Shaken & Stirred

ACTORS & ARTISTS

Kathleen Chalfant’s Broadway credits include Angels in America, Racing Demon, Dance With Me, and M. Butterfly. She has appeared off-Broadway in Wit, for which she won Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle Awards; Nine Armenians; Henry V; the Women’s Project Theater production of Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl; and most recently A Woman Of The World. Her film credits include Duplicity, Kinsey, Bob Roberts, and Class Rank. Chalfant has had recurring roles on The Book of Daniel, Rescue Me, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, Doubt, The Affair, High Maintenance, and New Amsterdam, as well as The Laramie Project, Law & Order, and Georgia O’Keeffe. She was awarded the 1996 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, and the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work.

John Cheever (1912 - 1982) was the author of four novels, a novella, and more than 100 short stories, many of which were published in The New Yorker. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award, and The Stories of John Cheever was awarded both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Cheever was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among numerous honors.

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; I Love You, Man; The Heat; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; and Ode to Joy, among others. 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.

Corey Ford (1902 - 1969) was a prolific humorist, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter. A member of the Algonquin Round Table, he was an early contributor to the The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and is perhaps best known for his column "The Lower Forty Hunting, Shooting and Inside Straight Club,” which he wrote for Field and Stream for nearly 20 years. The columns were anthologized into Minutes of the Lower Forty, Uncle Perk's Jug, and The Corey Ford Sporting Treasury. Additional works include Has Anybody Seen Me Lately?, Every Dog Should Have a Man, When the Sea Breaks its Back, and The John Riddell Murder Case, as well as numerous satirical sketches and books. Ford created the name Eustace Tilley for the top-hatted symbol of The New Yorker.

Michael Gerber is a humor writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Slate, among other publications, as well as on Saturday Night Live and NPR. Gerber, along with Jonathan Schwarz, rebooted The Yale Record, America’s oldest humor magazine, during his tenure at Yale in 1989. He is also the editor of the humor quarterly magazine The American Bystander. Gerber is the author of the satirical Barry Trotter series, The Chronicles of Blarnia: The Lying Bitch in the Wardrobe, Freshman, Sophomore, Life After Death for Beginners, and Downturn Abbey.

Jordan Klepper is perhaps best known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show, his comedy series The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, and his docuseries Klepper. He is an alumnus of the improv troupes The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade. He and his wife, Laura Grey, are co-creators of short films including TMI, a featured short at the Slamdance Film Festival, and Peepers, which premiered at South By Southwest.

Jonathan Schwarz is a humor writer whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Esquire, The Huffington Post, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice, among others. He was the senior editor of Racket magazine and has contributed to NPR and Saturday Night Live. Schwarz often collaborates with Michael Gerber. In 1989 the two relaunched The Yale Record, America’s oldest humor magazine, and co-authored the humor collection Our Kampf.

Joey Slotnick has been featured in a wide variety of films and television shows, including Twister, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Boston Public, The Office, Too Big to Fail, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Humor Me, Murphy Brown, The Deuce, The Goldfinch, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Slotnick is a member of the Lookingglass Theater Company and has appeared in their productions of Our Town, Wants & Needs, Great Men of Science Nos. 21 & 22, and Arabian Nights. His off-Broadway credits include The Altruists, Happy Hour, Animal Crackers, and Nassim. On Broadway, he has appeared in The Big Knife, The Front Page, and Junk.