• Barzin Akhavan

    contributor

    (Salisbury/Marshall). Broadway: Network. NYC: Macbeth (CSC), Hamlet (Waterwell). International tour:…

  • Sean Carvajal

    contributor

    (Gardner’s Man/Surrey). Broadway: King Lear. Off-Broadway: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Tell Hector I Miss Him…

  • Michael Bradley Cohen

    contributor

    (Bushy). The Public: Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Henry V. Off-Broadway: Roadkill at St. Ann’s…

  • Sanjit De Silva

    contributor

    (Mowbray/Exton). The Public: Troilus and Cressida, Dry Powder (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle nominations),…

  • Biko Eisen-Martin

    contributor

    (Fitzwater). The Public: Coriolanus. Theater: HVSF, 59E59 Theaters, Studio Theatre, Denver Center, Folger, Crossroads, Arden…

  • Michael Gaston

    contributor

    (Northumberland). The Public: Coal Country, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Henry V, The Cripple of Inishmaan. Broadway:…

  • Stephen McKinley Henderson

    contributor

    (Gardener). Stephen McKinley Henderson’s Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards are for outstanding lead actor in Between Riverside and…

  • André Holland

    contributor

    (Richard II). André Holland starred in and co-executive produced Damien Chazelle’s “The Eddy” (Netflix). Film includes: High…

  • Miriam A. Hyman

    contributor

    (Bollingbroke). The Public: Socrates, Richard III. Off-Broadway: Three Musketeers (CTH); Tempest (La MaMa…

  • Merritt Janson

    contributor

    (Scroop). The Public: Mobile Unit’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Off-Broadway: Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Tamburlaine…

  • Elijah Jones

    contributor

    (Hotspur). Off-Broadway: The Rolling Stone (u/s) (Lincoln Center). Regional: The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield

  • Dakin Matthews

    contributor

    (Gaunt). The Public: Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well. Broadway: Henry IV, A Man for All Seasons, The Best Man,…

  • Jacob Ming-Trent

    contributor

    (Carlisle). was most recently seen on the hit HBO series “Watchmen.” He is starring in two soon-to-be-released films: Lena…

  • Maria Mukuka

    contributor

    (Queen’s Lady/Servant). NY Theater: Race Free (4th St. Theatre; United Solo Theatre Festival, Theatre Row), Dramatic…

  • Okwui Okpokwasili

    contributor

    (Willoughby/Abbot). Okwui is a Brooklyn-based performing artist. Her work has been produced and commissioned by Performance Space New…

  • Estelle Parsons

    contributor

    (Duchess of York). The Public: A Bright Room Called Day, Miss Margarida’s Way, Peer Gynt, Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo;…

  • Tom Pecinka

    contributor

    (Aumerle). The Public: Troilus and Cressida. Off-Broadway: Timon of Athens, He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box

  • Phylicia Rashad

    contributor

    (Duchess of Gloucester). The Public: A Midsummer Night’s DreamHead of Passes (Lortel Award), The…

  • Reza Salazar

    contributor

    (Welsh Captain). The Public: Mobile Unit’s The TempestOedipus El Rey. Broadway: Sweat. Off-Broadway: My…

  • Thom Sesma

    contributor

    (Ross/Keeper). The Public: Cymbeline, Othello. Broadway: The Times They Are A-Changin’, Man of La Mancha, Search and Destroy,…

  • Sathya Sridharan

    contributor

    (Bagot). The Public: Mobile Unit’s The Winter’s Tale. Off-Broadway: Wives (Playwright’s Horizons), An Ordinary…

  • John Douglas Thompson

    contributor

    (York). The Public: Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida. Broadway: JitneyKing Lear,…

  • Claire van der Boom

    contributor

    (Queen). Off-Broadway: Heartless, An Early History of Fire. LA: The Trouble With Where We Come From. Melbourne Theatre…

  • Natalie Woolams-Torres

    contributor

    (Green). The Public: Tiny Beautiful Things, Mobile Unit’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet. Other Public…

  • Ja’Siah Young

    contributor

    (Groom). Ja’Siah is an energetic, fun, loving, and genuinely generous child actor, best known for his role of Dion in the Netflix original…

  • Vinson Cunningham

    host

    Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and a theatre critic at The New Yorker. His essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in the New York…

  • Emily Botein

    executive producer

    Emily is the vice president for original programming at WNYC Studios, helping to launch podcasts and nurture ongoing programs.

  • Elliott Forrest

    executive producer

    Elliott Forrest, small-Town Texan with a a think-big producer’s mentality, is the weekday afternoon host on…

  • Matt Collette

    executive producer

    Matt Collette is an executive producer at WNYC Studios. He’s worked on Trump, Inc.;…

  • Ed Haber

    engineer

    Senior Concert Engineer at WNYC Radio

    Senior Concert Engineer at WNYC Radio

  • Jared Paul

    engineer

    Jared has sound designed, mixed, and composed original music for WNYC shows like Notes From America, Blindspot: The Plague…

  • Joe Plourde

    engineer

    Joe Plourde is a sound designer, engineer, musician, and the Technical Director at WNYC…