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In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012) inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screenplay for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. Bradbury was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

Kate Burton was nominated for Tony Awards for her work in Hedda Gabler, The Elephant Man, and The Constant Wife. Additional Broadway credits include Spring Awakening, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Jake’s Women, Company, Some Americans Abroad, and most recently, Present Laughter. Her film credits include Big Trouble in Little China; The Ice Storm; Unfaithful; 2 Days in New York; Liberal Arts; 127 Hours; Where'd You Go, Bernadette?; and Before/During/After. On television, she has appeared in multiple Law and Orders, Empire Falls, Rescue Me, Veep, Grimm, Modern Family, Supergirl, The Gifted, Strange Angel, Scandal, Perfect Harmony, Homeland, Charmed, 13 Reasons Why, and Grey's Anatomy, for which she has received numerous Emmy nominations. Burton has directed at the LA Philharmonic and is a professor at the University of Southern California.

Michel Faber’s work has been published in twenty countries and has received several literary awards. The author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White, and The Book of Strange New Things, among others, he is a graduate of Melbourne University and has worked as a nurse, a pickle packer, a cleaner, and a guinea pig for medical research. Born in the Netherlands, he emigrated to Australia when he was seven and now lives in Scotland. His latest work, a young adult novel, D: A Tale of Two Worlds, was published in 2020.

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; The Courtroom; Novenas for a Lost Hospital; and 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, and The Affair, as well as The Laramie Project, Law & Order, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Before/During/After. She was awarded the 1996 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, and the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work. Chalfant currently appears in Broadway On Demand’s live-stream production of We Have to Hurry with Elliott Gould. Upcoming projects include Old and Cloister F*cked.

Valorie Curry is a founding member of Los Angeles’ Ovation Award-winning Coeurage Theatre Company, with which she starred in Balm in Gilead and the West Coast premiere of Shakespeare’s Double Falsehood. Additional theater credits include One Day When We Were Young at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Diviners at The Kennedy Center, and The Diary of Anne Frank at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. On television, she has appeared in The Following, Veronica Mars, Psych, CSI: New York, House of Lies, and the Amazon series The Tick. Her film credits include Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Blair Witch, American Pastoral, After Darkness, and Inherit the Viper. She is the founder of the production company 26 Films and a member of New York’s Fundamental Theater Project. Curry can be seen in the forthcoming series The Lost Symbol.

Naomi Kritzer is a writer and blogger who has published a number of short stories and novels for adults, including the Eliana's Song duology and the Dead Rivers Trilogy. Her most recent titles include Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, from which the title story won the Hugo Award and Locus Award and was a finalist for the Nebula, and the novel Catfishing on CatNet. Chaos on CatNet: Sequel to Catfishing on CatNet was published in April.

Tracy K. Smith earned a BA from Harvard University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. From 1997 to 1999 she held a Stegner fellowship at Stanford University. Smith is the author of four books of poetry: The Body's Question, which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African American poet; Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award; Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and Wade in the Water. In 2014 she was awarded the Academy of American Poets fellowship. She has also written a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. From 2017 to 2019, Smith served two terms as the twenty-second Poet Laureate of the United States. She is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Most recently, she co-edited the collection There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis.

Sam Underwood’s television credits include recurring roles on Showtime’s Dexter and Homeland, Fox’s The Following, Power on STARZ, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, the film adaptation of the musical Hello Again, and most recently as Adam Carrington on the reboot of Dynasty. He is the founder and artistic director of New York’s Fundamental Theater Project, with which he produced and starred in One Day When We Were Young by Nick Payne with Valorie Curry at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His New York theater credits include Candida at The Irish Repertory Theatre, The Picture of Dorian Gray at The Pershing Square Signature Theatre, and Equus at John Drew Theater at Guild Hall. Underwood is Creative Director of Initiative Productions, with which he has produced and starred in the short film Ophelia and his one-man show, Losing Days. He will appear in the forthcoming film The Drummer.