Nicholas Barasch most recently starred as Frederic in Roundabout Theatre Company’s Pirates! The Penzance Musical, a performance that garnered him the Clarence Derwent Award, as well as a Drama Desk Award nomination. Previously, he starred as Orpheus in the first national tour of Hadestown, and received Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel Award nominations for his critically acclaimed leading role in Irish Repertory Theatre’s The Butcher Boy. At age 10, Barasch made his Broadway debut in the 2009 revival of West Side Story, performing one of the show’s signature songs “Somewhere,” which he recorded for the Grammy Award–winning cast album. Additional Broadway credits include The Mystery of Edwin Drood and She Loves Me, for which he earned the Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theatre, as well as nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. On television, Barasch recurred as Julian Blossom on the final season of the CW series Riverdale. Additional screen credits include Bull on CBS, Low Tide with A24, How to Make it in America on HBO, and The Backyardigans on Nickelodeon.

Crystal Dickinson recently starred in The Blood Quilt and Broke-ology at Lincoln Center. She won the Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 2012 production of Clybourne Park and subsequently appeared in You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway in 2014. Her additional theater credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Seven Guitars, Wine in the Wilderness, and Gem of the Ocean at Two River Theater, Lessons in Survival at the Vineyard, The Low Road and Cullud Wattah at The Public, Covenant at the Roundabout, The Trees at Playwright’s Horizons, and Blues for an Alabama Sky at the McCarter. Her film and television credits include The Accidental Wolf, I Origins, The Good Wife, Feed the Beast, New Amsterdam, and recurring roles on The CHI and For Life. Dickinson has taught at Stella Adler Studio, Spelman College, Pace University, Princeton University, the Juilliard School, NYU, University of Illinois, and Seton Hall.

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.

Acclaimed as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, Jessica Lange has dazzled the screen with more than 30 credits to her name. Lange has won a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, three Emmys, five Golden Globes, and one SAG Award. On Broadway, she received the Tony and Drama Desk awards for her performance as Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night, a role she also performed in the West End. She made her Broadway debut in A Streetcar Named Desire and also starred in The Glass Menagerie. Lange was nominated for a 2024 Tony Award for her performance in Mother Play. She most recently starred in HBO’s The Great Lillian Hall, which was nominated for two Gold Derby TV Awards. From her rise to fame in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of King Kong and her Oscar-winning performances in Tootsie and Blue Sky, to her Emmy-winning work in Grey Gardens and the American Horror Story series, Lange recently returned to TV anthology series with Feud: Bette and Joan and Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans, and starred in the film adaptation of Long Day’s Journey Into Night alongside Ed Harris. Lange is also a noted photographer, showing her prints in exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Barcelona. Her published works include 50 Photographs, In Mexico, and Highway 61. In 2024, she presented a selection from her photo book Dérive at the Deutsches Theatermuseum. The production company Cinergistik recently announced production on Jessica Lange: Something About the Light. The documentary will invite viewers on a deeply personal journey through the worlds Lange has captured with her Leica M6 camera during her more than twenty-year career in photography.

Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels of Apeirogon and TransAtlantic, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Let the Great World Spin, for which he was honored with the National Book Award; as well as Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs. He is also the author of three story collections: Everything in this Country Must, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, and Thirteen Ways of Looking; and the nonfiction books Letters to a Young Writer and American Mother. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, McCann has been the recipient of many international honors, including the International Dublin Literary Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government, election to the Irish Arts Academy, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, and an Oscar nomination. His work has been published in more than 40 languages. McCann is the co-founder and president of the global non-profit story exchange organization Narrative 4, which helps build empathy in young people, encouraging them to improve their communities. His latest novel, Twist, was published in 2025.

Aedín Moloney is an award-winning actress with a career spanning 35 years and 2 continents. She recently played Irish immigrant Mary Conway opposite Paul Mescal in the feature film The History of Sound. She spent 20 years adapting her unique interpretation of Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses, along with Colum McCann, to create Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom. Moloney's late father, Paddy Moloney, who was the founder and leader of The Chieftains and a 6-time Grammy winner, created accompanying music for her performance. Yes! has had three productions with the Irish Repertory Theatre, winning the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. She has also performed Yes! in Paris and Ireland. Additional award-winning performances include the role of George Eliot in the premiere of A Most Dangerous Woman at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Moloney is the founder and artistic director of the pioneering Fallen Angel Theatre Company, which focuses on works by and about Irish and British women.

Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone, and City of Bohane, as well as three story collections including That Old Country Music. In 2013 he edited and published Town and Country, a collection of Irish short stories. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and elsewhere. Barry also works as a playwright and screenwriter.

Anne Enright has published novels, short stories, and essays. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Her 2012 novel The Forgotten Waltz won the Andre Carnegie Medal for Fiction. Her novel The Green Road was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won The Irish Novel of the Year in 2015. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award, and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year. In 2025, Enright was named as a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize, awarded in recognition of her life's work. Her literary criticism has been published in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Irish Times.

Rory Gleeson is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the 2019 Burgess Writing Fellow at The University of Manchester, and was a recipient of a Literature Bursary from Arts Council Ireland in 2020. His debut novel Rockadoon Shore was published by John Murray Press. His short film Psychic premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2018 and was screened in competition at multiple international film festivals. His play Blood in the Dirt debuted at The New Theatre. His writing has featured in Granta, The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, Sunday Miscellany and The Dublin Review. His story The Body Audit was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2021.

Andrew Meehan is a novelist with an interest in the shapes and stories to be found in romantic and familial love. His most recent novel Best Friends, a Dublin-set story of love in later life, was published in the summer of last year, and his next novel, a wry and tender story of male friendship called Hey Man, will be published later this year. His debut novel One Star Awake was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for debut novelists. His second book The Mystery of Love, a unique and moving reimagining of the relationship between Constance and Oscar Wilde, was published in 2020. His short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Banshee, Winter Papers, and in Town and Country: The Faber Book of New Irish Stories.