Board of Directors

Bea Crumbine is a devoted fan of Play With Your Food in Greenwich.  Bea is responsible for initiating the 2018 holiday season collaboration between Play With Your Food and Norwalk's Lockwood-Mathews Mansion.

Bea is a graduate of New York University in 1966 with a degree in French. After living abroad throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, Bea and her husband Peter settled in Greenwich, CT where, while raising a family, she has devoted much of her life to her two passions: music and community volunteerism. In addition to singing in chorales and opera groups both locally and abroad (including the White House, Carnegie Hall and the Vatican), Bea has served many organizations including as Board Member and Chair of the Friends' Committee of the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Connecticut Ballet, Alliance Française, Norwalk Maritime Aquarium, Mills College, Trustee of the Greenwich Historical Society, and the Greenwich Music Festival.

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Bea has received many honors and recognitions through the years including the winner of the Moffley Media 2013 Light a Fire Award, YWCA's Spirit of Greenwich Award, Rotary Club Citizen of the Year, Greenwich Symphony Gala Honoree, Greenwich Ambassador-at-large designee and Greenwich Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Community Leader.

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Bea's greatest joys are her husband Peter, her three children and five grandchildren.

Elizabeth (really known as Betsey) has been a construction manager for much of her professional life.  She has worked for large construction companies and for public projects.

Once retired, in 2002, she and her husband moved out of NYC to Pound Ridge NY where she then became involved in non-profits, helping them resurrect themselves fiscally.  Drawing on her accounting skills, learned in Business School, she helped to balance ledgers, build financial reports and generally helped management establish firmer controls over their operations.  After retirement, she developed her skills in glass-blowing and has participated in several galleries and shows in the East.  In addition, all her adult life, she has played the flute in trios, sang with choirs and choruses large and small, and she rings handbells with several different groups in the Connecticut area nearby Pound Ridge. 

Together with her husband, she raised three children who all prefer the excitement of the City to the quietude of the country.

Lynda has been attending Play With Your Food since the beginning and it was love at first reading!  She caught the theater bug in college at UC Irvine where class assignments included seeing plays all around Los Angeles. She is still infected with that bug and, with her husband Paul, manages to attend 50+ plays each year.

Lynda completed her Master’s Degree in Public Health at UCLA after having served as a VISTA volunteer in rural Oklahoma and Appalachia in Kentucky in the War on Poverty. She is retired from her decades long career in health care to pursue second careers fundraising and politics. She is a past co-chair of Philanthropy Day in Connecticut and served on the Board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She chaired the Board of Health in Fairfield, was President of her congregation’s Board in Westport and of the Unitarian Universalist District of Metropolitan New York in addition to serving on the boards of other non-profit organizations in SW Connecticut. 

Lynda sings with several choral groups including the Serendipity Chorale, and has recently taken up the ukulele as music therapy at the Norma Pfriem Breast Center in Fairfield. She and Paul reside in St. Mary’s by the Sea in Bridgeport with two dogs, three guitars, a piano and a ukulele. They both are committed Play With Your Food attendees (different days, different venues) and share reading, theatre, music, travel and visits with their son and grand twins in Denver.