Danya Taymor is an Obie Award-winning New York-based director. Recent direction: the Broadway production of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's Pass Over; Will Arbery's Pulitzer finalist Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons) and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (New Group), Samuel Beckett's Endgame (Gate, Dublin), Jeremy O. Harris's Daddy (Almeida, London + New Group/Vineyard), Korde Arrington Tuttle's Graveyard Shift (Goodman Theatre), Danai Gurira's Familiar (Steppenwolf), and Martyna Majok's Queens (Lincoln Center Theater).

Her production of Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over was filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is streaming on Amazon Prime.

Upcoming work includes the world premiere of The Outsiders musical on Broadway at the Jacobs Theater.

Maz Jobrani is a comedian and actor who performs around the world and recently released a new standup comedy special The Birds and the Bees that is now available for streaming on YouTube. As an actor, he was most recently seen playing the loveable "Fawz" on the CBS comedy Superior Donuts. He has made many appearances on television's most popular shows, including Grey's Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Better Off Ted, Last Man Standing, and Shameless. He has also been a regular guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden. Maz starred as the title character in the award-winning indie comedy, Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, a feature which he co-wrote and co-produced. He has co-starred in many additional films, including Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter, Disney's Descendants and Ice Cube's Friday After Next. Maz's other standup comedy specials include Immigrant, which was filmed at the prestigious Kennedy Center and is a Netflix original, as well as three additional solo specials on Showtime: Brown and Friendly, I Come in Peace, and I'm Not a Terrorist But I've Played One on TV. In the Spring of 2016 he performed at the White House where he had the privilege of introducing Michelle Obama. As a UC Berkeley alum, Maz gave the keynote speech to the graduating class of 2017. Maz served as the host for the 45th International Emmys in New York. He was a founding member of The Axis of Evil comedy tour, which aired on Comedy Central. He is a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and has given two TED Talks. His LA Times bestselling book, I'm Not a Terrorist But I've Played One on TV, was published by Simon & Schuster. Maz executive produced Everything Must Change, a documentary about his sister's battle with breast cancer, which is currently available on iTunes.

Urs Jucker was born in Switzerland in 1973 and studied acting at the University of the Arts in Bern. From 2008 to 2014 he was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz in Berlin and is still engaged as a guest there today. There he worked with directors such as Thomas Ostermeier, Marius von Mayenburg, and Alvis Hermanis. As "Claudius" in Ostermeier's Hamlet production, Urs has appeared in numerous international guest performances worldwide.

In addition to his successful theater work, Urs Jucker is also a regular presence on the big screen. The films in which he has appeared have been screened at numerous film festivals and have been invited, amongst others, to the Berlinale, for example When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before (D: Sonja Heiss, 2021), My Little Sister (Stéphanie Chuat, Veronique Reymond, 2019), and Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (Stina Werenfels, 2015). The feature film Vitus (Fredi M. Murer, 2005) with Urs in one of the leading roles was the official Swiss choice for the Oscar nomination and was awarded the Swiss Film Award. Urs was nominated again in 2017 for his performance in Der Frosch. Most recently he was again featured in Everyone Wants to Be Loved (Katharina Woll) at numerous international film festivals, such as the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.

Headshot Copyright: Hannes Caspar.

Simon McBurney, renowned character actor and theater director, can currently be seen starring in Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye opposite Christian Bale for Netflix as well as on Amazon, going toe to toe with Idris Elba in Hijack for Apple TV, and reprising his fan favorite role of “Runyan Millworthy“ in the series finale of Amazon’s Carnival Row. In the coming months you will see McBurney starring opposite Elizabeth Banks in director Christine Jeffs’ A Mistake, co-starring with Andre Holland in Duke Johnson’s The Actor, as well as starring in Robert Eggers’ latest film Nosferatu.

Other credits include: Wolfwalkers for Apple+. Abel Ferrara’s Siberia, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, Robert Zemeckis’ Allied, The Theory of Everything, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and The Loudest Voice for Showtime.