Chairs

Anita Hollander has worked throughout Europe and America, premiering work at Carnegie Hall, Playwrights Horizons, London’s West End and the New York Shakespeare Festival. A Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Lead Musical Actress, she originated the award-winning Gretty Good Time at the Kennedy Center. Her critically acclaimed original solo musical Still Standing was presented at the White House, Disney World, and Off-Broadway. TV appearances include As The World Turns, OZ, The Sopranos, BBC’s From The Edge, MTV, and All My Children. Other roles include Emma Goldman in Ragtime, Golde in Fiddler On The Roof, Blanche in Brighton Beach Memoirs, and a Grizabella in CATS. Anita is an AFTRA National Board member and national co-chair of AFTRA’s Performers with Disabilities Committee.

Robert David Hall plays quirky coroner Dr. Albert Robbins on the Emmy-nominated CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The CBS show, syndicated internationally, is seen weekly by more than 27 million people in America alone. In 1978, an 18-wheel truck struck Hall’s car and he was severely burned when his gas tank exploded, leading to the amputation of both legs. Today, he walks comfortably on two prosthetic limbs. It was Hall’s role as a burn survivor in Michael Apted’s Class Action that most closely parallels his real life. Hall’s appearance in Class Action led to television guest-starring roles in West Wing, Brooklyn South, Touched By An Angel, Promised Land, Love & War and Highway to Heaven, and recurring roles on L.A. Law, Family Law, The Practice, High Incident and Life Goes On. He also appeared in the role of Samson in the TNT Emmy-winning mini-series Andersonville, directed by John Frankenheimer. A devoted community activist and one of the most prominent disabled actors working today, Hall proudly serves on the board of directors of the National Organization on Disability. He just completed his term as a national board member of Screen Actors Guild and is national chairman of the Performers with Disabilities Committee for SAG, AFTRA and Actors’ Equity. Hall, who graduated from UCLA, lives with his wife Judy in the Los Angeles area. He is also the proud father of an adult son, Andrew Hall.