Teagle F. Bougere recently portrayed James Baldwin in the American Vicarious virtual production of Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley, and co-starred with Catherine Zeta-Jones in the webseries Queen America. Additional theater credits include The Crucible, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Tempest on Broadway, Socrates at The Public Theater, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Cymbeline in Central Park, The New Englanders at Manhattan Theater Club, A Soldier’s Play at Second Stage, and A Fair Country at Lincoln Center. His film and television credits include Hill ’n’ Gully, Good Friday, Conviction, Cosby, The Job, Third Watch, Murder in Black and White, Night at the Museum, The Imposters, The Pelican Brief, Two Weeks Notice, What the Deaf Man Heard, and Bull.

Bobby Cannavale is a two-time Emmy Award winner for his work on Will & Grace and Boardwalk Empire. Additional film and television credits include The Station Agent; Nurse Jackie, for which he received two Emmy nominations; Blue Jasmine; Ant-Man; Vinyl; Master of None; I, Tonya; Homecoming; Angie Tribeca; Motherless Brooklyn; The Irishman; The Jesus Rolls; Mr. Robot; Bojack Horseman; Superintelligence; Jolt; Nine Perfect Strangers; and Blonde, among others. On stage, Cannavale has appeared in Mauritius, for which he earned a Tony nomination, The Motherf**ker With the Hat, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and earned a Tony nomination, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Big Knife, The Lifespan of a Fact, and Medea at BAM. He will appear in the forthcoming films Old Dads and Incoming.

Joel Coen is a filmmaker based in New York. He has directed nineteen films, the most recent of which is an adaptation of Macbeth.

Marlon James is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King, the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, and The Book of Night Women and John Crow’s Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, his novels have won the American Book Award, the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Jamaica, James lives in New York City.

Mary Karr is an award-winning poet & memoirist with four New York Times best-sellers: The Liars' Club, Cherry, Lit: A Memoir, and The Art of Memoir.

The novels of the American writer Cormac McCarthy have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture.

Susannah Rogers’ theater credits include Robert Schenkkan's All the Way on Broadway and numerous regional theater productions, including the world premieres of Amy Freed’s Shrew, Jeff Whitty’s The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Richard Nelson’s How Shakespeare Won the West, Lucinda Coxon’s Nostalgia, and Joan Rivers’ The Joan Rivers Theater Project. Television and film credits include Gotham, The Path, Mr. Robot, Younger, Jacob Estes’ He’s Watching, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, adapted and directed by Marielle Heller, Trouble, written and directed by Theresa Rebeck, and the forthcoming 12 Hours in the Life of Jason Bruckner.

Amor Towles is the author of The New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and most recently, The Lincoln Highway. The three novels have collectively sold more than six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages.