Kathleen Chalfant’s on and off-Broadway credits include Four Quartets, Angels in America, Racing Demon, Dance with Me, M. Butterfly, Wit, Dear Elizabeth, Broadway On Demand’s live-stream production of We Have to Hurry, The Year of Magical Thinking, and Here There Are Blueberries. Her film and television credits include Duplicity, Kinsey, Bob Roberts, Old, Law & Order, The Guardian, The Affair, The Book of Daniel, Rescue Me, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, Doubt, The Laramie Project, Georgia O'Keeffe, Before/During/After, Bull, and The Courtroom. Chalfant’s most recent film, Familiar Touch, won the Lion of the Future award at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival, where her performance also earned the Best Actress award in the Orizzonti competition. She received the 2018 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work, the Drama Desk Award for best actress in 1999, and was nominated for a Tony for her work in Angels in America. Chalfant is set to appear in Peacock’s upcoming thriller series The Copenhagen Test alongside Simu Liu, Brian D'Arcy James, and Melissa Barrera.

Santino Fontana is known for his Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Award–winning portrayal of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the Broadway production of Tootsie, and for voicing the character Prince Hans in Disney’s Academy Award–winning animated feature Frozen. With Encores!, he has starred in off-Broadway productions of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; 1776; and Zorba. On Broadway, he has starred in The Importance of Being Earnest, for which he won a Clarence Derwent Award; Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award); Act One; Billy Elliot; Cinderella (Tony nomination); and Hello, Dolly! His onscreen credits include the currently airing Grotesquerie, as well as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sisters, Shades of Blue, Mozart in the Jungle, Submissions Only, Off the Menu, Fosse/Verdon, and Evil, with forthcoming roles in Lost & Found in Cleveland and his film directing debut in Death Wish. Fontana recently starred in the Classic Stage Company’s revival of I Can Get It for You Wholesale, for which he received Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations.

BD Wong has won all five New York theater awards, including the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Theater World Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Tony Award, for his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly, an achievement not yet duplicated by another actor for the same role. He has since appeared in numerous Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theater productions. Wong has appeared in more than 20 feature films, most notably including Heart of Stone, Bird Box, three Jurassic World films, Focus, Mulan 1 & 2, Seven Years in Tibet, Father of the Bride 1 & 2, and Jurassic Park, among others. On television, he has appeared in The Girls on the Bus, Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, Mr. Robot, for which he received both Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award nominations, American Horror Story: Apocalypse, Gotham, Madam Secretary, CSI: New Orleans, 11 seasons of Law & Order: SVU, Oz, All-American Girl, and more. He has been recognized by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian American Journalists Association, Asian AIDS Project, GLAAD, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, The Anti-Violence Project, Lambda Legal, Museum of Chinese in America, and Marriage Equality New York for his presence and participation in the community. He sits on the Board of Trustees of The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors’ Fund), American Conservatory Theatre, and Rosie’s Theater Kids. Wong was born and raised in San Francisco, CA and currently resides in New York City. @wongbd

Plays by David Mamet include China Doll, The Anarchist, Race, Keep Your Pantheon, School, November, Romance, Boston Marriage, Faustus, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Edmond, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Woods, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion, and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include Faustus and Red River by Pierre Laville; and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov. His films include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/director), Heist (writer/director), Spartan (writer/director), and Redbelt (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks, and Make-Believe Town, three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The China Man, a book of poems; Three Children’s Plays, On Directing Film, The Cabin; and the novels The Village, The Old Religion, and Wilson. His other books include the acting books True & False and Three Uses of the Knife, Bambi vs. Godzilla, The Secret Knowledge, The Wicked Son, Theatre, and Three War Stories. His most recent play, Bitter Wheat, was produced in the West End in 2019.