Jelani Alladin is a fast-emerging star who is establishing himself across television, film, and theater. Alladin recently starred in Showtime’s Golden Globe and Critics Choice–nominated limited series Fellow Travelers, in which The A.V. Club called Alladin’s performance “a revelation.” Upcoming, Alladin will star in the independent feature C-Side. Previously, Alladin has appeared in The Walking Dead: World Beyond for AMC, Law & Order: SVU, and FBI. On film, Alladin starred in Netflix’s Tick, Tick… Boom! and MGM’s Respect in 2021. On stage, he was last seen as Hercules in Public Works’ musical adaptation of Disney’s Hercules. Alladin made his Broadway debut starring as Kristoff in Disney’s Frozen, earning a Drama Desk nomination for Best Leading Actor and a Drama League nomination for Distinguished Performance. Additional credits include audiobooks for the New York Times notable My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson and Boys Come First by Aaron Foley. Alladin is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of The Arts.

Daniel Breaker has been featured on Broadway in Hadestown, Once Upon a Mattress, Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, The Performers, Shrek the Musical, for which he received a Drama Desk nomination, Passing Strange (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Nomination, Theatre World Award, Audelco Award), Cymbeline, and Well. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in Love's Labour’s Lost; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Passing Strange; Fabulation; and Pericles; and in London in How to Act Around Cops. His regional credits include performances with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater; the Intiman Theatre in Seattle; South Coast Rep; the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; the Berkshire Theater Festival and the Barrington Stage, both in Massachusetts; and the Sundance Theater Lab. On screen, Breaker has been seen in Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Limitless with Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, He’s Way More Famous than You, Red Hook Summer and Passing Strange, both directed by Spike Lee, Billions, Girls5eva, The Good Fight, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Mozart in the Jungle, Unforgettable, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Deborah S. Craig is an award-winning actress, writer, and singer who made Broadway history creating the first Korean American character when she originated the role of Marcy Park in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a role she based on her own overachieving childhood, earning critical acclaim and a Drama Desk Award. On screen, her films include Me Time opposite Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg, and Regina Hall; Meet Cute with Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson; and The Tiger’s Apprentice from Paramount Animation. She currently recurs on Season 3 of And Just Like That… as Eesha Kim and on Elsbeth, and has appeared in countless television series including Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, The Blacklist, Better Things, Workaholics, Transparent, and Hart of Dixie. A series regular opposite Ken Jeong in the pilot The Emperor of Malibu, created by Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan, Craig continues to pave the way for inclusive storytelling across stage and screen. IG: @thedeborahscraig

Santino Fontana has received the Tony Award, two Drama Desks, an Outer Critics Circle, a Lortel, an Obie, and the Clarence Derwent Award for his work in both plays and musicals. He was most recently seen on Broadway in his virtuosic Tony-winning turn as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie. The New York Times wrote, “Santino Fontana [is] one of the most promising actors to emerge in the New York theater.” New York Magazine heralded him as an “indispensable stage star.” He’s been in 10 Broadway shows. Additionally, he is widely known for lending his voice to the villainous Prince Hans in Disney’s Academy Award–winning animated feature Frozen. On television, Fontana was recently seen on Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie, and the Emmy-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.  He starred on CW’s comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as fan favorite Greg and NBC’s drama Shades of Blue, opposite Jennifer Lopez, simultaneously.  A critically acclaimed narrator of dozens of audiobooks, he was the original voice of Joe in Caroline Kepnes’s cult hit You and all its sequels. He received the Audie award for Stephen King’s The Institute and was chosen to read Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Andy Grotelueschen has been seen on Broadway in Tootsie, for which he received a Tony nomination, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, and Cyrano de Bergerac; Off-Broadway in The Seat of Our Pants at the Public, Assassins with Classic Stage Company, Tumacho with Clubbed Thumb, The Odyssey at the Delacorte, The Taming of the Shrew with Theatre for a New Audience, Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods, for which he received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Cymbeline, and Two Gentlemen of Verona, receiving the St. Clair Bayfield Award. His screen credits include the role of Sleepy in Snow White, A Complete Unknown, The Gilded Age, Elementary, The Good Wife, and The Knick. Grotelueschen received his MFA from Brown/Trinity Rep. He is a member of the Fiasco Theater company.

