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Gretchen Egolf
Read BioGretchen Egolf
TV & Film credits include:
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Namesake
Quiz Show -
Harold Varmus
Read BioHarold 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.
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Harris Yulin
Read BioHarris Yulin
Hedda Gabler
The Price
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Visit
A Lesson from Aloe
Watch on the Rhine -
Heather Goldenhersh
Read BioHeather Goldenhersh
Credits Include:
Doubt
Merchant of Venice
The Class
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Heidi Schreck
Read BioHeidi Schreck
Theater credits include:
The Language Archive(Roundabout)
Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons)
TV & Film credits include:
Hedda Gabler
The Good Wife -
Hettienne Park
Read BioHettienne Park
Credits include:
Hannibal
Young Adult
Bride Wars
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Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
Read BioIsiah Whitlock, Jr.
Theater credits include:
The Iceman Cometh (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Goodfellas
The 25th Hour -
Jacqueline Murekatete
Read BioJacqueline Murekatete
Rwandan Genocide Survivor
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Read BioJake Gyllenhaal
Film credits include:
Nightcrawler
Jarhead
Brothers
Donnie Darko
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Jamaal Bowman
Read BioJamaal Bowman
U.S. representative for New York's 16th congressional district.
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James Carpenter
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James Earl Jones
Read BioJames Earl Jones
The Lion King,
The Hunt for Red October,
Coming to America,
Star Wars
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James Vincent Meredith
Read BioJames Vincent Meredith
As A Steppenwolf Ensemble Member:
The Crucible
The Bluest Eye
The Pain and The Itch -
Jamie Hector
Read BioJamie Hector
TV & Film credits include:
Spike Lee’s Clockers
The Wire
Third Watch -
Jason Butler Harner
Read BioJason 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
Read BioJason Isaacs
Credits include:
The Harry Potter Series
Fury
The Patriot
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Jay O. Sanders
Read BioJay O. Sanders
Broadway credits include:
Hamlet
Pygmalion
Saint Joan
TV & Film credits include:
Edge of Darkness
The Green Hornet
JFK -
Jeffrey Wright
Read BioJeffrey 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
Read BioJennifer Mudge
Broadway:
The Philanthropist
Reckless
TV credits include:
You Don’t Know Jack
Mercy -
Jesse Eisenberg
Read BioJesse Eisenberg
Film credits include:
The Social Network
Adventureland
The Squid and the Whale -
Jessica Hecht
Read BioJessica 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
Read BioJoanne Tucker
Theater credits include:
Little Doc (Rattlestick)
Graduate of The Juilliard School of Drama -
John Doman
Read BioJohn Doman
Film and Television credits:
Blue Valentine
Mystic River
The Wire
Borgia
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John Leggette
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John Musgrave
Read BioJohn 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).
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John Turturro
Read BioJohn Turturro
Credits include:
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Do the Right Thing
The Big Lebowski
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John Ventimiglia
Read BioJohn Ventimiglia
Theater credits include:
All My Sons (Broadway)
The Exonerated
TV & Film credits include:
I Shot Andy Warhol
Mercy
The Sopranos -
Jon Tazewell
Read BioJon Tazewell
Thomas S. Turgeon
Professor of Drama
Kenyon College
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Jonathan David Martin
Read BioJonathan David Martin
Theater credits include:
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
The Chosen (Portland Center Stage)
The Outsiders (Seattle Children’s Theater) -
Josh Hamilton
Read BioJosh 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 -
Juan Castano
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Juliana Francis-Kelly
Read BioJuliana Francis-Kelly
Theater credits include:
The Girl From Monday
Maria Del Bosco
Go Go Go -
Jumaane Williams
Read BioJumaane 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.
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Karen MacDonald
Read BioKaren 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.
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Karen Young
Read BioKaren 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
Read BioKate Burton
Credits include:
Scandal
Grey’s Anatomy
The Ice Storm
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Katherine Stewart
Read BioKatherine Stewart
Theater credits include:
West Side Story
Henry V
Taming of the Shrew -
Kathleen Chalfant
Read BioKathleen 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
Read BioKathryn 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.
