Renee Rolleri (Board Chair; Co-Founder) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons School of Design in 1992, a master's in Art Therapy from Pratt University in 2001, and is currently enrolled at New York University in the Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Culture and Education Program with a special focus on child development and art therapy. Since completing her graduate degree in art therapy, Renee has worked with the Joan Fenichel Therapeutic Nursery School, the NYU Child Study Center, the Jewish Board for Family Services and the Partnership for After School Education both as a clinician and as an art therapist. Inspired by the joy of working with children and families and becoming a parent herself, Renee co-founded the Blue Man Creativity Center with her husband Matt Goldman and partners Jen and Chris Wink in an effort to bring the unique qualities that Blue Man Group has to offer children and families into an educational environment.

Matt Goldman (Board Vice-Chair; Co-Founder) Matt attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics followed by a Masters Degree in Business Administration/Marketing. He was also involved in Clark athletics, playing varsity soccer and coaching a woman's Club team. Upon graduation from Clark, Matt was invited to join Omni Resources, a start-up software services company. He remained there seven years, producing educational and business software packages for clients that included CBS, Simon & Schuster, Grolier, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Bantam Books and Prodigy. While at Omni, Matt formed a partnership with longtime friends Chris Wink and Phil Stanton. The three created Blue Man Group, which opened Off-Broadway at the Astor Place Theatre in 1991 and continues to play there today. Throughout their long association, Matt, Chris and Phil have been fascinated by the interconnections between learning, creativity and community and how, combined with new teaching techniques, the educational experience can be enhanced. It is this interest that led them to start the Blue Man Creativity Center.

Eric Huang (Board Secretary)  is an attorney with the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, specializing in intellectual property litigation. A former engineer with a bachelor's degree from the Universiry of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a law degree from George Washington University, Eric counsels and represents a diverse range of international clients in intellectual property disputes in federal courts nationwide. He and his wife Tanja Norwood have a daughter in the Blue School.

Lisa Kaye (Board Member) Bio coming soon.

Ian Kerner (Board Member) is a NY Times best-selling author of numerous books on the subject of sexuality and relationships and he counsels privately in New York City. He holds advanced degrees from Brandeis University and NYU and is also a former recipient of the Thomas J Watson Fellowship. Ian is a Contributing Editor at Cookie Magazine as well as a Contributor to NBC TODAY. With his wife, Lisa Rubisch, a commercial and music video director, they have two sons at the Blue School and their family has been with the School since its inception. They are enthusiastic participants in the Blue School community and help to ensure that parent voices resonate meaningfully.

David Rock (Board Member) lives between New York and Sydney Australia, where he is originally from. He founded and runs a global consultancy that draws on brain research to improve how people learn and collaborate in organizations. In 2006 he coined the term NeuroLeadership and is now the founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and summits. He is the author of four books, including recently Quiet Leadership, and the soon to be released 'Your Brain at Work'. He is on the faculty and advisory board art CIMBA, an international business school in Europe, and a guest lecturer at Oxford University's Said Business School. His work has been written about globally including in BusinessWeek (USA), The Guardian Newspaper (UK) and the Globe & Mail Newspaper (Canada). He is currently completing a professional doctorate in the neuroscience of leadership. He is passionate about improving learning and the way people collaborate, and spends much of his time talking to neuroscientists about how the brain works, to help translate their findings for every day usage. He is married to Lisa Rock and has two young daughters, who attend the BlueSchool while in NYC a few months every year.

Jennifer Lamberts Stanton (Board Member; Co-founder) believes that a more innovative approach to education is needed for a child’s development, and Blue School fills that need. As Blue School has evolved into a chartered academic institution, Jennifer joins her colleagues with the wildly popular Blue Man Group to create this New York-based, exciting educational environment.   With a deep concern for educational models to evolve in the 21st Century, Jennifer and the other co-founders were inspired by what they had learned through their experience with Blue Man Group – innovation, invention, and emotional intelligence. From this entertainment phenomenon, the co-founders of Blue School used the signature trademarks of exploration and discovery, multimedia theatrics and music in this new approach to educating young children.      

Inez Van Lamsveerde (Board Member) is a world-renown fashion photographer and has
contributed deeply to Blue School’s success.  Working with her partner Vinoodh Matadin, they were among the first practitioners to show the possibilities of digital-imaging technology as a creative and meaningful medium. Since the early 1990s, they have created groundbreaking editorials for such publications as American, French, and Italian Vogue, V Magazine, Visionaire, The New York Times Magazine, and W Magazine.  Their work is also represented in galleries and museums internationally including: the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; the Hayward Gallery, London; and the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

Inez has been instrumental in many key initiatives at the School, including initiating the Tuition Assistance Fund.  She has also welcomed Blue School students into her and Vinoodh's studio for fashion shoots as well as championing opportunities to spark the next generation of creative thinkers within our community.