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CHERUB IMPROV CELEBRATED ITS 7TH ANNIVERSARY,
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
TRIBECA CINEMAS, THE VARICK
ROOM
Jonathan Evan Goldberg, Esq., litigation
and employment law Partner at Vandenberg
& Feliu, LLP and President
and Co-Founder of Cherub
Improv, the
world’s largest non-profit improv organization, orchestrated
the celebration
of over seven years of healing through laughter at its
Fourth-Annual Winter Gala, November 11, 2014. Cherub
Improv’s mission,
with the support of over 200 volunteer “Cherubs”,
is to provide free entertainment
and education to children and adults in hospitals,
retirement communities, veterans’ facilities, hospice
programs, senior centers, teenage runaway/homeless
shelters, cancer support groups and more.
This festive occasion also served as the official
welcome to new Cherub
Improv Board members, Cynthia
Dillon and Shelly
Savoca. Ms.
Dillon, whose
career has been spent in the real estate industry and
theater management arena, brings her knowledge of
theatrical performance arts and keen acumen in marketing
to the Board. Shelly
Savoca, National
Sales Director, Transgenomic, Inc. for USA & Canada, has
been a “Cherub”
(as they are affectionately called) since 2010, and
shares her expertise in sales and motivational
techniques with Cherub
Improv. Among
many other events, Ms. Savoca leads various public
speaking workshops as
part of the Big
Brothers Big Sisters Workplace Mentoring program.
Joining Mr. Goldberg to greet over 150 guests and to
introduce Ms. Dillon and Ms. Savoca were Cherub
Improv Co-Founder
Joy Purver and Board Members Ben
Wellington (author
of the highly acclaimed I
Quant NYC blog
and PhD at Two
Sigma Investments), Julie Galdieri (actress
in You’ve
Got Mail and Ten
Souls Rising), Ed
Goldberg (President of eHigherEducation),
Carol Heller (ofGreen
City Force), and Pat
Carroll (CEO
of Girl
Scouts Heart of New Jersey) as
well as award-winning author Karynne
Summars.
Guests were treated to a mini-Improv show featuring
several of the organizations leaders, as well as a
special performance provided by Mr. Goldberg and two of
the residents of Kittay
House of
the Jewish Home and Healthcare for
whom Cherub Improv has been providing events for over 5
years. Mr.
Goldberg (44 years old), Ms. Edna Nelkin (94 years old),
and Ms. Rozanne Zweig (85 years old), caused fits of
laughter as they performed an improv scene as three
sisters in Antarctica complaining of the lack of good
men, and good penguins, on the barren and chilly
continent.
The Cherub
Improv Gala raised
funds to
help the “Cherubs”
travel throughout the greater New York City area to spread
their cheer. For
more information about Cherub Improv, please visit
www.cherubimprov.org
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