Don’t miss the following Talkbacks!

After the performance, join us as comedians, film scholars, and others discuss this two-time Tony award-winning comedy thriller with the cast!”

May 24 - Stone & Stone
(Comedians)

The Stone twins, Adam and Todd, created their two man stand-up comedy act called "Stone and Stone" during their sophomore year at college, where they graduated in 2005.  Since then, they have been featured on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, where they made it to the semi-final round in Las Vegas, a national Verizon FiOS commercial, and most recently in a few AtomTV videos on Comedy Central, which they also wrote.

www.stoneandstone.org

June 7 - Adam Philips
(Hitchcock guru)

A lifelong film enthusiast, Adam Philips launched the website “Hitchcock and Me” in late 2009 with one simple goal: to watch and blog about the 52 movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock in one year. In April, Philips began the first-ever “39 Steps Fest” in conjunction with the off-Broadway production featuring over 150 characters played by a cast of four.

By day, Philips work at DC Comics. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, creativity coach Julia Roberts, and their three children. Subscribe to his blog at www.hitchcockandme.wordpress.com, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/arphilips.

About “The 39 Steps Fest”

Philips launched his “39 Steps Fest” in April with daily blog posts celebrating the world-famous spy story “The 39 Steps.” The fest includes prize giveaways and discount tickets to the stage show, and spotlights every aspect of “The 39 Steps,” starting with the ingenious 1915 novel by John Buchan, and showcasing movie trailers, posters and lobby cards, a downloadable radio adaptation of the movie, parodies starring Saturday Night Live veteran Dana Carvey and Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster, to the suspenseful BBC remake of 2008, and culminating with the hilarious, Tony Award-winning stage version.

July 21 - Julie James
(XM Radio host)

Julie James is an award-winning vocalist, theatre performer, voice over artist and radio personality.  Julie currently hosts “Broadway Names with Julie James” on SIRIUS XM Radio’s On Broadway channel where she takes her listeners on the town, backstage and into the studio for fun, lively conversations with the biggest and best of Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Joel Grey, Chita Rivera, Kristin Chenoweth, Harvey Fierstein, Bernadette Peters, Donna McKechnie, Ben Vereen, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, the Cast of GLEE, Harry Connick, Jr. and many others.  Julie has also performed internationally, singing the National Anthem at Fenway Park for an audience of 34,000, with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, Goodspeed Opera House, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, at New York’s famed Central Park Summerstage, even for the President of Kazakhstan.  With an attention-getting vocal and visual presentation, eloquence and quick-wit, Julie has hosted hundreds of events across America for clients including Saks 5th Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, and Lord & Taylor, and she was the exclusive spokeswoman for Tommy Hilfiger Woman for two years.  Julie’s personality, stage presence and vocal style brought her to SIRIUS XM Radio where her voice is heard by millions each day on platform-wide voiceovers, jingles, and parody songs for The Howard Stern Show, in addition to being the Program Director for the On Broadway and Metropolitan Opera Radio stations.  Julie lives in New York City and performs with her husband in an original, musical duo, The Maxes.

August 30 - David Sax
(writer, journalist)

David Sax is a writer and journalist originally from Toronto, Canada.  He has lived in and written from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and New York, for publications that include New York Magazine, National Public Radio, GQ, Saveur, and the New York Times, among others.  Last fall, David published his first book, Save the Deli (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), about the Jewish delicatessen business.  To research the book, David traveled to close to 200 Jewish delicatessens around the world, and became the foremost expert on this salty subject.  Save the Deli was widely publicized when it was released, becoming an LA Times Besteller, and winning the 2010 James Beard Award for Literature.  David recently got married, and will shortly move back to Toronto from New York for a life of domestic bliss and government sanctioned health care.  

Photo by Christopher Farber

September 8 - Kevin Bleyer
& Elliott Kalan
("The Daily Show" writers)

KEVIN BLEYER is an Emmy Award-winning writer for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Previously, he was a writer/producer for "Dennis Miller" and "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher."  His book, "Me The People: An Order To Form a More Perfect Union" will be published by Random House in late 2011.

ELLIOTT KALAN is a comedian and Emmy Award-winning writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”.  He hosts Closely Watched Films, a monthly classic film screening series at 92YTribeca and co-hosts “The Flophouse”, a biweekly podcast devoted to discussing bad movies.

September 20-Tom Santopietro
(Author)

Tom Santopietro is the author of Sinatra in Hollywood, Considering Doris Day (New York Times "Editor's Choice"), and The Importance of Being Barbra. He lectures on all three books around the country and performs "The Best Is Yet To Come", a tribute to Frank Sinatra, with singer/pianist Tony DeSare. A manager of over twenty Broadway shows during the past twenty-five years, he is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is extremely happy not to be practicing law, a state of affairs applauded by the American Bar Association. Next life: Wimbledon champion.