Jodi Long (Woman) won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress as “Mrs. Basil E” in Netflix’s Dash & Lily, making history becoming the first Asian-American actor to win an Emmy in any Acting category. Jodi made her Broadway debut at age 7 in Nowhere to Go But Up directed by Sidney Lumet, the first of five Broadway shows she would go on to appear in as an adult: Loose Ends with Kevin Kline, The Bacchae, Stephen Sondheim’s Getting Away With Murder and the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song, for which she won an Ovation Award at The Mark Taper in Los Angeles. Film credits include: Akwafina’s mother in Shang-Chi & The Legend of Ten Rings, The Hot Chick, Patty Hearst, Sour Sweet, the upcoming Night Swim and animated film Monkey King. Jodi’s television series regular work includes Café American with Valerie Bertinelli, Margaret Cho’s mother in All American Girl, “Okcha” on the TBS comedy Sullivan and Son and more recently in Chicago Med and the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. Jodi most recently starred in Pasadena Playhouse’s production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Jodi’s documentary Long Story Short won the audience award at the LA Asian Pacific Festival and her one woman show American Jade: Surfing the DNA, debuted at Bucks County Playhouse last May. Jodi currently serves as the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Local President.

Dan Lauria (Man/Playwright) has appeared as a guest star in over 70 television programs, more than 20 Movie-Of-The-Week productions, and a score of motion picture credits. Dan has performed, written, or directed over 50 professional stage productions for the off-off, off, and regional theatre scene. In 2010 Dan was seen on Broadway as Vince Lombardi in Lombardi, with Judith Light, directed by Thomas Kail. Dan returned to Broadway in the 2013 & 2014 productions of A Christmas Story: The Musical, directed by John Rando. Dan is most recognized as the Dad on the highly acclaimed Emmy-winning show, The Wonder Years. Dan with Ms. Wendie Malick, has performed the play The Guys by Anne Nelson for theatres and fire departments around the country. Wendie and Dan also perform Love Letters as a fundraiser for the development of new plays. Dan was recently on the TBS TV show, Sullivan & Son with Jodi Long. Dan also played Al Loungo on Pitch and has joined This is Us, both shows written by Dan Fogelman. Two years ago, Dan wrote and starred in the off-Broadway production of Dinner With The Boys produced by Pat Addis and the NJ Rep. This was followed by an off-Broadway production of The Stone Witch by Shem Bitterman and the upcoming regional production of Lee Blessing’s new play; Tea With The Boss with Gwenn and Wendie Malick. Dan and Ms. Malick are the co-creators of The Durango Play Festival for the development of new plays. Dan and his Godson, Julian Farnsworth write children’s books, go online and check out: The Godfather Tales.

James Glossman (Original Direction) Recent: World premiere Just Another Day (w/Dan Lauria& Patty McCormack), Shadowland Stages; US premiere John Cleese’s farce Bang Bang! (w/Sean Astin & Scott Shepherd); east coast premiere Jeff Daniels’ Flint; DW Gregory’s Memoirs of a Forgotten Man (NJ Rep). Adapted/directed world premiere Raymond Chandler’s Trouble is My Business (Portland Stage). Co-wrote & directed music-theatre piece Shostakovich and the Black Monk, with Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet and rotating cast including David Strathairn, Sean Astin, Jay O. Sanders, Richard Thomas, Jeff DeMunn & Len Cariou.Over three decades’ collaboration w/author Jim Lehrer, adapted/directed Lehrer’s novels Kick the Can, The Special Prisoner (w/William Schallert), and Flying Crows; directed his play The Will and Bart Show; and currently developing Lehrer’s final play, Glock. During lockdown, video-theatre productions (written for Zoom) of Lia Romeo’s Sitting and Talking (w/Wendie Malick & Dan Lauria), Ken Weitzman’s Fire in the Garden (w/Sean Astin), Nicky Glossman’s Portrait of a Woman in Repose (w/Paula Prentiss & Tony Shalhoub). Most recent: world premiere of Michael Tucker’s A Tailor Near Me (w/Richard Kind & James Pickens Jr). Last summer, directed the world premiere of the time-traveling adventure Safe Home, which he has co-written with Tom Hanks.