ACTORS & ARTISTS
Stockard Channing is known for her roles across film, television, and theater, appearing in Grease; The West Wing, for which she earned an Emmy Award; and Six Degrees of Separation, first on Broadway and then in its film adaptation, earning her Tony, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations. Channing has appeared on Broadway in The Little Foxes, The Lion in Winter, Pal Joey, Other Desert Cities, and It’s Only a Play. Additional screen credits include Practical Magic, The Mysteries of Laura, The Good Wife, Difficult People, The Guest Book, and The Matthew Shepard Story, for which she won an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She will appear in the forthcoming film Lapham Rising.
Mia Dillon has appeared on Broadway in Our Town, Crimes of the Heart (Tony Award nomination, Clarence Derwent Award), Hay Fever, The Corn Is Green, The Miser, Once a Catholic (Drama Desk Award nomination), Agnes of God, Da,
and off-Broadway in The Exonerated and many more. At the Berkshire Theatre Festival she starred in Ghosts, A Delicate Balance, Period of Adjustment, and Coward in Two Keys. She appeared in Isn’t It Delicious, an official selection of the 2013 Manhattan Film Festival. Her award-winning short film, Quiet, has been shown in five film festivals and on the Sundance Channel. Dillon toured Ireland in a production of Deathtrap and was honored with the 2016-17 Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress.
Alix Ohlin is the author of two short story collections, Babylon and Other Stories and Signs and Wonders, and three novels, The Missing Person, Inside, and most recently Dual Citizens, a finalist for the Giller Prize. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best NewAmerican Voices, The New Yorker, The Walrus, and Tin House, among other publications. She currently chairs the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Helen Phillips is the author of And Yet They Were Happy, The Beautiful Bureaucrat, Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green, Some Possible Solutions, and most recently the novel The Need, a National Book Award nominee. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, The Iowa Review Nonfiction Award, the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award, and a Ucross Foundation residency. Phillips is an assistant professor at Brooklyn College.
Josh Radnor is best known for his leading role on the CBS Emmy-nominated series How I Met Your Mother. Following its nine-year run, he starred in the PBS Civil War drama Mercy Street and in the series Rise. As a filmmaker, he wrote, directed, and starred in happythankyoumoreplease
and Liberal Arts, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim, the former winning the 2010 Audience Award. Additional films include Social Animals, The Seeker, and Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight. Recent theater credits include the Broadway run of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer-Prize winning drama Disgraced and the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Babylon Line at Lincoln Center, as well as Little Shop of Horrors at The Kennedy Center. He also writes and records music with his friend Ben Lee as the duo Radnor & Lee. Radnor will appear in the forthcoming series The Hunt.
