Josh Fagin is a writer for NBC’s Law & Order Organized Crime. His series Pottsville, which he co-created, is being developed at Amblin Television. He has had numerous film and television projects in development with Paramount, Universal, Imagine, Fremantle, Anonymous Content, Killer Films, and Fabula. He co-produced the films Lansky starring Sam Worthington and Harvey Keitel; Warrior for Lionsgate starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, and Nick Nolte; Pride & Glory for Warner Bros. New Line starring Edward Norton and Colin Farrell; and The Slaughter Rule starring Ryan Gosling. Josh is a guest lecturer for the School of Visual Arts. He lives in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Cornell University. He is represented by Authentic Management.

Stephen Winter’s debut feature film Chocolate Babies (1996) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won Honorable Mention and Audience awards at San Francisco Frameline, SXSW, UrbanWorld and OutFest. Stephen's second feature Jason and Shirley (2015) was called "one of the year’s finest" by Richard Brody (The New Yorker). Jason and Shirley played AGO in Toronto and MoMA in New York. Playwright Jeremy O. Harris featured Stephen in the Autumn 2021 issue of Interview Magazine with an extended interview by director Lee Daniels. Both of Stephen's films will return to the Criterion Channel in May, 2023. Stephen co-created and directed the pioneering 2018 afro-futuristic political satire Adventures in New America, which the New York Times compared to Boots Riley and Jordan Peele, "The Best New Social Thriller is a Podcast".

Cannavale appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and earned a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Other film credits include: Blonde, Seriously Red, Thunderforce, Motherless Brooklyn, Superintelligence, I, Tonya, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Daddy's Home, Ant-Man, Danny Collins, Annie, Chef, Blue Jasmine, WinWin, The Station Agent (SAG nomination), Romance and Cigarettes. Upcoming films include Old Dads, Inappropriate Behavior, Incoming and Maxxine.

Bobby recently starred in the Netflix limited series The Watcher. His television credits include: Nine Perfect Strangers, Homecoming, Angie Tribeca, Mr. Robot, Master of None, Vinyl, Boardwalk Empire (Emmy Award, SAG nomination).

Nurse Jackie (two Emmy nominations, SAG nomination), and Will & Grace (Emmy Award).

His theater credits include: Medea at BAM; The Lifespan of a Fact, The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk nomination), The Big Knife, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Motherf-er With the Hat (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award winner), Mauritius (Tony Award nomination), HurlyBurly, F-ing A, and The Gingerbread House.

He is a member of the Labyrinth Theater Company.

Ellen Burstyn's illustrious sixty year acting career encompasses film, stage and television. In 1975, she became the third woman in history to win both a Tony Award and an Academy Award in the same year for her work in Same Time, Next Year on Broadway and in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she also received a Golden Globe nomination and a British Academy Award for Best Actress. She became a "triple crown winner" when she received her first Emmy for a guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU (2009). She won her second Emmy for her role in the miniseries Political Animals (2013). Additionally, she has received six Emmy nominations and five Academy Award nominations, including her nomination for Best Actress in The Exorcist (1973). Ellen is currently set to reprise her role as "Chris MacNeil" in the film’s upcoming set to premiere later this year. Burstyn will also co-star with Ewan McGregor in the independent feature Mother Couch directed by Niclas Larsson. Recent television projects include The First Lady (2022) and Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021-2022). Among her most recent films are Three Months (2022), Queen Bees (2021), Pieces of a Woman (2020), Welcome to Pine Grove! (2019), Lucy in the Sky (2019), Nostalgia (2018), The Tale (2018) and The House of Tomorrow (2017). Her past work includes The Last Picture Show (1971), Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations), Resurrection (1981) and Requiem for a Dream (2000, Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations). In 2014, she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. She most recently starred in 33 Variations in Melbourne. Ellen is currently co-president of the Actors Studio alongside Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin. She holds four honorary doctorates and lectures throughout the country. In 2006, she became a national best-selling author with the publication of her memoir, Lessons in Becoming Myself.

Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and Tony Award® nominated actor Michael Shannon continues to make his mark in entertainment, working with the industry's most respected talent and treading the boards in notable theaters around the world.

Shannon recently starred opposite Jessica Chastain in Showtime’s limited series, George & Tammy. The series follows the tempestuous marriage of Country & Western music couple George Jones (Shannon) and Tammy Wynette (Chastain). For this role, "Shannon hones in on Jones’s vulnerability and lacerating, selfdeprecating humor and gives a terrific performance from start to finish," as hailed by the New York Times.

