Jill Eikenberry starred in the Broadway productions of Moonchildren, Watch on the Rhine, Summer Brave, Onward Victoria, and All Over Town. Off-Broadway, she won an Obie Award for her performances in Lemon Sky and Life Under Water, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for The Kid. She earned a Golden Globe Award and five Emmy nominations as Ann Kelsey on NBC’s L.A. Law, and received the Humanitas Prize for Destined to Live, a breast cancer documentary she co-produced and hosted on NBC. Her film credits include Arthur, Something Borrowed, Young Adult, Keep in Touch, In Reality, and Chantilly Bridge. Television work includes guest roles on Law & Order, Body of Proof, The Good Fight, The Girls on the Bus, and Elsbeth, currently streaming on Paramount+. In 2024, Eikenberry starred on stage in The Two Hander at the New Jersey Rep. She has also appeared alongside her husband, Michael Tucker, in productions of Tucker’s plays The M Spot and Fern Hill, and they starred together in Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn. Eikenberry has performed at Feinstein’s 54 Below with her cabaret shows Songs I’ve Sung and Here I Go Again. In 2020 she became a charter member of New Normal Rep, an online theater company.
Claire Fridkin is a comedic writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Chicago, she currently works in tech but sees her future beyond “content creation.” Claire studied psychology at Harvard, where she led Satire V, the university’s only satirical news publication, and wrote for several other comedy groups.
Anita Felicelli is the author of the short story collection How We Know Our Time Travelers and other works of fiction. Her literary criticism and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times (Modern Love), and elsewhere. She is the books editor of Alta Journal. From 2021–2024, she sat on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
Ben Kronengold is a writer based in New York. He has written for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as well as TheNew Yorker and McSweeney’s. He writes with his writing partner Rebecca Shaw, with whom he co-parents several elderly plants.
Emily Skeggs earned Tony and Grammy award nominations for Fun Home on Broadway. Other theater credits include Head Over Heels, Our Town, and And IandSilence. On screen, she has appeared in Salem, When We Rise, Love You to Death, The Ultimate Playlist of Noise, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and Dinner in America.
Michael Tucker is best known for his role as Stuart Markowitz in L.A. Law, for which he received three Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. He has appeared on and off-Broadway and at most of the non-profit theaters in New York. His film credits include Woody Allen’s Radio Days and The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Barry Levinson’s Diner and Tin Men. Tucker wrote and starred in the play The M Spot, which was produced at the New Jersey Repertory Company. The NJ Rep also produced his play Fern Hill, which moved to 59E59 the following year. He is the author of four books: I Never Forget a Meal, Living in a Foreign Language, Family Meals, and the novel After Annie. Onstage, Tucker appeared with his wife, Jill Eikenberry, in Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn. They also produced the PBS documentary Emile Norman:By His Own Design. His latest play, A Tailor Near Me, was produced at New Jersey Rep in the summer of 2023.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife, among other novels. The Interestings is currently being adapted as a musical, with a book by Sarah Ruhl and music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles. Wolitzer was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017 and also writes books for young readers. She is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Stony Brook University, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a yearlong intensive for emerging novelists.
CREDITS
“We Have Your Son,” by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, from Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations (William Morrow, 2023). Copyright © 2023 by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw. Used by permission of the authors.
“Where’s Dad?” by Claire Fridkin. Commissioned by Symphony Space. Copyright © 2024 by Claire Fridkin and Symphony Space.
