About Us

Gretchen Egolf

TV & Film credits include:
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Namesake
Quiz Show

Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus, M.D., co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, joined the Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine as the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine on April 1, 2015. Prior to joining Meyer Cancer Center, Dr. Varmus was the Director of the National Cancer Institute for five years. He was also the President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for 10 years and Director of the National Institutes of Health for six years. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University in English literature and Columbia University in Medicine, he trained at Columbia University Medical Center, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), before becoming a member of the UCSF basic science faculty for over two decades. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and is involved in several initiatives to promote science and health in developing countries. The author of over 350 scientific papers and five books, including a recent memoir titled The Art and Politics of Science, he was a co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Public Library of Science, and chair of the Scientific Board of the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health.

Harris Yulin

Hedda Gabler
The Price
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Visit
A Lesson from Aloe
Watch on the Rhine

Heather Goldenhersh

Credits Include:

Doubt

Merchant of Venice

The Class

Heidi Schreck

Theater credits include:
The Language Archive(Roundabout)
Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons)
TV & Film credits include:
Hedda Gabler
The Good Wife

Hettienne Park

Credits include:

Hannibal

Young Adult

Bride Wars

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Theater credits include:
The Iceman Cometh (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Goodfellas
The 25th Hour

Jacqueline Murekatete

Rwandan Genocide Survivor

Jake Gyllenhaal

Film credits include:

Nightcrawler

Jarhead

Brothers

Donnie Darko

Jamaal Bowman

U.S. representative for New York's 16th congressional district.

James Earl Jones

The Lion King,

The Hunt for Red October,

Coming to America,

Star Wars

James Vincent Meredith

As A Steppenwolf Ensemble Member:
The Crucible
The Bluest Eye
The Pain and The Itch

Jamie Hector

TV & Film credits include:
Spike Lee’s Clockers
The Wire
Third Watch

Jason Butler Harner

Theater credits include:
Our Town (Barrow Street Theater)
The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater)
The Paris Letter (Roundabout, Drama Desk Nomination)
Film credits include:
Changeling
The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3

Jason Isaacs

Credits include:

The Harry Potter Series

Fury

The Patriot

Jay O. Sanders

Broadway credits include:
Hamlet
Pygmalion
Saint Joan
TV & Film credits include:
Edge of Darkness
The Green Hornet
JFK

Jeffrey Wright

Broadway credits include:
Topdog / Underdog
Angels in America (Tony Award)
TV & Film credits include:
Quantum of Solace
Syriana
Angels in America (HBO)

Jennifer Mudge

Broadway:
The Philanthropist
Reckless
TV credits include:
You Don’t Know Jack
Mercy

Jesse Eisenberg

Film credits include:
The Social Network
Adventureland
The Squid and the Whale

Jessica Hecht

Broadway:
A View from the Bridge (Tony And Drama League Award Nominations)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Julius Caesar
After the Fall
The Last Night Of Ballyhoo

Joanne Tucker

Theater credits include:
Little Doc (Rattlestick)
Graduate of The Juilliard School of Drama

John Doman

Film and Television credits:

Blue Valentine

Mystic River

The Wire

Borgia

John Musgrave

JOHN MUSGRAVE served in Vietnam for eleven months and seventeen days in both the First and Third Marine Divisions before being permanently disabled by his third wound. He was medically retired as a corporal in 1969. He is the recipient of two Purple Hearts and two Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. In addition to speaking publicly about his war experiences, and working with younger veterans to help them reintegrate and heal, Musgrave is the author of the collection Notes to the Man Who Shot Me: Vietnam War Poems (Coal City Review).

John Turturro

Credits include:

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Do the Right Thing

The Big Lebowski

John Ventimiglia

Theater credits include:
All My Sons (Broadway)
The Exonerated
TV & Film credits include:
I Shot Andy Warhol
Mercy
The Sopranos

Jon Tazewell

Thomas S. Turgeon

Professor of Drama

Kenyon College

Jonathan David Martin

Theater credits include:
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
The Chosen (Portland Center Stage)
The Outsiders (Seattle Children’s Theater)

Josh Hamilton

Theater credits include:
Three Sisters (Classic Stage)
The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater)
Proof (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
Ten Stories Tall
Away We Go
Mercy

Juliana Francis-Kelly

Theater credits include:
The Girl From Monday
Maria Del Bosco
Go Go Go

Jumaane Williams

Jumaane Williams has served as the New York City Public Advocate since 2019. He formerly served as a member of the New York City Council from the 45th district.

