Known for his work in The Hangover and National Treasure franchises, Justin Bartha was most recently seen in Atlanta, The Godfather of Harlem, and The Good Fight. Additional credits include the films Sweet Girl, Driven, White Girl, Holy Rollers, Dark Horse, Failure to Launch, and The Rebound. Stage credits include the Tony-nominated revival of Lend Me a Tenor, Jesse Eisenberg's Asunción, Robert Askins’ Permission, and Neil Simon's Sunshine Boys for The Center Theatre Group. His upcoming projects include the series National Treasure: Edge of History coming to Disney+.

Joanna Gleason won a Tony for her portrayal of the Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods. Her other Broadway and off-Broadway credits include The Normal Heart; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, for which she received a Tony nomination; I Love My Wife; Happiness; Joe Egg, for which she received a Tony nomination; Sons of the Prophet; and The Real Thing; to name only a few. Her television credits include The West Wing, The Newsroom, Love and War, Bette, and many more. Films include Hannah and Her Sisters, Boogie Nights, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Skeleton Twins, and many more. She has written and directed two films: a short, Morning Into Night, which debuted at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and was selected for the Cambridge Film Festival; and a feature, The Grotto, which just won the Best Narrative Feature premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival this year. She has been reading stories at Symphony Space for thirty-five years.

Lauren Groff is the author of six books, including Fates and Furies, Florida, and Matrix, all of which were National Book Award Finalists. She is a winner of the Story Prize, a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2017, she was named one of the Best of Young American Novelists by the literary magazine Granta. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.

Jackie Hoffman is best known for her Emmy-nominated role of Mamacita from FX’s Feud: Betty and Joan. She can currently be seen in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and will appear in the forthcoming films You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah! and Paramount+’s Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. Additionally, her numerous on-screen credits include The Politician, Gilmore Girls, Girls, The Good Wife, Inside Amy Schumer, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Birdman, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Sitter, Garden State, and Mo’ Money. On Broadway, Hoffman has co-starred in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On the Town, The Addams Family, Xanadu, and Hairspray. Her show Jackie Hoffman: Live from Joe’s Pub is available on CD and for streaming.

Adina Verson was most recently seen as Poppy White on the hit series Only Murders in the Building on Hulu. She was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her role in The Lucky Ones, following her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning play Indecent. Additional theater credits include productions at Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theatre Company, MCC, The Vineyard, Theater for a New Audience, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, the Guthrie, and Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Verson’s additional screen credits include The Strain, Mozart in the Jungle, Wormwood, The Kitchen, New Amsterdam, and the Sundance selected short film Troy.

Rita Wolf most recently appeared in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance with the Transport Group and the National Asian American Theatre Company. She was also featured in Out of Time with NAATCO at The Public Theater, What Happened? The Michaels Abroad, written and directed by Richard Nelson at the Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College, and The Michaels at The Public. Additional theater credits include An Ordinary Muslim at The New York Theatre Workshop, The American Pilot at the Manhattan Theatre Club, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and the premiere of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul at New York Theatre Workshop and later at BAM.

Grace Paley (1922 - 2007) is the daughter of Ukrainian/Russian Jewish immigrants, growing up in The Bronx. Works include The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Later the Same Day, Collected Stories, and Just As I Thought. She taught at Sarah Lawrence, Columbia University, City College of New York, and Syracuse University, and was a founder of the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961, the 1989 Edith Wharton Award, the 1994 Jewish Cultural Achievement Award for Literary Arts, the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1992, and the Vermont Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1993. In 1989, Governor Mario Cuomo declared her the first official New York State Writer. She was Vermont's Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2007. Her poetry includes Long Walks and Intimate Talks, Leaning Forward, New and Collected Poems, Begin Again, Fidelity, published posthumously in 2008, and A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry, published in 2017. She has been called a combative pacifist. Her literary life and personal responsibilities were inseparable from her political life and human responsibilities.