ACTORS & ARTISTS
René Auberjonois (1940 - 2019) won a Tony Award for his role in the musical Coco and was nominated for City of Angels, Big River, and The Good Doctor. His film and television credits included M.A.S.H., The Patriot, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Player, Certain Women, Blood Stripe, The Circuit, Benson, The Good Wife, Masters of Sex, Criminal Minds, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Madam Secretary, The Circuit, Windows on the World, Raising Buchanan, Frst Cow and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Auberjonois was a founding member of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and a longtime Selected Shorts reader.
Yvette Nicole Brown is best known for the role of Shirley Bennett on Community, for which she was honored with the Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Her film and television credits include Drake & Josh, (500) Days of Summer, Talking Dead, The Soul Man, The Odd Couple, The Mayor, Avengers: Endgame, Mom, Dear White People, Always a Bridesmaid, which she also wrote and executive produced, The Loud House, and Lady and the Tramp. Brown will appear in the forthcoming titles Witching Hour, The Big Fib, Broken Diamonds, Blind Psychosis, and Big Shot.
Hope Davis has appeared in the films About Schmidt; American Splendor; Synecdoche, New York; Captain America: Civil War; and Rebel in the Rye, among others. On television, Davis’s credits include In Treatment, The Newsroom, The Special Relationship, Allegiance, American Crime, and Wayward Pines, and recent recurring roles in the series For the People, Strange Angel, and Your Honor. Her theater credits include Ivanov, Two Shakespearean Actors, Spinning Into Butter, Food Chain, Measure for Measure, God of Carnage, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and The Red Barn. She will appear in the forthcoming film The Rock Pile.
Heather O’Neill is the author of the short story collection Daydreams of Angels and the bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals, winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennon Prize for Fiction, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and most recently, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. O’Neill has also contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Toronto Star, Rookie Magazine, Elle, Chatelaine, The Walrus, and the radio program This American Life. In 2019, her body of work was honored with the Writers’ Trust Fellowship.