Shannon recently wrapped lensing his directorial debut, Eric LaRue, a film starring Judy Greer, Paul Sparks, Alison Pill, Tracy Letts, Annie Parisse, Kate Arrington and Alexander Skarsgård based on the Brett Neveu play of the same name that debuted at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago in 2002. Neveu is also adapting the script. The film follows ‘Janice,’ (Greer) the mother of a 17-year-old boy, ‘Eric,’ who shot and killed three of his classmates. As the days move toward a meeting of the mothers affected by her son's violence, Janice struggles for insight through exchanges with her husband (Skarsgård), pastor (Sparks) and coworkers. The story becomes not about the violence but about what we choose to think and do in order to survive trauma. The sympathy we feel for Janice is complicated by the dark path she takes to find her way toward healing.

Upcoming, Shannon will reprise his role as ‘General Zod’ in the DC Comics multiverse through Andrés Muschietti’s The Flash, which Warner Brothers is slated to release June 16, 2023.

Shannon will also be seen in Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, alongside Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Boyd Holdbrook and Damon Herriman. The film is an original story set in the 1960s following the rise of a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang. This marks Shannon’s eighth re-team with Nichols. He last appeared in his drama, Loving. Previous collaborations with Nichols include Hank the Cowdog; Midnight Special; Take Shelter, for which he received a 2011 Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor; as well as the films Mud and Shotgun Stories.

Shannon recently wrapped production on Josh Oppenheimer’s The End, opposite Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, and Moses Ingram. The golden-age style musical follows the last human family left on Earth as they live in a luxurious underground bunker following the destruction of humanity due to climate change. Shannon will next lens in Václav Marhoul’s McCarthy, opposite Emilia Clarke, Dane DeHaan and Scoot McNairy. The biopic is centered around the life of controversial U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy (Shannon), portrayed as the man behind anti-communist doctrine McCarthyism, depicting what drove a lawyer and decorated former U.S. Marine down an unprecedented path of demagoguery, show-trials and venomous populism.

Most notably, Shannon garnered critical acclaim for his Academy Award® nominated supporting role in Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road, playing ‘John Givings,’ the psychologically troubled neighbor's son opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates. He went on to be nominated for a Golden Globe®, Screen Actors Guild®, Critics Choice®, Gotham Award® and Film Independent Spirit Award for his role in Ramin Bahrani’s timely drama 99 Homes, co-starring opposite Andrew Garfield. Set against the backdrop of the economic crisis, Shannon portrayed ‘Rick Carver,’ a charismatic and ruthless real estate tycoon gaming the market and home banking system. Additional accolades include an Academy Award® and Critics Choice® nomination in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Aaron Taylor Johnson; as well as Guillermo del Toro's critically acclaimed drama, The Shape of Water, alongside Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Octavia Spencer which won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Picture.

With nearly ninety roles in film, Shannon's credits include Michael Maren’s A Little White Lie; David O. Russell’s Amsterdam; David Leitch’s action thriller Bullet Train; Spencer Squire’s thriller, Abandoned; Jennifer Reeder ‘s Night’s Out; Michael Mailer’s Heart of a Champion; Seth Savoy’s Echo Boomers; Scott Teems’ The Quarry; Rian Johnson’s Knives Out; Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War; Meredith Danluck's State Like Sleep; Elizabeth Chomko’s, What They Had; Nicolai Fuglsig’s 12 Strong; Werner Herzog’s Salt and Fire; Bart Freundlich’s Wolves; Matthew M. Ross’ Frank & Lola; Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown; Liza Johnson’s Elvis & Nixon; Jonathan Levine’s The Night Before; Peter Sollett’s Freeheld; John McNaughton's The Harvest; Jake Paltrow’s The Young Ones; Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel; Ariel Vromen's The Iceman; David Koepp's Premium Rush; Liza Johnson's Return; Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher; Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways; Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son,What Have Ye Done and Bad Lieutenant; Sydney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead; Oliver Stone's World Trade Center; William Friedkin's Bug; Curtis Hanson's Lucky You; Michael Bay's Bad Boys II; Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile; David McNally's Kangaroo Jack; Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky; Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor; John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented; Noah Buschel's The Missing Person and Shana Feste's The Greatest.

