LiVE MAGAZINE VOL 8, Issue #203 February 20th THRU March 6th, 2015
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New Board<br />
Members<br />
Announced<br />
Six new board members recently joined the Board of Directors of The<br />
LGBT Community Center of the Desert (The Center) replacing some<br />
retiring directors, announced Randy Lowe, Chair.<br />
<strong>March</strong> 28<br />
5:30pm<br />
TICKETS:<br />
www.simplybarbara.bpt.me/<br />
Newly appointed are Mary Sue Allen, Lucy A. DeBardelaben, Chris Kallgren, Cary<br />
Lowe, Robert Van Roo, and Randy Schild.<br />
Allen is Vice President of Human Resources for UPS West Region. A native<br />
of Hayward, California, Allen received her B.A. degree in Human Resources<br />
Management from Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, and began her UPS<br />
career in 1980 as a part-time package handler in Los Angeles. She has served on<br />
the Board of Directors for Girls Inc. Orange County, Leadership California, and<br />
Oakland Military College Prep Academy.<br />
Steven Brinberg writes and stars as Simply<br />
Barbra which is updated annually as he<br />
travels the globe with the show. This year he appears<br />
with Marvin Hamlisch and the Symphony Orchestras of Dallas, Milwaukee,<br />
Buffalo and Norfolk. Prior appearances with Mr. Hamlisch<br />
include one with Barbara Cook and the National Symphony Orchestra<br />
at the Kennedy Center and another at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh.<br />
He recently narrated the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus concert at<br />
Avery Fisher Hall, written especially for him by Terrence McNally. That<br />
program was also seen in Seattle.<br />
Mr. Brinberg has performed at Stephen Sondheim’s birthday concert<br />
at the Library of Congress; at Carnegie Hall with Uptown Express; and<br />
on Broadway in the concert version of Funny Girl with Whoopi Goldberg.<br />
Simply Barbra has twice toured Australia, New Zealand, and England,<br />
last year ending in a West End run at the Arts and Playhouse Theatres.<br />
The show has also played Singapore; Hong Kong; Sag Harbor (Bay<br />
Street Theatre); Philadelphia (Walnut Street Theatre), San Francisco<br />
(New Conservatory Theatre), Los Angeles (Cinegrill); Sun Valley (Bruce<br />
Willis’ Liberty Theatre), Atlantic City (Taj Mahal), Windsor, Ontario<br />
(Windsor Casino); Provincetown (Town Hall); Miami Beach (Colony<br />
Theatre): Houston (Theater Lab Houston); Albany (Empire Center); Arlington<br />
(Signature Theater); St. Louis (Sheldon Concert Hall); Chicago<br />
(Davenport’s); and 3 sold out turns at The Mohegan Sun Casino.<br />
His film credits include Camp, Boys Life, and Next Year in Jerusalem.<br />
Mr. Brinberg’s television appearances include The Rosie 0’Donnell<br />
Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, Jerry Springer, Bert Newton, Kerri Anne<br />
(Australia), Fox News Channel and MTV’s Celebrity Death Match<br />
as the voice of David Spade. He appeared in two workshops of Ken<br />
Page’s musical, Nightlife, at Manhattan Theatre Club and Westbeth<br />
Theatre Centre, and in Ivanov at the Jewish Rep.<br />
A two time Mac and Bistro award winner, Mr. Brinberg’s CD Simply<br />
Barbra Live in London is available on Jay Records. Coming soon is a<br />
CD of duets featuring Kaye Ballard, Mimi Hines, DebbieGravitte, Karen<br />
Mason, and many others<br />
Newly elected Board Members of The Center are from left to right, Lucy A.<br />
DeBardelaben, Robert Van Roo, Mary Sue Allen, Randy Schild, Cary Lowe<br />
and Chris Kallgren.<br />
DeBardelaben is co-founder of the prestigious Palm Springs Women’s Jazz<br />
Festival, and the Acting Finance Director for the Palm Springs Art Museum. A<br />
former board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, she, and her<br />
partner, Gail Christian, received the 2013 Palm Springs Pride Spirit Award.<br />
Kallgren is a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in<br />
Palm Springs, who believes in advocacy for the LGBT community and animal<br />
rescue. Among her accomplishments is co-producing the Joshua Tree Gay Pride<br />
Festival, with founder Andy Woods. In October 2014 she was recognized as<br />
one of the ‘Most Influential Women Of The Valley’ gracing the cover of Desert<br />
Outlook magazine.<br />
Lowe is owner of Cary A. Lowe Associates, based in Los Angeles & Atlanta, a<br />
women’s wholesale firm. Born and raised in Los Angeles as a first generation<br />
Chinese American, Lowe attended Los Angeles Trade Tech for Fashion Design<br />
and UCLA for Business Economics. Lowe has served on the Board of Directors of<br />
The LA Gay and Lesbian Center and has had a home, along with his partner Allan<br />
Ames, in Palm Springs since 1989.<br />
A California native, Van Roo is the President & Co-Founder of Palm Springs Safe<br />
Access, a medical cannabis dispensary. A photographer by trade, he began<br />
his career in his teens after exhibiting in fine art museums both nationally<br />
and internationally. Recently developing an interest in medical cannabis as a<br />
result of a friend’s illness, he volunteered space in his photography studio and<br />
warehouse in San Francisco to help facilitate a clean and safe medication for<br />
his friend. Moving to Palm Springs in 2011, The desert landscape continues to<br />
inspires his artistic desires with a thriving art community that continues to grow.<br />
Schild holds the position of First Vice President-Wealth Management with<br />
Merrill Lynch in Indian Wells. Before joining Merrill Lynch, he was the Branch<br />
Manager at Smith Barney / Morgan Stanley in Palm Desert, and also an owner /<br />
operator of a manufacturing and retailing facility in South Florida. He holds an<br />
MBA degree from St. John’s University, New York, NY. Schild has been active in<br />
the local community, having served on the Board of Directors of the American<br />
Heart Association, and in various leadership positions for the Jewish Federation.<br />
He, and his wife Dini, have two adult children who reside in New York Florida.<br />
The mission of The Center is to enrich the lives of the LGBT community. A<br />
thriving, community-based organization, The Center provides a safe and<br />
supportive environment for members to enjoy health, wellness, educational and<br />
social programs, where people of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. The<br />
Center advances its mission through senior programming, a clinical counseling<br />
and internship program, a weekly food bank, youth suicide prevention<br />
and support, extensive social and recreational offerings, a David Bohnett<br />
cyber center, growing volunteer program and periodic special events in the<br />
community.