KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Academy Awarding-Winning Writer, Director & Producer Known for "Moonlight"

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Author of the Charlie Waldo Novels, Screenwriter, Producer, Director & Playwright

3-Time Academy Award-Winning South Korean Director, Producer & Screenwriter Known for "Parasite," "Okja" & "Mickey 17"

Award-Winning French Filmmaker Known for "Girlhood" & "Tomboy"

Academy Award-Winning Director & Artist, Known for "12 Years a Slave" & "Widows"

Comedian, Writer, "Saturday Night Live" Cast Member & Podcast Co-Host, "Las Culturistas"; Actor Known for "Wicked, "Fire Island" & "Bros"

Academy Award Winner, Influential Actor, Diverse Role Performer

Academy Award-winning Production Designer, Art Directors Guild Award Winner, Afrofuturist Cultural Curator

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for "Mr. Robot" & "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Director & Writer; Known for "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Paterson"

Academy Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Crown", "The Night Manager" & "The Favourite"

Former Artistic Director of The Public Theater; Two-Time Tony Award-Winning Director; Director of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Rustin"

Academy Award-Winning Mexican Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Editor

Director & Youngest Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director

English Novelist, Screenwriter, Film Producer & Director

Award-Winning Filmmaker & MacArthur Fellow

Producer of "13 Reasons Why," Playwright, lyricist, and theatre director known best for writing the musical "Next to Normal"