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 A Killer Party, Sunny Day, God Friended Me, First Reformed, Tyrant, Voltron Legendary Defender, and Better Nate Than Ever, which will be released on Disney+ on April 1st.

Joan Allen has appeared on Broadway in Burn This, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress, The Heidi Chronicles, Impressionism, and The Waverly Gallery. She is an original member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she has appeared in more than 25 productions. Allen received Best Supporting Actress nominations for Nixon and The Crucible, and a Best Actress nomination for The Contender. Additional film credits include Pleasantville, Face/Off, The Notebook, The Ice Storm, The Upside of Anger, The Bourne Identity series, and Room. On television, she is known for her portrayal of Georgia O’Keefe in the 2009 biopic of the same name, and she has had recurring roles in Luck, The Killing, The Family, and Lisey’s Story.

Christine Arand began her career touring throughout Europe and the United States in the role of Lise in Les Enfants Terribles, a Dance-Opera by Philip Glass. Her Broadway credits include La Boheme, Nine, and Belle Epoque. In Paris, she performed in Robert Carsen’s My Fair Lady and in Emilio Sagi’s The Sound of Music with the Théȃtre du Chȃtelet. Arand trained at The Juilliard School and Northwestern University. Her numerous operatic roles include Antonia in Les Contes D’hoffmann, Armida in Handel’s Rinaldo, Cecilio in Mozart’s Lucio Silla, Salomé in Massenet’s Herodiade, Liù in Puccini’s Turandot, and Micaëla in Carmen, Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Susanna in Le Nozze Di Figaro andPoppea in L’incoronazione Di Poppea.

Michael Arthur is a pen-and-ink artist whose work lives at the intersection of performance and visual art. He was the archival artist at Joe’s Pub, Drama Department, and LaJolla Playhouse, and his Sketchbook Reports have appeared online at The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, and The New York Times. He has performed Live Drawing at the Joyce Theatre, Joe’s Pub, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Mass MoCA, and The Bowery Presents, among others, accompanying artists such as The Sun Ra Arkestra, Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders, David Byrne, Nicole Atkins, and Toshi Reagon. He has also created music videos from his drawings for Josh Ritter, Paul Brill, Peter Salett, and many more.

Raffi Barsoumian has appeared on Broadway in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and off-Broadway in Macbeth with Classic Stage Company, Privacy and Pericles at The Public, and King Lear and Arok of Java with Exit, Pursued By a Bear. On Los Angeles stages, he has been seen in Henry IV at the Shakespeare Center of L.A., Guards at the Taj at The Geffen Playhouse, and Red Noses with The Actor’s Gang. His international credits include Sedimenti with the Compagnie Du Faubourg, and a Globe Theater International Fellowship. On television, Barsoumian has appeared in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Code, Shameless, The Vampire Diaries.

Purva Bedi is an actress and writer whose theater credits include Dance Nation, for which she received a 2019 Drama Desk Award, and productions with Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, the Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theatre Workshop, and many more. Her film and television appearances include One of Us Is Lying, Billions, High Maintenance, She's Gotta Have It Too, Madam Secretary, Nurse Jackie, The Blacklist, The Assistant, The Surrogate, Sully, Americanish, Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn, American Desi, and Gabriel’s Rapture. Bedi is co-creator of the web series Shrinkage and has written/co-written Gorgeous Nothings, Dolly's Dream Bimari, and the feature screenplay Preeti Popped It.

Lakecia Benjamin was named by the DownBeat magazine as a Rising Star in 2020. Her latest album, Pursuance, was chosen as one of the top 20 best albums for 2020. A charismatic and dynamic saxophonist and bandleader, Benjamin fuses traditional conceptions of Jazz, HipHop, and Soul. She first picked up the saxophone at Fiorello LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. From there she joined the renowned jazz program at New York's New School University, and at an early stage, played with renowned jazz figures such as Clark Terry and Reggie Workman, Rashied Ali, the David Murray Big Band, Vanessa Rubin and James "Blood" Ulmer. Benjamin has shared stages with Stevie Wonder, Gregory Porter, Alicia Keys, and many more.

Becca Blackwell has collaborated with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf, Lisa D'Amour, and more. Film and television credits include High Maintenance, Ramy, Marriage Story, Shameless, Deadman's Barstool, Jack in the Box, If Found, and Sort Of. Their solo shows, They, Themself and Schmerm and Schmermie's Choice, have toured across the US. Blackwell is the creator and star of the short film As Schmerm as It Gets, and was a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Creative Capital Award. They recently made their Broadway debut in Is This a Room and can be seen in the forthcoming films BROS and White Noise.

Wyatt Cenac is an Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, and writer known for the HBO late-night comedy docuseries Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas. Additional credits include aka Wyatt Cenac, People of the Earth, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He's made four comedy albums: Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person, the Grammy nominated Brooklyn, Furry Dumb Fighter, and One Angry Night in November, and hosted the televised stand-up variety series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac. He started his career in animation as a writer for Mike Judge's King of the Hill, and has served as a consultant for South Park. Every now and again he pops up in a film, most notably Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy.

Kathleen Chalfant is an actress whose extensive on and off-Broadway credits include Angels in America, Racing Demon, Dance with Me, M. Butterfly, Wit, Dear Elizabeth, and Broadway On Demand’s live-stream production of We Have to Hurry. Her film and television credits include Duplicity, Kinsey, Bob Roberts, Old, The Guardian, The Affair, The Book of Daniel, Rescue Me, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, Doubt, The Laramie Project, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Before/During/After. She received the 1996 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, and the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work. Chalfant recently appeared in 4 Quartets with the Pam Tanowitz Dance Company, which was presented at BAM in 2022.

