LIVE from the comfort of your screen, it’s Virtually Banned in Boston!
What is Virtually Banned in Boston?
The annual sketch-comedy and music revue, Banned in Boston, is Rehearsal for Life‘s largest source of support for Urban Improv, our flagship theater-based social-emotional learning program.
In light of COVID-19 developments, for everyone’s health and safety, we cancelled our live event this year. So, in true improv spirit, we’ve said “Yes, And” — and we’ve gone virtual!
Please “attend” Banned in Boston from the safety of your screen and give as you would have then — knowing that our youth need us more than ever in these unsettled and unsettling times.
Our youth are counting on us.
Revisit photos and videos from Banneds past at our Banned in Boston archive and on Youtube:
THANK YOU to our
2020 EVENT CHAIRS
CO-CHAIRS
Robin & Ted Clark
Fiona & James Benenson
Lena & Brent Berc
Lisa Pierpont & Brant Binder
Kristina & Patrick Lyons
Lisa & Patrick Taffe
Jennifer & Josh Ziskin
BENEFIT COMMITTEE
Cate & Adam Brinch
Nancy Donahoe & Jon Cohen
Christina & David Lavallee
Josephine & Ken Lyons
Bailey Mannix
Farrell & Tom O’Rourke
Jessica & Daniel Schmitz
Julie & Jeff Stuecken
Madelyn & Jon Terbell
Will Willis
THANK YOU to our
2020 CAST
Hosted by
Jim Braude & Margery Eagan
Co-Hosts, WGBH’s Boston Public Radio
Mohamad Ali
CEO, International Data Group
Brant Binder
Co-Founder/President, ZebAI Therapeutics, Inc.
Jared Bowen
Arts Editor & Host, WGBH’s Open Studio
Andrea Campbell
Boston City Council
Sonia Chang-Díaz
State Senator
Andrew Collins
President & CEO, Sentient Jet
Steve Conine
Co-Chairman, Wayfair
Ron Druker
President, The Druker Company, Ltd.
Marlo Fogelman
CEO & Founder, marlo marketing
Jennifer Glick Schaffer
Actor & Singer
William Gross
Police Commissioner, Boston Police
Tom Hamilton
Bass Player, Aerosmith
Maura Healey
Massachusetts Attorney General
Linda Henry
Managing Director, The Boston Globe
Sam Kennedy
President & CEO, Boston Red Sox
Shirley Leung
Columnist & Associate Editor, The Boston Globe
Kristina Hare Lyons
Owner, Portobello Road
Patrick Lyons
President, The Lyons Group
Ray Magliozzi
NPR’s Car Talk
Harry McEnerny
Actor
Jim McGovern
US Congressman
JC Monahan
News Anchor, NBC Boston
Aman Narang
President & Co-Founder, Toast
Bruce Percelay
Chair & Founder, The Mount Vernon Company
Lisa Pierpont
Founder, Boldfacers.com
Robert Rivers
Chairman & CEO, Eastern Bank
Emily Rooney
Host, WGBH’s Beat the Press
Maggie Gold Seelig
Founder, MGS Group Real Estate
Shayna Seymour
Co-Host, WCVB-TV’s Chronicle
Sally Taylor
Musician & Artist
Jimmy Tingle
Entertainer & Comedian
Anita Walker
Executive Director, Massachusetts Cultural Council
Pratt Wiley
CEO, The Partnership
Pam Willis
Co-Owner, Pammy’s
Jen Ziskin
Co-Owner, La Morra/Heritage of Sherborn
THANK YOU to our
2020 Participating Restaurants
- Blue Frog Bakery
- Bully Boy Distillers
- Drive-By Pies
- Eastern Standard
- Eventide
- The James Pub & Provisions
- Juniper
- Mariel
- Metropolis
- Michael’s Deli
- Middlesex Lounge/Horse Thieves Tavern
- La Morra/Heritage of Sherborn
- Pammy’s
- Roxy’s Grilled Cheese
- Scarlet Oak Tavern
THANK YOU to our
2020 CORPORATE SPONSORS