About Us

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.

Keith David

Film credits include:
The Princess and The Frog
Coraline
Crash

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

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)

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

Nandita Shenoy

Credits include:

Love, Repeat

Arranged: The Musical

After Forever

Nick Choksi

Credits include:

Happyish

One Life to Live

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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.

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."

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.

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

Sonja Sohn

Credits include: The Wire, Body of Proof, Bringing Out the Dead

Steven Louis Grush

Theater credits include:
True West (American Theater Company)
Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

T. Ryder Smith

Theater credits include:
War Horse (Lincoln Center Theater)
Equus (Broadway)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone(Playwrights Horizons)
Lebensraum (Drama Desk Award)
Waiting for Godot (Christopher McElroen, Site-Specific in New Orleans)

Tamara Tunie

TAMARA TUNIE starred as "Marvelous" in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run of Tony nominated playwright Danai Gurira’s Familiar, at Playwrights Horizons.

Broadway credits include: Julius Caesar, Dreamgirls, Oh, Kay!, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.

Tamara also starred Off-Broadway in: The Library (Public Theater), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare in the Park), Sheba, Loose Knit. . Regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Les Liaisons Dangereuse, Tartuffe, Antony and Cleopatra, All's Well That Ends Well. Film: Flight, Snake Eyes, The Devil’s Advocate, Wall Street and Caveman’s Valentine (Independent Spirit Award).

Television: Dr. Melinda Warner on “Law & Order: SVU,” Jessica Griffin on “As the World Turns,” “The Red Road” (opp. Jason Mamoa), “Elementary,” “Billions,” “24,” “Alpha House,” “The Good Wife,” “Sex and the City.”

An accomplished singer, Ms Tunie is a regular headliner in New York City’s cabaret venues .Tamara is also a successful Broadway producer, whose credits include: Spring Awakening (Tony Award), Radio Gold (Tony nom.), and Magic/Bird.

Tate Donovan

Broadway: 'Good People' (MTC), 'Amy's View' (Barrymore) 'Picnic' (Roundabout) Off Broadway: Kenneth Lonergan's 'Medieval Play' (Signature) and 'Lobby Hero' (Playwrights Horizons), 'American Plan' (MTC). Also appeared in productions at the Wiliamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf, Mark Taper, and The Geffen.

Tate has appeared in over 40 films, including MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, ARGO (SAG award), ELVIS AND NIXON, GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK, MEMPHIS BELLE, LOVE POTION #9, CLEAN AND SOBER, and the title voice in Disney’s HERCULES.

TV credits include Man in the High Castle, Masters of Sex, 24, Damages, The OC and Friends amongst others. Directing credits include Madam Secretary (CBS), Bloodline (Netflix), Damages (FX), Glee (Fox), Weeds (Showtime) and the ESPN 30 For 30 Documentary Short 'Arthur and Johnnie', for which he won an EMMY.

Tate Ellington

Theater credits include:
The Philanthropist (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
Taking Chance
The Good Wife

Thomas Derrah

Credits include:

100+ productions at American Repertory Theater, including

Endgame

R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE

Film:

Mystic River

Tracie Thoms

Credits include:

Rent

The Devil Wears Prada

Annie

Ty Jones

Artistic Director, The Classical Theatre of Harlem
Henry V (Title Role, The Classical Theatre of Harlem)
Broadway:
Enron
Judgment at Nuremberg
Julius Caesar

William Jackson Harper

Theater credits include:
Measure for Measure (The Public Theater)
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizons)
Ruined (The Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club)

Zach Grenier

Selected credits: Broadway: 33 Variations, A Man For All Seasons; Off-Broadway: A Question of Mercy, The Fiery Furnace, and, at the Public Theatre, Stuff Happens, Woyzeck, Talk Radio. Regional: the title roles in Uncle Vanya and Tartuffe at Yale Repertory, the latter also at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, and Yvan in Art in Chicago. Films include Tommy Boy, Twister, Ride With The Devil, Fight Club and Zodiac. On television, series regular on C16:FBI and Touching Evil; featured on Deadwood, 24, and The Good Wife.