Love 2.0

ACTORS & ARTISTS

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American author whose works include The House of the Spirits, The Stories of Eva Luna, City of the Beasts, Ines of My Soul, the memoir Paula, and most recently, Long Petal of the Sea. Her works, written in her native Spanish, have been translated into 35 languages and adapted into films, stage productions, and radio programs. In addition to dozens of honors throughout her career, Allende received Chile’s National Literature Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in the United States, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas and the short story collection Safe as Houses, which was the recipient of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She has also been honored with the O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Hedgebrook Writers Colony, and the Center for Fiction. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Tin House, Granta, Guernica, Epoch, and Gigantic. Bertino teaches at NYU, The Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, and serves as Editor-at-Large for Catapult, an independent publisher. Her next two novels, Parakeet and Beautyland, are forthcoming.

Kate Burton was nominated for Tony Awards for her work in Hedda Gabler, The Elephant Man, and The Constant Wife. Additional Broadway credits include Spring Awakening, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Jake’s Women, Company, Some Americans Abroad, and most recently, Present Laughter. Her film credits include Big Trouble in Little China; The Ice Storm; Unfaithful; 2 Days in New York; Liberal Arts; 127 Hours; and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? On television, she has appeared in multiple Law & Orders, Empire Falls, Rescue Me, Veep, Grimm, Modern Family, Supergirl, The Gifted, Strange Angel, Scandal, and Grey's Anatomy, for which she has received numerous Emmy nominations. Burton has directed at the LA Philharmonic and is a professor at the University of Southern California.

David Galef is the author of more than fifteen books, including the novels Flesh and How to Cope with Suburban Stress, the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman, the poetry collection Kanji Poems, and most recently, Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Village Voice, and Twentieth Century Literature, among others. He has been awarded a Henfield Foundation Grant, a Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Galef currently writes a humor column for Inside Higher Ed and is a professor at Montclair State University.

Giullian Yao Gioiello is a musician and actor. His film and television credits include The Carrie Diaries, Miles, Catfight, Bull, Julie’s Greenroom, Iron Fist, Scream: The TV Series, The Cat and the Moon, Secrets at the Lake, Two Sentence Horror Stories, and The Birch. As a musician, he performs under the name Tarune. Gioiello will appear in the forthcoming film A Nightmare Wakes.

Colby Minifie has appeared on Broadway in The Pillowman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Six Degrees Of Separation; off-Broadway in Punk Rock, Close Up Space, Landscape of the Body, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and City Of. Her television credits include Law & Order, Glee, Nurse Jackie, The Blacklist, The Michael J. Fox Show, Black Box, Jessica Jones, Dietland, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Boys, and Fear the Walking Dead. On film, she has been featured in Deep Powder, Camilla Dickinson, The Greatest, The Winning Season, Don’t Think Twice, Paterno, Radium Girls, and An Actor Prepares. Minifie will appear in the forthcoming film I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

Sam Ruddick’s short story “Leak” was a PEN/O. Henry Award winner in 2012. He has also been honored with the Henfield Prize for Fiction. His work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, Prairie Fire, and the North American Review, among other publications. Ruddick currently teaches at Auburn University.

Peter Sagal is the host of NPR’s Peabody Award-winning show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! He is an accomplished playwright whose works have been performed at the Long Wharf Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Seattle Repertory, Florida Stage, and the Metropolitan Playhouse, among others. He has contributed articles to publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Runner’s World, the Chicago Tribune, and the Houston Chronicle. Sagal is the author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) and The Incomplete Book of Running. He hosted the 2013 miniseries Constitution USA with Peter Sagal on PBS.

Among Kathleen Turner’s numerous accolades are Golden Globes for Romancing the Stone and Prizzi’s Honor, an Academy Award nomination for Peggy Sue Got Married, Tony Award nominations for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, a BAFTA nomination for Body Heat, and two Grammy Award nominations. Her film credits include The Man with Two Brains, Jewel of the Nile, The Accidental Tourist, The Virgin Suicides, among many others. On Broadway, she has also starred in High, The Graduate, and Indiscretions. Additional theater credits include Bakersfield Mist on the West End in London; Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit Of Molly Ivins at Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Geffen Playhouse, Arena Stage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre; and Mother Courage and Her Children and The Year Of Magical Thinking at Arena Stage. Also a best-selling author, Turner’s books include Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles and Kathleen Turner on Acting.