Roz Chast has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1978. She is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a 2014 National Book Award Finalist, and Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York, winner of the New York City Book Award. Additionally, Chast has been awarded the NYC Literary Honor in Humor, the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities, and the Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year. Most recently, she collaborated with Patricia Marx on Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? and You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples.

Brandon Coleman (he/him) is an NYC-based performer from Houston, Texas. Formerly a member of Visceral Dance Chicago, Coleman has worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as a guest artist for their 2017 Summer Series. Since moving to NYC in 2017, he has danced with KEIGWIN + COMPANY, the Metropolitan Opera ballet, VIM VIGOR Dance Company, and is currently a performer in Punchdrunk's Sleep No More. Coleman is a graduate of the University of Arizona, where he received his BFA in Dance and BA in Communication with a minor in Arts Administration.

Maddie Corman has appeared on Broadway in Next Fall and Picnic, at Lincoln Center in Babylon Line, and off-Broadway in Appropriate. Her film and television credits include A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Mr. President, All American Girl, Almost There, the Law & Order franchise, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Younger, Bull, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and High Maintenance, among others. Corman wrote, directed, and starred in the short film How Was Your Day, which was selected by Tribeca Film Fest for their “Watch This” series. For her one-woman play, Accidentally Brave, she was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle award and won the Off Broadway Alliance Award for best solo performance.

Deborah S. Craig is an actress whose upcoming films include Me Time opposite Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg, and Regina Hall, Meet Cute opposite Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson, and The Tiger’s Apprentice from Paramount Animation. Recent theater credits includes Wild: A Musical Becoming at the American Repertory Theater. On television, she is known for her roles on Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, The Blacklist, Better Things, Workaholics, Transparent, Hart of Dixie, and as a series regular opposite Ken Jeong on the Kevin Kwan pilot The Emperor of Malibu. On Broadway she originated the role of Marcy Park in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, for which she received a Drama Desk Award and the distinction of creating the first Korean American character on Broadway.

David Cross starred as Tobias Fünke in Arrested Development and has appeared in the films Men in Black, Ghost World, Scary Movie 2, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He was a writer for The Ben Stiller Show, for which he won an Emmy Award, and also co-created and starred in Mr. Show with Bob and David. He created, wrote, executive produced, and starred in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. Recent television appearances include Goliath, Genius, and Station Eleven. Cross has released five comedy albums, including Making America Great Again and Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!, both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. He is the author of the memoir I Drink For a Reason.

Hugh Dancy is perhaps best known for his work on 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, and The Good Fight. 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 and can be seen in the forthcoming Downton Abbey: A New Era.

Crystal Dickinson won the Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 2012 production of Clybourne Park. She subsequently appeared in You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway in 2014, A Raisin in the Sun at the Two River Theater, and The Low Road at The Public Theater. Her film and television credits include I Origins, The Good Wife, Feed the Beast, New Amsterdam, and recurring roles on The Chi and For Life. Dickinson has taught at Stella Adler Studio, Spelman College, Pace University, Princeton University, the Juilliard School, NYU, University of Illinois, and Seton Hall. She was recently featured in Lessons in Survival at the Vineyard Theatre and starred in Cullud Wattah at The Public.

Mia Dillon is a Tony-nominated stage actress whose Broadway credits include Our Town, The Miser, The Corn Is Green, Hay Fever, Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart, and Da. She has worked extensively off-Broadway and regionally from San Diego to Dublin, and her work has been honored with the CT Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk nomination, the Clarence Derwent Award, a Dramalogue Award, among others. Film and TV appearances include all three Law & Orders, Brain Dead, The Jury, Mary and Rhoda, Gods and Generals, The Money Pit, Ordinary World, All Good Things, and Never Rarely Sometimes. Upcoming projects include Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Mike Doyle has appeared on screen in New Amsterdam, City on a Hill, The Romanoffs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Accidental Wolf, Narcos: Mexico, Jersey Boys, The Invitation, and Green Lantern, among others. His stage credits include The New Century at Lincoln Center and Betrayed with the Culture Project. Doyle wrote and directed the feature film Almost Love starring Kate Walsh, Patricia Clarkson, and Scott Evans. He is currently working on his next film, Passing Through.

Raydar Ellis has spent the better part of his career in the NYC jazz community, setting up his turntables alongside upright basses and horn sections while triggering samples as a member of many live outfits. As a core member of the Revive Big Band, some of his musical excursions have found their way to The Kennedy Center, MoMA, and with Grammy-winning artists such as Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington. Ellis has created musical ads for Salesforce, Daihatsu, Cup Noodles, and Sony PlayStation, as well as shared the stage with internationally known artists including Robert Glasper, Pharoahe Monch, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Ms. Lauryn Hill.

Christine Flores is originally from Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from New World School of the Arts, Miami, in 2015 with a BFA in Dance and received additional training at Springboard Danse Montreal, the Contemporary Program at Jacob's Pillow, and Cunningham Fellowship workshops. Named one of Dance Magazine’s 2021 “25 to Watch,” Flores is currently based out of New York City performing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Company XIV, Dance Heginbotham, Danielle Russo Performance Project, NVA & Guests, and Shinsa Collective.

