Caroline Aaron is an actress known for her wide range of theater, film, and television credits, as well as being a published author and playwright. She most recently starred as Rita Cohen in Molly Gordon’s and Nick Lieberman's film Theater Camp. Her additional film credits include Nancy Drew, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepless in Seattle, 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Deconstructing Harry. She made her broadway debut in The Iceman Cometh and since then has accumulated many Broadway and off-Broadway credits, including I Hate Hamlet, Social Security, Relatively Speaking, An Imaginary Life, and Madwomen of the West. Along with her repertoire of theater and movie credits, she starred as Shirley Maisel in the Emmy-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and has appeared on Transparent, Episodes, Sex and the City, Grey’s Anatomy, Frasier, all of the CSIs, and all of the Law and Orders. She can be heard in such podcasts series as Listening In, The Pack Podcast, and Around the Sun. Aaron is an alumni and Instructor of Acting at HB Studio in New York City and can currently be seen guest-starring on the series Ghosts and the feature film Between the Temples, which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Danny Burstein has appeared in 19 Broadway shows, including Pictures from Home, Moulin Rouge, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Snow Geese, Follies, Golden Boy, Women on the Verge…, South Pacific, The Drowsy Chaperone, Titanic, Company, Saint Joan, The Seagull, and A Little Hotel on the Side. On screen, he has been seen in Julia; Will Trent; Tick, Tick… Boom!; F Is for Family; The Same Storm; Indignation; The Family Fang; Blackhat; The Sounding; Transamerica; Deception; Affluenza; American Milkshake; Nor’easter; The Good Fight; Dr. Death; Evil; Fosse/Verdon; The Blacklist; Madam Secretary; Dr. Death; Instinct; Elementary; NCIS: New Orleans; Tales of the City; Deception; Elementary; Louie; Boardwalk Empire; Absolutely Fabulous; The Good Wife; and all the Law & Orders. His opera credits include Frosch in Die Fledermaus at the Met. He has received an Audie Award nomination, the Drama League’s 2020 Distinguished Performance Award, two Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, one Tony Award (seven nominations), and three Grammy Award nominations.

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941 – 2022) was a bestselling author and activist, whose 21 books include Fear of Falling, Bright-sided, the recent essay collection Had I Known, and Nickel and Dimed, which The New York Times described as “a classic in social justice literature.” In 2012, she founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a media non-profit devoted to reporting on inequality, which she sometimes described as her “third act.” An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in the women’s and labor rights’ movements, and soon devoted herself to writing her ground-breaking and often darkly amusing journalism and cultural criticism.

Nancy Giles is an Emmy Award–winning contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning, and tries to be witty on various political panels on MSNBC. She’s acted in films, on TV, as part of the ensemble cast of China Beach and the sitcom Delta, and was most recently seen off-Broadway in The New Group’s Good for Otto by David Rabe. A graduate of Oberlin College, Giles toured with Chicago’s acclaimed Second City comedy troupe, is a Theatre World Award winner for her off-Broadway debut in Mayor, has written and performed four solo shows, and is working on a collection of essays and true stories. She’s a longtime volunteer with NYC’s 52nd Street Project, working with kids from the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in visual and performing arts workshops, classes, and performances. Her podcast, The Giles Files, is available wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Annabelle Gurwitch is a New York Times bestselling author of five essay collections. Her work appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, and Hadassah Magazine. A two-time finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing, she's been a regular NPR commentator and a humor columnist for The Nation. Her television credits include two seasons anchoring HBO's award-winning Not Necessarily the News and seven seasons of hosting Dinner and a Movie on TBS, plus Better Things, Dexter, and Murphy Brown, among others. Her stage credits include appearances at Carolines on Broadway, Joe's Pub, and The Moth Mainstage, an in the world premiere of Donald Margulies' A Coney Island Christmas at The Geffen Playhouse, the West Coast premiere of Wendy MacLeold's Women in Jeopardy at The New Vic, the West Coast premiere of David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are at The Odyssey, and the 20th anniversary production of Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women & Others at 2nd Stage. Annabelle was fortunate to have called Barbara Ehrenreich a friend and mentor and has been the grateful recipient of research grants from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her essay written with EHRP support "They Were Homeless, I Took Them In," which originally appeared as an Op-Ed in The Los Angeles Times and was awarded a Los Angeles Press Club Citation of Excellence in Journalism, is featured in the anthology of EHRP essays Going for Broke. Gurwitch’s most recent book, You're Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility, was a New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living and Good Morning America book club selection.

