Featured actors:

 

Jill Eikenberry starred in the Broadway productions of Moonchildren, Watch on the Rhine, Summer Brave, Onward Victoria, and All Over Town. Off-Broadway, she won an Obie Award for her performances in Lemon Sky and Life Under Water, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for The Kid. She earned a Golden Globe Award and five Emmy nominations as Ann Kelsey on NBC’s "L.A. Law," and received the Humanitas Prize for Destined to Live, a breast cancer documentary she co-produced and hosted on NBC.

Her film credits include Arthur, Something Borrowed, Young Adult, Keep in Touch, In Reality, and Chantilly Bridge. Television work includes guest roles on "Law & Order," "Body of Proof," "The Good Fight," "The Girls on the Bus," and "Elsbeth," currently streaming on Paramount+. In 2024, Eikenberry starred on stage in The Two Hander at the New Jersey Rep. She has also appeared alongside her husband, Michael Tucker, in productions of Tucker’s plays The M Spot and Fern Hill, and they starred together in Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn.

Eikenberry has performed at Feinstein’s 54 Below with her cabaret shows Songs I’ve Sung and Here I Go Again. In 2020 she became a charter member of New Normal Rep, an online theater company.

 

Michael Tucker is best known for his role as Stuart Markowitz in "L.A. Law," for which he received three Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. He has appeared on and off-Broadway and at most of the non-profit theaters in New York. His film credits include Woody Allen’s Radio Days and The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Barry Levinson’s Diner and Tin Men. Tucker wrote and starred in the play The M Spot, which was produced at the New Jersey Repertory Company. The NJ Rep also produced his play Fern Hill, which moved to 59E59 the following year.  He is the author of four books: I Never Forget a Meal, Living in a Foreign Language, Family Meals, and the novel After Annie.

Onstage, Tucker appeared with his wife, Jill Eikenberry, in Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn. They also produced the PBS documentary Emile Norman: By His Own Design. His latest play, A Tailor Near Me, was produced at New Jersey Rep in the summer of 2023.

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Campbell Scott is known for his film and television roles in Singles, Big Night, which he co-directed and co-produced alongside Stanley Tucci, Roger Dodger, for which he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, Royal Pains, House of Cards, The Amazing Spider-Man, Soundtrack, Billions, Jurassic World: Dominion, and WeCrashed. Scott has narrated series including The Food That Built America, Colosseum, Nature, and The Machines That Built America, and the 2017 music album Blueprint.

On Broadway, Scott’s stage credits include the Tony Award-nominated revival of Noises Off and the 2019 production of A Christmas Carol, and regional productions of Uncle Vanya, Our Town, and The Atheist. His most recent film, Millers in Marriage, premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the US in February.

 

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Dave Eggers is the author of the Newbery Medal winner The Eyes and the Impossible, along with bestsellers The Every, The Monk of Mokha, The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, and cofounder of 826 National, a network of educational centers around the country offering free tutoring to kids of all backgrounds.

 

Anita Felicelli is the author of the short story collection How We Know Our Time Travelers and other works of fiction. Her literary criticism and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times (Modern Love), and elsewhere. She is the books editor of Alta Journal. From 2021–2024, she sat on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle.

 

Ben Kronengold is a writer based in New York. He has written for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" as well as The New Yorker and McSweeney’s. He writes with his writing partner Rebecca Shaw, with whom he co-parents several elderly plants.

 

Daniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country, The Winter Soldier, A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and North Woods, which was a New York Times Book Review and Washington Post top ten book of the year, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and The Mark Twain American Voice In Literature Award. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded, among others, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a California Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mason is an assistant professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry.

 

Rebecca Shaw is a comedy writer and director based in New York City. She graduated from Yale in 2018 and together with Ben Kronengold, she’s written for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; Naked in the Rideshare; and that funny thing your father needs you to explain to him.