Santino Fontana is known for his Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Award-winning portrayal of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the Broadway production of Tootsie, and for voicing the character Prince Hans in Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated feature Frozen. Additionally, he has starred in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; 1776; and Zorba with Encores!; and on Broadway in The Importance of Being Earnest (Clarence Derwent Award); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award); Act One; Billy Elliot; Cinderella (Tony nomination); and Hello, Dolly! His onscreen credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sisters, Shades of Blue, Mozart in the Jungle, Submissions Only, Off the Menu, Impossible Monsters, and Fosse/Verdon. Fontana can be seen in the 2022 season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Joel Fram is a music supervisor, conductor and producer. Along with his producing partner, Annette Jolles, he has produced the following at Symphony Space: New Voices, Project Broadway, Wall to Wall Sondheim, W2W Cabaret, W2W Schwartz, and Sinatra at 100. As a conductor, his Broadway credits include Company, Wicked, Scandalous, Sweet Smell of Success, Music Man, The Dead, Jumpers, CATS, and I Am Harvey Milk. In London, he has conducted Company, Wicked, Forbidden Broadway, and Pictures from an Exhibition. Mr. Fram oversees the Musical Theatre Writing Workshop at the National Theatre in London, is a Creative Associate at the Universal Music Group UK Theatre Division, and serves as Literary Associate at the Old Vic.

Laura Gibson is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and writer. Her most recent release, Goners, was praised by NPR as “a gripping collection of songs about accountability and grief.” Her songs have taken her across four continents and every single state, and she had the distinct honor of performing the very first Tiny Desk Concert. She’s received fellowships from Yaddo, Ucross, and Everglades National Park, and a MFA in Fiction from Hunter College. Her essays have appeared in Talkhouse and The Los Angeles Review, and she was a 2020 recipient of the McElheny Award from MIT for her work on the Timber Wars podcast. Gibson is working on a new record and a book.

Zina Goldrich is an award-winning composer, conductor, musical director, and performing artist. Her musical Ever After with longtime collaborator Marcy Heisler has enjoyed productions at the Alliance Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse, and is gearing up for another production. She recently wrote Yay People Yay! with multi-Emmy award winner David Javerbaum. Previous musicals include The Great American Mousical directed by Julie Andrews, Junie B. Jones, and Dear Edwina. Goldrich has composed for Walt Disney Feature Animation, The Kennedy Center Honors, Nickelodeon, ABC, NBC, and PBS. As a musician, her Broadway credits include Avenue Q, Titanic, Oklahoma, and Grand Hotel, among others. She studied with legendary Oscar winner Jerry Goldsmith and is a graduate of the USC Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program.

Dion Graham,from HBO’s The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. An award-winning and critically acclaimed actor and narrator, his film and television credits include The Blacklist, Madam Secretary, the Law & Order franchise, and Malcolm X, as well as voice work with the Star Wars video game franchise, The Atlanta Child Murders, Art of the Heist, and American Experience on PBS. Graham’s extensive stage credits include performances at the Roundabout; Circle In The Square; Lincoln Center; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; the Edinburgh International Festival; The Royal National Theater in London; and on Broadway. His performances have been praised as thoughtful and compelling, vivid and full of life.

Zach Grenier received a Tony nomination for Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations for his performance as Ludwig van Beethoven. He’s known on television for portraying David Lee on CBS’s The Good Wife and its spin-off on Paramount+ The Good Fight, Mayor Feratti on Ray Donovan, and Kenton on Hulu’s Devs. His films include Fight Club, Zodiac, and Ride with the Devil. His favorite stage role is Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, which he played at the Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Julie Halston is a founding member of Charles's Busch's company Theatre-in-Limbo and co-starred in numerous productions, including The Divine Sister, Red Scare on Sunset, The Tribute Artist, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Off-Broadway Theatre Alliance. Her Broadway credits include Gypsy, Hairspray, You Can't Take it With You, Anything Goes, and Tootsie. Television credits include The Class, Sex and The City, Difficult People, Gossip Girl, and And Just Like That…. Miss Halston has received 4 Drama Desk Nominations for her work; in 2021 she received the prestigious Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her work on behalf of the Broadway Community and The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

Michael Hartney has been a Comedy Central Comic to Watch and a New Face at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. At New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, he spent over ten years as a writer, performer, and director, co-creating the hugely popular Characters Welcome show. His television credits include 30 Rock, The Politician, The Break with Michelle Wolf, The Who Was? Show, and Throwing Shade, where he also served as a staff writer. Hartney created the roles of Stanley and Mr. Williams in the original Broadway cast of School of Rock The Musical. In late 2020, he co-founded Squirrel Comedy Theatre, a nonprofit offering shows and classes. His improv group, Borabish, performs every Monday night at Under St Marks.

Marcy Heisler is a bookwriter/lyricist, performer, author, and educator. Current collaborations with composer Zina Goldrich include Ever After; Breathe; Hollywood Romance; Dear Edwina; Snow White, Rose Red and Fred; Junie B Jones, The Musical; Junie B’s Essential Survival Guide to School; The Great American Mousical; and more. Additionally, she is working on Williamsburg with Tom Kitt, Jason Katims, and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller. She collaborated with Concord composer Georgia Stitt on Alphabet City Cycle and is co-lyricist of the podcast Little Did I Know with Doug Besterman and Dean Pitchford. Awards include the Kleban Prize for Lyrics, the Fred Ebb Award for Outstanding Songwriting, the ASCAP Rodgers and Hart Award, the ASCAP New Horizons Theatre Award, and the Seldes-Kanin Fellowship.

Zainab Jah is best known for her role in Eclipsed on Broadway, for which she won Obie and Drama Desk awards. Additional theater credits include the title role in Hamlet; Boesman and Lena; Venus at Signature Theatre; The Convert; and School Girls, Or, The African Mean Girls Play. Film and Television credits include Farewell Amor, Only Murders in the Building, The Good Lord Bird, False Positive, Homeland, and The Accidental Wolf. On audiobooks, Jah can be heard narrating Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Anjali Sachdeva's All the Names they Used for God.

