Will Brill won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Stereophonic, the most Tony-nominated play of all time. He most recently starred as Dr. Anthony Fauci in the Off-Broadway run of Kramer/Fauci. Will’s film and TV credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Fellow Travelers, and Darren Aronofsky’s recent film Caught Stealing. He also starred in Giselle Bonilla’s debut film The Musical, which premiered at Sundance in January.

Eden Espinosa was nominated for Tony and Drama League awards for her stunning performance as Tamara De Lempicka in the Broadway musical Lempicka. She is best known for her portrayals of Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway and in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Maureen Johnson in the final Broadway company of Rent, as well as performances in the cult favorite Brooklyn the Musical on Broadway and Michael John LaChuisa's The Gardens of Anuncia at Lincoln Center. Her television and film credits include Happy Hours with Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson, Brilliant Minds on NBC, and The Equalizer and FBI: Most Wanted on CBS. Espinosa was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work as The Queen of Hearts in Disney's Alice's Wonderland Bakery. She is also known for her voice work as Cassandra in the series Tangled, Robot Chicken, MAD TV, Elena of Avalor, and Titan Maximum. Espinosa's albums can be found on all streaming platforms and are available at www.edenespinosa.com.

Jeff Hiller is an Emmy-winning actor for his performance in the HBO series Somebody Somewhere. He has appeared on TV shows such as Pluribus, Will Trent, Stumble, Elsbeth, American Horror Story: NYC, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, 30 Rock, and Law & Order: CI, among numerous others. His film roles include Greta, Morning Glory, Ghost Town, and Set It Up, and he has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in Shakespeare in the Park, Disney musicals, and regional theater. Jeff regularly performs solo shows at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater and improvises at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA and NYC. Hiller’s memoir, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success, was published in 2025.

Jennifer Mudge can currently be seen on the Apple TV hit series Your Friends and Neighbors starring Jon Hamm, and HBO’s Emmy and Peabody–winning Somebody Somewhere. She has appeared on Broadway, in a box-office record-breaking show in the West End, Off-Broadway (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominee), and many beloved regional theaters. In film and TV, she’s worked with Martin Scorsese and Hal Hartley, starred in indies, and been on a slew of New York–based shows. She runs a production company with Liesl Tommy, Crocodile Eyes, where they have projects in deep development with partners such as Alex Dinelaris (Lexicon), Wagner Johnson Productions, Proximity Media, and NBC-Universal, including a stage musical adaptation of Imitation of Life by John Legend and Lynn Nottage premiering in 2026.

Madeline Weinstein has appeared on Broadway in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, as well as The Real Thing directed by Sam Gold at the Roundabout Theatre. Additional theater credits include The Ally, Medea, and the world premiere of Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe. On screen, Weinstein has been seen in Mare of Easttown, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Shades of Blue, Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples, Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats, the Netflix feature film Alex Strangelove, and Queen of Glory. Weinstein is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Elissa Bassist is the author of the memoir Hysterical, a semifinalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her writing has appeared in over 30 publications and anthologies, and she’s taught for over 20 writing programs. Her next book is Inside Jokes: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers.

Austin Blaze is a writer from Northern California. His work has appeared in Hobart, BULL, Red Rock Review, and Superstition Review. “Hail Mary” was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2025.

Jacob Guajardo’s fiction has appeared in Hobart, Wigleaf, Passages North, Best American Short Stories, and Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Richie Narvaez is the award-winning author of two novels, Hipster Death Rattle and Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco, as well as two short story collections, Roachkiller & Other Stories and, most recently, Noiryorican. A recipient of a Letras Boricuas Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Arts Fund, he teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Erin Somers is a reporter and news editor at Publishers Lunch. Her first novel, Stay Up with Hugo Best, was a Vogue Best Book of the Year in 2019. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, New York magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. She has been the recipient of an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the NYC Center for Fiction, a fellowship from the Millay Colony, and was a 2020 finalist for a National Magazine Award. Her latest novel, The Ten Year Affair, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025.