About

Latoya Lucas

Iraq War Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient

Leeman Kessler

Mayor of Gambier, Ohio

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

Liza Colón-Zayas

The Bear

In Treatment

Law & Order

Lois Smith

The French Dispatch (2021)

Lady Bird (2017)

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

East of Eden (1955)

Lou Diamond Phillips

La Bamba

Stand and Deliver

Prodigal Son

Louis Cancelmi

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

Lyudmila Yankina

Human Rights Defender

Humanitarian Volunteer

ZMINA Human Rights Center, Ukraine

Madhur Anand

MADHUR ANAND's debut book of prose This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, named one of 10 all-time "trailblazing" poetry collections by the CBC and received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was published to international acclaim and named the "top pick" for Spring poetry by the CBC. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.

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 Frieman

Viral Pathogen Research Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

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 Booth

Caregiver and Tranzac board member

Michael Braugher

The Gilded Age

To Kill A Mockingbird
(Broadway)

Ex-Husbands

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 Patrick Sullivan

Paramedic, FDNY EMS, South Bronx

Michael Potts

The Wire

The Piano Lesson

Rustin

Michael Stahl-David

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

Michael Stuhlbarg

TV & Film credits include:

Call Me by Your Name (2017)

A Serious Man (2009)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Boardwalk Empire (2010-2013)

Theater credits include:
The Pillowman (Broadway)
Saint Joan (Broadway)
Hamlet (The Public Theater)

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

Monica Feit

Executive Director, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Moses Ingram

The Queen's Gambit

Macbeth

Day 74

Nancy Kass

Deputy Director for Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics

Nandita Shenoy

Credits include:

Love, Repeat

Arranged: The Musical

After Forever

Naomi Mathis

Air Force Veteran, DAV Associate National Legislative Director.

Nate Smith

Theater Actor and Extinction Rebellion Activist

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."

Olena Martynenko

Communication Manager

Good Bread Bakery

Kyiv

Olenka Tsyhankova

Olenka Tsyhankova

Olenka Tsyhankova is a senior student from Lviv, Ukraine. At her home university, Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU),her academic field is Cultural Studies, which prompted her to become more curious about various nations and dig deep into their cultures. Therefore, she is taking American Studies, Art History, Anthropology, and Religious Studies courses at Notre Dame to rediscover American culture and history.

Olha Droniak

Olha Droniak

Olha Droniak is a junior majoring in political science. At Notre Dame, I'm taking courses related to international relations, world politics, policymaking, and American politics. Olha is passionate about theater! In her hometown in Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk, the theater is very modern and innovative, so she visits it very often.

Olivia Williams-Coombs

RN, RM, CEN, University Hospital Of the West Indies, Jamaica

Oscar Isaac

Ex Machina

Inside Llewyn Davis

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Osose Omofomah

Osose Omofomah is a student at Kenyon College

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

Perri Peltz

Perri Peltz is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and public health advocate. She most recently co-directed the HBO cyberespionage documentary “Surveilled.” Peltz also directed or produced “Axios,” “Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America,” “Warning: This Drug May Kill You” about the opioid epidemic, “Risky Drinking,” and “Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.,” all on HBO. Previously, she co-directed “A Conversation About Growing Up Black” for The New York Times OpDocs “Conversation on Race” series. Prior to documentaries, Peltz was a journalist and anchor with NBC, ABC, and CNN and worked at the Robin Hood Foundation. She earned a doctorate in public health at Columbia University in 2023 and hosts “The Perri Peltz Show” on SiriusXM.

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

Peter Marks

former chief theater critic, The Washington Post

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

Rev. Dr. Leonard Small

Pastor of Litway Missionary Baptist Church.

