ACTORS & ARTISTS
Joan Aiken (1924 - 2004) was awarded a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to children’s literature. Her novel The Whispering Mountain, part of the Wolves Chronicles series, won the prestigious Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and her novel Night Fall won the Edgar Allan Poe Award. In total, Aiken published more than one hundred works, including the Arabel and Mortimer series, transformative retellings of Jane Austen, and the posthumously released collection The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories.
Tracee Chimo earned the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her performance in Bad Jews at the Roundabout. Her theater credits include Circle Mirror Transformation, for which she won Obie and Drama Desk Awards, and has been seen on Broadway in Harvey, The Heidi Chronicles, Noises Off, and Irena's Vow. On television, she's had recurring roles on Orange Is the New Black, Difficult People, and People of Earth. Additional television work includes Black Box, The Money, Royal Pains, High Maintenance, The Good Wife, Instinct, Genius: Picasso, Madam Secretary. Chimo’s film credits include Black Hat, Concussion, Take Care, Side Effects, Sully, and Private Life.
Laurie Colwin (1944 - 1992) wrote numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, and A Big Storm Knocked It Over, and the short story collections Passion and Affect, The Lone Pilgrim, and Another Marvelous Thing. A frequent contributor to Gourmet, many of her articles for the magazine were published in her essay collections Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Colwin was also a contributor to The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, and Allure, among other publications.
Hope Davis has appeared in the films About Schmidt; American Splendor; Synecdoche, New York; Captain America: Civil War; and Rebel in the Rye, among others. On television, Davis’s credits include In Treatment, The Newsroom, The Special Relationship, Allegiance, American Crime, Wayward Pines, with recent recurring roles in the series For the People, Strange Angel, and Love Life. Her theater credits include Ivanov, Two Shakespearean Actors, Spinning Into Butter, Food Chain, Measure for Measure, God of Carnage, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and The Red Barn. She will appear in the miniseries Your Honor.
Angel Desai made her Broadway debut in the 2006 Tony Award-winning revival of Company, and has been featured in many off-Broadway productions, including Peer Gynt and the Norwegian Hapa Band, The Tempest at CSC, Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons, and An Ordinary Muslim at New York Theatre Workshop. Desai’s television credits include Unladylike, For Life, NCIS: New Orleans, City on a Hill, Bull, Jessica Jones, Chicago Med, Minority Report, Madam Secretary, Major Crimes, and Damages. She is a recipient of a 2017 New Harmony Lab grant and a 2014 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, is a 52nd Street Project volunteer, and has an MFA in Acting from NYU.
Kiran Desai is the author of the novels Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, winner of the Betty Trask Award, and The Inheritance of Loss, winner of the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin in 2013 and was listed one of 20 Most Influential Global Indian Women by The Economic Times in 2015.
Sonia Manzano is known to millions as Maria on Sesame Street, a character she played from 1971 to 2015, and has earned fifteen Emmy Awards as a writer for the show. Her theater credits include The Exonerated; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; and the original production of Godspell. She is the author of the picture books A World Together, No Dogs Allowed!; A Box Full of Kittens; and Miracle on 133rd Street, as well as the middle-grade novel The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and her memoir, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx. In 2016, Manzano received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
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