May 21, 2018 - STEFANIE BLACK (NBC's "This Is Us") and DANNA SCHAEFER (writer-actress)

Summary: STEFANIE BLACK, NBC's "This Is Us" and Netflix's "Disjointed," is our featured guest this Sunday night! Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Stefanie is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an alumna of The Williamstown Theater Festival and American Conservatory Theater. In addition to "This Is Us" (NBC) and playing opposite Kathy Bates' on the new NETFLIX comedy, "Disjointed," STEFANIE he has recurred on such shows as "Scandal" (ABC), "Making History" (FOX), "House of Lies" (SHOWTIME) and "How I Meet Your Mother" (CBS); as well as appeared on "Casual" (HULU), "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC), "Bones" (FOX), "Mike and Molly" (CBS), "Private Practice" (ABC), "Rizzoli and Isles" (TNT), and many others. STEFANIE is co-artistic director of the IAMA Theatre Company, where this week is opening the world premiere of the play "Cult of Love," at the Atwater Village Theatre. In "Cult of Love," the Dahl family has gathered to celebrate Christmas in their rural Connecticut home. Raised as strict Christians and overachievers, the four adult children (along with their partners) have grown into varying degrees of belief and success. Their initially joyful reunion quickly reveals an American family riddled with competition, xenophobia and mental illness. Also dropping by the show this Sunday night is DANNA SCHAEFER, writer-actress. DANNA grew up in New York and Los Angeles, and her daughter Rebecca was born in Eugene, Oregon in 1967, and, when Rebecca was 14, the family moved to Portland. At age 16, Rebecca struck out on her own for New York, where she soon landed acting jobs, starting with a role on a soap and ultimately a role on the sitcom "My Sister Sam" alongside Pam Dawber, which took her to Los Angeles. DANNA brings her uniquely Hollywood story - an intimate, harrowing, often funny and ultimately joyful story of loss, memory and hardwon wisdom - to the Hollywood Fringe Festival. On July 18, 1989, the blooming Hollywood career of her daughter Rebecca was cut tragically short when she was murdered on her front step by an obsessed fan. The one-woman show "You In Midair" is DANNA's spell-binding story.