Pittsburgh is home to an incredible range of authors, publishing professionals, literary event organizers and opinion leaders.
Our city nurtures well-known and emerging literary talent and is the inspiration for many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition to the authors you may recognize, Littsburgh’s evolving literary roster features some of the passionate people who work behind the scenes to find local and national audiences for this work, and who help make Pittsburgh a haven for writers and readers.
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Charlie Humphrey
Biography
Charlie Humphrey was Executive Director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers from 1992 to 2016. Pittsburgh Filmmakers is one of the oldest and largest media arts centers in the United States. Before joining Filmmakers, Humphrey was editor and publisher of In Pittsburgh, an alternative weekly paper. Prior to that he was a public radio producer and announcer, and still does occasional voiceover work for film and other media.
In addition to his role at Filmmakers, Humphrey was Executive Director of Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, assuming the dual positions after the Center closed amid a financial crisis in August of 2004, and publisher of the on-line investigative web site PublicSource. Filmmakers and the Center for the Arts are now legally merged.
Humphrey sits on the board of Directors of the Quantum Theater, the New Hazlett Theater and The Ellis School. He is a past president of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture and past chair of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance, an organization he helped to form. Over the last decade he has been on the boards of Silver Eye Center for Photography, The Andy Warhol Museum, WESA, The Mattress Factory, funding panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Heinz Family Foundation and the Heinz Endowments’ Small Arts Initiative and the Fisher Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation.
Humphrey graduated from Whitman College in 1981 with a degree in philosophy.
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