Betsy Aidem has appeared on Broadway in Liberation (Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble; New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Ensemble; Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Prayer for the French Republic (Tony Award nomination; Drama League Award nomination; Richard Seff Award), Leopoldstadt (Tony Award for Best Play), All the Way (Tony Award for Best Play), and Beautiful. Her Off-Broadway credits include The Ask (Drama Desk Award nomination), Prayer for the French Republic (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Nikolai and the Others, The Metal Children, Mary Rose, Celebration, Final Follies, and Crooked, among others. Her film and television credits include Triumph of the Will, Margaret, Irrational Man, Savant, Bull, Inside Amy Schumer, Law & Order: SVU, and The Americans. She is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

Laurie Anderson is a writer, director, composer, visual artist, musician, and vocalist. Her live shows include United States, Empty Places, Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, and Delusion. In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA, which culminated in her 2004 touring solo performance The End of the Moon. She has directed multiple films, such as Home of the Brave, Carmen, Hidden Inside Mountains, and Heart of a Dog. As a performer and musician, she has collaborated with Brian Eno, Jean-Michel Jarre, William S. Burroughs, Peter Gabriel, Robert Wilson, Christian McBride, and Philip Glass. As a composer, she has contributed music to films by Wim Wenders and Jonathan Demme, dance pieces by Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Molissa Fenley, and scores for theater productions including plays by Robert LePage. Anderson has published ten books and been nominated for five Grammys throughout her recording career with Warner Records and Nonesuch. Her visual work has been featured in many galleries and museums around the world including France, Brazil, and Sweden. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the Wolf Prize. In 2024, Anderson received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at the 66th Grammy Awards, the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication at the Starmus VII Festival, and the Gold Medal for Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has worked on numerous projects in AI with the Machine Learning Institute in Adelaide, Australia, where she was artist in residence in 2020. Anderson recently debuted her latest show, ARK: United States Part V, commissioned by the Manchester International Festival. Her life partner as well as her collaborator was Lou Reed from 1992 onward. They married in 2008 and worked on numerous projects together until his death in 2013.

Roz Chast is a founding member of the power duo Ukelear Meltdown. Her cartoons began appearing in The New Yorker in 1978, where she has since published more than one thousand of her drawings. She is the author of the graphic memoirs Going Into Town, which won the New York City Book Award; the #1 New York Times bestseller Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize winner and finalist for the National Book Award; What I Hate: From A to Z; and her cartoon collections The Party, After You Left, and Theories of Everything, among others. In October 2024, she was awarded a National Humanities medal by President Biden in a ceremony at the White House. Chast’s latest work, The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation, co-written with Jason Adam Katzenstein, will be forthcoming in October 2026.

Judy Gold is a comedy powerhouse. She has had standup specials on HBO, Comedy Central, and LOGO. She is the author of Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble, a critically acclaimed book about free speech and cancel-culture, which debuted as the number-one comedy release on Amazon and was featured in The New York Times Book Review. Judy has written and starred in three critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit shows: the aforementioned Yes, I Can Say That!; The Judy Show — My Life as a Sitcom, which received an Outer Critics Circle Nomination; and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, for which she received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater and a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play. Judy received rave reviews as Gremio in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park all-female production of The Taming of The Shrew. Recent film credits include Busted!, She Came To Me, Tripped Up, 31 Candles, and Love…Reconsidered. Judy won two Emmy Awards for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show. She's had recurring roles on Better Things, City On a Hill, The First Lady, Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, and Search Party. Additional TV appearances include Extrapolations, Life & Beth, Broad City, and Girls5eva. Judy appears frequently on The View, Today, The Sherri Sheppard Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, and can also be found on MSNBC, NewsNation, and CNN as a free speech advocate. She has been a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show. Her presence also extends into documentaries with credits ranging from cult favorites such as The Aristocrats to cultural touchstones: Netflix’s Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration, Hulu’s Hysterical, XLCD: The Story of Cancel Culture, and The Last Laugh. Judy hosted HBO’s At the Multiplex with Judy Gold from 1999–2009, as well as the weekly hit podcast Kill Me Now from 2015–2025. She has three albums: Conduct Unbecoming, Kill Me Now, and Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby. You can find her on social media at @JewdyGold.

