Becky Ann Baker has appeared on television and film in Girls, for which she received an Emmy nomination, Freaks and Geeks, Kings, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Big Little Lies, Brockmire, Younger, Hunters, Little Voice, New Amsterdam, Billions, A Simple Plan, Lorenzo’s Oil, Sabrina, Two Weeks Notice, Nights in Rodanthe, Starbright, The Half of It, and Holler. She has performed on Broadway in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Streetcar Named Desire, Titanic, Assassins, All My Sons, and Good People. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in Suddenly Last Summer at the Roundabout Theatre Company; Comedy of Errors, Othello, and Two Gentlemen of Verona at the New York Shakespeare Festival; Durang, Durang at the Manhattan Theatre Club; and Barbecue at the Public Theater, and virtually in TheHomeboundProject. Baker is currently appearing on Peacock in The Resort and shooting TheGirls on the Bus for HBO Max.
Dylan Baker is an actor whose many film and television credits include Inside Man, Hunters, Happiness, The Hot Zone: Anthrax, Social Distance, Blindspot, I’m Dying Up Here, The Good Fight and The Good Wife, Homeland, Little Women, Spider-Man 2 & 3, Selma, Confirmation, Kings, Damages, and The Americans. His theater credits include La Bete, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, The Audience with Helen Mirren, the Broadway revival of The Front Page, Bernhardt/Hamlet, and most recently, Medea at BAM. In addition to his acting credits, he directed the 2014 film 23 Blast. Baker is also an audiobook narrator and was honored with the Audie Award for his reading of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections. He can be heard on Marvel’s Wastelanders podcast series.
Jordan Klepper is perhaps best known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show and his comedy series The Opposition with Jordan 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, among others. His Comedy Central show, Klepper, premiered in May 2019, and he is featured on The Daily Show with “Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) was one of the grandmasters of modern American letters. Called by TheNew York Times "the counterculture's novelist," his works guided a generation through the miasma of war and greed that was life in the US in the second half of the twentieth century. Vonnegut rose to prominence with the publication of Cat's Cradle in 1963. Several modern classics, including God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five; and Breakfast of Champions soon followed. Vonnegut’s letters, essays, and short stories have been anthologized in dozens of collections, including A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, and Complete Stories.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, mostly recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel.
CREDITS
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, currently collected in WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE. Copyright © 1950 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
"The Kid Nobody Could Handle" by Kurt Vonnegut, currently collected in WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE. Copyright © 1950 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
