Krystina Alabado was last seen starring as Dot in the Pasadena Playhouse revival of Sunday in the Park with George and as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls on Broadway. Additional Broadway credits include American Psycho and Green Day’s American Idiot. She has performed in the national tours of Evita, American Idiot, and Spring Awakening, and off-Broadway in The Mad Ones, This Ain’t No Disco, David Bowie's Lazarus, and Camp Wanatachi. Her film and television credits include Disney’s Better Nate Than Ever, A Killer Party, Sunny Day, God Friended Me, First Reformed, FX’s Tyrant, Mecha Builders on HBO Max, Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix, and Pantheon on AMC+. Alabado can be heard on the cast albums of The Mad Ones, A Killer Party, Goosebumps The Musical, Star Crossed, and more.
Grace Stone Coates (1881 – 1976) wrote short stories, poetry, and news articles. She published well over a hundred poems and short stories. Her work included the short story collection Black Cherries as well as the poetry collections Mead & Mangel-Wurzel and Portulacas in the Wheat. Coatesco-edited and wrote for the literary magazine Frontier.
Yohanca Delgado was raised in New York City by parents from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. She is a graduate of American University’s MFA program and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts fellow. She lives in California, where she is a 2021–2023 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her recent fiction appears in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, One Story, McSweeney’s, A Public Space, and The Paris Review.
Mia Dillon is a Tony-nominated stage actress whose Broadway credits include Our Town, The Miser, The Corn Is Green, Hay Fever, Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart, and Da. She has worked extensively off-Broadway and regionally from San Diego to Dublin, and her work has been honored with the Connecticut Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk nomination, the Clarence Derwent Award, and a Dramalogue Award, among others. Her film and television appearances include all three Law & Orders, Brain Dead, The Jury,Mary, Rhoda, Gods and Generals, The Money Pit, Ordinary World, All Good Things, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Dillon can currently be seen in the feature film Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford and the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a Today show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Greer’s latest novel, Less Is Lost, was published in September 2022.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, mostly recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel.
CREDITS
“The Little Widow from the Capital” by Yohanca Delgado, first published in Paris Review (Spring 2021). Copyright © 2021 by Yohanca Delgado. Used by permission of Neon Literary.
"Wild Plums" by Grace Stone Coates. Copyright © 1928 by H.G. Merriam.
