Andrew Knox

Knox is an actor, writer, and improviser who left football for comedy and music. He performed in four original revues at The Second City’s Mainstage and ETC in Chicago, toured with their National Touring Company, and worked with the Improvised Shakespeare Company. Named a New Face of Comedy at the 2021 Just For Laughs Festival, his credits include The Second City’s Almost Accurate Guide to America at The Kennedy Center, the Off-Broadway musical Blank! The Musical!, NBC’s Chicago PD, SyFy’s The Movie Show, and multiple national commercials.

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Samantha Dagnino

Samantha Dagnino is the creator and driving force behind How to Win a Grammy, inspired by a lifetime immersed in rock bands and storytelling. A performer since childhood, she began with major ad campaigns and a hit Venezuelan children’s TV series, later starring in films, a Hispanic-American TV show, and numerous stage productions. Alongside her acting career, she has built a strong presence as a singer and live performer, including writing Intensity Moon for herself.

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John Yi

John Yi, originally from Atlanta, GA, is a Music Theatre graduate of Elon University whose career spans stage and screen. He toured nationally with Cinderella, originated ‘Bobo’ in KPOP Off-Broadway, and made his Public Theater debut in Soft Power, later earning a Grammy nomination. He has since appeared in Snow in Midsummer, Notes From Now, and made his Broadway debut in KPOP. His credits include Into the Woods at the Guthrie Theatre, The Big Gay Jamboree, Netflix’s Kaleidoscope, and the short film VIAL. Recently seen in tick, tick…BOOM! at George Street Playhouse and Urinetown at New York City Center, he will next star in The Imaginary Invalid with Red Bull Theater.​

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Verónica Osorio

Verónica Osorio is a Venezuelan actress known in the U.S. for roles in the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat alongside Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman, and as Marisol in CBS All Access’ Strange Angel. She has also appeared in Adam Ruins Everything, Loosely Exactly Nicole, The Carmichael Show, and onstage at UCB Theater. Currently, she is performing her award-winning solo show Medicine Woman, which has toured the Hollywood, Brighton, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.

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John Holmstrom

John Holmstrom is an American underground cartoonist and writer, best known as the founding editor of Punk Magazine in 1976 at the birth of punk music. As one of the first true punk “fanzines,” it offered an insider’s view of the scene, countering mainstream portrayals of punk as mere youth violence. Holmstrom’s work remains a major influence on punk culture, journalism, and underground media.

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