Karen MacDonald

Theater credits include:

All My Sons, Bus Stop, (Huntington Theatre Co.)All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company)

Founding Company Member of the American Repertory Theatre, has appeared in 70 productions including Endgame, The Seagull, Mother Courage and her Children.

Karen Young

Theater credits include:
A Lie of the Mind (The New Group)
Film credits include:
Joe the King
Heading South
The Sopranos
Handsome Harry

Kate Burton

Credits include:

Scandal

Grey’s Anatomy

The Ice Storm

Katherine Stewart

Theater credits include:
West Side Story
Henry V
Taming of the Shrew

Kathleen Chalfant

Broadway:
Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations)
M. Butterfly
Racing Demon
Off-Broadway:
Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie and Outer Circle Critics Award)

Kathryn Erbe

Kathryn Erbe is best known for playing Detective Alexandra Eames in “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Erbe’s television credits include playing the infamous death row inmate Shirley Bellinger on the acclaimed HBO series “Oz.” She also appeared on NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street,” the miniseries “George Wallace,” Showtime’s original production of “Naked City: Justice with a Bullet,” NBC’s “Another World” and the television movie “Breathing Lessons.”

Erbe also gained notice in the 1999 box office hit “Stir of Echoes” opposite Kevin Bacon and “Dream with the Fishes” with David Arquette. Her additional film credits include “Entropy,” “Kiss of Death,” “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” “Rich in Love”, “What About Bob?”, and “Speaking of Sex” with Lara Flynn Boyle and Bill Murray. Before appearing in feature films, Erbe began her career on the stage.

She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and has starred in many of their productions, including Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” as Stella, “Curse of the Starving Class” and “My Thing of Love.” She earned a Tony® Award nomination in 1991 for her portrayal of Mary in “Speed of Darkness.” Erbe is also an active member of the Atlantic Theatre Company.

Kathryn Hunter

Harry Potter

Rome

Tale of Tales

Keith David

Film credits include:
The Princess and The Frog
Coraline
Crash

Kimberly Hèbert

Better Call Saul

Five Feet Apart

Red Hook Summer

Lemon Andersen

Theater credits include:

HBO’s Def Poetry Jam (Broadway, Tony Award)

County of Kings (The Public)

Film credits include:

Inside Man

The Soloist

Lesley Sharp

Credits include:

Vera Drake

The Full Monty

Afterlife

Lili Taylor

Film & TV Credits include:

The Good Wife

Six Feet Under

High Fidelity

Lina Patel

Theater credits include:
Sankalpan (Desire)
The Ragged Claws
TV & Film:
Numbers
The Day After Tomorrow

Linda Powell

Theater credits include:
On Golden Pond (Broadway)
Wilder, Wilder, Wilder(Broadway)
The Overwhelming(Roundabout)
TV & Film credits include:
American Gangster
Morning Glory
The Good Wife

Louis Cancelmi

Theater credits include:
This (Playwrights Horizons)
The Singing Forest (The Public Theater)
Blasted (Soho Rep)

Mare Winningham

Film and TV credits include:

St. Elmo’s

FireTurner & Hooch

Hatfields & McCoys

Margaret Atwood

Author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, and, Alias Grace

Maria Dizzia

Theater credits include:
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Broadway)
Eurydice (Second Stage)
Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons)

Marjolaine Goldsmith

Credits Include

Compromise

Afterwords

Henry IV

Martha Plimpton

Credits include:

Raising Hope

The Good Wife

The Mosquito Coast

Goonies

Martin Sheen

Credits Include:

The West Wing

The Departed

Apocalypse Now

Maryann Plunkett

Broadway credits include:
Saint Joan
The Crucible
Me and My Girl (Tony Award)

Matthew T. Starr

Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, OH

Megan Brotherton

Theater credits include:
Alice vs. Wonderland
Drums in The Night
Macbeth

Michael Imperioli

Credits include:

The Sopranos

GoodFellas

The Lovely Bones

Michael Izquierdo

Theater credits include:
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (McCarter)
New Jerusalem (Classic Stage)
Mother Courage (New York Shakespeare Festival)
Taking Woodstock (dir. Ang Lee)

Michael K. Williams

Credits include:

The Wire

Boardwalk Empire

The Night Of

12 Years A Slave

Michael Stahl-David

Theater credits include:
The Overwhelming(Roundabout)
TV & Film credits include:
My Generation
Mercy
Cloverfield

Michael Stuhlbarg

Theater credits include:
The Pillowman (Broadway)
Saint Joan (Broadway)
Hamlet (The Public Theater)
TV & Film credits include:
A Serious Man (Golden Globe Nomination)
Body of Lies

Michael Yare

TV & Film credits include:
Game of Thrones
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Neverland

Mike Colter

TV & Film credits include:
Salt
Taking Chance
Million Dollar Baby

Moses Ingram

The Queen's Gambit

Macbeth

Day 74

Nandita Shenoy

Credits include:

Love, Repeat

Arranged: The Musical

After Forever

Nick Choksi

Credits include:

Happyish

One Life to Live

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Nick Holder

Les Misérables

The Four Feathers

Anna Karenina

Nilaja Sun

Nilaja Sun is an actor, playwright and teaching artist. She recently performed an extended run of a critically acclaimed solo piece Pike St. that was commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble and performed at the Abrons Arts Center. This year, a tour of the show started at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in D.C., and has continued to theaters in Minneapolis; Edinburgh, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia.

Nilaja’s Obie award winning solo piece "No Child…", was directed by Hal Brooks and commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble. For her creation and performance of "No Child..." and its subsequent national tour, Nilaja garnered 21 awards including: an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards including the John Gassner Playwriting Award for Outstanding New American Play, a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, two NAACP Theatre Awards, and was awarded the soloNOVA Award for Artist of the Year by terraNOVA Collective. For “Pike St.”, Nilaja was recently awarded the Edinbugh Award and Ivey Award.

TV/FILM: Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, BrainDead, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, Unforgettable, Louie, The International, and Rubicon.

A native of the Lower East Side, she is a Princess Grace Award recipient, and has worked proudly as a teaching artist in New York City for more than 15 years.

Nina Turner

Former Ohio State Senator.

Nyasha Hatendi

The Front Runner

Into the Dark

Alex Rider

Obi Abili

Obi Abili was recently seen in a recurring role on the third season of the Showtime Series Billions and will soon be in the upcoming film Faraway Eyes. He recently finished starring in the Irish Rep’s production of The Emperor Jones and just had a lead role in the new Sky comedy miniseries Delicious with Dawn French, which premiered on New Years’ Day overseas.

He just starred opposite Juliette Binoche in Ivo van Hove’s production of Antigone at BAM. He also has a major supporting role in the upcoming feature London Fields opposite Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton and Theo James, which just premiered at Toronto. He had a leading role in the feature Tula: The Revolt opposite Danny Glover and was also seen opposite Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz in Gambit. He was a regular on the UK minis The Take with Tom Hardy, Injustice with James Purefoy, Moses Jones with Eamonn Walker and The Nativity with Tatiana Maslany.

He has guest starred on the Cinemax series Strike Back and BBC’s Foyle’s War. Screen International named him a “Star of Tomorrow” in 2010 and IndieWire called him “an actor to watch."

Oscar Isaac

Ex Machina

Inside Llewyn Davis

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Patch Darragh

Theater credits include:
Our Town (Broadway, With Paul Newman)
The Glass Menagerie(Roundabout)
All That I Will Ever Be (NYTW)

Patrese McClain

Theater credits include:
Pericles (The Black Rep)
Ruined (The Black Rep)
Two Trains Running (Geva Theatre Center)

Patricia Buckley

Credits include:

Portland Stage Company

Paul Giamatti

Credits include:

John Adams

Cinderella Man

Sideways

Paul Juhn

Credits include:

Salt

Michael Clayton

30 Rock

Peter Francis James

Broadway:
Merchant of Venice
Drowning Crow
On Golden Pond
Judgment at Nuremberg

Peter Friedman

Theater credits include:
Ragtime (Broadway)
Twelve Angry Men (Broadway Revival)
Film credits include:
The Savages
I’m Not There
Synecdoche, New York

