Anne Ashby Gilbert is a journalist and film producer whose work has appeared in Fortune Small Business, Your Company Magazine, and Office.com, where she wrote a twice-weekly small business advice column. She is also the author of The Fight for City and Suburban Homes, a history of the ten-year battle to save a 100-year-old tenement housing complex in New York City. She served as staff writer and producer at the New York Center for Visual History, a documentary production company that produced landmark films series on the Arts for PBS, including American Cinema, the poetry series Voices and Visions, as well as one-hour biographies on literary luminaries such as William Styron. More recently, she produced and edited a non-fiction film profile of US Ambassador Richard Gardner entitled "Portrait of a Professor," which celebrated Gardner's five-decade teaching career at the Columbia University Law School.
Educated at Barnard College, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she is a founding member of the Lincoln Center Family Circle, as well as parent mentor for the Lincoln Center Student Arts Council, both of which are dedicated to developing new and diverse audiences for the arts.
An LAMDA alumni, producer, and philanthropist who serves on the board of a number of Arts organisations in NYC, Anne is a vital advocate of LAMDA’s activity in the USA and would bring an important understanding of arts philanthropy in the city, as well as significant experience as a board director in NYC.