Annette Jolles has created a diverse body of work as a director and producer for theater and television, and is the recipient of eleven Emmy Awards. She has directed numerous Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, including solo concerts featuring Cynthia Erivo, Sutton Foster, Leslie Odom, Jr., Norm Lewis, and Patina Miller, and symphonic concerts for Mostly Mozart and the New York Philharmonic. Most recently she produced and directed Stars on Stage for PBS, directing episodes starring Brandon Victor Dixon and Shoshana Bean. Previously at Symphony Space with producing partner Joel Fram, she has presented Wall to Wall Bernstein, W2W Sondheim, W2W Cabaret, W2W Stephen Schwartz, Frank Sinatra at 100, Project Broadway, and New Voices. Jolles teaches Musical Theater Performance at Yale.

Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role as Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, for which she received 7 consecutive Emmy nominations as well as nominations for the Golden Globe and SAG Awards. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Yale School of Drama, Kaczmarek made her television debut on The Paper Chase and Hill Street Blues. On stage, she has appeared on Broadway and off, and for 6 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her recent theater credits include Long Day's Journey Into Night with Alfred Molina and Our Town with Deaf West Theatre. Kaczmarek’s favorite job is raising her three kids and reading/hosting Selected Shorts across America.

Vanessa Kai was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Ruby in the world premiere of KPOP. Additional off-Broadway productions include The Pain of My Belligerence at Playwrights Horizons, Henry VI with the National Asian American Theatre Company, Somebody’s Daughter at Second Stage, and The Architecture Of Becoming with the Women’s Project Theater. Kai can currently be seen as a series regular on the second season of the CW’s Kung Fu and has been featured on New Amsterdam, Orange Is The New Black, Gotham, and The Mysteries of Laura.

Patricia Kalember is an actress whose stage credits include The White Card, The Nerd, Losing Louie, Y2k, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Sea of Tranquility, Loose Knit, From Above, and The Foreigner, for which she won an Outer Critics Circle nomination. She played the role of Gloria Steinem in Gloria: A Life in New York and Boston. On television, she's had recurring roles on The Tick, Power, thirtysomething, and starred in Sisters. Other television credits include Law & Order: SVU, Power, Orange Is the New Black, Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods, Allegiance, Madam Secretary, Veep, The Good Wife, and Olive Kitteridge. Her numerous films include Jacob’s Ladder, Path to War, A Far Off Place, Signs, Rabbit Hole, The Company Men, Girl Most Likely, and Run All Night.

Kennedy Kanagawa is a New York City–based actor who was born in Japan. Recent theater credits include Last Ship to Proxima Centauri at Portland Stage; Gold Mountain at the Utah Shakespeare Festival; Decky Does a Bronco with the Royal Family Theater; Saturday Night — In Concert at 2nd Stage; Lolita, My Love with the York Theatre Company; Dinner with Georgette at New York Theatre Workshop Next Door; and The Good Swimmer at BAM. On screen, Kanagawa has appeared in Donny! on USA, the short film Screen Test for the New York Flash Film Festival, and will be featured in the upcoming digital series Kinsley Vs.

Larry Keigwin has danced his way from the Metropolitan Opera to downtown clubs to Broadway and back. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2003, and the company has performed at The Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, and New York City Center, among many others. Commissions include Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Martha Graham Dance Company, and the Juilliard School. His work in musical theater includes Tales of the City, the off-Broadway production of Rent, for which he received the 2011 Joe A. Callaway Award, and If/Then on Broadway. Keigwin is the Director of Dance and a co-founder of the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, CO, as well as the Dance Editor of ArtDesk.

Canteen Killa (C.K.) is a musician, producer, artist, and DJ. He was born and raised in Missouri City, TX. Graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2014, he enjoys blurring the lines between hip-hop, electronic music, and many other genres. He’s had the privilege to go on a world tour with Ms. Lauryn Hill during the 20th Anniversary of her debut album and cherishes every opportunity to collaborate with the amazing artists around him. Whether it’s solo or with fellow collaborators, Canteen Killa’s goal is to push good music by any means necessary.

Stephen Lang appeared in the first play produced at Symphony Space, The Shadow of a Gunman, directed by Isaiah Sheffer. Other work on the New York stage includes Death of a Salesman, A Few Good Men, The Speed of Darkness, Defiance, Hamlet, Clownmaker, and his acclaimed solo show, Beyond Glory. His work on television includes Crime Story, Terra Nova, Salem, Into the Badlands, and The Good Fight. His films include Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tombstone, Gettysburg, Public Enemies, Don’t Breathe, and Avatar. Films slated for release this year: Old Man, The Independent, mid-Century, and the long-awaited sequel to Avatar.

Heidi Latsky, a committed leader in the physically integrated dance field, formed her company in 2001. Venues have included: Joyce Theater, Whitney Museum, Cooper Hewitt, National Portrait Gallery, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center. Latsky earned an Emmy nomination for a news feature on her show Gimp, and presented at TEDxWOMEN in DC. She was Head of the Movement department at the School for Film and Television, and on faculty at STEPS and American Dance Festival. In 2020, Latsky created the film Solo Flight for the 30th anniversary of the ADA. On Display, her live sculpture court series, is performed globally on December 3rd honoring the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Latsky recently received the Martha Hill Fund Mid-Career Award.

Sonia Manzano is a groundbreaking educator, executive television producer, and award-winning children’s book author. A first-generation mainland Puerto Rican, she created the part of Maria on Sesame Street, for which she received an Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award. Manzano has also received 15 Emmys for writing, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Award, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Education, and a Poderosa—most powerful woman award—from People en Español. Her critically acclaimed children’s books include A World Together, No Dogs Allowed!, A Box Full of Kittens, Miracle on 133rd Street, The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, and the memoir Becoming Maria. She created an animated series for PBS entitled Alma's Way. Manzano’s forthcoming novel, Coming Up Cuban, will be released in August.

