George Salazar is best known for his work on Broadway as “Michael” in the cult sensation Be More Chill, a role for which he won a Lucille Lortel Award, two Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, and garnered nominations for both Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. His act two number, “Michael in the Bathroom” has been streamed over 50 million times. His theater credits also include “Seymour,” opposite Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, in the critically-acclaimed Pasadena Playhouse production...

Jerry Zaks currently directs his 26th Broadway show, The Music Man. He has received four Tony Awards and been nominated eight times. He's also received four Drama Desks, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and an Obie. His credits include Mrs. Doubtfire, Hello, Dolly!, A Bronx Tale: the musical, Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower, Nantucket Sleigh Ride, Shows For Days, Sister Act, The Addams Family, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, House of Blue Leaves, The Front Page, A...

Grammy Award winning & Tony Award Nominated Actress Danielle Brooks most recently starred on Broadway in The Piano Lesson opposite Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington. The play is directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson. Brooks previously starred on Broadway as “Sofia” in the Tony Award winning revival of The Color Purple. Later this year, she will star in Warner Brothers’ feature film adaptation of the musical directed by Blitz Bazawule. Brooks stars opposite John Cena on the hit...

Actor/writer/director FEDNA JACQUET most recently starred as Passenger 1 in the critically acclaimed Lee Daniel's production of Ain’t No Mo for its Broadway and Off-Broadway runs. As a writer and director, her film Chante Maman Mwen (My Mother’s Song) most recently was honored at the Urbanworld Film Festival in NYC. She is a 2020-2022 National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence, 2019-2021 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in...

Camille A. Brown - (Director/Choreographer) 3-time Tony award nominee is the first Black woman to direct and choreograph a play on Broadway in 67 years. Ms. Brown choreographed the Met Opera's critically acclaimed Porgy and Bess and Terrence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which she also co-directed with James Robinson, making her the first Black director of a Met mainstage production. She is also the founder and director of Camille A Brown and Dancers. Awards include the 2021...

Jessica Stone (Director) worked as an actress on and Off-Broadway, in television, and in film before transitioning to directing. Her directing career began in earnest with her all-male 2010 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has since been directing all over the country at such theaters as The Old Globe, A.C.T, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Two River Theatre Company, and the Williamstown Theatre...

Shuler Hensley is a multi-award winning star of film, television, who is currently starring on Broadway in the hit musical, The Music Man. Beginning his career in the Theatre, Shuler was cast by Susan Stroman and Trevor Nunn as Jud Fry in London in the National Theatre’s revival of Oklahoma!. Shuler wowed critics and theatre-goers alike for his haunting interpretation of Jud, and he received the coveted Olivier Award–London theatre’s equivalent of the Tony–for Best Supporting Performance in...

Warren Carlyle is an Emmy Award nominated choreographer as well as a Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award winner and 4 time Tony award nominee for both directing and choreography. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Dizzy Feet Foundation

Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is an award-winning writer and 2020-2025 MacArthur Fellow. Her satirical comedy, The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons/Geffen Playhouse),was one of the top ten most produced plays in America. She is the first Native American playwright in the history of American theater on that list. In Spring 2023, The Thanksgiving Play will make its debut on Broadway produced by Second Stage. She is the first female Native American playwright ever produced on...

Robin De Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominated actor. Most recently, Robin joined the cast of Hulu’s Welcome To The Chippendales as “Ray Colon” opposite Kumail Nanjiani. He can currently be seen in the Netflix adaptation of Tick, Tick....Boom! (2021), directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, co-starring opposite Andrew Garfield. Prior to, he featured in the Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix film, The Boys In The Band (2020), reprising his Tony award nominated role. He can also be seen as “George” in...

MICHAEL R. JACKSON is one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022, and author of A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons 2019 world premiere in association with Page73 Productions), which won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Musical, as well as the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Other awards and associations: Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Page73’s I73 Writers Group, New Professional Theatre Festival Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Lincoln Center Emerging...

Born in South Korea, adopted and raised in Rochester, New York. Off-Broadway: The Chinese Lady (The Public, Ma Yi), Kentucky (EST), Bikeman (Tribeca PAC). Regional: The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage), Smart People (Geva Theatre), Bright Half Life (Kitchen Theatre), The White Snake (Old Globe), Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre, MT Wichita), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage). TV: 30 Rock (NBC), The...

