Nellie Kurtzman, who’s been volunteering for GreenStage since early 2024, was elected to the board of directors at the January 2025 meeting. A vice president of marketing and publicity at HarperCollins, she’ll play a key role in GreenStage programming—leading the production of our Dinner on the Green benefit and other fundraisers, and helping identify performers for GreenStage shows.
Nellie led the team that staged our first The GreenStage Experience community-building event in October 2024, which featured seven live performances and drew some 400 people to The Place restaurant in Guilford.
A part-time resident of Guilford and Brooklyn, Nellie is chair of the executive committee for The Harvey Awards, one of the comic industry’s oldest and most prestigious awards. The award is named for her father, cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, the founding writer and editor of MAD Magazine. Nellie’s also on the board of Badass Animal Rescue, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that rescues, rehabilitates and finds homes for dogs from high-kill shelters in the rural South.