Carrie Coon currently stars on HBO’s Emmy–nominated series The Gilded Age. She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she has performed in Mary Page Marlowe, Three Sisters, The March, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which also ran on Broadway, earning Coon a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress and a Theatre World Award. Her film and television credits include Gone Girl, The Post, Widows, Avengers: Infinity War, The Nest, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Sinner, The Leftovers (Critics’ Choice Television Award), Fargo, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Boston Strangler, His Three Daughters, Another Happy Day, and Lake George. Coon received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for her performances in The Leftovers and Fargo. Upcoming projects include season three of The White Lotus.
John Benjamin Hickey won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in The Normal Heart. He also received a Tony nomination for his performance in The Inheritance. Additionally, he has appeared on Broadway in Cabaret, The Crucible, Mary Stuart, and Six Degrees of Separation. His television credits include an Emmy-nominated performance in The Big C, Manh(a)ttan, In Treatment, The Good Wife, and The Good Fight, and films such as Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, Pitch Perfect, Sublet, Flags of Our Fathers, Mapplethorpe, The Ice Storm, and the upcoming Lilly, opposite Patricia Clarkson. Hickey directed the hit Broadway and West End revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, which originated as a reading here at Symphony Space.
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His debut novel, Carrie, earned him the title “the King of Horror.” Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone, Christine, Stand by Me, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile, and It. He has been honored with more than a dozen Bram Stoker awards, as well as Edgar, Mystery Writers of America, International Horror Guild, O. Henry, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy awards, among others, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the National Medal of Arts. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, Mr Mercedes, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both Mr Mercedes and End of Watch received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively. A prolific short story writer, King’s latest collection, You Like it Darker, was published in May of this year.
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the National Book Award, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His novel The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction as well as The Kirkus Prize and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. He is also the author of Harlem Shuffle, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. His latest novel, Crook Manifesto, was published in 2023.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife. She is a faculty member in the Creative Writing and Literature Program at The Lichtenstein Center at Stony Brook University, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive for emerging novelists. Wolitzer, who was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, is the radio and podcast host of Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts.
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Stephen King’s work is performed courtesy of Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents, Knopf Doubleday, and Scribner.