Annabelle Gurwitch is an actress, activist, and New York Times bestselling author of six books and a two-time Thurber Prize finalist. Her essays and satire have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post among other publications. Her books include the New York Times bestseller ISee You Made an Effort and You're Leaving When? a New York Times “Favorite Book for Healthy Living.” Annabelle co-hosted the fan favorite Dinner and a Movie on TBS and was a regular commentator on NPR. She is a Jewish mother, lung cancer survivor and patient advocate, a terrible ukulele player, and an unrepentant cat lady who lives in Los Angeles. The End of My Life Is Killing Me was published today.

Patricia Marx is a founding member of the power duo Ukelear Meltdown. She is a New Yorker staff writer, former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats, and author of the novels Him Her Him Again the End of Him and Starting from Happy, both Thurber Prize finalists. Her nonfiction work Let's Be Less Stupid was the first and only winner of the Friedrich Medal, an award made up by Patty and named after her air conditioner. She teaches at Columbia, Princeton, and Stony Brook. She and Roz Chast have collaborated on several books, including Tired Town, Now Everybody Really Hates Me, Meet My Staff, and You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples. She was the first woman on the Harvard Lampoon, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Marx can take a baked potato out of the oven with her bare hand. She divides her time between her living room and kitchen.

Kate Micucci is an Emmy-nominated musician, actress—The Big Bang Theory, Garfunkel and Oates, and the Scooby Doo series—and now author. Her debut book, The Monster and Puppet Show, is part of the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series created by Mo Willems. You might find Kate singing original songs among puppets or painting art on trash in the streets of New York City.

Jen Tullock is an actor and writer best known for her roles as Devon in Apple TV’s Severance and Anita St. Pierre in HBO’s Perry Mason. She co-wrote and starred in the Sundance dramedy Before You Know It. The film, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, stars Tullock alongside Alec Baldwin, Judith Light, Mandy Patinkin, and co-writer Hannah Pearl Utt. Her short with Utt, Partners, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and their feature was a participant in the 2017 Sundance Screenwriter Labs. Their comedy Disengaged was the premiere series for Turner's streaming platform Super Deluxe. Theater credits include multiple plays in Chicago and New York at The Vineyard, 59E59 St., Playwrights Horizons, and Joe’s Pub, etc. Her screen credits include the Apple Original Film Spirited, the Netflix original 6 Balloons, Casual, Smilf, Bless this Mess, The L Word, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Cameron Crowe's Roadies. Tullock's writing has been featured onstage at The New York Stage & Film Festival, Playwrights Horizons, in print as a contributing writer to the Huffington Post Queer Voices, and on Funny or Die's satire The Coop, which she also starred in. In 2025, she premiered her critically acclaimed one-woman show Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God, co-written with Frank Winters, at Playwrights Horizons. She will direct their feature film of the same title in 2027. Tullock is a SAG and Astra Awards nominee and Sundance screenwriting fellow.

Young Jean Lee is an experimental playwright, director, filmmaker, musician, and two-time OBIE award winner. With her production company, she has written and directed We’re Gonna Die; Untitled Feminist Show; Lear; The Shipment; Church; Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven; Pullman, WA; The Appeal; Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals; and Yaggoo. Her works have toured more than thirty cities around the world. In 2018, Lee became the first Asian-American playwright to have a play produced on Broadway with Straight White Men. She has also written and directed the short films, Here Come the Girls, Reenactment, and 20 Years of Asian American Playwriting. She directed and starred in the short film A Meaning Full Life. Lee’s band, Future Wife, released their debut album, We’re Gonna Die, in 2013.