ACTORS & ARTISTS
Michael Cerveris is the Tony Award-winning 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 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, Elementary, Mindhunter, The Blacklist, Evil, and The Plot Against America. Cerveris also works as a musician, both solo and with his band, Loose Cattle.
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.
Randy DeVita’s work has been published in The Best American Short Stories, The Fiddlehead, West Branch, Third Coast, Outer Darkness, White Knuckles, Orchid, and Crazyhorse, among other publications. He has been honored with the Devine Award for Fiction and received a Special Mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology.
Carol Shields (1935 - 2003) was the author of over two dozen works, including the novel The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Governor General’s Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her bibliography includes the novels Small Ceremonies, The Box Garden, Swann: A Mystery, winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, The Republic of Love, Larry’s Party, winner of the Orange Prize, and Unless; the short story collections Various Miracles and Dressing Up for the Carnival; and the plays Women Waiting and Unless, among other works. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, and she is considered one of the most distinguished writers in the Canadian literary tradition.
