Carrie Coon currently stars on HBO’s Emmy–nominated series The Gilded Age. She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she has performed in Mary Page Marlowe, Three Sisters, The March, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which also ran on Broadway, earning Coon a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress and a Theatre World Award. Her film and television credits include Gone Girl, The Post, Widows, Avengers: Infinity War, The Nest, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Sinner, The Leftovers (Critics’ Choice Television Award), Fargo, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Boston Strangler, His Three Daughters, Another Happy Day, and Lake George. Coon received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for her performances in The Leftovers and Fargo. Upcoming projects include season three of The White Lotus.

John Benjamin Hickey won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in The Normal Heart. He also received a Tony nomination for his performance in The Inheritance. Additionally, he has appeared on Broadway in Cabaret, The Crucible, Mary Stuart, and Six Degrees of Separation. His television credits include an Emmy-nominated performance in The Big C, Manh(a)ttan, In Treatment, The Good Wife, and The Good Fight, and films such as Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, Pitch Perfect, Sublet, Flags of Our Fathers, Mapplethorpe, The Ice Storm, and the upcoming Lilly, opposite Patricia Clarkson. Hickey directed the hit Broadway and West End revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, which originated as a reading here at Symphony Space.

David Morse can currently be seen in the Apple TV+ series The Last Thing He Told Me, starring Jennifer Garner and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, as well as the feature film Cabrini alongside John Lithgow and Christiana Dell’Anna. Additional recent credits include Netflix’s The Chair, Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird, Apple TV+’s Morning Show, and HBO’s The Deuce. Morse has received Emmy nominations for his roles on House and HBO’s John Adams and has appeared in numerous television series, including Emmy-nominated Escape at Dannemora, Hack, Treme, True Detective, Outsiders, and St. Elsewhere. Morse’s film credits include The Green Mile, 16 Blocks, The Hurt Locker, World War Z, and Concussion. David can next be seen starring in the feature film La Gloria, the Skydance/Apple TV+ feature film Mayday, starring Ryan Reynolds, and in the new Amazon series We Were Liars. A stage veteran, David received a 2022 Tony Award nomination for his second run of the award-winning play How I Learned to Drive on Broadway. Morse’s previous stint on Broadway was in the 2018 revival of The Iceman Cometh, for which he also received a Tony Award nomination. His other notable stage performances include the 1984 Los Angeles production of Of Mice and Men; Lanford Wilson’s Redwood Curtain, in which he originated the role of Lyman; Heather MacDonald’s An Almost Holy Picture; the Broadway production of The Seafarer; and the Off-Broadway production of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.

Heather Alicia Simms was last seen on Broadway in the Tony-nominated hit Purlie Victorious as Missy Judson. She was also a member of the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize–winning production Fairview, which premiered at Soho Rep and later at Theatre for a New Audience. Simms is proud of her time at Signature Theatre under Lynn Nottage’s residency with the plays Fabulation and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, for which she won a 2019 Obie Award. Her additional notable appearances include the world premiere of Barbecue at The Public Theater; born bad at Soho Rep; Richard III with the New York Theatre Workshop; Trouble in Mind at Hartford Stage; Breath, Boom at Playwrights Horizons; The Correspondent with Rattlestick; The Exonerated with The Culture Project; and on Broadway, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and A Raisin in the Sun. Her film and television credits include The Kings of Napa, Swarm, Single Drunk Female, Marvel’s Luke Cage, Bull, High Maintenance, The Last O.G., Broad City, Seven Seconds, Law & Order, Vampires vs. The Bronx, Red Hook Summer, The Nanny Diaries, and Broken Flowers. Simms is an award-winning voiceover artist whose work can be heard in numerous commercials and audiobooks.

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the National Book Award, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His novel The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction as well as The Kirkus Prize and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. He is also the author of Harlem Shuffle, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. His latest novel, Crook Manifesto, was published in 2023.

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His debut novel, Carrie, earned him the title “the King of Horror.” Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone, Christine, Stand by Me, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile, and It. He has been honored with more than a dozen Bram Stoker awards, as well as Edgar, Mystery Writers of America, International Horror Guild, O. Henry, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy awards, among others, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the National Medal of Arts. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, Mr. Mercedes, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both Mr. Mercedes and End of Watch received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively. A prolific short story writer, King’s latest collection, You Like it Darker, was published in May of this year.