Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
- Playwright
Purpose (2024), Everybody (2017), Gloria (2015), Appropriate (2014) and An Octoroon (2014)
Recent Visiting Artists
Lucy Thurber
- Playwright
Transfers (2018), Scarcity (2007), The Insurgents (2015)
Niegel Smith
- Artistic Director
NYC's Obie Award-winning theater, The Flea
Lisa D’Amour
- Playwright
Detroit (2010), Milton (2015), How to Build a Forest (2011)
Stuart Zicherman
- Showrunner
FX's The Americans (2013-2018), Showtime's The Affair (2014-2019), and Apple's The Shrink Next Door (2021-2021)
Sheila Callaghan
- Playwright
Lascivious Something (2011), That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play (2009), Women Laughing Alone With Salad (2019)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Writer and Actress
Seinfeld (1990-1998), Enough Said (2013), The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006-2010), and Veep (2012-2019).
Stacy Osei-Kuffour
- Playwright and TV Writer
Watchmen (2019) and PEN15 (2019).
Todd Solondz
- Writer/director
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Happiness (1998), Life During Wartime (2009), and Wiener-Dog (2016).
Young Jean Lee
- Writer and director
Straight White Men (2014), and The Shipment (2009).
Norman Lear
- TV writer and producer
All in the Family (1968-1979), and The Jeffersons (1975-1985).
Doug Wright
- Playwright
Quills (2000), Grey Gardens (2006), and I Am My Own Wife (2003).
Laura Eason
- Playwright and TV writer
Sex with Strangers (2011), The Loudest Voice (2019), and House of Cards (2014-2017).
Molly Smith Metzler
- Playwright and TV writer
Maid (2021), Shameless (2017-2020), and Orange is the New Black (2017).
Franklin Leonard
- Creator
The Black List.
Stephen Colbert
- Writer, producer, and performer
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015-2022), The Colbert Report (2005-2014), The Daily Show (1997-2015), and Strangers with Candy (1999-2000).
Will Arbery
- Playwright and TV writer
Succession (2018), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2019), and Corsicana (2022).
John Logan
- Playwright and Screenwriter
Gladiator (2000), Any Given Sunday (1999), RED (2009), and The Aviator (2004).
Sam Raimi
- Writer/director
Spider-Man (2002), The Evil Dead (1981), and Army of Darkness (1992).
Ayad Akhtar
- Playwright
The Invisible Hand (2015), The War Within (2005), and Disgraced (2013).
Billy Ray
- Screenwriter
Captain Phillips (2013), Shattered Glass (2003), and The Hunger Games (2012).
Asghar Farhadi
- Writer/director
About Elly (2009), The Salesman (2016), A Separation (2011), and The Past (2013).
Wallace Shawn
- Playwright, screenwriter, and actor
The Princess Bride (1987), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Aunt Dan and Lemon (1985), and The Fever (2004).
Chico Mattoso
- TV writer
HBO Latino's Joint Venture (2019).
Maria Bamford
- Actress, writer, and producer
The Maria Bamford Show (2007), Ave Maria Bamford (2017), and Old Baby (2017).
Ashley Nicole Black
- Writer, actress, and producer
Ted Lasso (2020) and A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019).
Kia Corthron
- Playwright and TV writer
The Wire (2002) and Force Continuum (2000).
Tony Kushner
- Playwright and screenwriter
Angels in America (2003), West Side Story (2021), Caroline, or Change (2002), and The Fabelmans (2022).
Tarell Alvin McCraney
- Playwright and screenwriter
Moonlight (2016), and In the Red and Brown Water (2016).
George R. R. Martin
- Novelist and screenwriter
Game of Thrones (2011-2019).