Jed Bernstein

Before coming to Lincoln Center, Mr. Bernstein spent more than a decade as president of the Broadway League, the industry’s national trade association. He also produced Broadway shows and helped to re-establish the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania as a stage for live theater. He landed the Lincoln Center job partly because former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a friend of Ms. Farley, had supported him; Mr. Bernstein and his brother, Doug, directed the mayor’s performance in the annual Inner Circle show. Mr. Bernstein took over from Reynold Levy in January 2014. Mr. Levy, a prodigious fund-raiser who oversaw the institution’s ambitious $1.2 billion renovation, served for 11 years. The surprising departure of Jed Bernstein after just 27 months as president of Lincoln Center was prompted not by a change in career plans, as announced, but by the discovery that he had been in a relationship with a staff member,