Van Wallach is a writer based in Katonah, NY. A native of Mission, Texas, he started in journalism and then switched to corporate communications. Van’s a language buff, having studied Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian (don’t ask him to speak any of them). His first book, A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist’s Quest for a Naughty and Nice Jewish Girl, appeared in 2012 (available on Amazon). He blogs at both the Times of Israel and mission2moscow.blogspot.com. His open-mic appearances are at venues like the Hudson Valley Writers Center, Museum of Sex’s Wide Open Wednesday series, Delaware Art Museum and Katonah Village Library. He’s been the webmaster for the Great Class of 1980 since 2001 and wears Reunions gear as often as possible. Van’s pandemic creative project is a novel set in the Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border.

ADAM + IVA make woke music comedy for a broke world. Think Portlandia and Nichols and May. The duo met in music theory class their freshman year at Princeton. IVA went on to become a crossover pop and opera star in Sweden and has acted and sung in sketches on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. ADAM performed at Chicago’s Improv Olympic Theater before moving to Nashville and playing in the bands of Kacey Musgraves and John Oates. ADAM + IVA’s music videos—including “Make America the Beautiful Again,” “Quarantine” (a parody of the Beatles “Yesterday”) and “Vegan Leather”—turn a wry, satirical eye on social convention and have developed a cult following on YouTube. Follow them on Instagram @ADAMandIVA or wherever fine books are sold.

Adam Ziv is a New York City based actor, musician and dancer. He has performed in many productions on the East and West Coasts, including Dangerous Liaisons (Valmont), West Side Story (Diesel), A Doll’s House (Helmer, Krogstad), Measure for Measure (Lucio), The Oresteia (Orestes), and Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt). He frequently collaborates with fellow alumni, most recently with Dominique Salerno ’10 on their 2020 (pre-pandemic) original video “Basique” (with music by Jason Pomerantz ’09), and with Dominique Salerno and Lovell Holder ’08 on Laughing Wild (Los Angeles Theater Center) in 2018. While waiting for the world to reopen its stages, he has been focusing on his (virtual) piano studies. For tonight's performance, he has selected two excerpts (the Allemande and Corrente sections) of the Bach E minor Partita. This is one of his absolute favorite works for piano.

Sonya Hayden is a lyricist, composer, and playwright whose work has appeared at local and international venues. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop and was a writer for the Princeton University Triangle Club. MSc Playwriting, University of Edinburgh; A.B. Music, Princeton University.

Performing as an undergrad with many campus theater groups and the Program in Theater and Dance, Joe spent 14 years working with Off-Off-Broadway troupes in New York City. Returning to his home state of Maine after a severe back injury, he eventually recovered enough to participate in the active performing arts scene in the Greater Portland area. His recent work includes musical revues, new play festivals, audio drama, and Shakespeare, in which his roles have included Prospero, Jaques, Friar Lawrence, and Polonius.

Howard Blohm '75 DBA Freddy Blohm. NYC-based singer-songwriter. Well, songwriter anyway. Pleased on this occasion to be accompanied by Larry Baskind '76, filling in for Freddy's steady back-up band, The Innuendos, who are completely bassless.

Granville Burgess: plays/musicals produced Off-Broadway and regionally, including: WPA Theatre, Douglass Fairbanks Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Ford's Theatre, Capital Rep. Plays: THE FREAK (Samuel French); DUSKY SALLY (Broadway Play Publishing); PLAY IT AS IT LIES (Playscripts). Musicals: CONRACK, BATTLECRY, A COUNTRY CAROL, COMMON GROUND. Teleplays produced: network (CBS:CAPITOL), PBS(TRIFLES, THE TURTLE STONE), syndication(TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE). Awards include: EMMY nomination (CAPITOL), CBS/Foundation for the Dramatist Guild production award, grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (2 times), Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Five County Fund (3 times), he National Endowment for the Humanities, the US Department of Education, and numerous playwriting competition winners. Books: STONE IN THE CRICK, FORK IN THE CRICK, THE LAST AT-BAT OF SHOELESS JOE (Chickadee Prince Books). Co-Founder of Quill Entertainment Company, educational nonprofit (mission: "Teaching America's Heritage Through Story and Song") which creates and tours musicals about American history. Former Director of Walnut Street Theatre School.

Ben Diamond is a stage and screen actor based in New York. While at Princeton, he participated in the theater department and was a member of the Triangle Club, BodyHype, and Shere Khan. He performed in Assistants: The Musical (Off-Broadway) in the year after graduation before the pandemic hit. Since then, he has been cooking, long-distance walking, and trying not to go bonkers.

Theater: Upcoming Happy Days at The Wild Project streaming March 5th (dir. Nico Krell '18), Broadway’s Shrek The Musical, The Public Theater’s The Low Road. Tessa is best known for portraying Caitlin Miller on Younger (TVLand). Others include Law & Order: SVU (NBC), The Family (Netflix), and CBS’s The Good Wife and Instinct. Upcoming: Generation (HBO Max). Films include Blame, November Criminals and Barry. Princeton University Class ’20 where she played the titular role at the Berlind Theater's Macbeth (dir. Elena Araoz). For her senior thesis in English, Tessa wrote an original lip-sync absurdist play Feminine Products, detailing the failures of mainstream, white feminism and how pop music plays into women's delusional ideals of romance and stability.