Bunny Montgomery

Bunny Montgomery is a billionaire and the benefactor of the Midtown Arts School and Academy (MASA), a Park Avenue force of nature who lives in a bubble of privilege where poverty registers, mostly, as bad fashion sense. The school calls her the Iron Benefactor, and she treats student struggle as a kind of charming performance art.

She respects exactly one person without reservation: Kate Miller, the one human being who has never treated her like a walking checkbook. She trusts Kate's judgment above anyone's, and it is through that friendship, and the Jewish Snack, that the students' work ever reaches her. The decision to move Jewish The Musical, the show the students build, toward a real stage is hers to make.

Bunny is never quite alone. In any public room she moves with Leo, her chief of staff, a step ahead of her, and two low-profile personal bodyguards a half step behind, the kind of detail you only notice if you are already looking for it.