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Kathryn Hunter
Read BioKathryn Hunter
Harry Potter
Rome
Tale of Tales
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Keith David
Read BioKeith David
Film credits include:
The Princess and The Frog
Coraline
Crash -
Kimberly Hèbert
Read BioKimberly Hèbert
Better Call Saul
Five Feet Apart
Red Hook Summer
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Lars Hanson
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Lemon Andersen
Read BioLemon Andersen
Theater credits include:
HBO’s Def Poetry Jam (Broadway, Tony Award)
County of Kings (The Public)
Film credits include:
Inside Man
The Soloist
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Lesley Sharp
Read BioLesley Sharp
Credits include:
Vera Drake
The Full Monty
Afterlife
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Lili Taylor
Read BioLili Taylor
Film & TV Credits include:
The Good Wife
Six Feet Under
High Fidelity
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Lina Patel
Read BioLina Patel
Theater credits include:
Sankalpan (Desire)
The Ragged Claws
TV & Film:
Numbers
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Linda Powell
Read BioLinda 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
Read BioLouis Cancelmi
Theater credits include:
This (Playwrights Horizons)
The Singing Forest (The Public Theater)
Blasted (Soho Rep) -
Mare Winningham
Read BioMare Winningham
Film and TV credits include:
St. Elmo’s
FireTurner & Hooch
Hatfields & McCoys
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Margaret Atwood
Read BioMargaret Atwood
Author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, and, Alias Grace
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Maria Dizzia
Read BioMaria Dizzia
Theater credits include:
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Broadway)
Eurydice (Second Stage)
Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons) -
Marin Ireland
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Marjolaine Goldsmith
Read BioMarjolaine Goldsmith
Credits Include
Compromise
Afterwords
Henry IV
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Martha Plimpton
Read BioMartha Plimpton
Credits include:
Raising Hope
The Good Wife
The Mosquito Coast
Goonies
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Martin Sheen
Read BioMartin Sheen
Credits Include:
The West Wing
The Departed
Apocalypse Now
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Maryann Plunkett
Read BioMaryann Plunkett
Broadway credits include:
Saint Joan
The Crucible
Me and My Girl (Tony Award) -
Matthew T. Starr
Read BioMatthew T. Starr
Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, OH
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Megan Brotherton
Read BioMegan Brotherton
Theater credits include:
Alice vs. Wonderland
Drums in The Night
Macbeth -
Michael Imperioli
Read BioMichael Imperioli
Credits include:
The Sopranos
GoodFellas
The Lovely Bones
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Michael Izquierdo
Read BioMichael 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
Read BioMichael K. Williams
Credits include:
The Wire
Boardwalk Empire
The Night Of
12 Years A Slave
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Michael Stahl-David
Read BioMichael Stahl-David
Theater credits include:
The Overwhelming(Roundabout)
TV & Film credits include:
My Generation
Mercy
Cloverfield -
Michael Stuhlbarg
Read BioMichael 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
Read BioMichael Yare
TV & Film credits include:
Game of Thrones
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Neverland -
Mike Colter
Read BioMike Colter
TV & Film credits include:
Salt
Taking Chance
Million Dollar Baby -
Moses Ingram
Read BioMoses Ingram
The Queen's Gambit
Macbeth
Day 74
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Nandita Shenoy
Read BioNandita Shenoy
Credits include:
Love, Repeat
Arranged: The Musical
After Forever
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New York Attorney General Leticia James
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Nick Choksi
Read BioNick Choksi
Credits include:
Happyish
One Life to Live
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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Nick Holder
Read BioNick Holder
Les Misérables
The Four Feathers
Anna Karenina
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Nilaja Sun
Read BioNilaja 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.
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Nina Turner
Read BioNina Turner
Former Ohio State Senator.
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Nyasha Hatendi
Read BioNyasha Hatendi
The Front Runner
Into the Dark
Alex Rider
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Obi Abili
Read BioObi 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."
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Oscar Isaac
Read BioOscar Isaac
Ex Machina
Inside Llewyn Davis
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Patch Darragh
Read BioPatch Darragh
Theater credits include:
Our Town (Broadway, With Paul Newman)
The Glass Menagerie(Roundabout)
All That I Will Ever Be (NYTW) -
Patrese McClain
Read BioPatrese McClain
Theater credits include:
Pericles (The Black Rep)
Ruined (The Black Rep)
Two Trains Running (Geva Theatre Center) -
Patricia Buckley
Read BioPatricia Buckley
Credits include:
Portland Stage Company
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Patrick Walshe McBride
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Paul Giamatti
Read BioPaul Giamatti
Credits include:
John Adams
Cinderella Man
Sideways
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Paul Juhn
Read BioPaul Juhn
Credits include:Salt
Michael Clayton
30 Rock
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Peter Francis James
Read BioPeter Francis James
Broadway:
Merchant of Venice
Drowning Crow
On Golden Pond
Judgment at Nuremberg -
Peter Friedman
Read BioPeter 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
Read BioPhillippe Chang
Credits include:
Nobody’s Perfect
She Spies
Gift
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Polly Noonan
Read BioPolly 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
Read BioRaphael Sardina
Theater credits include:
Sea of Tranquility (Atlantic Theatre)
Sleepwalkers (Alliance Theater)
Film credits include:
War of the Worlds
The Brave One
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Reed Birney
Read BioReed Birney
Theater credits include:
Blasted (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Award Nomination)
Bug (Obie Award)
Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons) -
Reg E Cathey
Read BioReg E Cathey
Theater credits include:
The Shawshank Redemption(London’s West End, Dublin)
The Green Bird (Broadway)
Talk (Obie Award, Foundry Theatre) -
Renzo Ampuero
Read BioRenzo Ampuero
Theater credits include:
Trojan Barbie
Ajax in Iraq
A Picture of Dorian Gray -
Reynaldo Piniella
Read BioReynaldo 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."
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Rich Orlow
Read BioRich Orlow
Credits include:
Law & Order
Grand Theft Auto
Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers
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Rob Belushi
Read BioRob Belushi
TV credits include:
The Joe Schmo Show
The Defenders
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Rob Cameron
Read BioRob Cameron
Credits include: Fenix Theatre Company
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Sally Wood
Read BioSally Wood
Stage credits include:
Portland Stage Company
Fenix Theatre Company
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Samira Wiley
Read BioSamira 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.
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Sandy Cayo
Read BioSandy 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
Read BioSara Waisanen
Theater credits include:
Proof
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Winter’s Tale
Much Ado About Nothing -
Seth Gilliam
Read BioSeth Gilliam
Theater credits include:
Othello (Commonwealth Stage)
Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Courage Under Fire -
Seth Numrich
Read BioSeth Numrich
Theater credits include:
Merchant of Venice (Broadway)
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
TV & Film credits include:
Private Romeo
Gravity