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Recent Visiting Artists

George R. R. Martin

Novelist and screenwriter – Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Tarell Alvin McCraney

Playwright and screenwriter – Moonlight (2016), and In the Red and Brown Water (2016).

Tony Kushner

Playwright and screenwriter – Angels in America (2003), West Side Story (2021), Caroline, or Change (2002), and The Fabelmans (2022).

Kia Corthron

Playwright and TV writer – The Wire (2002) and Force Continuum (2000).

Ashley Nicole Black

Writer, actress, and producer – Ted Lasso (2020) and A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019).

Maria Bamford

Actress, writer, and producer – The Maria Bamford Show (2007), Ave Maria Bamford (2017), and Old Baby (2017).

Chico Mattoso

TV writer – HBO Latino’s Joint Venture (2019).

Wallace Shawn

Playwright, screenwriter, and actor – The Princess Bride (1987), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Aunt Dan and Lemon (1985), and The Fever (2004).

Asghar Farhadi

Writer/director –  About Elly (2009), The Salesman (2016), A Separation (2011), and The Past (2013).

Billy Ray

Screenwriter – Captain Phillips (2013), Shattered Glass (2003), and The Hunger Games (2012).

Ayad Akhtar

Playwright – The Invisible Hand (2015), The War Within (2005), and Disgraced (2013).

Sam Raimi

Writer/director – Spider-Man (2002), The Evil Dead (1981), and Army of Darkness (1992).

John Logan

Playwright and Screenwriter – Gladiator (2000),  Any Given Sunday (1999), RED (2009), and The Aviator (2004).

Will Arbery

Playwright and TV writer – Succession (2018), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2019), and Corsicana (2022).

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).

Franklin Leonard

Creator – the Black List.

Molly Smith Metzler

Playwright and TV writer – Maid (2021), Shameless (2017-2020), and Orange is the New Black (2017).

Laura Eason

Playwright and TV writer – Sex with Strangers (2011), The Loudest Voice (2019), and House of Cards (2014-2017).

Doug Wright

Playwright – Quills (2000), Grey Gardens (2006), and I Am My Own Wife (2003).

Norman Lear

TV writer and producer – All in the Family (1968-1979), and The Jeffersons (1975-1985).

Young Jean Lee

Writer and director – Straight White Men (2014), and The Shipment (2009).

Todd Solondz

Writer/director – Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Happiness (1998), Life During Wartime (2009), and Wiener-Dog (2016).

Stacy Osei-Kuffour

Playwright and TV writer – Watchmen (2019) and PEN15 (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).

Sheila Callaghan

Playwright – Lascivious Something (2011), That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play (2009), Women Laughing Alone With Salad (2019)

Stuart Zicherman

Showrunner – FX’s The Americans (2013-2018), Showtime’s The Affair (2014-2019), and Apple’s The Shrink Next Door (2021-2021)

Lisa D’Amour

Playwright – Detroit (2010), Milton (2015), How to Build a Forest (2011)

Niegel Smith

Artistic Director of NYC’s Obie Award-winning theater, The Flea

Lucy Thurber

Playwright – Transfers (2018), Scarcity (2007), The Insurgents (2015)