Crystal Dickinson recently starred in The Blood Quilt and Broke-ology at Lincoln Center. She won the Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 2012 production of Clybourne Park and subsequently appeared in You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway in 2014. Her additional theater credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Seven Guitars, Wine in the Wilderness, and Gem of the Ocean at Two River Theater, Lessons in Survival at the Vineyard, The Low Road and Cullud Wattah at The Public, Covenant at the Roundabout, The Trees at Playwright’s Horizons, and Blues for an Alabama Sky at the McCarter. Her film and television credits include The Accidental Wolf, 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.

Peter Grosz is a writer and actor whose credits include The Colbert Report, for which he earned two Emmy Awards, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Vinyl, Rough Night, The President Show, Veep, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Search Party, The Menu, Who Invited Charlie, Fleishman Is in Trouble, New Amsterdam, White House Plumbers, Elsbeth, and Catherine & Michael, which he also wrote and produced. In 2023, Grosz appeared on Broadway in Good Night, Oscar. Additionally, he is a regular panelist on Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!

Alysia Reiner is best known for her role as Fig on seven seasons of Orange Is the New Black, for which she received a SAG Award, and for originating Agent Sadie Deever in the 2023 Emmy and Critics Choice Award–winning Ms. Marvel. Additional recent television credits includes five seasons as Sunny on the Peabody Award–winning Better Things on FX and HULU, two seasons as Kiki on HBO’s The Deuce, two seasons as Kathryn in Sharon Horgan’s Shining Vale on HBO, and Season Two of Netflix’s The Diplomat, which is streaming now. Recent film credits include The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, and additional highlights include the Oscar-winning film Sideways, Broad City, and going head-to-head with Viola Davis in How to Get Away with Murder. Alysia has performed on stages from The Royal Court Theatre in London to the Apollo Theatre in Harlem NYC, to the Edinburgh Festival, where she won a Critics Choice Award. Select New York theater credits include An Oak Tree with Tim Crouch, which received a special Obie Award, My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre at The Public, Jesus in Manhattan with the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Pentecost with the Barrow Group.

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.

Jade Jones is a writer and educator. A former Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, she holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A winner of the 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, and Electric Literature. She lives in New Jersey, where she is the Director of Operations at Tailored Tutoring LLC. Her debut novel, Darlene, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Katherine Heiny is the author of Early Morning Riser; Standard Deviation; and Single, Carefree, Mellow, and her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and many other magazines. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and children, and is a former resident of London, The Hague, and Boyne City, Michigan.