Krystina Alabado was last seen starring as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls on Broadway. Additional Broadway credits include American Psycho and Green Day’s American Idiot. She has performed in the national tours of Evita, American Idiot, and Spring Awakening, and off-Broadway in The Mad Ones, This Ain’t No Disco, David Bowie's Lazarus, and Camp Wanatachi. Her film and television credits include Disney’s Better Nate Than Ever, A Killer Party, Sunny Day, God Friended Me, First Reformed, FX’s Tyrant, Mecha Builders on HBO Max, and Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. Alabado can be heard on the cast albums of The Mad Ones, A Killer Party, Goosebumps The Musical, Star Crossed, and more.

Hugh Dancy played Will Graham in Hannibal, for which he earned a Saturn Award and two Critics’ Choice nominations. Additional film and television credits include Black Hawk Down, Ella Enchanted, King Arthur, Adam, the television mini-series Elizabeth I, Blood and Chocolate, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Big C, Deadline Gallipoli, The Path, Late Night, Homeland, The Good Fight, and Downton Abbey: A New Era. On stage, he starred off-Broadway in The Pride and Apologia, and on Broadway in Venus in Fur and the revival of Journey’s End. Dancy currently stars in the reboot of Law & Order.

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford and the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a Today show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Greer’s latest novel, Less Is Lost, was published in September.

Holly Hunter has received four Academy Award nominations, for Broadcast News, The Firm, The Piano, and Thirteen, and received the Oscar for Best Actress in The Piano. Additionally, she has received two Emmys, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a star on the Walk of Fame. Hunter has starred in Raising Arizona; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; David Cronenberg’s Crash; Home for the Holidays; Living Out Loud; Saving Grace; HBO’s Here and Now; The Incredibles 1 and 2; The Big Sick; Succession; and NBC’s Mr. Mayor, created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.

Yohanca Delgado was raised in New York City by parents from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. She is a graduate of American University’s MFA program and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts fellow. She lives in California, where she is a 2021–2023 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her recent fiction appears in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, One Story, A Public Space, and The Paris Review.

Greg Jackson is the author of the story collection Prodigals, for which he received the Bard Fiction Prize and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, Conjunctions, and The Point, among other places, and his nonfiction has been anthologized in The Best American Essays. In 2017 Granta selected him for their list of Best Young American Novelists. His novel The Dimensions of a Cave will be published in 2023.

Erin Somers is the author of the novel Stay Up with Hugo Best. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, GQ, and elsewhere.