Alto saxophonist, vocalist, producer, and Grammy-nominated composer Yunie Mojica is rooted in Black American Music. With a passion in performance, programming, and concert production, she has worked for acclaimed organizations such as Harlem Stage, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Jazz House Kids. Among numerous others, Mojica has worked with director Spike Lee and DJ AceMo, and has performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club, Smalls, and the Jazz Standard.

Javier Muñoz is known for his performances on Broadway in the roles of Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton and Usnavi in In The Heights. Recent theater credits include The New Englanders at Manhattan Theater Club and Stephen Lloyd Helper’s A Sign of the Times. On screen, he has been seen in Monuments and Shadowhunters, among others. His forthcoming projects include Three Months, Love … Reconsidered, and he will lend his voice to the Disney Jr. animated series Eureka! Muñoz is a Global Ambassador for (RED), which fights to end HIV/AIDS. He was honored with OUT100’s Breakout of the Year Award in 2016, as well as the Howard Ashman Award by the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and now serves on the Board of GMHC.

James Naughton has won Tony Awards as Best Actor in a Musical for City of Angels and Chicago. On Broadway, he directed the Tony-nominated productions of Arthur Miller’s The Price and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, starring Paul Newman. He also directed the television production of Our Town for Showtime and Masterpiece Theatre. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including The Devil Wears Prada, Damages, The Paper Chase, Gossip Girl, Ally McBeal, Planet of the Apes, Hostages, Turks & Caicos, The Affair, The Tap, The Independents, The Romanoffs, The Accidental Wolf, and And Just Like That....

Cynthia Nixon made her film debut in Little Darlings at 12 and her Broadway debut at 14 in The Philadelphia Story. Since then she’s appeared in more than 40 plays, scores of films and TV shows, and won 2 Emmys, 2 Tonys, and a Grammy. Best known for her role as Miranda on HBO’s Sex and the City, she co-stars in the sequel series And Just Like That…. Nixon appeared on numerous "Best Actress of 2018" lists for her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in Terrence Davies' much-lauded film A Quiet Passion. In 2018 she also ran for Governor of New York state. She currently co-stars in Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age on HBO.

Adriana Ogle grew up in North Carolina, where she performed extensively with the NC Youth Tap Ensemble, directed by Gene Medler. In 2015, she joined Boston-based tap company Subject:Matter, performing at the Montréal Fringe Festival and The Yard. She holds a B.S. in journalism from Boston University and is an alumna of the 2019 Tap Program at The School at Jacob’s Pillow, where she received the Lorna Strassler Award for Student Excellence. Since relocating to NYC, she has been honored to be part of Marshall Davis Jr.’s Revelations in Rhythm, Music From The Sole’s I Didn’t Come to Stay, and Okwui Okpokwasili’s Swallow the Moon at Jacob’s Pillow.

Kelli O’Hara won a Tony Award for her performance as Anna in The King and I. She has appeared on Broadway in The Light in the Piazza; The Pajama Game; South Pacific; She Loves Me; Nice Work If You Can Get It; The Bridges of Madison County; and Kiss Me, Kate. She has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, on Capitol Hill, on PBS’s live telecasts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Her film and television credits include Sex and the City 2, Peter Pan Live!, Masters of Sex, The Good Fight, The Independents, 13 Reasons Why, All the Bright Places, and she can currently be seen in The Accidental Wolf, for which she received an Emmy nomination, and The Gilded Age.

Alysia Reiner is best known for her performance as Fig on all 7 seasons of Orange Is the New Black, for which she won a SAG Award. She is now in her 5th season as Sunny on Peabody’s award-winning Better Things on F/X x HULU, as well as the first season of Shining Vale with Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear for STARZ. She just wrapped the features Going Places, The Independent, and a secret project in the Marvel Universe, which will air in June. Reiner loves working as a changemaker for women; she recently received a Muse “Made in New York” Award from The Mayor's office & NYWIFT and is passionately committed to protecting the environment.

Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose is currently filming the lead role of the Showtime series Let the Right One In. She most recently drew notice for her role in Netflix’s Maid, which resulted in an NAACP Image Award nomination. She has also appeared in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey; Them: Covenant; Little Fires Everywhere; The Quad; Roots; Assassination Nation; Everything, Everything; and Dreamgirls. Rose made history voicing Princess Tiana, the first Black Disney Princess, in The Princess and The Frog. The film received three Oscar nominations, and Rose became the youngest Disney Legend inductee. Theater credits include Caroline, or Change; Carmen Jones; A Raisin in the Sun (Tony nomination); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; and Footloose.

Adam Rothenberg is a pianist, conductor, and music director based in New York City. He is currently the Assistant Conductor of the Broadway revival of Company and was the Associate Conductor of the 2018 national tour of Miss Saigon. Additional Broadway credits include Chicago, Miss Saigon, Off-Broadway Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story with the Philadelphia Orchestra. As a classical pianist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Tanglewood Music Center, and Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic. Rothenberg holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Music from the Juilliard School.

Dawn Akemi Saito is an actor, writer, director, and teacher whose credits include Insects in Heat, Suns Are Suns, Blood Cherries, HA, Knock on the Sky, Suicide Forest, Hiroshima Maiden, Arden/Ardennes, My House Is Collapsing Toward One Side, and Deshima. Her multi-disciplinary works have been performed at the Walker Art Center, Orpheum Theatre in Austria, the Whitney Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, New York Theater Workshop, LaMaMa, New World Theater, the Public Theater, and Aaron Davis Hall. Saito is an Associate Clinical Professor at Fordham University/Lincoln Center, is on the movement faculty at Juilliard, and serves as co-director of the Summer Theatre Devising Intensive at Bard College in Berlin, Germany.

Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval is renowned for blending America’s great tap tradition with Brazil’s rich rhythmic and musical heritage. A true dancer-musician, he is one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch” for 2021 and the recipient of a 2022 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise. In 2015, with composer Gregory Richardson, he founded Music From The Sole, a tap dance and live music company that has appeared at venues like Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center, The Yard, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim. In addition, he has been a core member of acclaimed tap company Dorrance Dance since 2014.

Matt Scharfglass is an award-winning bassist and guitarist who has played with and recorded for numerous artists, performing all types of music in venues throughout NYC from Broadway to Madison Square Garden. He is a former Music Editor for Guitar World magazine, has authored over a dozen bass and guitar instructional books and videos, and is an accomplished arranger with more than 1000 songs appearing in publications worldwide.

Liev Schreiber is best known for Showtimes’ Ray Donovan, for which he earned five Golden Globe nominations and three Emmy nominations. His film credits include the Scream trilogy, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Manchurian Candidate, Spotlight, Isle of Dogs, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and The French Dispatch. His stage credits include Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he won a Tony Award, A View from the Bridge, (Drama Desk Award), Talk Radio, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Cymbeline, (Obie Award), Hamlet, Henry V, and Macbeth. Upcoming projects include Across the River and Into the Trees, Asteroid City, and Ray Donovan: The Movie.

Tony Shalhoub is a Golden Globe, SAG, and three-time Emmy Award winner for his leading role on Monk. His screen credits include Wings, Men in Black, The Siege, Galaxy Quest, Big Night, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Spy Kids, Cars, Nurse Jackie, BrainDead, Final Portrait, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for which he was honored with an Emmy Award. On Broadway, he has appeared in The Odd Couple, The Heidi Chronicles, Conversations With My Father, Lend Me a Tenor, Golden Boy, Act One, and The Price. In 2018, Shalhoub earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Band’s Visit. Forthcoming film projects include the Linoleum and Flamin’ Hot.

Michael Shannon has earned accolades for his performances on screen, stage, and television. He is known for his roles in Revolutionary Road and Nocturnal Animals, for which he was nominated for Academy Awards, Boardwalk Empire, for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, Take Shelter (Saturn Award), Elvis & Nixon, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Loving, The Shape of Water, Waco, Fahrenheit 451, Knives Out, The Little Drummer Girl, The Quarry, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Echo Boomers, Heart of Champions, Nine Perfect Strangers, and George and Tammy, among others. Shannon can be seen in the forthcoming films Shriver, Night’s End, Bullet Train, The Flash, Abandoned, and McCarthy.

Miriam Shor starred in the hit series Younger, for which she received a Critics’ Choice nomination. Additional television credits include Mrs. America, The Americans (SAG nomination), High Maintenance,The Good Wife, GCB, Swingtown, Mildred Pierce, and Damages. On stage, Shor has starred in productions of Sweat; Merrily We Roll Along; Almost, Maine; Scarcity; The Wild Party; Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams; Boy; and Book of Days. She created the role of Yitzak in the Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and starred in the film adaptation (Screen Idol Award, Sundance Audience Award). Shor was most recently featured in the films The Midnight Sky, directed by George Clooney, and Lost Girls, directed by Oscar-nominee Liz Garbus.

Emily Skeggs was nominated for Tony and Grammy awards for her work in Fun Home on Broadway. Her off-Broadway and regional theater credits include Take Me Along and Transport at the Irish Repertory Theatre, David Cromer’s Our Town with the Huntington Theatre Company, and Naomi Wallace’s And I and Silence at the Signature Theatre Company. Film and television credits include WGN’s Salem, When We Rise, Love You to Death, The Ultimate Playlist of Noise, and Dinner in America.

Calvin Leon Smith can be seen in the role of Jasper in Amazon’s The Underground Railroad and on HBO's The Deuce and High Maintenance. His theater credits include work at The Public Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, and Shakespeare on the Sound. Smith is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the British American Drama Academy, and a 2018 graduate of The Juilliard School, where he received his MFA in Acting. Upcoming projects include Let the Right One In on Showtime and Fat Ham at the Public Theater.

Sarah Steele currently stars on CBS's The Good Fight. She has appeared in numerous films, television shows, on Broadway and off. She won an Independent Spirit Award for her ensemble work in Nicole Holofcener's Please Give and a Drama Desk for her ensemble work in Stephen Karam's The Humans. Steele graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English Literature and sometimes makes weird dances on Instagram.

Amber Tamblyn is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award-nominated actress, writer, and director. She is the author of six books, including the critically acclaimed Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution. Her seventh book, Listening in the Dark (Park Row Books, Oct. 2022), is an anthology reclaiming the power of women's intuition. Tamblyn reviews books of poetry by women for Bust, and is a contributing writer for The New York Times and The Cut, writing on themes of gender inequality and women's rage.

Adam Douglas Thompson is an artist whose cartoons and illustrations have been published by The New Yorker, The Believer, and Electric Literature, among other publications. He has created large-scale art commissions for a variety of clients including Logitech and Kargo Mobile. His fine art and animations have been exhibited by galleries including Auxiliary Projects, LMAK Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, and the Boston Center for the Arts, among others. Thompson has taught art and design for many years at institutions including Brooklyn College and the Pratt Institute.

