Judy Gold is an Emmy Award winning comedy writer and stand-up comedian, actor (Off Broadway in 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother and The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom), and producer. She was featured in the film Making Trouble, a tribute to female Jewish comedians produced by the Jewish Women’s Archives.

David Y. Chack is Executive Director of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre, the Producing Artistic Director of ShPIeL-Performing Identity Theatre based in Chicago and the Bunbury-ShPIeL Identity Theatre in Louisville. He also teaches Jewish Theatre, Holocaust Theatre, and Identity Theatre at The Theatre School at DePaul University.

This is an un-ticketed “first come, first served" event and is part of the Conney Conference on Jewish Arts from the University of Wisconsin.