sports anchor; former pro football player and TV host
Mike Adamle
sports anchor; former pro football player and TV host
Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actress, film and TV
Global Opinions Editor for the Washington Post
Academy Award-nominated actor, Academy Award-winning director, Reds
actor/director
Emmy-nominated TV and film writer/producer, Everwood, Dawson’s Creek, Political Animals
Tony Award-nominated actor, The Music Man
writer, director
Emmy Award-winning writer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee; Emmy-nominated writer for A Black Lady Sketch Show
founder and CEO, Blackard Global
writer, director, actor for TV and film, Scrubs, Garden State; Grammy Award-winning producer of Garden State soundtrack
actor, The Shawshank Redemption, Highlander
actor, Tony Award-award nominated playwright
author and winner of Pulitzer Prize for literature
founding general manager of WYCC-TV Channel 20/PBS and Chicago’s first female television general manager
Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning actor, writer and producer, The Colbert Report; host of CBS’s Late Show (as of 2015)
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the U.S. Department of the Treasury; a 2020 recipient of the Service to America Medal (“Sammies”) People’s Choice Award
Tony Award-nominated actress, Avenue Q
Award-Winning Playwright, Stick Fly, Smart People, The Bluest Eye
playwright, founding ensemble member of Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company
four-time Tony Award-nominated actor
Former Mayor of the City of Chicago; former Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama
managing director, Ogilvy & Mather
Writer, Comedian, Creator of Baited with Ziwe
founder and artistic director, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
Tony Award-winning, Oscar-nominated director; writer, actor, and retired Northwestern professor
professional football player
actress, Saturday Night Live, Suburgatory
former House Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives
president and owner, Gersh Agency
Tony-nominated stage director, Rent and Grey Gardens
actress
member of the Illinois Senate; former professional football player
Co-host and Reporter for NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour”
director of audiology, speech pathology, and learning services at the Children’s Hospital-Denver, professor
Tony Award-winning actress, Aida and Lion King; Grammy-nominated R&B singer
Emmy Award-winning actress, CSI, Intelligence
Academy Award-winning actor, Ben Hur
screenwriter and TV producer
former chairman and CEO, Unicast Communications Corporation
Academy Award-nominated film producer
actress, ER, The Event
founder, chairman, and CEO, Central City Productions
Tony Award-nominated actor, Sweet Smell of Success
Academy Award-winning actress, The Song of Bernadette
actor and singer, Broadway’s Rent, The Band’s Visit, Fiddler on the Roof
managing director, Symphonic Investments
Tony-nominated actor, The Big Knife
Feature filmmaker and television director
founder of top Hollywood agency, The Firm; co-founder of entertainment management and production company Prospect Park
former Chairwoman and CEO of Paramount Pictures
artistic director of Tony Award-winning Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Academy Award-winning actress, The Last Picture Show
actor, the Matrix series
TV and film director
Best-Selling Author, Writer/Producer on Netflix’s When They See Us and Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere
Tony Award-winning playwright, Red, and multi-Oscar-nominated scriptwriter,The Last Samurai, The Aviator, Hugo
Emmy Award-winning actress, Cheers
co-founder, Desert Voices Oral Learning Center
most Emmy-nominated comedic actress in history; 11-time Emmy winner, Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine, VEEP
actress, Law & Order: SVU; philanthropist; entrepreneur
Duchess of Sussex, member of the British Royal Family. Former actress and star of Suits
famed Broadway director and recipient of the 2016 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Chief Talent Officer, Leo Burnett; former CEO, Starcom North America
writer and producer for the Lifetime television network
TV drama development executive
performer, teacher, and director at Second City, ImprovOlympic, and the Annoyance Theatre
actor, Emmy-winning writer, host of NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers
attorney, former FCC chairman
CEO and founder, Jazzercise
Tony Award-winning director, Avenue Q; film director
two-time Emmy-winning actress, Will & Grace
actor, My Best Friend’s Wedding, August: Osage County
founding member of Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company
Emmy-winning writer,Warm Springs and Boardwalk Empire
Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-winning actress, Hud and Another Part of the Forest
actor
Lifetime Emmy Award-winning soap opera developer and writer
Tony Award-winning actor
actor
Co-founder and Artistic Director of Story Pirates podcast and touring show
producer and writer, Fringe, Lost, Alias
actress
actress
actor
actor
editorial board, The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author
actress
vice president, 3rd Wave communications company
Emmy Award-winning television producer, international marketing executive
comedian, actress, voice artist, and writer
director of communications, Maine Hospital Association
Emmy-nominated actor, Friends, and founding ensemble member of the Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre
former U.S. Ambassador to Italy
IMAX film producer
IMAX film producer
actress; Miss America, 1998
executive coach, Spinelli & Co.
writer, creative director for gaming, Microsoft Studios
actor
actress
producer, writer, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Mixology
president, Jupiter Entertainment
former commissioner, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
actor
actress/writer/producer; president, Ron de Caña Productions
actress
Owner and chairman of the Stanley Cup-winning Chicago Blackhawks hockey team
singer, songwriter
Tony Award-winning director, Metamorphoses, and Northwestern professor