TL Thompson is a non-binary actor who has performed on stages across New York City including productions of Lessons in Survival and Is this a Room? at the Vineyard, My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre at the Public, Nervous System at BAM, Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Crooked Parts at Cherry Lane, Straight White Men on Broadway, Waafrika 123 with the National Queer Theatre, Galatea with Red Bull, Dutch Kings with Brave New World, and many more. On screen, Thompson is a series regular on CW’s 4400, and has been featured on the webseries These/Thems and Dinette, and the films Friday Afternoon, Separation/Celebration, and Flu$h.

Hannah Tinti was the literary commentator on Selected Shorts from 2010 to 2013. She is the author of the bestselling novel The Good Thief, which won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and the story collection Animal Crackers, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley was a national bestseller and is being developed as a series with Netflix. Tinti is also the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine, which won the AWP Small Press Publisher Award, a 2020 Whiting Prize, CLMP’s Firecracker Award, and the PEN/ Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. She teaches creative writing at New York University’s MFA program and co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference.

Sam Underwood has had recurring roles on Showtime’s Dexter and Homeland, Fox’s The Following, Power on STARZ, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, the film adaptation of the musical Hello Again, and most recently as Adam Carrington on the reboot of Dynasty and the film The Drummer. He is the founder and artistic director of New York’s Fundamental Theater Project, with which he produced and starred in One Day When We Were Young. Underwood is Creative Director of Initiative Productions, with which he has produced and starred in the short film Ophelia and his one-man show, Losing Days.

Spencer James Weidie (they/them) is a non-binary visual and performing artist based in NYC. Weidie was born in California and raised in Japan and Hawai’i. They are a graduate of the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY with a BFA (Honors) in Dance and a concentration in Composition. They also studied at London Contemporary Dance School, Springboard Danse Montréal, and with the Merce Cunningham Trust. Weidie has performed works by Andrea Miller, Brian Brooks, Doug Varone, José Limón, Kimberly Bartosik, Merce Cunningham, Sharon Eyal, and Ohad Naharin. They were a company member with Brian Brooks/Moving Company for four seasons and previously a company member with Gallim Dance, MADBOOTS Dance, and The Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

Rita Wolf most recently appeared in Out of Time with the National Asian American Theatre Company at The Public Theater. She was also featured in 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.

Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, most recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel. She is excited to be the new host of the literary radio show and podcast Selected Shorts.

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids; I, the Divine; The Hakawati; An Unnecessary Woman; The Angel of History; and the story collection The Perv. His novel The Wrong End of the Telescope was released in September 2021.

Jenny Allen is a writer and performer whose works include the fable collection The Long Chalkboard and, most recently, Would Everybody Please Stop?, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. She wrote and starred in the award-winning one-woman show I Got Sick Then I Got Better. Allen’s writing has been featured in several anthologies, including Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from the New Yorker and The 50 Funniest American Writers, edited by Andy Borowitz.

Lesley Nneka Arimah is the author of the short-story collection What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction, and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Her stories have won a National Magazine Award, the Caine Prize, and the O. Henry Prize, and she has been a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.

Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The Color Master, and most recently, The Butterfly Lampshade, longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and the Paris Review, among other publications, and her work has been translated into sixteen languages.

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Parakeet (NY Times Editors' Choice) and 2 a.m. at The Cat's Pajamas (NPR Best Books 2014), and the story collection Safe as Houses (Iowa Short Fiction Award). Her work has received The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize, and The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland. She teaches in the creative writing programs at NYU and The New School. Her fourth book, the novel Beautyland, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World (Knopf), which won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the author of the forthcoming story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Knopf, 2023). His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and has been anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and awarded a Pushcart Prize. Born in Kolkata, India, Chakrabarti now lives in New York with his family.

Jessica Cohen is a freelance translator based in Denver. She translates contemporary Israeli prose and other creative work. In 2017, she shared the Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman, for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar. She has also translated works by other major Israeli writers, including Etgar Keret, Amos Oz, Ronit Matalon, and Nir Baram. She is a past board member of the American Literary Translators Association.

Patrick Cottrell is the author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, published by McSweeney’s. He is the winner of a Whiting Award in Fiction and a Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Most recently, he guest-edited a queer-fiction issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly. Cottrell is the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize and Pen America Grant and has recently completed a second novel and collection of short stories. He teaches at University of Denver.

Elizabeth Crane is the author of several short-story collections, including Turf and When the Messenger Is Hot, which was adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company, as well as the novels The History of Great Things and We Only Know So Much, which was adapted into a feature film. Crane teaches in the UCR–Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. A memoir, This Story Will Change, will be out from Counterpoint Books in August 2022.

Michael Cunningham is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Hours, which was adapted into an award-winning film. His works also include the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, The Snow Queen, and the short-story collection A Wild Swan, as well as the nonfiction Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. Cunningham has received the Whiting Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University.

Patrick Dacey is the author of the short-story collection We’ve Already Gone This Far and the novel The Outer Cape. His work has been featured in the Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, Harper’s, LitHub, Guernica, and BOMB Magazine, among other publications. Dacey currently lives and writes in Richmond, Virginia.

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory; Claire of the Sea Light; and The Dew Breaker. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow and a 2020 winner of the Vilceck Prize. Her most recent work, the story collection Everything Inside, is a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, the Story Prize, and the National Books Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Every, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and of Voice of Witness, an oral history book series that illuminates the stories of those impacted by human rights crises. Born in Boston and raised in Illinois, he has now lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for three decades.

Omar El Akkad is an award-winning journalist and author whose debut novel, American War, was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire, and was selected by the BBC as one of a hundred novels that changed our world. His second novel, What Strange Paradise, won the Giller Prize and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

Lauren Groff is the author of six books, including Fates and Furies and Florida, both of which were finalists for the National Book Award; her latest, the novel Matrix, was published in September 2021. 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.

