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ACTORS & ARTISTS

Betty Buckley has appeared in a wide variety of roles across stage, film, and television. She won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Cats, and has appeared on Broadway in 1776, Pippin, and Sunset Boulevard. Film credits include Carrie, The Happening, and Split, for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award. On television, she has been featured in Eight Is Enough, Oz, Pretty Little Liars, The Leftovers, Getting On, Chicago Med, Preacher, and Supergirl, among many others. Buckley was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2012, and she released her latest solo album, Hope, in 2018.

Jane Curtin has appeared on Broadway in Noises Off, Candida, and Our Town. Her off-Broadway work includes Love Letters and the musical revue Pretzels, which she co-wrote. She starred in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun and won back-to-back Emmy Awards for her role on Kate & Allie. She is an original cast member of Saturday Night Live and also starred in the television film series The Librarian and its spin-off, The Librarians. Her film credits include Coneheads; I Love You, Man; The Heat; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; and Ode to Joy, among others. She starred on the television series Unforgettable and has had guest appearances on The Good Wife, 48 Hours ’til Monday, The Good Fight, and Broad City. Currently, she can be heard on the Audible Original 64th Man, and seen on United We Fall. Upcoming projects include the films Never Too Late and Godmothered.

Blythe Danner has appeared on Broadway in Butterflies Are Free, for which she earned a Tony Award; Betrayal; A Streetcar Named Desire; and The Country House. She has appeared off-Broadway in Suddenly Last Summer, Moonlight, The Deep Blue Sea, and Follies at the Roundabout Theatre, and Sylvia and The Commons of Pensacola at Manhattan Theatre Club. Her films include Meet the Parents, The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, 1776, Alice, Sylvia, I’ll See You In My Dreams, Tumbledown, What They Had, Hearts Beat Loud, The Chaperone, The Tomorrow Man, and Strange But True. Her television credits include We Were the Mulvaneys, Back When We Were Grownups, Odd Mom Out, St. Elsewhere, Will & Grace, Madoff, Tattingers, and Huff, for which she earned two Emmy Awards. Danner will appear in the forthcoming third season of American Gods.

Bruce Jay Friedman (1930 - 2020) was the author of eight novels, including Stern, A Mother’s Kisses, The Dick, About Harry Towns, The Current Climate, and A Father’s Kisses. His stories have been collected in Black Angels, Let’s Hear It for a Beautiful Guy, and Three Balconies, among other volumes. Friedman edited the landmark anthology Black Humor, published in 1965. His screenwriting credits include Splash, The Lonely Guy, and Stir Crazy. Friedman also authored four plays and several works of nonfiction, including his autobiography Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir.

Maulik Pancholy is an actor, author, and activist. He is best known for his television roles on 30 Rock, Weeds, Whitney, The Good Fight, and for lending his voice to the long-running animated series Phineas & Ferb and Sanjay & Craig. He starred on Broadway in Terrence McNally’s It's Only a Play and in The New Group’s production of Good for Otto. He recently returned to Broadway in Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Pancholy’s debut novel, The Best at It, was named a Stonewall Honor Book and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and American Library Association’s Booklist. Pancholy is the co-founder of the anti-bullying organization ActToChange.org.

Roxana Robinson is the author of the novels Summer Light, This Is My Daughter, Sweetwater, Cost, Sparta, and Dawson’s Fall, the biography Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life, and the short story collections A Glimpse of Scarlet, Asking for Love, and A Perfect Stranger. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Tin House, and The New Yorker, as well as in Best American Short Stories, and has been read on National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.