MICHAEL R. JACKSON is one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022, and author of A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons 2019 world premiere in association with Page73 Productions), which won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Musical, as well as the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Other awards and associations: Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Page73’s I73 Writers Group, New Professional Theatre Festival Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Obie Award, Antonyo Award, Fred Ebb Award, Windham-Campbell Prize.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids (BCEFA)

Born in South Korea, adopted and raised in Rochester, New York. Off-Broadway: The Chinese Lady (The Public, Ma Yi), Kentucky (EST), Bikeman (Tribeca PAC). Regional: The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage), Smart People (Geva Theatre), Bright Half Life (Kitchen Theatre), The White Snake (Old Globe), Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre, MT Wichita), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage). TV: 30 Rock (NBC), The Last O.G. (TBS), Rediscovering Christmas (Lifetime). Notable audio projects: The MS Phoenix Rising (Playwrights Horizons), antarctica (Two River Theater), Half the Sky (5th Avenue Theater), The Girl from the Sea (2021 SOVAS Award, Audiobook Narration), Vancouver (Ma Yi). BFA Syracuse University.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Also-Known-As

Clint Ramos is a designer, educator, advocate and creative producer. He is a theatre and film worker. Current film credits include production design for Lingua Franca by Isabel Sandoval for Netflix. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival which chronicled the daily struggles of an undocumented Filipina transwoman in New York. And his costume design for Respect, the Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson for MGM.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Design Action

Jaygee Macapugay is a proud Filipino American actress & artist, originally from Chicago, currently residing in Brooklyn. Upcoming: SUFFS by Shaina Taub at The Public. Broadway: School Of Rock (OBC, cast album). Selected Off-Broadway: Public Theater - Soft Power, Here Lies Love, Wild Goose Dreams. National Asian Artists Project: Irene Molloy, Hello, Dolly!, and Gabrielle, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Prospect Theater Company: Honor, The Rockae.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Asian American representation in the arts, Broadway Barkada

Kristina Wong is a writer, actor, performance artist, comedian, and elected representative of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Wong was just nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for her solo show, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, which premiered at New York Theater Workshop and which has received A New York Times Critics Pick and praise from the Washington Post and publications across the country. Kristina Wong, Sweatshop, Overlord is currently continuing its run in regional theaters.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: API Rise and World Harvest LA

Jennifer Simard is a Tony Award, four-time Drama Desk Award, three-time Drama League Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominee. Off-Broadway credits include the original companies of Forbidden Broadway: SVU; The Thing About Men; and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Film credits include The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Wish You Were Dead and Sister.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: National Scleroderma Foundation, The National Eating Disorders Association, and Darkness RISING

Inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2011, Linda Lavin has won numerous awards, including a TONY, for her performance in “Broadway Bound” in 1987. She is a six-time TONY Award nominee for her roles in "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers" and "The Lyons," among others. She is a two-time Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee for her role as Alice on the 9-year hit TV series "Alice" on CBS, and she co-starred with Sean Hayes in the NBC Series "Sean Saves the World". Linda is currently a series regular on the CBS sitcom, “B Positive,” produced by Chuck Lorre. Linda can currently be seen in the Aaron Sorkin feature,“ Being the Ricardos.” Her recent feature films include "Naked Singularity" opposite John Boyega and "Manhattan Nocturne" with Adrien Brody. Linda was born in Portland, Maine and is a graduate of the College of William & Mary, which recently conferred on her an honorary Doctor of Arts degree where she endows a theater program.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Raising awareness and support for women’s equality and support of single mothers.

Born in Monterrey, Mexico. Jaime is an accomplished musician, vocal coach, composer, arranger, orchestrator, musical producer, and musical theatre director considered by Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda as the “next big thing” on Broadway. Jaime is one of the five artists selected for the 2020-2022 Joe’s Pub Working Group residency and one of the artists selected as part of The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: R.Evolución Latina

Kelley Nicole Girod is a producer, known mostly for founding the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival. She was recently named Director of New Works at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem. She is also an award winning playwright recently named Sundance IDP 2021 Grantee, Parity Productions 2021 Commission, and Atlantic Launch New Play Commission, among others. She edited and curated The Fire This Time's first anthology of plays to be published by Bloomsbury UK/Methuen Drama in January 2022. Kelley is also a proud mother to Penelope Evelyn and Noelle Anamarie.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Fire This Time Festival

Zhailon Levingston is a Louisiana-raised storyteller, director, and activist. He is a Board Member and Creative Director for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, which he co-created, and teaches the Theatre of Change course at Columbia University.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Broadway Advocacy Coalition

Elizabeth Marvel currently stars in the Hulu limited series The Dropout about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. Prior to this, Marvel was seen in Paul Greengrass’ News of the World for Universal and in the critically acclaimed limited series Unbelievable for Netflix. Additional work on Netflix includes The Meyerowitz Stories co-starring Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller and directed by Noah Baumbach. This was a stark contrast to her series regular role of the first female President on Homeland for Showtime. Elizabeth also played series regular Heather Dunbar' on House of Cards for yet another Netflix collaboration. Up next, Marvel will star in the David E. Kelley and HBO Max limited series Love & Death about the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: National Alliance on Mental Illness and Physicians for Reproductive Health.