Stritch is a veteran Broadway performer with the outsized personality to match.

A former theater director, Daldry directed the movies Billy Elliot and The Hours.

Producers Barry and Fran Weissler are one of Broadway's most formidable power couples. They're responsible for hit musical revivals like Chicago</em, Annie Get Your Gun</em, and Sweet Charity>.

Alter is a senior editor and columnist at Newsweek and covers politics and the media. He's known for moderate liberal stances and for popping up on habitually on NBC programs.

Monk has been an avant-garde musical icon for decades thanks to her unusual vocal style and creative compositions.

Karen Brooks Hopkins is the president of Brooklyn Academy of Music, an institution that provides one of the few reasons for culture-obsessed Manhattanites to take the subway across the East River.

The pouty Brazilian supermodel is known for her Victoria's Secret ads and a string of famous ex-boyfriends, like Derek Jeter and Lenny Kravitz.

Friedman served as the CEO of HarperCollins, the book publishing arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, for more than a decade before stepping down in 2008. She's since founded Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publishing company.

Hustvedt is famous for her semi-autobiographical fiction—and for being married to novelist Paul Auster.

A Wall Street financier-turned-Broadway producer, Berlind has put on a number of well-known shows including Doubt, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Amadeus.

Rocco Landesman is a theatrical producer and part-owner of Jujamcyn Theaters, the group responsible the minor hit The Producers, among many, many others, but this took the backseat when he was appointed the chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts by President Obama in 2009.

One of contemporary theater's most prolific scribes, Greenberg has written more than two dozen plays, including Three Days of Rain, The Violet Hour, and gay baseball epic Take Me Out.

As former New York City's Commissioner of Health, Thomas Frieden's part of the reason why you can't light up in a bar and why cigarettes cost over $7.50 a pack. Subsequently, he became the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

A man who has hosted or filled in on nearly every CBS News program, DuBois is the velvety-smooth co-anchor of CBS 2 News at 5 and 11.

Gersten is the executive producer of the Lincoln Center Theater, which puts on dozens of plays and musicals every year at venues like Vivian Beaumont Theater and the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

One of the city's most celebrated playwrights, David Henry Hwang is best known for M. Butterfly and his adaptation of Flower Drum Song.

Boymelgreen is the CEO of the Brooklyn-based development group Boymelgreen, which builds and renovates luxury apartment buildings.

Possibly the most celebrated playwright of his generation, Tony Kushner is most famous for his epic work about the AIDS crisis, Angels in America.

The former editor of Newsweek International, Zakaria is a columnist, pundit-at-large, and an "intellectual heartthrob."

The son of The Donald, Don Jr. has the second-worst hairdo in the Trump family.