Author • Actor Series | An Evening with Richard Bausch & Lisa Cupolo

Talent

Amy Brenneman is an American actress and producer. She worked extensively in television, coming to prominence as Detective Janice Licalsi in the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue (1993–1994). Brenneman next co-created and starred as Judge Amy Gray in the CBS drama series Judging Amy (1999–2005). She received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for these roles. In subsequent years, Brenneman has had starring roles as Violet Turner in the Shonda Rhimes medical drama series Private Practice (2007–2013), and as Laurie Garvey on the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017). She is also known for her recurring role as Faye Moskowitz on Frasier and has starred in various films, including Heat (1995), Fear (1996), Daylight (1996), Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000), Nine Lives (2005), and The Jane Austen Book Club (2007).

Kimmy Shields is known for her roles in several acclaimed television series. She gained recognition for her portrayal of Nonnie Thompson in the Netflix series Insatiable (2018-2019). Her other roles include Emmalou in Girlboss (2017), Kelly in Big Little Lies (2017-2019), and Lisa in Arrested Development (2003-2019).

Ronald Guttman is a film, theatre, and television actor best known for his work in The Hunt for Red October (1990), 27 Dresses (2008), On the Basis of Sex (2018), as well as his recurring roles in many iconic series such as Sex in the City (1998-2004), Mad Men (2007-2015), the Law & Order franchise, and Godfather of Harlem (2019-2025). Active in both American and European film, Guttman has made many contributions to the industry, including founding Highbrow Entertainment, where he produced films such as The Tollbooth and Tickling Leo.

Author

Richard Bausch is an Air Force veteran and the author of thirteen novels, nine collections of stories, and one volume of poetry and prose. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper’s,The New Yorker, Narrative, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Playboy, The Southern Review, New Stories From the South, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Stories; and they have been widely anthologized, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story, and The Vintage Book of the Contemporary American Short Story. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Writer’s Award, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the 2010 Dayton International Literary Peace Prize, and was the 2013 Winner of the REA award for Short Fiction. His most recent work is The Fate of Others: Stories
(Knopf, 2025), which came out this year. Bausch is currently a professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.

Lisa Cupolo has been a paparazzi photographer in London, an aid worker in Kenya, a script doctor in LA, and a literary publicist at HarperCollins in Toronto. Have Mercy On Us, her debut book, won the W.S. Porter Prize for short story collections. Her work has been published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review, and others. She holds a BA in Philosophy from The University of Western Ontario, a graduate degree in Portrait Photography from The London Institute, and an MFA from the University of Memphis. She has lived all over the world, but currently resides in Southern California, where she has taught fiction writing at Chapman University.