ACTORS & ARTISTS
Michael Cerveris is the Tony Award-winning Broadway star of Fun Home and Assassins. Additional Broadway credits include Sweeney Todd, The Who's Tommy, Evita, Titanic, LoveMusik, Road Show, Nine Lives, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), and many others. Off Broadway, he has appeared in of King Lear, Cymbeline, Hedda Gabler, and Nassim. His film and television credits include Fringe, Treme, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Detours, The Tick, Gotham, Mosaic, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Mindhunter, Prodigal Son, and The Black List. Cerveris also works as a musician, both solo and with his band, Loose Cattle.
Hope Davis has appeared in the films About Schmidt; American Splendor; Synecdoche, New York; Captain America: Civil War; and Rebel in the Rye, among others. On television, Davis’s credits include In Treatment, The Newsroom, The Special Relationship, Allegiance, American Crime, and Wayward Pines, and recent recurring roles in the series For the People and Strange Angel. Her theater credits include Ivanov, Two Shakespearean Actors, Spinning Into Butter, Food Chain, Measure for Measure, God of Carnage, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and The Red Barn. She will appear in the forthcoming miniseries Your Honor.
Carson McCullers (1917 - 1967), considered a leading voice in Southern Gothic literature, rose to prominence with the publication of her critically acclaimed first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Subsequently, McCullers wrote three novels, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding, and Clock Without Hands, and numerous short stories, poems, and plays. Her Broadway adaptation of The Member of the Wedding won the Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1950, and the 1963 adaptation of The Ballad of the Sad Café was nominated for six Tony Awards. McCullers died from complications following a stroke, and the collection The Mortgaged Heart as well as her unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare, were published posthumously.
Amanda Quaid has appeared on Broadway in Equus in addition to film and television roles in Non-Stop, Doubt, Blue Bloods, Masters of Sex, I’m Dying Up Here, Bull, and Chicago Med. Her Off-Broadway credits include Pericles at the Public Theater, for which she was honored with the St. Clair Bayfield Award, Luck of the Irish at Lincoln Center, Cock at The Duke, The Watson Intelligence at Playwrights Horizons, A Public Reading…Death of Walt Disney at Soho Rep., Galileo
at Classic Stage Company, and The Illusion at the Signature Theatre. She is the director and writer of two short films, English and Toys.
Emily Skeggs was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Medium Alison in the musical Fun Home. Additional theater credits include performances at The Irish Repertory Theatre, the Huntington Theatre Company, the New York International Fringe Festival, and Signature Theatre Company. Film and television credits include Salem, When We Rise, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Mile 22, and Love You to Death. She has also written, produced, and appeared in the films
Don’t Think Twice and The Ants. Skeggs will be featured in the forthcoming film Dinner in America.