Clint Ramos is a designer, educator, advocate and creative producer. He is a theatre and film worker. Current film credits include production design for Lingua Franca by Isabel Sandoval for Netflix. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival which chronicled the daily struggles of an undocumented Filipina transwoman in New York. And his costume design for Respect, the Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson for MGM. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Design Action

Jaygee Macapugay is a proud Filipino American actress & artist, originally from Chicago, currently residing in Brooklyn. Upcoming: SUFFS by Shaina Taub at The Public. Broadway: School Of Rock (OBC, cast album). Selected Off-Broadway: Public Theater - Soft Power, Here Lies Love, Wild Goose Dreams. National Asian Artists Project: Irene Molloy, Hello, Dolly!, and Gabrielle, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Prospect Theater Company: Honor, The Rockae. Philanthropic/Activist Causes:...

Kristina Wong is a writer, actor, performance artist, comedian, and elected representative of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Wong was just nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for her solo show, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, which premiered at New York Theater Workshop and which has received A New York Times Critics Pick and praise from the Washington Post and publications across the country. Kristina Wong, Sweatshop, Overlord is currently continuing its run in regional...

Jennifer Simard is a Tony Award, four-time Drama Desk Award, three-time Drama League Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominee. Off-Broadway credits include the original companies of Forbidden Broadway: SVU; The Thing About Men; and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Film credits include The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Wish You Were Dead and Sister. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: National Scleroderma Foundation, The National Eating Disorders Association, and Darkness RISING

Inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2011, Linda Lavin has won numerous awards, including a TONY, for her performance in “Broadway Bound” in 1987. She is a six-time TONY Award nominee for her roles in "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers" and "The Lyons," among others. She is a two-time Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee for her role as Alice on the 9-year hit TV series "Alice" on CBS, and she co-starred with Sean Hayes in the NBC Series "Sean Saves the World". Linda is currently a series...

Born in Monterrey, Mexico. Jaime is an accomplished musician, vocal coach, composer, arranger, orchestrator, musical producer, and musical theatre director considered by Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda as the “next big thing” on Broadway. Jaime is one of the five artists selected for the 2020-2022 Joe’s Pub Working Group residency and one of the artists selected as part of The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: R.Evolución Latina

Kelley Nicole Girod is a producer, known mostly for founding the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival. She was recently named Director of New Works at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem. She is also an award winning playwright recently named Sundance IDP 2021 Grantee, Parity Productions 2021 Commission, and Atlantic Launch New Play Commission, among others. She edited and curated The Fire This Time's first anthology of plays to be published by Bloomsbury UK/Methuen Drama in...

Elizabeth Marvel currently stars in the Hulu limited series The Dropout about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. Prior to this, Marvel was seen in Paul Greengrass’ News of the World for Universal and in the critically acclaimed limited series Unbelievable for Netflix. Additional work on Netflix includes The Meyerowitz Stories co-starring Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller and directed by Noah Baumbach. This was a stark contrast to her series regular role of the first...

Sas Goldberg is a NY-based actress/writer/producer. Currently in rehearsals for Ana Nogueira's Here She Is, Boys at MCC Theater. Sas made her Broadway debut in 2017 to rave reviews, playing ‘Kiki’ in Significant Other by Josh Harmon after originally playing the role in the off-Broadway production at The Roundabout Theater. In 2019, she starred in the off-Broadway run of Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow! at the MCC Theater. Sas can be seen alongside Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd in the Apple series...

Performer, actress, singer, and author Sandra Bernhard now appears as a series regular in season three of the immensely popular FX Television/Ryan Murphy show “POSE” reprising her role as brassy but caring Nurse Judy Kubrak, who works with H.I.V./AIDS patients, following a memorable season one guest appearance and hugely successful second season. Bernhard has also done a special guest appearance on Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story: Apocalypse”, highlighting a successful, decades-long...

Qween Jean is a New York City based Costume Designer who has draped over 50 shows and counting. She is the founder of Black Trans Liberation and has fully committed her voice for the advocacy of marginalized communities, with an emphasis on Black Trans people. Through this work, she is passionate about creating not only space, but access for unsung heroes and folks who are often overlooked, shunned, and abandoned. She feels their stories are valuable and deserve...

Tina Andrews is an international award-winning writer, director, and producer. She wrote and executive produced the 4-hour CBS miniseries, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal on Thomas Jefferson and his enslaved mistress for which she won the Writers Guild of America Award for “Outstanding Longform Television,” and two NAACP Image Awards for “Outstanding TV Movie, Miniseries or Special” and “Outstanding Literary, Nonfiction” for her book. Andrews also wrote and executive produced the...