Harriet Harris was last seen in NYC wearing a crown in the Encores production of Once Upon a Mattress. She recently wrapped season two of The Agency. Harris was nominated for an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Hacks. Her film credits include Jules, the upcoming Borges and Me, featured roles in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza and Phantom Thread, Memento, and Addams Family Values. On television, she’s known for her multi-season arcs on Frasier and Desperate Housewives. Additional credits include Long Bright River, Ratched, Atlantic Crossing, American Horror Story, and the Marvel television special Werewolf by Night. She has appeared in many plays and musicals, both on and Off-Broadway, sometimes in drama, sometimes in comedy, usually as a menace, and won both the Drama Desk and Tony Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Tony Shalhoub is a Golden Globe, SAG, and three-time Emmy Award–winner for his leading role on Monk. His screen credits include Wings, Men in Black, The Siege, Galaxy Quest, Big Night, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Spy Kids, Cars, Nurse Jackie, The Company You Keep, Central Park, Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie, Linoleum, Flamin’ Hot, BrainDead, Final Portrait, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for which he was honored with an Emmy Award. On Broadway, he has appeared in The Odd Couple, The Heidi Chronicles, Conversations with My Father, Lend Me a Tenor, Golden Boy, Act One, and The Price. In 2018, Shalhoub earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Band’s Visit. Forthcoming theater projects include the Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), a reimagining of the ancient play by Sophocles, at the Public Theater in 2026. Tony currently hosts the CNN food and travel series Breaking Bread.

Sarah Stiles is an actor, singer, and writer. She is a two-time Tony nominee for her role as Sandy in the Broadway production of Tootsie and her performance as Jessica in Hand to God. Most recently she starred opposite Mark Linn Baker in Red Bull’s production of The Imaginary Invalid, and her first short film as a screenwriter, Green Eggs For Pam, is currently in post production. Sarah can be seen in the Paramount feature film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and as Brenda in Brenda and Billy (and the Pothos Plant), which premiered at Tribeca and is now available to stream. She stars opposite Kevin James in the Netflix comedy The Crew. She is also one of the stars in the critically acclaimed EPIX Original Series Get Shorty. She reoccurs as Bonnie on Showtime’s Billions and voices the character Spinel in Steven Universe: The Movie and Steven Universe Future and Mimzy in Hazbin Hotel. Her other Broadway productions include On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Avenue Q, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Additional television and film credits include Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, Billy Crystal’s Here Today, This Will Never Work, Sheriff Country, The Equalizer, I’m Dying Up Here, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Blacklist, Dietland, and the animated Sunny Day for Nickelodeon. Sarah lends her voice on the recording of Pasek and Paul’s James and the Giant Peach. Her solo show, Squirrel Heart, played to sold-out audiences at Joe’s Pub at the Public. @lulubellestiles

Julie White won the Tony Award for her performance in The Little Dog Laughed and received Tony Award nominations for Airline Highway, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, and POTUS. Additional theater credits include A Doll’s House Part 2; Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike; Sylvia; The Understudy; and Fiction. White originated the role of Haley Walker in Bad Dates Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and subsequently played the role in Boston (Elliot Norton Award) and the Dallas Theater Center. Her television credits include series regular roles on How We Roll and Go On, as well as recurring roles in American Horror Story: Delicate, NCIS: Hawaii, Designated Survivor, Alpha House, Six Feet Under, and Nurse Jackie. On film, she is best known for the Transformers series as well as Lincoln, A Very Murray Christmas, My Idiot Brother, and Michael Clayton.

Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife, among other novels. The Interestings is currently being adapted as a musical, with a book by Sarah Ruhl and music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles. Wolitzer was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017 and also writes books for young readers. She is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Stony Brook University, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a yearlong intensive for emerging novelists.

Moss Hart (1904 – 1961) began his career as a playwright in 1925 with The Hold-Up Man, yet achieved his first major success in the 1930 collaboration with George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime. In addition to numerous Broadway productions, such as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take it With You, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1938, Hart wrote screenplays for Gentleman's Agreement and A Star is Born. Hart also gained universal recognition for his award-winning direction of My Fair Lady and Camelot. In 2014, his memoir, Act One, was adapted into a play at Lincoln Center, starring Santino Fontana, Andrea Martin, and Tony Shalhoub.