Richard Kind was recently featured in the star-studded rotating cast of All In: Comedy About Love on Broadway, and has also starred in Broadway productions of Kiss Me, Kate; The Producers; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; and The Big Knife, for which he received a Drama Desk Award. His film credits include Wolfs, The Out-Laws, Beau Is Afraid, Argo, A Serious Man, The Visitor, The Station Agent, and Bombshell, as well as voicing characters in Inside Out, A Bug’s Life, Cars, Big Mouth, Family Guy, and Toy Story 3. His television appearances include Spin City, Mad About You, Only Murders in the Building, Evil, Girls5eva, Night Court, East New York, The Watcher, History of the World: Part II, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Gotham, I’m Dying Up Here, Burn Notice, Luck, Red Oaks, The Other Two, Brockmire, Mid-Century Modern, Ad World, and Poker Face, among others. Kind served as John Mulaney’s sidekick for Mulaney’s talkshow, Everybody’s in L.A. Kind recently completed a run on the West End in London in The Producers.
Academy Award–nominated actress Amy Ryan is known for her work on the big and small screen alike, as well as her Tony-nominated work on stage. Some notable film credits include Beau Is Afraid, Worth, Birdman, Clear History, Lost Girls, Late Night, Strange but True, Gone Baby Gone, Bridge of Spies, Win Win, Jack Goes Boating, Beautiful Boy, Capote, Green Zone, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Central Intelligence, and Keane. Her television credits include The Wire, The Office, In Treatment, Broad City, and High Maintenance. She can be seen in the Apple TV series Sugar, opposite Colin Farrell; Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building; and the Apple film Wolfs, opposite George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Amy has worked in the theater for more than 25 years on and off-Broadway and in London. Her work onstage earned her an OBIE award for her performance in LOVE LOVE LOVE and three Tony nominations for A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya, and Doubt.
Anna Sale is an interviewer and writer whom The New York Times once likened to “a therapist at happy hour.” Since 2014, she has hosted Death, Sex & Money, Slate’s interview podcast about “the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.” She has contributed to This American Life, Fresh Air, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, and has hosted national call-in radio specials as well as on-stage variety shows at San Francisco Sketchfest, Tribeca Fest, the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her 2021 book, Let’s Talk About Hard Things, explores how we navigate life’s most fraught conversations. Sale lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and two children.
Ernie Wang’s short fiction and essays have been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Epiphany, The Southern Review, Mississippi Review, PEN America, Best Debut Short Stories, and The Threepenny Review, among others. Wang was the recipient of PEN’s Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His short stories include “Stay Brave, My Hercules,” “Happier Lands,” “Good Luck, Champ,” and “Sacrament of Confession.” Wang is a PhD student at the University of Houston.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife, among other novels. A musical of The Interestings is in development. Wolitzer was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and also writes books for young readers. She is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Stony Brook University, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a yearlong intensive for emerging novelists.
CREDITS
“Sacrament of Confession,” by Ernie Wang. Commissioned by Symphony Space. Copyright © 2025 by Ernie Wang and Symphony Space.
“You Again,” by Seth Fried, from The 2024 Short Story Advent Calendar (Hingston and Olsen, 2024). Copyright © 2024 by Seth Fried. Used by permission of the author.
