The Sun Also Rises at 100: Maya Hawke, Sarah Pidgeon, Richard Schiff, Dominic Sessa, Will Harrison, Jay McInerney, Thomas Beller, Titus Welliver, and Joy Sunday

Maya Hawke is an actor, musician, songwriter and producer. Hawke made her acting debut in the miniseries adaptation of the classic novel Little Women for PBS in 2018 and has continued to shine on both the big and small screens, in addition to crafting an acclaimed independent music career. A skilled singer/songwriter, she has released four lauded albums of original music to date, Moss (2022), Blush (2020), Chaos Angel (2024) and Maitreya Corso (2026).

Maya’s acting credits include the critically acclaimed Netflix drama Stranger Things. Hawke was also in Showtime’s 2020 historical drama, The Good Lord Bird. She portrayed “Anxiety” in Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 which became the biggest animated movie of all time, grossing over 1.5 billion dollars. She stared in, and co-produced, Ethan Hawke’s biographical film of Flannery O’Connor, Wildcat, which was released to wide acclaim in 2024.

Past film credits include Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s feature Do Revenge, Human Capital opposite Liev Schreiber and Marisa Tomei, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Amanda Kramer’s independent film Ladyworld, Gia Coppola’s feature film Mainstream and, Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein drama Maestro.

Maya made her Off-Broadway debut in the title role of Signature Theatre’s Eurydice, a play penned by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Les Waters and she will next be seen on-screen in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, Graham Parkes’ romantic comedy Wishful Thinking and Netflix’s original series God Of The Woods.

Hawke was included in Variety’s 2022 New Power of New York list, the 2023 Young Hollywood Impact Report, and the 2023 TIME100 Next list.

Sarah Pidgeon stars as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in FX’s Love Story, for which she received a 2026 Emmy Award nomination, following acclaimed performances in the television series The Wilds and Tiny Beautiful Things. In 2024, she made her Broadway debut in David Adjmi’s Tony Award-winning play Stereophonic, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, Pidgeon has established herself as a compelling presence on both stage and screen.

Dominic Sessa can most recently be seen in the A24 feature, Tony, where he stars as Anthony Bourdain. Before that, he can be seen in Stephanie Laing’s feature film Tow opposite Rose Byrne, which premiered at Tribeca. Last year, he was seen in the Lionsgate feature, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, in which he stars opposite Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman, Justice Smith, and Ariana Greenblatt. This past winter, Dominic was seen in the Michael Showalter directed Amazon feature, Oh. What. Fun. opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloë Grace Moretz.

Dominic made his feature film debut starring as Angus Tully in Alexander Payne’s coming-of-age film, The Holdovers, opposite Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. For his performance in the film, Dominic was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor and won Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards and Film Independent Spirit Awards. He was also named to the 2023 Variety Top 10 Actors to Watch list.

Will Harrison most recently made his Broadway debut as the lead role of Jacob Dunne in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright James Graham’s play Punch at Manhattan Theatre Club, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award in the esteemed category of Best Actor in a Play. On screen, Will was featured as ‘Bobby Neuwirth’ in James Mangold’s Oscar and Golden Globe nominated feature A Complete Unknown for Fox Searchlight. He will next be seen playing the lead role in Nicolas Curcio’s feature Play House for Focus Films, and will star alongside Grace Van Patten in the Independent feature, Rubber Hut. On television, Will recently starred as ‘Buster Murdaugh’ in Hulu’s limited series Murdaugh. Prior credits include Manhunt for Apple TV+ and ‘Graham Dunne’ in the Emmy nominated, Amazon / Hello Sunshine limited series Daisy Jones and the Six. He is currently shooting Netflix’s The Retrievals, alongside Emilia Jones and Jessica Chastain. On stage, Will made his NY debut at Lincoln Center playing the lead role of ‘T.J’ in Keith Bunin’s play, The Coast Starlight, directed by Tyne Rafaeli. Will is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

Jay McInerney is the author of thirteen books, most recently See You on the Other Side (2026). His other novels are Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behavior and The Good Life, which received the Grand Prix Littéraire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007, and Bright Precious Days (2016). His short story collection How It Ended was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times. McInerney’s work has appeared in New York, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books.

