ACTORS & ARTISTS
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of the award-winning novels Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah, as well as the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck, the essay We Should All Be Feminists, and most recently the collection Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, and Zoetrope, among other publications. She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2008, and was conferred a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, by Johns Hopkins University in 2016.
Tavi Gevinson is a writer and actress, and the founder of Rookie, an online magazine for teenagers. She has appeared on stage in Broadway productions of This Is Our Youth, The Crucible, and The Cherry Orchard, and in off-Broadway productions of Days of Rage, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, and Assassins, and on screen in the films Enough Said, Person to Person, and Halston and the television series Scream Queens, The Twilight Zone, and the forthcoming Gossip Girl. Gevinson’s writing has been featured in The Believer, The Cut, and New York, among other publications.
Kyle McCarthy is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship. Additionally, McCarthy is the recipient of the Edgar Eager Memorial Fund Prize, Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize, and the Louis Begley Award. Her critical essays have appeared in Electric Literature and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Southwest Review, the Harvard Review, and American Short Fiction, among other publications. Her debut novel, Everyone Knows How Much I Love You, was published earlier this year.
Denis O’Hare’s film credits include Garden State, 21 Grams, A Mighty Heart, Michael Clayton, Milk, Duplicity, HBO’s The Normal Heart, Dallas Buyers Club, Lizzie, The Goldfinch, and The Postcard Killings. He won a Tony Award for his performance in Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out and a Drama Desk Award for his role in Sweet Charity. He is the co-writer, with Lisa Peterson, and star of An Iliad, which was performed at the New York Theatre Workshop and The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. He and Peterson also co-authored the play The Good Book, which premiered at the Court Theatre in Chicago. His television credits include American Horror Story, True Blood, The Good Wife, The Comedians, This Is Us, and Big Little Lies. He will appear in the forthcoming films Game of Power and Butterfly in the Typewriter, and the forthcoming television series The Nevers.
Condola Rashad is a four-time Tony Award nominee for her roles in Stick Fly; The Trip to Bountiful; A Doll’s House, Part 2; and Saint Joan, following her breakout off-Broadway performance in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, for which she received the Theatre World Award for Best Debut Performance. She also starred in the 2013 revival of Romeo & Juliet on Broadway opposite Orlando Bloom. Her film and television credits include The Good Wife, 30 Beats, Steel Magnolias, Smash, Money Monster, Bikini Moon, Come Sunday, Good Posture, and Billions, on which she currently stars. Earlier this year she released her debut visual EP, Space Daughter.
