Four Thoughts Productions

Cody Lassen

Cody is a Tony award-winning theatre and film producer. Select credits: Thoughts of a Colored Man, A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, What The Constitution Means To Me, Indecent, The Band's Visit (Tony Award), Torch Song, Significant Other, Deaf West's Spring Awakening. Upcoming: How I Learned to Drive on Broadway, Indecent in London, and the feature film Summoning Sylvia. In development: Burt Bacharach & Steven Sater's Some Lovers, The Flamingo Kid. Serves on the board of the Vineyard Theatre. More at codylassen.com.

Tiffany R. Warren

As Executive VP, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for Sony Music Group, Tiffany will expand equity and inclusion activities and policies across all Sony Music Group's (SMG) global recorded music, publishing and corporate divisions. Recognized as a leader in the field of diversity, in 2005, she founded ADCOLOR, which has launched the ADCOLOR Conference, Awards, FUTURES program and ADCOLOR in Music. Tiffany was recently recognized as a 2021 Henry Crown Fellow, 2021 Billboard Change Agent and a recent EMMY ® nominee for “ADCOLOR at the Apollo” featuring Wyclef Jean.

Joel t. Newman

Joel t Newman is a tech professional specializing in business and product development. Most recently, Joel worked at Google helping the world’s largest brands build high-quality Android apps and navigate the transition to mobile. He is excited to be part of the team bringing Thoughts of a Colored Man to Broadway and to support the return of live arts more broadly. For more, visit KilianProductions.com or follow @joeltnewman.

Cody Renard Richard

Cody Renard Richard is an advocate, educator, producer and professional Stage Manager with a career that spans many genres including Broadway, Television, Cirque Du Soleil and Opera. On Broadway, he has worked as a full time and substitute Stage Manager on 14 productions, and is currently the Production Stage Manager for Pass Over and the return engagement of Freestyle Love Supreme. He is thrilled to join the producing team of Thoughts of a Colored Man. Cody has worked as Adjunct faculty at Columbia, Fordham and NYU. He has been featured by CNN, Forbes, Variety and as Out Magazine’s 2020 OUT100 honoree. He is the founder of the CRR Scholarship Program. More info at www.codyrenard.com @codyrenard