ACTORS & ARTISTS
Michael Cerveris is the Tony Award-winning Broadway star of Fun Home and Assassins. Additional Broadway credits include Sweeney Todd, The Who's Tommy, Evita, Titanic, LoveMusik, Road Show, Nine Lives, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), and many others. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in King Lear, Cymbeline, Hedda Gabler, and Nassim. His film and television credits include Fringe, Treme, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Detours, The Tick, Gotham, Mosaic, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Elementary, and Evil. Cerveris also works as a musician, both solo and with his band, Loose Cattle.
A.M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter, the short story collections The Safety of Objects, Things You Should Know, and Days of Awe, and the novels Jack, In a County of Mothers, The End of Alice, Music for Torching, This Book Will Save Your Life, and May We Be Forgiven, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA, and The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL. She has published fiction and essays in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, One Story, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, where she is a contributing editor. Homes teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton.
Jennifer Lim made her Broadway debut starring in David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish, for which she earned a Theater World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut, the IASNY Trophy for Excellence, and a Drama Desk nomination. Additional theater projects include Golden Child at the Signature Theatre; Cry, Trojans! with the Wooster Group; The Most Deserving; The Urban Retreat at the Public Theater; The World of Extreme Happiness
at the Manhattan Theatre Club; Tumacho; Caught; Usual Girls with Roundabout Underground; and most recently Fefu and Her Friends. Her film and television credits include Law & Order, The Good Wife, Elementary, Hell on Wheels, Instinct, Impossible Monsters, Jessica Jones, New Amsterdam, and Prodigal Son.
Beth Malone was nominated for a 2015 Tony Award and Grammy for her game-changing role of Alison in Fun Home on Broadway. Additional stage credits include Ring of Fire and Angels in America on Broadway, and Bingo, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Nassim, and Pride Plays Off-Broadway. She can currently be seen in The Unsinkable Molly Brown with The Transport Group. On screen, she’s been featured in Hick, The Good Wife, BrainDead, Bull, The Comedian, Brittany Runs a Marathon, Bluff City Law, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She is the author and star of the critically acclaimed one-woman show Beth Malone: So Far.
Weike Wang is the author of the novel Chemistry. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Redivider, and The New Yorker, among other publications, and her fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She is the recipient of the 2018 Pen/Hemingway Award, a Whiting Award, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Prize.
