Children and Their Parents

ACTORS & ARTISTS

Becca Blackwell is an NYC-based trans actor, performer, and writer. They have collaborated with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf, and Lisa D'Amour, among others. Blackwell has recently appeared in Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop and Is This A Room at the Vineyard Theater. Their film and television credits include Jack in a Box, Shameless, Tour Without End, Deadman's Barstool, High Maintenance, and Marriage Story. Blackwell is a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award and the creator of the solo show They, Themself and Schmerm.

Kathryn Chetkovich is the author of the short story collection Friendly Fire, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in Granta, Threepenny Review, New England Review, Mississippi Review, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and The Best American Short Stories 1998, among other publications. Her essay “Envy” was featured in The Best American Essays 2004. She works as a freelance editor.

Ivan E. Coyote is the award-winning author of twelve fiction and nonfiction works, including Boys Like Her, Close to Spider Man, Bow Grip, winner of the ReLit Award for Best Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award Honor, One in Every Crowd, Gender Failure, Tomboy Survival Guide, also a Stonewall Book Award Honor winner, and most recently the memoir Rebent Sinner. Coyote is a filmmaker, musician, stage performer, columnist for Xtra! and Xtra! West, and contributor to The Georgia Straight and CBC Radio.

Caitlin Horrocks is the author of the short story collection This Is Not Your City, named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Currently, she serves on the advisory board for the Kenyon Review and teaches at Grand Valley State University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her works have been featured in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Tin House, and One Story, among other publications. Her debut novel, The Vexations, was published last year and named one of the Ten Best Books of 2019 by the Wall Street Journal. Her second story collection, Life Among the Terranauts, is forthcoming.

Cynthia Nixon made her film debut in Little Darlings at 12 years old and her Broadway debut at 14 in The Philadelphia Story. Since then she’s appeared in more than 40 plays, scores of films and television shows, and received 2 Emmys, 2 Tonys, and a Grammy Award. She is best known for her role as Miranda on HBO’s Sex and the City. In 2017, Nixon alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Laura Linney in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes on Broadway, winning her second Tony Award. She also appeared on numerous "best actress of 2018" lists for her portrayal of American poet Emily Dickinson in Terrence Davies' much-lauded film A Quiet Passion. Also in 2018 she ran for Governor of New York State. She will be seen next year in Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series Ratched opposite Sarah Paulson. Nixon spends a good portion of her off-time fighting for funding for New York public schools, abortion rights, and LGBT equality. She and her wife, Christine, have 3 children: Sam, Charlie, and Max.

Celeste Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, won the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the ALA’s Alex Award. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was a New York Times bestseller and is currently being adapted for television. Ng is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and her work has been further honored with the Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, One Story, The Guardian, and TriQuarterly, among other publications.

Phillipa Soo is best known for originating the role of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton in Hamilton. The role garnered her the Lucille Lortel Award in 2015 for Lead Actress in a Musical during the shows pre-broadway, sold-out run at The Public Theater as well as a 2016 Tony Award nomination. Additional stage credits include leading roles in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 off-Broadway and Amélie and The Parisian Woman on Broadway. On screen, she has appeared in Smash and Here and Now opposite Sarah Jessica Parker, and currently stars in the CBS drama The Code. She will appear in the forthcoming film The Broken Heart Gallery, the series Gumshoe, and the off-Broadway production Tumacho.

Kate Walsh is best known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off series Private Practice, as well as her starring role on Bad Judge. Additional television credits include The Drew Carey Show, Funny or Die Presents, Full Circle, Everyone’s Crazy But Us, Corporate, 13 Reasons Why, and The Umbrella Academy. Walsh has appeared off-Broadway in Dusk Rings a Bell and the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of If I Forget, which was streamed on Broadway HD. Her film credits include The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Just Before I Go, Fargo, Girls Trip, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, Sell By, and 3022. Walsh will appear in the forthcoming films Sometime Other Than Now and Honest Thief and the series Emily in Paris.