Mike Doyle has appeared on screen in New Amsterdam, City on a Hill, The Romanoffs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Accidental Wolf, Narcos: Mexico, Jersey Boys, The Invitation, Green Lantern,Fallout, The Greatest, and Law & Order among others. His stage credits include The New Century at Lincoln Center and Betrayed with the Culture Project. Doyle wrote and directed the feature films Almost Love starring Kate Walsh, Patricia Clarkson, and Scott Evans, and Passing Through, in which he also stars with Kevin Daniels and Amy Ryan. His next film, Bookends, stars F. Murray Abraham and Caroline Aaron.
Jennifer Ikeda’s theater work includes Top Girls on Broadway, The Barbarians at La Mama, Vietgone at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. with Soho Rep, Love and Information with New York Theatre Workshop, Titus Andronicus at the Public Theater, Hamlet with Theatre for a New Audience, and The Bacchae at the Delacorte Theater. Her film and television credits include Advantageous, Killing Hasselhoff, Dash & Lily, Blue Bloods, Maniac, Blindspot, and Elementary. Additional projects include David Michalek’s Portraits in Dramatic Time at the Lincoln Center Festival, Selected Shorts, and more than 100 audiobooks, for which she has been honored with two Audie Awards, and including bestsellers by Deborah Harkness, Sarah J. Maas, and Jean Wakatsuki Houston’s seminal book on Japanese-American internment, Farewell to Manzanar. Ikeda is a proud union member.
Haruki Murakami is an internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo His work, including Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, Men Without Women, First Person Singular, and The City and Its Uncertain Walls, has been translated into more than fifty languages. Among his numerous awards, Murakami was recently honored with the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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
“A Window,” by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, from The Elephant Vanishes (Knopf, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by Harukimurakami Archival Labyrinth. Used by permission of Creative Artists Agency.
“Kaho,” by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, as published in The New Yorker (July 1, 2024). Copyright © 2024 by Harukimurakami Archival Labyrinth. Used by permission of Creative Artists Agency.
