JOHN-ANDREW MORRISON -Tony Award Nomination, Lucille Lortel Award, and OBIE for A Strange Loop. Currently stars on Broadway in Oh, Mary. Off Broadway: Blues for an Alabama Sky (KEEN Company, Outer Critics Circle Honoree), The Blacks - A Clown Show, Caligula and Malvolio (Classical Theater of Harlem), Medea of the Laundromat (La MaMa and Lucille Lortel Theater with The Experimentals — for George Ferencz). Regional: 3 Summers of Lincoln (La Jolla Playhouse). BA from Brandeis University and MFA from UC San Diego.
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Episode 479 - Bess Wohl
Bess Wohl is a playwright and filmmaker whose plays have
been produced on and off Broadway, regionally, and
internationally. Bess's plays include LIBERATION, GRAND HORIZONS
(Broadway, Tony Nomination), CAMP SIEGFRIED, MAKE
BELIEVE, CONTINUITY, SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS,
AMERICAN HERO, TOUCHED, IN, CATS TALK BACK
and the musical PRETTY FILTHY. Her plays have been
recognized with a variety of awards and nominations, including
the Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel and Outer
Critics' Circle. She made her feature film debut with her film
BABY RUBY, starring Noémie Merlant and Kit Harington,
which she wrote and directed. The film premiered at the 2022
Toronto Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures in
2023. She also is developing multiple television projects and
wrote for the Apple TV+ series, “Extrapolations." Wohl is an
associate artist with The Civilians, an alumna of Ars Nova’s PlayGroup, and the recipient of new
play commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center and Williamstown Theatre
Festival. Recently, she made her West End debut with a sold out run of BARCELONA.
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Episode 478 - Jenn Harris
Jenn Harris is an award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer. She is currently starring in Oh, Mary! on Broadway. Jenn originated the role of Clarice Starling in Silence! The Musical, won a Lortel and Theatre World award for her performance in Modern Orthodox, and was in the revival of All In The Timing. Film & TV credits: American Fiction (Oscar '24), "High Maintenance," “Elsbeth,” “Search Party," "30 Rock," "Gayby," "Difficult People," "Younger," "Bored to Death." She wrote, directed and starred in the short film She's Clean, her co-created series “NEW YORK IS DEAD” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Comedy at the New York Television Festival, and she co-directed the short "Island Queen" starring Rachel Dratch and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. She wrote My Name is Karen! and Snitch for Theaterworks Hartford. Jenn is also a member of the Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Directing Shadow Program. @realjennharris
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Episode 477 - Adam Gopnik
Award-winning, best-selling author Adam Gopnik has been a writer for The New Yorker since 1986 – covering fiction, humor, criticism, art, book reviews, personal essays, profiles, and reported pieces from abroad. He has written nine books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food, to children’s novels, as well as several musicals and theater pieces. Gopnik has won three National Magazine Awards, for essays and for criticism, and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In 2021 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur, and this year was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lectures widely, and, in 2011, delivered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s fiftieth-anniversary Massey Lecture. For the theater, Gopnik wrote the book and lyrics for the musical comedy Our Table, with composer David Shire; the libretto for the oratorio Sentences, with Nico Muhly; and is currently working on several new projects for the stage. Projects in development include: a new musical, Fairy Tale, with Andrew Lippa, developed alongside Nicholas Hytner; a new musical with Marcy Heisler for the Central Park Conservancy; and a new collaboration with Shire that tells the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine, called Troubadour.
Adam Gopnik’s New York, his autobiographical solo show, returns to NYC this month (October, 2025) at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater.
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Episode 476 - Josh Hamilton
Josh Hamilton has worked as an actor since he was a teenager in NYC. On stage, he’s been in the original productions of Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery and The Medieval Play, on Broadway in Proof, The Real Thing, The Coast of Utopia and Dead Accounts. Off-Broadway includes Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Things We Want, HurlyBurly(Drama Desk nom), Scene Partners, Lie of the Mind, The Cider House Rules, Reasons to be Happy, Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters(CSC), The Bridge Project(BAM/Old Vic) and Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talkhouse(National Theater).
His film work has included Reality, 8th Grade(Indie Spirit nom), Maestro, Manchester by the Sea, Blaze, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Away We Go, Outsourced, Kicking and Screaming, The House of Yes, Alive. And on TV in The Walking Dead, 13 Reasons Why, The Last Thing He Told Me, Mrs. Fletcher, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Louie, Accused, and Ray Donovan. He can be seen in the upcoming The Long Walk, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Concessions, Mayday(Apple), Something Very Bad is Going to Happen(Netflix), The Last Thing He Told Me season 2(Apple) and The Five Star Weekend(Peacock).
And on stage in Wallace Shawn’s new play “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” directed by Andre Gregory at the Greenwich House Theater in early 2026.
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