On television, Shannon was most recently seen in Drew and John Erick Dowdle’s Showtime series Waco: The Aftermath, in which Shannon reprised his role as ‘Gary Noesner’ and served as an Executive Producer. His television credits also include Hulu’s drama series, Nine Perfect Strangers; Chan-wook Park’s AMC mini-series, The Little Drummer Girl; Jay and Mark Duplass’ HBO anthology series Room 104; Ramin Bahrani’s HBO film Fahrenheit 451; as well as Martin Scorsese's HBO series, Boardwalk Empire.

Outside of his roles on screen, Shannon maintains a strong connection to theater. In 2018, he directed the world premiere of Traitor, Brett Neveu's adaption of Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People, for which he won a Jeff Award in the category of Best Director in a Midsize Play. He was last seen on stage starring in Terrence McNally’s final production, the Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which was nominated for a Tony® nomination in the category for Best Revival of a Play. Also on Broadway, Shannon co-starred alongside Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, and John Gallagher Jr. in Jonathan Kent’s Long Day’s Journey into Night for the Roundabout Theater Company. The revival of Eugene O’Neill’s drama led Shannon to a 2016 Tony® nomination for ‘Supporting Actor’ as well as 2016 Drama Desk Award for ‘Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.’ Additional Broadway credits include Grace (Cort Theatre) for which he was nominated for a 2013 Distinguished Performance Drama League Award.

Additional theater credits include Simpatico (McCarter Theatre Center); Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep Theatre); Mistakes Were Made (Barrow Street Theater and A Red Orchid Theatre) for which he earned an Outstanding Lead Actor Lortel Award nomination, Outstanding Actor in a Play Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance Outer Critics Award nomination, and a Distinguished Performance Drama League Award nomination; Our Town (Barrow Street Theater); Lady (Rattlestick Theatre); The Metal Children (Vineyard Theatre); The Little Flower of East Orange (Public Theatre); The Pillowman (Steppenwolf Theatre); Bug (Barrow Street Theatre, Red Orchid Theatre and Gate Theatre); Man From Nebraska (Steppenwolf Theatre); Killer Joe (SoHo Playhouse, Next Lab Theatre and Vaudeville Theatre); The Idiot (Lookingglass Theatre); and Woyzeck (Gate Theatre). Shannon is a founder of A Red Orchid Theater in Chicago and was also seen in productions on that stage inclusive of Victims of Duty; Pilgrim’s Progress; Mr. Kolpert; and The Killer.

Michael Shannon grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and began his professional stage career in Chicago, Illinois.

With a box office of almost $5 billion, Shea Whigham has proven himself to be one of the most talented actors of his generation, having worked with legendary film directors, as well as, Hollywood's next generation of auteur creators, fully melting into a myriad of roles the span eras.

Whigham can currently be seen opposite Michael Shannon in Showtime’s miniseries Waco: The Aftermath as Mitch Decker, the tactical commander of the FBI. Earlier this year, Whigham also rejoined season 2 of HBO’s Emmy-nominated adaptation of Perry Mason as Pete Strickland. The show marked Whigham’s return to HBO after a memorable run on the much-lauded critically acclaimed series Boardwalk Empire for which he won a SAG Award for his role as Eli Thompson.

He recently wrapped production as ‘Col’ on Paramount+’s production of Bass Reeves, a western mini-series about the titular legendary lawman (played by David Oyelowo) and first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River. He is currently filming Netflix's American Primeval for Peter Berg alongside, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Jai Courtney and former Waco co-star Taylor Kitsch. He will star as Jim Bridger in the mini-series which explores the birth of the American West.

Also upcoming for Whigham is a secret role in both Mission Impossible 7 & 8, to be released in July 2023 and June 2024 respectively; and the Sundance triumph, Eileen starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie, based on Ottessa Moshfegh bestselling novel of the same name. The film was purchased out of the festival by Neon for a 2023 release.

Whigham was most recently seen in Starz's Gaslit, reteaming with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. He received an individual 2023 Critics' Choice Award nomination as well as an individual Satellite Award nomination for his portrayal of the ruthless and larger-than-life G. Gordon Liddy, the leader of Nixon's bumbling White House Plumbers. The limited series, based on the Apple Podcast Slow Burn, follows the untold stories surrounding the Watergate scandal and the political demise of Richard Nixon and his subordinates.

In 2018, he earned rave reviews for his work opposite Julia Roberts and Bobby Cannavale in the Amazon series, Homecoming. He was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award in the category of Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance. The show follows a caseworker (Roberts) who works at a facility called Homecoming, which helps soldiers' transition back to civilian life.