Thomas Beller is Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. He is the author of six books, including the novel The Sleep-Over Artist (a New York Times Notable Book), the essay collection Degas at the Gas Station, and J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (winner of the New York City Book Award for Biography/Memoir). From 1990 to 2010 he edited Open City Magazine and Books, and since 2000 he has published mrbellersneighborhood.com, a literary site of nonfiction sketches and essays about New York that was nominated for a Webby Award. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Robert B. Silver’s Works-in-Progress Award, he is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Titus Welliver is a veteran of film, television, and theater. He’s best known as the titular character in the Amazon Prime Video hit series Bosch, and its spin-off, Bosch: Legacy, where he stars as the tough LAPD detective from Michael Connelly’s bestselling crime novel series. In honor of his co-star on Bosch, Titus was presented with the Lance Reddick Legacy Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films.

The son of a famous landscape artist, Neil Welliver and fashion illustrator Norma Cripps, Welliver originally pursued painting at art school but eventually fell in love with acting and the theater. Welliver’s theater credits include David Mamet’s production of American Buffalo, Naked at the Coast Theater, Shakespeare’s Henry IV, and Riff Raff, written and directed by Laurence Fishburne.

Welliver is also known for numerous memorable television performances. Some fans will remember Welliver with his role in ABC’s hit series Lost as “The Man in Black.” Other fans may remember him from the role of Glenn Childs, Julianne Margulies’ foil in The Good Wife, and others may closely associate him with the very dangerous Jimmy O’Phelan character from the FX network’s Sons of Anarchy. Welliver has also enjoyed a successful collaboration with legendary television producer David Milch, appearing in several of Milch’s shows, including the critically acclaimed HBO series Deadwood.

In addition to television, Welliver has given many extremely noteworthy performances on the big screen, including several in actor/director Ben Affleck’s big-screen directorial outings, such as Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Live By Night, and Argo. He played Frances McDormand’s gun-toting love interest in Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land and was extremely memorable in Michael Bay’s Transformers 4: Age of Extinction.

Welliver is also a notable fine artist whose paintings have been exhibited in several galleries, including Frank’s Pictures Gallery and the 10 High Screen Gallery, and his print work can be seen in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Most recently, he appeared in the Sundance award winner feature, Ricky, as well as in the festival award feature, Killing Castro and leading the shudder horror film, Abraham’s Boys. Titus can currently be seen in the feature, Hotel Tehran, and in the critical acclaimed series MGM+ series, The Westies, based on the legendarily violent 1970s New York Irish gang and will next be seen in the Netflix series, The Night Agent.

 

Angela Hemingway Charles is a member of the Board of Directors of Hemingway, Ltd and the senior member of the team, both in rank and in years with the company. She married Jack Hemingway, and together they founded Hemingway, Ltd, in 1989. She has been associated with the brand ever since. As Executive Chairman, her role focuses on all aspects of estate management, including licensing, film & TV projects, and domestic and international literary rights, as well as new projects on all fronts.

Brendan Hemingway has been on the Board of Directors since 2008. In 2019 he was asked by his uncle Patrick to edit the book that became Dear Papa, a collection of letters between father and son. Brendan’s internal focus in his tenure on the board has been on financial reporting and his external focus has been on widening the audience for Ernest Hemingway’s work.

Patrick Hemingway Adams is a writer and photographer specializing in the outdoor sporting and travel world. His creative work utilizes a unique blend of classical literary influences, rock n’ roll attitude, and an unhealthy amount of sarcasm to create a fresh take on what it means to live and document an adventurous life in the modern age.

Joy Sunday is an Emmy-nominated actress of Nigerian descent who was born and raised in New York City. Enchanted by the power of theater as a middle-schooler, Joy studied drama at the world-renowned Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and then graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, with an honors degree in Critical Studies. Her professional career kicked off with a guest appearance on CBS’s series MacGyver, and she went on to perform in such films as Bad Hair, Shthouse*, and The Beta Test. Joy gained international recognition for her role as Bianca Barclay in Tim Burton’s Netflix series Wednesday, in which she starred opposite Jenna Ortega. The show was a global phenomenon and became the most-watched English-language series in Netflix history, amassing over 1.7 billion hours viewed. The second season earned 50 million views in its first five days of streaming, with the third season officially ordered by Netflix. Joy earned her first Emmy nomination for her critically acclaimed performance in HBO’s limited series DTF: St. Louis alongside Jason Bateman, David Harbour, and Linda Cardellini. The show won 7 of its 13 nominations at this year’s Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series. Beyond the screen, she serves as a Lancôme brand ambassador, cementing her status as a rising star in both entertainment and fashion.