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

Roman Tolpezhnikov

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Dean of the Department of Law and Economics, Mariupol State University, refugee from Mariupol, Ukraine

Rosalyn Rouse

Sistah Roz ~ Rosalyn Rouse
Rosalyn Rouse is a 'daughter of the soil' of Savannah, Georgia. Born and raised on the coast, she is a Descendant of the Enslaved that arrived on the edges of River Street in 1748. Sistah Roz greets you by saying, 'How U Be?' When she departs from U, she will say, 'Tek' Cyah', Nigh!' She is a proud Gullah Geechee Uhman/Woman.
'Sistah Roz' is one of five siblings, a wife, mother and grandmother. She loves people from all walks of life and they love her back all over the city. She is a graduate of Groves High School and is retired from a profession in the health care industry. In 2013 she co-founded a grass roots public policy organization, The Center for Jubilee, Reconciliation and Healing. Her work engages local, county and state governments to make positive changes in the lives of endangered communities in the areas of social justice and human rights.
As a national slave reenactor with Underground Tours of Savannah, she mesmorizes her audiences with her profound 'truth-telling' about the heart and souls of Enslaved spirits who dwelled on the coast of Georgia. Her most recent theatrical performance in 2022 was in the character of American Heroine Susie King Taylor in a production by 'The History Project' entitled Susie King Taylor, What A Wonderful Revolution’.

Rosie Perez

Night on Earth

Do the Right Thing

Fearless

Ruth Faden

Berman Institute Founder; Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics

Sally Wood

Stage credits include:

Portland Stage Company

Fenix Theatre Company

Sam Sanders

Sam Sanders is the host of “The Sam Sanders Show” from KCRW and a co-host of “Vibe Check,” both weekly podcasts. He previously was a podcast host for Vulture’s “Into It.” Prior to that, Sanders had a long career at NPR, where he launched and hosted the podcast “It’s Been a Minute” and was a key member of NPR’s election unit, covering the intersection of culture, pop culture and politics in the 2016 election and embedding with the Bernie Sanders campaign. He was also an original co-host of “The NPR Politics Podcast,” worked as a field producer and breaking news reporter, and started in 2009 as a Kroc Fellow. Sanders also spent time at three NPR member stations in North Carolina, Oregon and Boston.

Sam Waterston

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Grace & Frankie

The Killing Fields

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

The Walking Dead

Oz

Seth Numrich

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

Soffia Dobko

Sofia Dobko

Sofia Dobko is a senior student from Lviv, Ukraine. At Ukrainian Catholic University, her major is Philology (Linguistics). At Notre Dame, she is taking courses in anthropology, American and religious culture. Soffia also enjoys drawing and painting.

Solomiia Rozlutska

Solomiia Rozlutska

Solomiia is a PhD student in History in the Department of History of Humanities Faculty of Ukrainian Catholic University. At Notre Dame, she is doing a research internship in the Department of History. She is also a Project Manager for International Cooperation at the UCU International Academic Relations Office.

Sonja Sohn

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

Soraya Nadia McDonald

Soraya Nadia McDonald is an award-winning cultural critic and journalist. Most recently, she served as senior cultural critic for Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated). She is the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan prize for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the runner-up for the 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on Black life. She is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. You may recognize her voice from NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour or Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She is also a contributing editor for Film Comment.

Soraya’s essay “‘Believe Me’ Means Believing That Black Women Are People” was published in Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (Seal Press, 2020) and her essay “The Unbearable Whiteness of Oklahoma!” was published in Bigotry on Broadway (Baraka Books, 2021). She has also written for Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and New York.

Soraya was a 2018 Eugene O’Neill National Critics Institute fellow and a 2022 Princeton Belknap fellow. She is a member of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, and the Television Critics Association. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Before joining Andscape in 2016, she covered pop culture for the Washington Post.

Soraya graduated from Howard University with a degree in journalism. She grew up in North Carolina and lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Princess Buttercup. She is repped by Anna Sproul-Latimer of Neon Literary.

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.

Tanis Parenteau

Billions

House of Cards

Sweet Summer Pow-Wow

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

Tatiana Tolpezhnikov

PhD in Economics, Refugee from Mariupol, Ukraine

Taylor Schilling

Orange is the New Black

Argo