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Santino Fontana is known for his Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Tony Award–winning portrayal of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the Broadway production of Tootsie, and for voicing the character Prince Hans in Disney's Academy Award–winning animated feature Frozen. With Encores!, he has starred in off-Broadway productions of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; 1776 and Zorba. On Broadway, he has starred in The Importance of Being Earnest, for which he won a Clarence Derwent Award; Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award); Act One; Billy Elliot; Cinderella (Tony nomination); and Hello, Dolly! His onscreen credits include the currently airing Grotesquerie, as well as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sisters, Shades of Blue, Mozart in the Jungle, Submissions Only, Off the Menu, Fosse/Verdon and Evil, with forthcoming roles in Lost & Found in Cleveland and his film directing debut in Death Wish. Fontana recently starred in the Classic Stage Company's revival of I Can Get it for You Wholesale, for which he received Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations.

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Nikki M. James currently stars as Ida B. Wells in the Tony-winning musical Suffs, for which she was also nominated for a Tony Award. She originated the role of Nabalungi in the Broadway hit musical The Book of Mormon, for which she won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Her favorite theater credits include Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day at The Public, Broadway productions of Les Miserables and All Shook Up; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin with Encores!; Romeo and Juliet and Antony & Cleopatra alongside Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Theater; The Wiz at the La Jolla Playhouse; Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night with Shakespeare in the Park; Bernarda Alba at Lincoln Center; and Preludes with LCT3. Her film and television credits include The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Lucky Stiff, BrainDead, Proven Innocent, The Good Wife, Modern Love, Severance and Spoiler Alert. As a director, she has helmed episodes of The Bite and The Good Fight. She served as an assistant director to Michael Arden for the Broadway revival of Once on this Island and A Christmas Carol starring Jefferson Mays. Forthcoming projects include Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again. 

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Katrina Lenk can be seen in a major recurring role in the limited series Apples Never Fall on Peacock. Previously, she appeared as a recurring guest star in the final season of Netflix's Ozark. She recently starred as Bobbie in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company, the first woman to play the role on Broadway. She also received acclaim for starring as Dina in The Band's Visit on Broadway, for which she earned Tony, Grammy and Lucille Lortel Awards. She also received nominations from Outer Critics Circle, Chita Rivera Awards, Drama League, Theatre World Award's Dorothy Loudon Award and a Clarence Derwent Award (Breakout Female of the Year) for her performance. Additional Broadway credits include the Pulitzer Prize–winning Indecent (OCC nomination), Once, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and The Miracle Worker. Lenk's regional theater credits include Indecent at the Vineyard, La Jolla Playhouse, and Yale Rep; iWitness at the Mark Taper Forum; Lost Land with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Caucasian Chalk Circle at South Coast Rep; and Lovelace: A Rock Opera in LA and Edinburgh. Onscreen, Lenk has also been seen in Little Voice, Tommy, The Village, The Good Fight, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Get Down, Elementary and The Blacklist.