John Slattery is an Emmy and Critics Choice Award–nominated actor who can next be seen alongside Zoey Deutch and Jon Hamm in David Wain’s Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, which made its debut at Sundance in January and will have its theatrical release in July. The film follows Midwest bride Gail Daughtry as she travels to Hollywood seeking revenge by pursuing her own celebrity encounter when her fiancé uses their "celebrity pass" agreement. Recently, Slattery can be seen in Netflix’s Vladimir opposite Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall. He also starred in James Vanderbilt’s historical drama Nuremberg, alongside Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, and Leo Woodall. He is most well-known for his Emmy Award–nominated performance as Roger Sterling on the critically acclaimed cable series Mad Men, as well as numerous television roles on series such as Documentary Now!, Arrested Development, Sex and the City, Veep, Next, Mrs. America, and The Good Fight. He also earned a Critics Choice Award nomination in the category of Best Guest Actor for his role in the streaming series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. His previous feature film credits include Tom McCarthy's feature film Spotlight, Confess, Fletch, Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man, The Adjustment Bureau, Iron Man 2, Bluebird, Flags of Our Fathers, Charlie Wilson’s War, Mona Lisa Smile, The Station Agent, and Traffic. On Broadway, Slattery appeared in the Pulitzer Prize–winning Rabbit Hole (Drama League Award), Betrayal, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and The Front Page, opposite Nathan Lane. Slattery made his directorial debut on the fourth season of AMC’s Mad Men, of which he went on to direct five episodes. Additional television credits include Judd Apatow’s Netflix series Love, of which he directed three episodes. On the feature side, Slattery made his directorial debut with IFC’s God’s Pocket, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro. Most recently, he directed the film Maggie Moore(s), which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Elizabeth Strout is the author of the New York Times bestseller Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestseller Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. The Things We Never Say was published on May 5th.

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of The Writers' Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the Würth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work. A collection of his short stories, The News from Dublin, was published in March.