Jessica Hecht received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance in the Netflix series Special. She has been seen on television in the limited series Super Pumped and The Loudest Voice and in recurring roles on The Sinner, Dickinson, The Boys, and Succession. She is also recognizable to television audiences from Friends and Breaking Bad. She has played memorable roles on Bored to Death, High Maintenance, Falling Water, The Single Guy, and Red Oaks. Her film performances include A+, Anesthesia, J. Edgar, The Grey Zone, The Sitter, My Soul to Take, Dan in Real Life, Sideways, The Atlantic City Story, and The Sunlit Night. An acclaimed stage actress, Hecht has appeared on Broadway in productions of The Price opposite Mark Ruffalo, Fiddler on the Roof opposite Danny Burstein, The Assembled Parties opposite Judith Light, Harvey opposite Jim Parsons, After the Fall opposite Carla Gugino, The Last Night of Ballyhoo opposite Paul Rudd, Brighton Beach Memoirs opposite Laurie Metcalf, Julius Caesar opposite Denzel Washington, A View From the Bridge opposite Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson (Tony Nomination), and Summer, 1976 opposite Laura Linney (Tony Nomination). Off-Broadway, she has appeared in King Lear opposite John Lithgow and Annette Bening, Stage Kiss opposite Sandra Oh, Three Sisters opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, and at Lincoln Center Theater in Admissions, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination and an Obie Award.

In 2010, Maria Hinojosa founded Futuro Media, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in Harlem, with the mission to create multimedia content from a POC (People of Color) perspective. She has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad as the Anchor and Executive Producer of the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, Co-Host of Futuro Media’s award-winning political podcast In the Thick, and most recently, her Pulitzer Prize–winning podcast Suave. Hinojosa has won four Emmys, the John Chancellor Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow Award. She is the author of four books: Crews, Raising Raul, Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America, and the young reader's version of her memoir Once I Was You. These days, her focus is deep accountability investigative journalism.

Alissa Quart is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America, and Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers. She collaborated on building the non-profit The Economic Hardship Reporting Project with the late Barbara Ehrenreich: she has run it for close to a decade. She is also the author of two books of poetry, including Thoughts and Prayers, and has written for many publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME. Her awards include an Emmy, an SPJ Award, and a Nieman fellowship.

Merritt Wever has appeared in such feature films as Birdman, Righteous Kill, Into the Wild, Michael Clayton, Neal Cassady, Twelve & Holding, A Hole in One, Season of Youth, Bringing Rain, Signs, Series 7: The Contenders, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Arresting Gena, Tough, for which she received the Best Actor Award from the First Run Film Festival, Greenberg, Tiny Furniture, The Missing Person, Meadowland, Welcome to Marwen, Marriage Story, Midday Black, Midnight Blue, and Michael Franco’s Memory. Her television credits include Tiny Beautiful Things, for which she received an Emmy nomination, Severance, Unbelievable, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, Roar, Run, Godless, for which she received the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, Nurse Jackie, for which she received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy, The Walking Dead, New Girl, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Conviction, 1/4 Life, The Good Wife, NCIS, The Wire, Blue River, and Something the Lord Made. Her theater appearances include The Nether, Uncle Vanya, for which she received the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Award, The Illusion, Sam & Lucy, Bad Girls, Smashing, Cave Dweller, Roulette, Cape Cod Souvenirs, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Running on Earth, Here We Are, Children of the Flames, Female of the Species, and Touch(ed). Wever is a graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts.

As co-creator and former head writer of The Daily Show and co-founder of Air America Radio, comedian Lizz Winstead helped change the very landscape of how people get their news. Winstead is not only a writer and creator, she was also a correspondent on The Daily Show and co-hosted Unfiltered, Air America Radio's mid-morning show, with Chuck D and Rachel Maddow. Known as one of the top political satirists in America, Winstead is recognized by all the major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, O magazine, and as Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Most Creative People. Winstead’s first book, Lizz Free Or Die: Essays, released in 2012, garnered incredible reviews. Ms. magazine says, “Lizz Winstead is a sharp-witted truth-teller, and Lizz Free or Die will inspire anyone who has ever talked back to the television or wished they could come up with satire as insightful as The Daily Show.” Lizz continues to do stand-up and make appearances on cable news, yet spends most of her time helming Abortion Access Front (AAF), an inclusive reproductive rights organization she founded in 2015. AAF uses humor and outrage to expose anti-choice hypocrisy and mobilize people to take action in all 50 states. Hosting the AAF podcast, Feminist Buzzkills is the perfect next step for Winstead combining her activism with her comedy. It is a must listen; new episodes drop Fridays wherever you get your podcasts. Follow her on X, Insta and Tiktok @lizzwinstead or like her on Facebook www.facebook.com/lizzwinstead.