his efforts to document and showcase The Wild Horses of Sable Island have played favorably in the conservation and protection of Sable Island. His New York City, SOHO gallery (est.2006), presenting this 17 year documentation of Sable Island
and its band of Wild Horses has been picked as one of 50 places one must visit in NYC - by AAD, teNeues, 2010.
Roberto has been an advocate for foster children and dedicates his time and talent to ARTrageous since 2007. He is committed to empowering children through art, creating works for auction. Because of his generosity he has made an enormous difference in the lives of so many underserved children and teens throughout the world .
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Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane
This husband-wife team based in New York City combined have produced over 40 Broadway productions. Currently producing on Broadway Priscilla Queen of the Desert, War Horse, A Street Car Named Desire, and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. This spring they will produce the stage version of Irving Berlin’s “Top Hat” in the West End. Other productions include: Merchant of Venice, Come Fly Away, The 39 Steps, All About Me, Enron, Superior Donuts, and Legally Blonde.
Stewart Lane is a five-time Tony Award winner producer. He is the co-owner and operator of the Palace Theater in New York and partners in the Tribeca Grill Restaurant with Robert DeNiro. Mr. Lane is Chairman of the Theater Museum, on the American Theater Wing’s Board of Advisors, as well as served 11 years on the Broadway League’s Board of Governors.
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Mr. Lane has received four Drama Desk; a Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama-League awards and also the proud recipient of the prestigious Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor. Other Honors include The 2011 National Yiddish Folksbine Honoree, The Arts Horizons Paul Newman Award, The Actors Fund Metal of Honor, The Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award, The Child Development Center of the Hamptons Reach for the Stars Award, The BU College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award, The Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Five Towns College, among other prestigious awards.
Two–time Tony Award winner Bonnie Comley has received the 2011 Distinguished Service to the Theater from The Theatre Museum, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Massachusetts/Lowell 2010, the 2009 Arts Horizons Paul Newman Award and The Actors Fund Medal of Honor in 2008.
Giving back to the theater community, Bonnie and Stewart have created scholarship funds at Columbia University Business Graduate School, and Boston University College of Fine Arts Undergraduate School, (B.F.A.) as well as major support to the University of Massachusetts, Emerson College and Fiorello H. La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts School. They have been dedicated to Edwin Gould Services for Children & Families for over a decade; making a difference in the lives of underserved children because of their commitment and generosity. They have five children Eliana, Harlyn, Leah, Lenny & Frankie.
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Louise Jones
Louise Jones came into this world in what some would say, a very compromised way. She was a two day old abandoned baby, found in a telephone booth on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1965. After a lengthy stay at Metropolitan Hospital awaiting the return of a family member to claim her, she was released into the foster care system through the New York Foundling Hospital. She was eventually adopted at the age of 3 by her foster parents. Growing up in a housing project on Staten Island gave her a unique and gritty experience, to say the least, which she took with her to the floor of the NYSE in 1981. She quickly leveraged her talents and work ethic to become the youngest woman to hold a seat on the NYSE. Her company, Cassidy, Jones & Co., went from a two-man shop to one of the largest independent Broker-Dealers on the trading floor.
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In the year 2000, the firm was sold to a unit of SunGard Global and Louise decided to start a family. She is a single mother who currently resides in Tribeca with her two children and is very dedicated to helping foster children. She proudly serves on the Board of Trustees of The New York Foundling Hospital, the only true foundling and adoptee to ever serve on their board. She also serves on the Advisory Board of The Felix Organization where she helped merge services of the Foundling and Felix to create a Summer Camp Program for foster children and teens, which is in its fifth year running.
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