Debra Black
Founder and Chair, Melanoma Research Alliance

Debra Black is Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA); member of the New York State Council on the Arts; and a Broadway Producer.

Debra presently serves on the boards of Lincoln Center Theater, The Living Room for Artists, 760 Park Avenue and the New York State Council on the Arts. Broadway productions include: The Pillowman, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Tony Award winner The History Boys, Butley, The Vertical Hour, The Year of Magical Thinking, Deuce, Inherit the Wind, Frost/Nixon, Coram Boy, Gypsy, Thurgood, The Country Girl, Tony Award winner August: Osage County, Mary Stuart and Superior Donuts.

Debra Ressler Black has a B.A. in English from Barnard College and resides in Manhattan with her husband and their four children. She is a melanoma survivor.