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Joy Behar is among today’s leading comic talents. Whether performing standup comedy or interviewing politicians and artists, she is an original voice and leading woman on both stage and screen.
She was a member of the original cast of ABC’s The View for 16 years, returning as co-host in September 2015 for the show’s three most recent seasons. Along with winning the 2009 Daytime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host, Behar is also the recipient of three MAC Awards, a CableACE Award and a 2000 GLAAD Award for her enduring friendship with the LGBTQ+ community.
On television, she starred in two HBO specials and was a regular on the series Baby Boom. She also appeared in Woody Allen’s Amazon series Crisis in Six Scenes.
In June 2016, Behar was inducted into the Brooklyn Walk of Fame at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, joining an impressive list of Brooklynites honored for their distinguished work in entertainment, sports, media and the arts.
Behar has hosted her own shows, including a call-in radio show on WABC, The Joy Behar Show on HLN, and Say Anything on Current TV.
Her film appearances include This Is My Life directed by Nora Ephron, and Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery.
In theater, Behar starred in Nicky Silver’s play The Food Chain, for which she earned rave reviews, and also in the critically acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues. She also wrote and performed in her own solo show, Me, My Mouth and I at the Cherry Lane Theatre. As a playwright, Behar has written Crisis In Queens, along with her short play Bonkers In The Boroughs, which was featured in the New York Comedy Festival in November 2023. Her new play, My First Ex-Husband, will be produced in New York City in January 2025.
Behar has written five books, including two children’s books. Her most recent book, The Great Gasbag: An A-to-Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World, was released in October 2017.
Joy Behar
Susie Essman is an actress, author, and stand-up comedian based out of New York City. Susie began her career as a working comic, catching the eye of Larry David who cast her in her now iconic role of the strong-willed 'Susie Green' in HBO's long-running series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Since becoming a household name on Curb, Susie has branched out into numerous other TV projects including recurring roles in Law and Order: SVU Those Who Can’t, Bless This Mess, and most recently the critically acclaimed HBO series Hacks. Susie also received a Critic's Choice Award nomination for her recurring role as Ilana Glazer's mother on the hit Comedy Central series Broad City - which Entertainment Weekly cited as “one of the best choice decisions in TV history.” The Los Angeles Times calls Susie, “The most lyrical purveyor of profanity on television. She makes the entire cast of The Sopranos look like rank amateurs. It really is a gift.” The New York Times said Susie Greene is “one of the most vivid characters in the show, whose off-color tantrums have become an audience favorite the way Kramer’s clumsy entrances once were.”
Susie Essman
Tovah Feldshuh, who just celebrated her 50th year on Broadway, is a six-time Emmy and Tony Award nominee, four-time winner of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. She is the creator and founder of The Feldshuh Fund for Women’s Health for early detection of ovarian and all reproductive cancers. Entertainmentcommunity.org/Tovah. In addition to Rosie Brice in Funny Girl, her multi-decade career on Broadway has given us indelible performances in the title roles of Yentl, Golda’s Balcony, and Irena’s Vow, as well as in Cyrano, Rodgers & Hart, Dreyfus in Rehearsal, Saravá, Lend Me a Tenor, and the trapeze-swinging Berthe in Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin. Her extensive Off-Broadway and regional credits include portrayals of Dr. Ruth Westheimer under the baton of Scott Schwartz and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Los Angeles premiere of Sisters in Law, directed by Patricia McGregor. TV audiences know her from the hit Netflix series Nobody Wants This, where she plays the hot Russian mother of ‘Hot Rabbi’ Adam Brody. You may also recall Ms. Feldshuh from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Walking Dead, Law & Order, Salvation, Scenes from a Marriage, and the historic mini-series Holocaust. Her film credits include Armageddon Time opposite Anthony Hopkins, Kissing Jessica Stein where she won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Satellite Award from the Foreign Press, A Walk on the Moon, Brewster’s Millions, Just My Luck, Daniel, The Idolmaker, Clifford, Golda’s Balcony: The Film, The Upside of Unrequited for the Shakespeare sisters from London and the just-completed Tuner opposite Dustin Hoffman. Tovah has filled venues all over the world with her celebrated concerts. Her award-winning memoir LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter and Other Roles I’ve Played was #1 in Parent-Child Relationships on Amazon. It will be available for purchase in the theater lobby, along with other award-winning items from her one-woman shows. tovahfeldshuh.com Follow Tovah’s travels on Instagram: @Tovahfeld
Tovah Feldshuh
Adrienne C. Moore is a critically acclaimed and award-winning stage, TV/film and voice-over actress. Moore's extensive theatre repertoire includes Black Odyssey (Stevie Walker-Webb, Classic Stage Company), the award-winning revival of Ntozake Shange's, For Colored Girls... (Leah Gardiner, The Public), The Taming of the Shrew (Phyllida Lloyd, Shakespeare in the Park), Milk Like Sugar (Rebecca Taichman, La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons) and 365 Plays/365 Days (Suzan-Lori Parks, The Public). Adrienne is most recognized for her NAACP Image Award-nominated role of Black Cindy on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, which she earned three SAG awards. Selected TV, film and animation credits include 30 Rock, Homeland, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Law and Order SVU, Pretty Hard Cases, Search Party, Bupkis, Poker Face, Shaft, Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (DC Comics, Etta Candy), We Lost Our Human (Netflix Interactive, Human) and Curious George: Royal Monkey. Adrienne has most recently been seen in Clint Eastwood's film Juror #2 as well as on-stage in Katori Hall's The Blood Quilt (Lileana Blain-Cruz, Lincoln Center Theater).
Adrienne C. Moore
Lana Young (Understudy) Lana’s US stage credits: Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Paulina in The Winter’s Tale at Hartford Stage, Fever Dreams at TheatreWorks. Uk credits: Lady M, Lona Hessel in Pillars of the Community, The Graduate. TV/FILM appearances include WandaVision, The Resident, Law & Order, Greenleaf, Southpaw, The Girl on the Train and Tyler Perry’s A Jazzman’s Blues, earning her an NAACP Image Award nomination. This is her Off-Broadway debut. IG @actorlanayoung www.imdb.me/lana