ACTORS & ARTISTS
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, and 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 forthcoming miniseries Your Honor.
David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His second novel, Mystery Girl, was picked as one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2013. Additional works include the short story collection White Tiger on Snow Mountain and the novels The Bouncer and The Hard Stuff. Gordon’s work has appeared in The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications.
Stana Katic is currently executive producing and starring as Emily Byrne in Amazon’s Absentia. She previously starred as Kate Beckett on ABC’s hit series Castle for 8 seasons. Her feature film work includes CBGB, Big Sur, The Spirit, Feast of Love, The Double, Quantum of Solace, The Possession of Hannah Grace, and A Call to Spy. Katic made her off-Broadway debut in 2016 in White Rabbit Red Rabbit.
Ben Loory is the author of Tales of Fallingand Flying and Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, as well as a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Electric Literature, and The Sewanee Review, been anthologized in The New Voices of Fantasy and Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. Loory is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches short story writing at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
John Cameron Mitchell is the co-creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He also directed the films Shortbus, Rabbit Hole, and How to Talk to Girls at Parties. His film and television credits as an actor include Girls, Vinyl, Mozart in the Jungle, Shrill, and The Good Fight. He toured internationally with The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig, culminating at Town Hall for 50th Pride in June 2019. Mitchell is the co-creator of the musical Anthem: Homunculus with Bryan Weller and featuring himself, Glenn Close, Denis O'Hare, Patti Lupone, Cynthia Erivo, and Nakhane, presented as a podcast by the Luminary Podcast Network.
Benjamin Rosenbaum is the author of the collection The Ant King and Other Stories and the forthcoming novel The Unraveling. His stories have been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, BSFA, and World Fantasy awards, among others, and have been featured in Nature, Harper’s, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, McSweeney’s, and Strange Horizons, among other publications.
Michael Urie starred in the Off-Broadway one-man show Buyer & Cellar, for which he received the Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, LA Theatre Critics, and the Clarence Derwent Awards, and in The Temperamentals, for which he received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. Additional stage credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Angels in America, Torch Song, and most recently, Grand Horizons. On screen, he played Marc St. James on Ugly Betty, and has appeared on Modern Family, The Good Wife, Hot in Cleveland, Workaholics, The Good Fight, Younger, and Almost Family. Urie co-directed the documentary Thank You for Judging, directed the film He’s Way More Famous Than You and the Web series What’s Your Emergency, and served as the co-host of Cocktails & Classics on Logo TV.