His other TV credits include Amazon's Modern Love, Bravo’s Dirty John opposite Connie Britton and Eric Bana; the Paramount TV mini-series Waco opposite Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch; HBO's Vice Principals, FX’s Fargo Season 3; Cary Fukunaga's True Detective, Marvel's Agent Carter; Graham Yost's FX drama Justified; and Netflix's Narcos.

Whigham’s film credits include Lionsgate's The Quarry; Vertical Entertainment's Small Engine Repair; the Academy Award winning Joker opposite Joaquin Phoenix; the Academy Award nominated Vice opposite Amy Adams and Christian Bale; Samuel Goldwyn Films' To the Stars; Damien Chazelle's First Man opposite Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy; Columbia Pictures' *Sicario: Day of the Soldado; Warner Brothers' hit *Kong: Skull Island; Netflix's comic book adaptation Death Note; Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale opposite Chris Hemsworth; Sundance Film’s Catcher Was a Spy with Paul Rudd; and High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm.

Michael Stuhlbarg has long been a lauded actor in the New York theatre world, but it wasn't until he played Larry Gopnik, the lead role in the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man, that he earned serious recognition from the film community including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture.

His other films include: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name; Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water; Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain; Marvel’s Doctor Strange; Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival; Jobs*, directed by Danny Boyle Trumbo with Bryan Cranston; Miles Ahead with Don Cheadle; Ed Zwick’s Pawn Sacrifice; Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln; Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine; Cut Bank; Hitchcock; Men in Black 3; Martin Scorsese’s Hugo; Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies; Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone; Sophie Barthes’ Cold Souls; and Martin Scorsese’s short homage to Alfred Hitchcock, The Key to Reserva. Recent works include Shirley starring alongside Elizabeth Moss, Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Luca Guadagnino’s Bones & All.

He played the role of New York City mob boss Arnold Rothstein on HBO’s award-winning series Boardwalk Empire, has recurred on the Amazon series Transparent, Season Three of the FX Series Fargo, Hulu’s The Looming Tower for which he earned an Emmy Nomination, the Netflix/Channel 4 Limited Series Traitors written by Bash Doran, the Hulu Limited Series, Dopesick for which he earned a second Emmy Nomination and the HBO Max Limited Series The Staircase. He can currently be seen in season two of the Showtime Limited Series Your Honor.

In 2005, Michael Stuhlbarg was a Tony Award nominee and a Drama Desk Award winner for his performance in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. He has also been honored with the New Dramatists Charles Bowden Actor Award and the Elliot Norton Boston Theatre Award, the latter for his performance in Long Day's Journey into Night. The actor’s other Broadway credits include the National Actors Theatre productions of Saint Joan, Three Men on a Horse, Timon of Athens, and The Government Inspector; Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides; Sam Mendes’ revival of Cabaret; and Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love.

Mr. Stuhlbarg has worked numerous times with the New York Shakespeare Festival. His critically acclaimed credits include Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, the title role in Richard II, and Hamlet in Oskar Eustis' production of the famous tragedy, for which he won a Drama League Award and most recently as the title role in Tim Blake Nelson’s Socrates.

Other off-Broadway credits include David Warren’s staging of The Voysey Inheritance (Obie and Callaway Awards and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Cymbeline, reprising his role in a U.K. stint of the production; Old Wicked Songs (Drama League Award recipient); Measure For Pleasure (Lucille Lortel Award nomination) and The Grey Zone.

Mr. Stuhlbarg received his BFA from The Juilliard School. He also studied at UCLA; at the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania’s Chekhov Studies unit; at the British-American Drama Academy at Baliol and Keble Colleges in Oxford; and, on a full scholarship, with Marcel Marceau.

Carmen can most recently be seen in Boots Riley's series' I’m a Virgo for Amazon, which debuted at SXSW to rave reviews and in the second season of Showtime's Your Honor, opposite Bryan Cranston.

Ejogo recently wrapped production on Apple TV+'s upcoming limited series The Crowded Room, opposite Tom Holland.

She is best known for starring in the third season of Nic Pizzolatto's True Detective, opposite Mahershala Ali, and Self Made opposite Octavia Spencer in Netflix's limited series, Dan Gilroy's Roman J. Israel, Esq. opposite Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell. Carmen's breakout roles were her performances in Born to Be Blue opposite Ethan Hawke, and as 'Coretta Scott King' in Ava DuVernay's Selma, for which she was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award for Best Actress.