Jed Bernstein

Jed Bernstein
Jed Bernstein, 2016
Born	(1955-03-27) March 27, 1955 (age 61) Upper West Side, New York City
Residence	New York City
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania (BA) Yale School of Management (MBA)
Occupation	arts executive, theatrical producer

Jed Bernstein (/bɜːrnstiːn/; born March 27, 1955) is the former president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, having served in this role since January 2014, when he replaced Reynold Levy. He resigned from his role on April 14, 2016 after the discovery that he had been in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member that he had twice promoted. Bernstein has extensive experience in theater producing, arts administration, and marketing and promotion.

Immediately before his time at Lincoln Center, Bernstein served as the producing director of the Bucks County Playhouse in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and as the president of Above the Title Entertainment, a theater and television production company and marketing consultancy.

From 1995 to 2006, Bernstein served as the president of The Broadway League, the national trade association for the commercial theater industry. Bernstein also served as an independent theater producer for such works as Driving Miss Daisy and the 2009 revival of the musical Hair, for which he received a Tony Award.

Bernstein started his career in the advertising industry, spending 15 years working on corporate accounts at firms that included Ally & Gargano, Wells Rich Greene, and Ogilvy & Mather. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Management, where he received an MBA, and the University of Pennsylvania.