The Himan Brown Symposium
Sponsored by the Himan Brown Charitable Trust
REDEFINING AGING:
FROM THE BOARDROOM
TO THE BEDROOM
An evening with Marta Kauffman,
Writer and TV Producer; Best Known as the Co-Creator of “Friends” & “Grace and Frankie” in conversation with renowned journalist and writer Abigail Pogrebin
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
5:00 PM DOORS OPEN
6:00 PM PROGRAM
REGISTRATION: $54 In person | $18 Online
Himan Brown Symposium
Sponsored by the Himan Brown Charitable Trust
REDEFINING AGING:
FROM THE BOARDROOM TO THE BEDROOM
An evening with Marta Kauffman Writer and TV Producer; Best Known as the Co-Creator of “Friends” & “Grace and Frankie” in conversation with renowned journalist and writer Abigail Pogrebin
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
5:00 PM DOORS OPEN
6:00 PM PROGRAM
REGISTRATION: $54 In person | $18 Online
Himan Brown Symposium
Sponsored by the Himan Brown Charitable Trust
LOCATION
92nd Street Y
New York Buttenwieser Hall
1395 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
Location
92ND STREET Y
New York Buttenwieser Hall
1395 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
Questions?
Contact Margo at
mkatz@dsconsultinggroup.com
or
(212) 888-7003
SPEAKERS
Marta Kauffman
recently finished writing and producing the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. She may be best known for creating NBC’s long-running hit Friends with David Crane. The iconic series ran for ten seasons and earned 63 Emmy nominations, winning Outstanding Comedy Series in 2002. Reruns continue to delight with Friends: The Reunion being a ratings juggernaut. She and David Crane also created HBO’s Dream On, recognized with CableAce Awards and additional Emmy nominations.
The Writers Guild of America West awarded Kauffman and Crane the 2016 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in television writing. She also earned the 2016 Outstanding Television Writer award at the 23rd annual Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference as well as the Humanitas Kieser Award. She recently received an Honorary Doctorate from Brandeis University.
Marta’s other credits include Georgia, Five, Veronica’s Closet, The Powers That Be, Call Me Crazy: A Five Film and the documentary Seeing Allred.
Marta has served on several Boards of Trustees including CalArts, Oakwood School, The Lung Cancer Foundation of America, Big Sunday and IKAR.
Marta has three children, two grandchildren, two dogs and a toothless cat.
Abigail Pogrebin
is the author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish, which went into ten printings, and My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, which was a finalist for a 2018 National Jewish Book Award. A former Emmy-nominated producer for 60 Minutes, she has written for The Atlantic, Newsweek, Tablet and The Forward. Her podcast with Rabbi Dov Linzer— which unpacked the parsha of the week for two years— has been adapted for a 2024 book: It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses. Abby moderates public conversations for the Streicker Center, UJA-Federation of New York, and the JCC in Manhattan. She is a past President of Central Synagogue and a trustee of Yale’s Hillel and the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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