America Ferrera

America Ferrera is an award-winning actress and producer who is perhaps best known for her breakthrough role as Betty Suarez on ABC’s hit comedy, Ugly Betty, for which she won a Golden Globe®, Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild Award®, as well as ALMA and Imagen Awards. Ferrera currently produces and stars in the NBC workplace comedy, Superstore, which was recently picked up for a third season. She recently Executive Produced Refinery 29’s Behind the Headlines and Only Girl. In July 2016, America spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on behalf of women’s rights and immigration in support of Hillary Clinton. Behind the scenes, America has started her own television and film production company, Take Fountain.

Jenni Konner

Jenni Konner is a writer, director, and executive producer of Girls on HBO. She began her career as a writer on Judd Apatow's celebrated television series, Undeclared. In 2014, she and Lena Dunham co-founded A Casual Romance Productions. She and Lena are also the co-founders of LennyLetter.com, which launched last fall.

Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an award-winning actor, writer, director, producer and philanthropist. This year, she will make her return to television with Netflix romcom series Too Much, which she wrote and directed, starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe and co-created with her husband Luis Felber. The series comes from Good Thing Going (GTG) and Universal International Studios’ Working Title Television. GTG was founded in 2018 by Dunham and her producing partner Michael P. Cohen and has a full slate of upcoming projects along with an exclusive first look deal with Netflix.

In 2024, Dunham starred in and produced Treasure, a multi-generational drama about a New York music journalist (Dunham) traveling to Poland with her father (Stephen Fry). In 2022, Dunham directed and wrote the film adaptation of Catherine Called Birdy starring Bella Ramsey and released her first feature film as a writer-director in over a decade: Sharp Stick. 

In addition, she produced Generation for HBO Max and directed the first episode of HBO’s Industry. She is best known for creating and starring in HBO’s GIRLS, which earned her eight Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe wins, including Best Actress. 

An accomplished writer, Dunham contributes to The New Yorker, Vogue, and The New York Times. Her 2014 memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, was a #1 NY Times bestseller. Dunham made history in 2013 as the first woman to win a DGA Award for Best TV Comedy Director and won an Independent Spirit Award in 2010 for Tiny Furniture, which she also directed and starred in.