Roberta Colindrez originated the role of Joan in the Tony Award–winning Broadway production of Fun Home. On television, she can currently be seen in A League of Their Own, the feature film Unidentified Objects, and the forthcoming Cassandro. Colindrez's additional television credits include memorable roles in I Love Dick, The Deuce, Vida, Mrs. America, and Monsterland, as well as appearances in Girls, The Good Fight, Home, Mr. Robot, Mrs. America, and The Harper House.

Jane Curtin has appeared on Broadway in Noises Off, Candida, and Our Town. Her off-Broadway work includes Love Letters and the musical revue Pretzels, which she co-wrote. She starred in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun and won back-to-back Emmy Awards for her role on Kate & Allie. She is an original cast member of Saturday Night Live and also starred in the television film series The Librarian and its spin-off, The Librarians. Her film credits include Coneheads; Antz; I Love You, Man; I Don’t Know How She Does It; The Heat; The Spy Who Dumped Me; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; Ode to Joy; Godmothered; and Queen Bees. She starred on the television series Unforgettable and has had guest appearances on The Good Wife, 48 Hours ’til Monday, The Good Fight, Broad City, and United We Fall. Upcoming projects include the film Jules, opposite Sir Ben Kingsley.

Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role as Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, for which she received 7 consecutive Emmy nominations as well as nominations for the Golden Globe and SAG Awards. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Yale School of Drama, Kaczmarek made her television debut on The Paper Chase and Hill Street Blues. On stage, she has appeared on Broadway and off, and for 6 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her recent theater credits include Long Day's Journey Into Night with Alfred Molina and Our Town with Deaf West Theatre. Kaczmarek’s favorite job is raising her three kids and reading/hosting Selected Shorts across America.

John Turturro is an actor and director whose notable film credits include Do the Right Thing; Barton Fink; Quiz Show; The Big Lebowski; The Truce; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; and Mia Madre. He is the director of six films, including Mac, which was honored with the Caméra d’Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, and most recently, The Jesus Rolls. On stage, he has appeared in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, for which was awarded an Obie, Italian-American Reconciliation, La Puta Vida, The Bald Soprano, Steel on Steel, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, End Game, and The Cherry Orchard. Turturro is also known for his television roles on Monk, for which he won an Emmy, The Night Of, The Bronx Is Burning, The Name of the Rose, The Plot Against America, The Batman, and Severance. Upcoming projects include Bless Me Father, Can't Go Home, and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.

Michael Urie starred in the Off-Broadway one-man show Buyer & Cellar, for which he received the Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, LA Theatre Critics, and the Clarence Derwent Awards, and in The Temperamentals, for which he received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. Additional stage credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Angels in America, Torch Song, Grand Horizons, and most recently, Chicken and Biscuits. On screen, he played Marc St. James on Ugly Betty, and has appeared on Modern Family, The Good Wife, Hot in Cleveland, Workaholics, The Good Fight, Younger, and Almost Family. Recent film credits include Swan Song, The Extinction of Fireflies, and Single All the Way. He will soon be seen in Apple TV+’s new series Shrinking and opposite Nick Jonas in Jersey Boys Live. Urie co-directed the documentary Thank You for Judging, directed the film He’s Way More Famous Than You and the Web series What’s Your Emergency, and served as the co-host of Cocktails & Classics on Logo TV.

Roy Wood Jr. is a stand-up comedian, producer, and actor who is currently a correspondent on Comedy Central's Emmy and NAACP award-winning The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He has had three stand-up specials on Comedy Central: Father Figure in 2017, No One Loves You in 2019, and his latest, Imperfect Messenger, in 2021. Most recently, he starred alongside Jon Hamm in the Fletch sequel Confess Fletch as well as Better Call Saul, Only Murders in the Building, The Last O.G., and Space Force. Wood is the Executive Producer of the 2022 Emmy-nominated documentary The Neutral Ground, as well as 1% Happy for HBO Max and an untitled medical comedy for NBC. He is also set to produce, write, and star in a forthcoming comedy about the National Guard for FOX.

Jorge F. Hernández is a Mexican writer and essayist. He has published four novels, five short stories collections, and five essay collections. In 2000 he won the Efrén Hernández National Award for best short story. He is finishing his P.h.D. in the Complutense University in Madrid and was a teacher in universities across Mexico. His columns appear regularly in various newspapers and magazines such as Artes de México, Cambio, Matador, Vuelta, El País, Novedades, and Reforma.

Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Fiction, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Marra has contributed pieces to The Atlantic, Granta, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. His most recent novel, Mercury Pictures Presents, was released in August 2022.

Zadie Smith’sfirst novel, White Teeth, was the winner of The Whitbread First Novel Award, The Guardian First Book Award, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and The Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Award. The Autograph Man won The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize, and On Beauty won the Orange Prize for Fiction, A Commonwealth Writers’ Best Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. NW was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Swing Time, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Man Booker 2017. Her first essay collection, Changing My Mind, was published in 2009, followed by Feel Free in 2018 and Intimations in 2020. Smith is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists. She writes regularly for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Her recent play, The Wife of Willesden, earned her a 2022 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award.

Kelly Stout has been writing humor pieces for The New Yorker since 2014. Her writing has also been featured in Esquire, Jezebel, Deadspin, and The Awl. She is the Articles Director for Esquire.

Born and raised in Florida, Laura van den Berg is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, & a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.