Strayed is the author of Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, Brave Enough and the number one New York Times bestseller Wild. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages around the world. The Oscar nominated film adaptation of Wild was released in 2014. Strayed’s essays and stories have appeared in the Best American Essays, Vogue, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. Strayed is the co-host of The New York Times’ podcast Dear Sugars which originated with her popular Dear Sugar column.

Sherri Eden Barber is a New York based theater director and Artistic Director of Ricochet Collective. Recent: good friday (The Flea Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wild Fires (Ricochet Collective – Teatro Circulo), Happily After Ever (Ricochet Collective – 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe), Gordy Crashes (Ricochet Collective – IRT), Mr. Landing Takes A Fall (The Flea), Esperanza Spalding’s Emily’s D+Evolution (Development on European Tour), Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis (The Beckett), Monstrosity, Polaroid Stories, and BENT (The New School for Drama), The Lightning Thief (Theatreworks USA), 24 Hour Plays on Broadway with Pablo Schreiber, Laverne Cox, and Melanie Griffith (American Airlines Theatre), Latrell: Live Tonight! (Joe’s Pub), Dance Lessons (winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival), Men On Boats (Yale Drama). She has developed new work with Rattlestick, Orchard Project, The Flea, Culture Project, Chautauqua, and The Old Vic. Barber is a recipient of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Directors Fellowship, the Core Company Director for The Orchard Project, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and recipient of the US/UK Exchange Award. RicochetCollective.com | SherriEdenBarber.com

Heyman has written for the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, InStyle, W, Harper’s Bazaar, New York and many others. He is also a writer for the AMC show Dietland.

Broadway directing credits include: Hamilton (Tony Award); In the Heights (Tony Nom); Lombardi and Magic/Bird. Other directing credits include the world premiere of Hamilton, Dry Powder, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Kings at the Public Theater; the world premiere of In the Heights; Broke-ology and the world premiere of When I Come to Die at Lincoln Center Theater; the world premiere of Daphne’s Dive at the Signature Theater. He is the co-creator and director of the hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme. He is a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honors Award, in addition to the Drama Desk Award, an Obie, a Callaway Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

Broadway: Hadestown, Heidi Schreck’s What The Constitution Means To Me, John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons. Recent work: Hadestown (National Theater, Citadel, New York Theater Workshop), Hurricane Diane (New York Theater Workshop), Othello, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow), Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder (The Public Theater), Amy And The Orphans, On The Exhale (Roundabout Theatre Company), Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons). Princess Grace, Lilly Awards, Drama Desk, Lortel nominations, Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

Recent: Tiny Beautiful Things (Public Theater), Sweat (Broadway, Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage), Mlima’s Tale (Public Theater), King Lear, Romeo & Juliet (Guthrie), Aubergine (Playwrights Horizons), Candide (LA Opera), The Last Goodbye (Old Globe), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tempest (Shakespeare Theatre Company), La Boheme (Kennedy Center), Dance and the Railroad (Signature Theatre), The How and the Why (McCarter Theatre Center), Winter’s Tale (Yale Repertory Theater), Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

Broadway: Bandstand, Falsettos, Something Rotten, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, Holiday Inn, Penn & Teller, Disaster, Mothers and Sons, A Time to Kill, Soul Doctor, Jekyll and Hyde, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Next Fall, Kiki and Herb. Off-Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme, The True, Chick Flick, The Other Josh Cohen, Daniel’s Husband, Smokey Joe’s Café, Jerry Springer The Opera, Tiny Beautiful Things, Cost of Living, Sweet Charity, Head of Passes, Cam Jansen. Other: Big Apple Circus, Penn & Teller at the Rio in Las Vegas, Family Guy Sings. Jeff has received Tony, Hewes and Bass awards, and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel nominations.

Broadway: Hand To God, The Heidi Chronicles, Disgraced, Picnic, Wit, Other Desert Cities, Good People, The Constant Wife, Children of a Lesser God, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory… Off-Broadway includes Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theater Club, Atlantic, Vineyard, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Second Stage, New York Theater Workshop, Women’s Project Theater, Signature, Clubbed Thumb (Affiliate Artist). Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award, OBIE, Lilly Award, Drama Desk and Henry Hewes nominations. Audio Producer for The New Yorker Magazine. Love to Adam, ilo and Mabel.

Pasadena Playhouse: Native Gardens, Belleville, King Charles III, Our Town. Off-Broadway: A Sucker Emcee, The Way West, Empanada Loca, and A Family for All Occasions (Labyrinth Theater). Regional: Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Merrily We Roll Along. Feature Film & TV Production Design: “Corporate Animals,” “John Wick 2” (reshoots), “Permission,” and “She’s Lost Control.” Art Direction: “Top Gun 2,” “Birdman,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” David studied Architecture and Theater at Syracuse University and received his MFA in Production Design for Stage and Film at NYU/Tisch. Online: davidmeyerdesign.com

Pasadena Playhouse: Our Town, King Charles III, Belleville, Bordertown Now, and Native Gardens (ASM). Broadway: Bullets Over Broadway, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Guys and Dolls, Oleanna, and Cry-Baby. Other NYC: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Heading East (The Asia Society), NY2022, Shir a Shalom (Guggenheim Works & Process). Regional: Next to Normal (East West Players), Restoration Comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, Othello (The Old Globe), and work with La Jolla Playhouse, New Harmony/USI, the Rude Mechs, 7 Devils Playwrights Conference, and ZACH Theatre. Slattery is on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Education: MFA (UCSD), MA (UT Austin), and BA (University of Florida).

New York: Thunderbodies (SoHo Rep), The Waiting Game (E2E 59E59), Exposure (Workshop, Joe’s Pub), Little Women (Reading, Primary Stages), Orchids (Reading, Theaterlab). Regional: Skeleton Crew, Pride & Prejudice, Ann (Dorset Theatre Festival); Bordertown Now (Pasadena Playhouse); Networks: The Sound of Music National Tour. All my love to Mom and Dad.

Los Angeles theater includes King Charles III here at the Playhouse, The Golden Dragon and The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir For The Stage both at The Theatre @ Boston Court. Twelve years with the Ojai Playwrights Conference working on new work from Stephen Adly Guirgis, Terrence McNally, Jiehae Park, JC Lee, Robert Askins etc. Film includes The Lovers from A24 starring Debra Winger & Tracy Letts. TV includes: Room 104 and Animals both from Duplass Brothers Productions and airing on HBO.