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Board of Trustees
Laurence Avery (President) had a decades-long career as teacher and scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he served as chairman of the English department. He has published numerous articles and six books on British and American playwrights, including several seminal works on the playwright Paul Green.
Margaret D. Bauer (Vice President) is the Rives Chair of Southern Literature in the Department of English, a Distinguished Professor of Harriot College of Arts and Science, and the editor of the North Carolina Literary Review at East Carolina University. In 2017, she received the North Carolina Award for Literature. In 2018, the North Carolina Humanities Council presented her with the John Tyler Caldwell Award.
Debra Kaufman (Secretary) Debra Kaufman has written five full-length and dozens of short plays and monologues, four full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. She produced her play Harbor Hope at Common Ground Theatre and Illuminated Dresses, monologues by women, at Burning Coal. She received a NC Arts Council playwriting scholarship and two grants from the Regional Artists Hub Program. www.debrakaufman.info
Malcolm Ray “Tye” Hunter, (Treasurer) is a defense attorney who grew up in Greensboro. He attended UNC for undergraduate and then continued at UNC School of Law. After graduation he worked in the Fayetteville Public Defender’s office and then served as Chapel Hill’s assistant town attorney. He was the 2020 winner of the J. Kirk Osborn Award for outstanding leadership in capital defense.
Howard L. Craft is a father, husband, playwright, poet, essayist, and arts educator. He is the author of more than ten plays, including Freight: The Five Incarnations of Able Green, which was chosen as a New York Times Critic Pick during the March 2015 Off-Broadway run. Craft is currently the Piller Professor of the Practice of Writing for Screen and Stage at UNC Chapel Hill.
Joanna Green is a retired agricultural educator, social justice activist, poet, musician, mother of three adult children, and granddaughter of playwright Paul Green. During her career at Cornell University, she was a pioneer in the field of sustainable farming and local food systems. After retiring from Cornell in 2009, she founded the Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming in Ithaca, NY.
Georgann Eubanks (Executive Director) is the author of five books from the University of North Carolina Press and is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She is a founder of the NC Writers Network and is a past president of NC Humanities, the NC Literary and Historical Association, and Arts North Carolina.