Phillippe Chang

Credits include:

Nobody’s Perfect

She Spies

Gift

Polly Noonan

Theater credits include:
Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Helen Hayes Award)
Passion Play (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award Nomination; Goodman Theatre, Yale Rep Theatre, Epic Theatre Ensemble)
Eurydice (Madison Repertory Theatre)

Raphael Sardina

Theater credits include:

Sea of Tranquility (Atlantic Theatre)

Sleepwalkers (Alliance Theater)

Film credits include:

War of the Worlds

The Brave One

Reed Birney

Theater credits include:
Blasted (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Award Nomination)
Bug (Obie Award)
Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons)

Reg E Cathey

Theater credits include:
The Shawshank Redemption(London’s West End, Dublin)
The Green Bird (Broadway)
Talk (Obie Award, Foundry Theatre)

Renzo Ampuero

Theater credits include:
Trojan Barbie
Ajax in Iraq
A Picture of Dorian Gray

Reynaldo Piniella

Reynaldo Piniella was previously seen in Terminus (NYTW Next Door), Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man...(Signature Theatre Company), The Skin Of Our Teeth (Theatre For A New Audience), Romeo & Juliet (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis), The Tempest, The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem), and Honky (Urban Stages).

TV credits include "Sneaky Pete", "Louie", "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", "Law & Order: SVU", "NYC 22", "The Carrie Diaries" and "Flesh & Bone". Film credits include "Madeline's Madeline", "Broken City", "One Percent More Humid" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". He will next be seen in the McCarter Theatre Center production of "A Christmas Carol."

Rich Orlow

Credits include:

Law & Order

Grand Theft Auto

Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers

Rob Belushi

TV credits include:

The Joe Schmo Show

The Defenders

Rob Cameron

Credits include: Fenix Theatre Company

Sally Wood

Stage credits include:

Portland Stage Company

Fenix Theatre Company

Samira Wiley

SAMIRA WILEY is best known for her SAG Award winning performance as inmate Poussey Washington on “Orange is the New Black.” She most recently starred in the Off Broadway play Daphne’s Dive, directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton). Wiley’s current projects include roles in Hulu’s original drama series “The Handmaid’s Tale”, FX show “You’re the Worst” and independent feature 37.

Her past film projects include Nerve, Rob The Mob, Being Flynn and The Sitter. Television appearances include “The Catch”, “Law and Order: SVU”, “Person of Interest” and a recurring role on “Unforgettable.”

Wiley is a graduate of The Julliard School.

Sandy Cayo

Dr. Sandy Cayo DNP FNP-BC Phd (c) is a board certified family nurse practitioner. She has over 15 years of healthcare experience and expertise. She specializes in the areas of clinical, academic and executive leadership. As a practicing clinician, she cares for patients across the care continuum from pediatric to geriatric. Her specialties include, oncology, pediatrics/women's health, primary care and urgent care. She has owned and operated her own telemedicine practice and enjoys providing holistic modalities of care and wellness for her patients. As a nursing professor Dr. Cayo has taught bachelors, masters and doctoral level courses. She specializes in curricular/ course design, NCLEX advising, DNP coaching/advising, and student centered innovation in the classroom. Her experience as a Vice President of Clinical Performance demonstrates her ability to lead teams, conduct project management, quality improvement and advocacy. Past experience as a primary investigator include areas of infection control education, chronic disease management and social determinants of health, consumer health coverage, and health disparities research. Her independent reasarch focuses on psychosocial factors like discrimination and stress and their impacts on chronic disease in African American patients.

She has led and operated a patient safety organization and coordinated statewide education and planning for continuing education for nurses, physicians, pharmacists, public health professionals and health care administrators. She has overseen statewide efforts related to nursing workforce and wellbeing.

Sara Waisanen

Theater credits include:
Proof
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Winter’s Tale
Much Ado About Nothing

Seth Gilliam

Theater credits include:
Othello (Commonwealth Stage)
Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Courage Under Fire

Seth Numrich

Theater credits include:
Merchant of Venice (Broadway)
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
TV & Film credits include:
Private Romeo
Gravity