Inside Out

ACTORS & ARTISTS

Kenneth Calhoun has published short fiction in The Paris Review, Tin House, Fence Magazine, New Stories from the South, Ploughshares, and the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology. His first novel, Black Moon, was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Calhoun currently teaches at Lasell College.

Josh Charles’ film and television credits include Dead Poets Society, Sports Night, Six Degrees, In Treatment, Bird People, I Smile Back, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Masters of Sex, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, The Good Wife, Inside Amy Schumer, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Law & Order True Crime, Medal of Honor, Framing John DeLorean, Drunk History, and The Loudest Voice. He has appeared on stage in The Distance From Here at Manhattan Class Company, The Receptionist with Manhattan Theater Club, The Well-Appointed Room with Steppenwolf Theater Company, and most recently, Straight White Men on Broadway. Charles will star in the forthcoming series Away.

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; Antz; I Love You, Man; I Don’t Know How She Does It; The Heat; The Spy Who Dumped Me; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; and Ode to Joy. 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. Curtin will appear in the forthcoming films Welcome to Pine Grove! and Never Too Late and the upcoming series United We Fall.

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.

Lydia Davis is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including Break It Down, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the National Book Award, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Can’t and Won’t; and most recently the nonfiction collection Essays One. Davis has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has received honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Philolexian Society, and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. She also works as a translator, and her translations of Swann’s Way and Madame Bovary were awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Davis serves as a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Kaneza Schaal is a New York City-based theater artist. She has worked on stage with Elevator Repair Service, The Wooster Group, Richard Maxwell/New York City Players, and New York City Opera. This work brought her to venues including Centre Pompidou, Royal Lyceum Theater Edinburgh, The Whitney Museum, BAM, and MoMA. On screen, she recently appeared in the film The Indiscernables. Schaal directed Go Forth, which premiered at Performance Space 122’s COIL Festival, and Jack &, a multimedia performance piece she created in collaboration with Cornell Alston, co-commissioned by PICA, Walker Arts Center, REDCAT, On The Boards, and Center for Contemporary Art Cincinnati. Her latest work, Cartography, was workshopped through New Victory Theater Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi, and premiered at The Kennedy Center in January 2019. For her performance in Petra at The Performance Space, Schaal was nominated for a 2018 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer.

Meg Wolitzer’s latest novel, The Female Persuasion, was published in 2018 and became an immediate New York Times bestseller. Her previous novels include The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She has also published novels for young readers. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Columbia University, Skidmore College, the University of Houston, Boston University, and Barnard College, and currently teaches at Stony Brook Southampton. Wolitzer served as guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017.