A prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, Harrison is best known for her 1997 book The Kiss.

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

Marcus is a hyper-experimental author and head of the creative writing program at Columbia University. He's also married to novelist Heidi Julavits.

Playwright and feminist activist Eve Ensler is the creator of The Vagina Monologues, a series of vignettes about women's relationships with their hoohas.

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.

One of the city's reigning queens of luxury real estate, Sloane is the top co-op broker at Brown Harris Stevens.

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.

The former chief executive of HBO, Fuchs now invests in new media.

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.

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

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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."

Shaun Osher is the CEO of the CORE Marketing Group, a boutique firm that markets and sells upscale residences, primarily in Chelsea, SoHo and the Flatiron district.