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George Stevens Jr. is one of three newly named members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

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Margo Lion, named co-chairman, has an extensive background in theater, working first for a nonprofit company and then as a commercial theater producer. Her shows on Broadway include Hairspray; Caroline, or Change; and Angels in America. Also named co-chairman is George Stevens Jr., who has worked as a writer, director, and producer of movies and TV. Among his productions are The Kennedy Center Honors, which he brought to television in 1978, and the films George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey and The Thin Red Line.

Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts since 1991, has been named the committee’s vice chairman. She has been the executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the commissioner of cultural affairs of the city of New York and has written books on Harlem Renaissance art and artist Romare Bearden.