Jacob Guajardo lives and writes in Michigan. His fiction has appeared in places such as Midwestern Gothic, Necessary Fiction, Hobart, Passages North, and The Best American Short Stories 2018. He is a graduate of the University of Florida creative writing program and a MacDowell Fellow.

A. M. Homes is the author of the novels Jack, In a County of Mothers, The End of Alice, Music for Torching, This Book Will Save Your Life, and May We Be Forgiven, winner of the Orange/ Women’s Prize for Fiction. Homes is also the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the short-story collections The Safety of Objects, Things You Should Know, and Days of Awe. She teaches in the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton.

Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and her novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions. She lives in Brooklyn.

Jac Jemc is the author of the novels My Only Wife, winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award, and The Grip of It; and the short-story collections A Different Bed Every Time and False Bingo, winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Story Prize. Jemc currently teaches creative writing at UC–San Diego.

Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A recipient of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, he is the author of the memoir The Seven Good Years and story collections including Fly Already; The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God; The Nimrod Flipout; and Suddenly, a Knock on the Door. His work has been translated into over forty-five languages and appeared in The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Paris Review, and The New York Times, among other publications.

Lisa Ko’s first novel, The Leavers, was a national bestseller that won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for both the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, and her essays and non-fiction in The New York Times, the Believer, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

Victor LaValle is the author of the short-story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels—The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling—two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom, and is the creator and writer of the comic book Victor LaValle’s Destroyer. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Whiting Writers’ Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens. The Changeling is in production at Apple TV.

J. Robert Lennon is the author of Familiar, Broken River, Subdivision, and other novels, and the story collections Pieces for the Left Hand, See You in Paradise, and Let Me Think. He teaches creative writing at Cornell University.

Ben Loory is the author of the collections Tales of Falling and Flying and Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, both from Penguin Books. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine, Fairy Tale Review, and A Public Space; been anthologized in The New Voices of Fantasy and Year’s Best Weird Fiction; and been heard on This American Life. He is also the author of a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. Loory lives and teaches short story writing in Los Angeles.

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the National Book Award finalist short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties; the bestselling memoir In the Dream House; and the limited-run comic series The Low, Low Woods. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, the Believer, McSweeney’s, Guernica, and elsewhere.

Juan Martinez is the author of the novel Extended Stay, forthcoming from University of Arizona Press's Camino del Sol series in 2023. His short story collection, Best Worst American, won the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award. His work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, The Sunday Morning Transport, Ecotone, Shenandoah, Sudden Fiction Latino, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Nightmare and Norton's Flash Fiction America.

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints, A Family Daughter, and Do Not Become Alarmed, the short-story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, and a middle-grade trilogy that begins with The Apothecary. She has received the PEN/Malamud Award, the E. B. White Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and journalist in Chicago. He is a winner of the Nelson Algren Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and was a finalist for the Story Prize. He is a bestselling author of several novels and two short story collections, including Marvel and a Wonder, Hairstyles of the Damned, and The Boy Detective Fails, and the nonfiction work Between Everything and Nothing. His novel, Book of Extraordinary Tragedies, will be published in September 2022.

Susan Perabo is the author of the short-story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do and the novels The Broken Places and The Fall of Lisa Bellow. Her fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South and has appeared in numerous magazines, including One Story, Glimmer Train, the Iowa Review, the Missouri Review, and The Sun. She is Writer in Residence and Professor of Creative Writing at Dickinson College and on the faculty at Queens University.

Helen Phillips is the author of six books, including the novel The Need, which was a nominee for the 2019 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Award. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic and The New York Times. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College. Her novel Hum is forthcoming from Marysue Rucci Books.

Simon Rich is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He has written for Saturday Night Live, Pixar, and The Simpsons and is the creator of the TV shows Man Seeking Woman and Miracle Workers, which he based on his books. His other collections include Ant Farm, Spoiled Brats, and Hits and Misses, which won the 2019 Thurber Prize for American Humor. His latest book, New Teeth, was published in 2021.

Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and a Professor of English at Harvard University. She is a recipient of a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction and the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her 2019 debut, The Old Drift, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, the Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires Prize for Belles-Lettres, and the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; it was named one of the year’s 100 Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. Her nonfiction book, Stranger Faces (Transit, 2020), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Her second novel, The Furrows, is forthcoming from Hogarth/Penguin Random House in 2022.

Rivers Solomon is a dyke, an anarchist, a she-beast, an exile, a shiv, a wreck, and a refugee of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award, Solomon’s debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, was a finalist for a Lambda, a Hurston/Wright, a Tiptree, and a Locus Award, among others. Solomon’s second book, The Deep, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and is on the shortlist for a Nebula, Locus, and Hugo award. Faer third book, Sorrowland, was published in May 2021.

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of 2013 by the Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She will be inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2022.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of non-fiction The Devil’s Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea is the best-selling author of the novels The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, Queen of America, and most recently, The House of Broken Angels, as well as the story collection The Water Museum, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors.

Jess Walter is the author of seven novels, most recently the 2020 national bestseller The Cold Millions. Among his other novels are Beautiful Ruins, a 2012 #1 New York Times bestseller; The Zero, a 2006 finalist for the National Book Award; and Citizen Vince, winner of the 2005 Edgar Award. His short fiction has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, as well as Harpers, Esquire, and many others, and is collected in the books We Live in Water (2013) and the forthcoming The Angel of Rome and Other Stories.

Weike Wang is the author of the novels Chemistry and Joan Is Okay. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Redivider, and The New Yorker, among other publications, and her fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She is the recipient of the 2018 Pen/Hemingway Award, a Whiting Award, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Prize.