Rick Simone-Friedland
Rick Simone-Friedland, an Emmy Award winner, is known to television audiences for his work on Married People, Just the Ten of Us, A Year in the Life, Life Goes On, KC Undercover, and as Joe Pistone in the Discovery Series Mob Scene. Theatre audiences may know Rick from roles in George C. Wolfe’s production of…
Read MoreAdam Lozoya
Adam Lozoya is a New Orleans–based pianist who travels with a miniature acoustic piano across the US, transforming sidewalks, salons, and unexpected corners into impromptu stages. Drawn to unconventional spaces, he brings theater, ragtime, and a sense of whimsy wherever he lands—treating rhythm as dialogue and melody as monologue. Rooted in New Orleans’ musical lineage,…
Read MoreBilly Eichner
Billy Eichner—actor, comedian, writer, and producer—burst onto the scene in 2011 with Billy on the Street, a satirical TV game show he created and starred in, where Billy walked the streets of New York City asking people to compete in pop culture trivia challenges. The show gained a massive fanbase, four Emmy nominations, and much…
Read MoreIssa Quincy
Issa Quincy is a British writer and the author of Absence. His fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, The Common, and Transition Magazine. His poetry has appeared in The London Magazine and The Atlantic. He is currently based in New Orleans.
Read MoreKatie Burlison
Katie Burlison’s work with historic collections and buildings in the French Quarter has spanned almost twenty years—in her current role as curator at Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses and previously at the Louisiana State Museum. In 2022, her exhibition “Artistry in Iron: Blacksmiths of New Orleans” was awarded the American Association for State and Local…
Read MoreCCH Pounder
Award winning actress CCH Pounder will soon be seen in Cape Fear for Apple TV+ and The Terror: Devil in Silver for AMC. Her current credits are James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash and Paramount Pictures’ The Naked Gun, and recent projects include the Netflix film, Rustin, the Max series Full Circle, the Netflix series…
Read MoreAdam Karlin
Adam Karlin has written for the BBC, NPR, and The Christian Science Monitor, and is a regular author for Lonely Planet, where he has contributed to over 100 guidebooks. His creative nonfiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, as well as Catapult, The Bitter Southerner, and Stranger’s Guide; he also has a notable essay listed in…
Read MoreVanessa Saunders
Vanessa Saunders is a Professor of Practice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her feminist, experimental novel, The Flat Woman, won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize with Fiction Collective 2 and was published by University of Alabama Press. This book was ranked as a recommended title with Kirkus Reviews and received praise from Electric Literature,…
Read MoreLital Dotan
Lital Dotan is a visual artist, curator and scholar. She is currently a doctoral fellow in Theatre and Performance at CUNY Graduate Center. Dotan’s academic work centres on performance art, hermeneutics of the temporal, and the dramaturgy of time in performance. She is the co-founder and executive artistic director of Glasshouse Project, a performance art…
Read MoreCody Norris
Cody Norris is a PhD candidate in English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests include dramatic literature, performance studies, and literature of the American South. His dissertation interrogates the tourist gaze and colonial and antebellum nostalgia often found in Southern narratives. He draws on literature, film, and the visual and performing arts,…
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