American Program Bureau (APB) offers a robust roster of award-winning stage actors, directors, writers, choreographers and producers. From actors and actresses turned stage artists, to diversity focused playwrights, APB delivers keynote speakers who are well known, skillfully versed in the creative process, accomplished, and extraordinarily talented.
Michael York
Audiences have long marveled at York's versatility with his impressive body of work on screen, stage, television, and in audio recording. In addition, this consummate performer has written several books and lectures on Shakespeare, the poetry of Rudyard Kipling, and the history and art of acting.
Rosie Perez
A film actress and choreographer, AIDS activist and women's rights advocate, Perez has been nominated for both an Emmy and an Oscar. She has recently produced, directed, and starred in Yo Soy Boricua, Pa Que Tu Lo Sepa: I Am Puerto Rican, Just So You Know, which chronicles the lives of Puerto Ricans living in the ...
Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Play, in 2003 for Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and in 1999 for the 50th anniversary production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Dennehy also received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy ...
Jennifer Holliday
Arguably one of the greatest voices of the new millennium, Holliday gives concerts throughout the world and performs with many symphonies across the country. Having lived with depression for over ten years, she found the way to seek help and effectively cope with her disease. She offers the truth about her life, sharing ...
Ben Vereen
Few entertainers today are as accomplished or versatile as Ben Vereen. His legendary performances transcend time and have become woven into the fabric of this country’s artistic legacy. His strong sense of social consciousness make him an excellent speaker on overcoming adversity, black history, and motivational topics.
Victoria Rowell
Emmy-nominated Rowell has been honored with 12 NAACP Image Awards and is a staunch advocate for foster children. Her memoir, The Women Who Raised Me, reveals the transformational power of mentoring, love, art, and womanhood that inspires and empowers women and families. Her novel, Secrets of a Soap Opera ...
Judith Light
With an award-winning career spanning across a diversity of roles in television, theater and film, Light is best known for having captivated audiences with her portrayal of “Angela Bower” on the hit comedy series Who's the Boss? A longtime philanthropist and activist, she is a passionate keynote speaker on ...
Michael Emerson
An award-winning actor known for his role as "Benjamin Linus" in the hit series Lost, Michael Emerson is a 2009 Emmy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a 2010 Golden Globe nominee for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series, or Motion Picture Made for ...
Sonia Manzano
Those who grew up learning their ABC's with Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Kermit and the Cookie Monster will immediately recognize Manzano as the bilingual "Maria" on Sesame Street. Manzano attributes her appeal to the fact that she acts the same toward children as she does toward adults - honestly and directly. She is ...
David Mamet
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright for "Glengarry Glenn Ross" and an award-winning film and television director, Mamet has also made a name for himself as author of The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (Jewish Encounters), a provocative and passionate assertion about what it means to be Jewish ...
Ruby Dee
A successful actress and well-known civil rights activist, Dee's acting career has crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades.
Kathleen Turner
Considered one of the premiere American actresses, Turner has broadened her starring roles to include civil liberties activist who remains passionate about changing the current social climate in America to one that respects women’s health choices. She also tells it like it is in her frank, funny, irreverent, and ...
Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin, one of America's foremost comediennes, continues to venture across an ever-widening range of media, starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation, and video. In her entertaining keynote speeches, Tomlin recants her illustrious career, which spanned decades, with candor and charm.
John Guare
American dramatist John Guare wrote his first Universe, at the tender age of eleven. Guare's plays are highly theatrical. He finds the bizarre and comic in the human condition, magnifies it to massive proportions, and from this extracts the germ of his writing.
Stockard Channing
With two Emmy Awards plus nine nominations, an Oscar nomination, two SAG Awards, and two SAG Award nominations, Stockard Channing is one of America’s most well respected, hardest working actresses of our time.
Most recently, Channing starred in her Emmy-winning role as “Abigail Bartlet” on The West Wing. ...
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews has been a beloved and much-honored star of stage, screen and television for more than half a century. Best known for her roles as Mary Poppins, and The Sound of Music's Maria Von Trapp, Andrews is a perfect keynote speaker to draw a crowd and gain recognition for you event.
Alfre Woodard
Known for the challenging roles she's played on film and in television, critically acclaimed actress Alfre Woodard's work has earned her an Oscar nomination, four Emmy Award wins and 16 nominations, three SAG awards, and a Golden Globe. Woodard also enjoys philanthropic work and currently serves on the National Film ...
Will Power
Will Power is an award-winning actor, rapper, playwright, and educator. As one of entertainment’s new shining stars, he has been called “electrifying” by Newsday, “dynamic performer” by Variety and “the best verse playwright in America” by New York Magazine. Viewed as a pioneer in the ...
Martha Williamson
Williamson is a 20-year entertainment industry veteran who was Executive Producer and Head Writer for Touched by an Angel. Both personally and professionally, her deeply held spiritual beliefs have guided her through trials and tribulations on her own path towards success, service to others, and her faith. Not ...
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon has completed her final season of HBO's celebrated series, Sex and the City, in which she played "Miranda Hobbes," a role that garnered her 2002 and 2003 Emmy nominations. Whether on television or on stage, Nixon is known for her superb characterizations in diverse roles, and is recognized within the ...
Printer-friendly version
Send to friend