Tina Howe is best known for her plays Painting Churchesand Coastal Disturbances; the latter received a Tony Award nomination for best play in 1987. Miss Howe has won an Obie Award for Distinguished Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Rockefeller grant, two NEA fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship. Pride's Crossing was selected as a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and awarded the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

Mark Lamos is an actor, director of plays, musicals, and opera. The New York Times has called him "a poet of the theater", and his work receives a chapter in Samuel L. Leiter’s The Great Stage Directors: 100 Distinguished Careers of the Theater. Lamos spent 17 seasons as artistic director of Connecticut's Hartford Stage Company, taking four original shows to Broadway. One of them was Our Country’s Good, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for best director. He is currently the Artistic Director at the Westport Country Playhouse.

Susan Terry, a Westport resident, made her Broadway debut in the original Broadway cast of Evita. Other Broadway credits include Anything Goes at Lincoln Center with Leslie Uggams, Zorba with Anthony Quinn,
and a co-starring role opposite Tom Wopat in City ofAngels. She has helped create and performed in several BOOKED for the evening events, including tributes to Calvin
Trillin, Wendy Wasserstein, Pete Hamill, Arthur Mitchell, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and David Halberstam.