FOSTER HIRSCH is Professor of Film at Brooklyn College and the author of sixteen books on film and theatre, including KURT WEILL ON STAGE FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY and, most recently, OTTO PREMINGER: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (Knopf). He is a frequent host/moderator at numerous venues including the American Cinematheque, the Harvard Club, the National Arts Club, and Film Forum. He has lectured on film in India, Israel, Dubai, China, New Zealand, England, France, Saudi Arabia, and Germany. 

J. HOBERMAN is the senior film critic for The Village Voice, where he's been reviewing movies for over 30 years. He teaches film history at Cooper Union in New York, practical media criticism at NYU, and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University. Hoberman has published ten books, including BRIDGE OF LIGHT: YIDDISH FILM BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, THE RED ATLANTIS: COMMUNIST CULTURE IN THE ABSENCE OF COMMUNISM, THE DREAM LIFE: MOVIES, MEDIA, AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE SIXTIES and MIDNIGHT MOVIES, a collaboration with Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

JAMES HARVEY is a playwright, essayist and critic.  He is the author of Romantic Comedy In Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges, and of Movie Love in the Fifties.  His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Film Comment, the Threepenny Review, Opera News and Variety.  He is a Professor Emeritus in English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  He has taught film at the New School and at UC Berkeley, curated film series at the Museum of Modern Art and at the LA County Museum of Art, and he appears in the recent Turner Classic Movies documentary film, “Cary Grant:  A Class Apart”.  He lives in Brooklyn and is currently writing a book on personality in the movies, to be published by Farrar Straus/Faber and Faber.

CATHERINE SHEEHY is Resident Dramaturg of Yale Repertory Theatre and chair of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama. At Yale she has worked as dramaturg on numerous productions and was co-adaptor of the Rep production of KING STAG. Her PRIDE & PREJUDICE has been produced at the Asolo Theatre in Florida and at Dallas Theater Center. She teaches seminars in American Stage and Screen Comedy, Restoration and 18th-Century British Comedy, Comic Theory, the Collaborative Process, Models of Dramaturgy, and Satire. As a dramaturg she has worked throughout the US and in Ireland. She is also a former associate editor of American Theatre and a former managing editor of Theater magazine.