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Isaac Mizrahi has spent more than 35 years at the intersection of entertainment, media, and fashion, earning acclaim as a performer, host, writer, designer, producer, and cultural commentator. Performing with his acclaimed jazz band, Isaac brings his signature blend of music, storytelling, and comedy to concert stages across the country. His annual multi-week residency at New York City’s legendary Café Carlyle consistently sells out, and in 2022 he made his Broadway debut as Amos Hart in Chicago. The New York Times hailed him as “a founding father of a genre that fuses performance art, music and stand-up comedy.” In 2026, the cult-classic documentary UNZIPPED—which Mizrahi co-created and stars in—has been remastered and is being re-released in theaters. He hosted the Emmy Award-winning The Isaac Mizrahi Show for seven seasons, served as a judge on all seven seasons of Project Runway All Stars, and continues to appear across television, film, and digital media. Beyond the stage and screen, Mizrahi has directed productions for the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, designed costumes for the Metropolitan Opera, and annually directs and narrates Peter and the Wolf, a production he originally created for New York City’s Guggenheim Museum. A celebrated force in fashion, Mizrahi currently serves as Creative Director at Large for Target. Through his company, IM Entertainment, he develops original projects for television, theater, publishing, and live entertainment. He is also the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir I.M. For more information, visit HelloIsaac.com and follow @IMISAACMIZRAHI on social media.

Douglas Keeve, a surfer kid from Santa Monica, California, took a few improbable detours and somehow ended up as a fashion photographer in Italy, and then New York, shooting for GQ, Interview Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Calvin Klein, Pantene, Nintendo, and Facebook. He then dove into filmmaking—his documentary UNZIPPED captured the allure, absurdity, and backstage alchemy of the fashion world as no film had before. It won the Audience Award at Sundance, became a box-office hit and remains a cult classic. Keeve’s NAOMI CONQUERS AFRICA follows Naomi Campbell and her posse—Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and Amber Valletta—as they join Nelson Mandela on an extraordinary journey of fashion, friendship, and unexpected twists, capturing rare, intimate moments between Naomi and the President. He directed HOTEL GRAMERCY PARK, which received honors at the Tribeca Film Festival and recently co-directed Netflix’s six-part docuseries Supreme Models, a sweeping history of Black models. His upcoming feature-doc gets deep inside the extraordinary, rule-breaking career of legendary-legend, Vogue Fashion Editor Polly Mellen.

Nina Santisi is a New York City–based film and television producer whose career began in the fashion industry, where she worked with designer Perry Ellis, retailer Henri Bendel, and Glamour magazine before joining Isaac Mizrahi in 1988. As Mizrahi’s head of marketing, she executive produced the feature documentary UNZIPPED, directed by Douglas Keeve, which won the Audience Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Santisi later served for many years as creative director and executive producer of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards. Her documentary credits also include Film Forum premiere THEATER OF WAR, directed by John Walter, which chronicles the Public Theater’s 2008 production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Meryl Streep. She is currently in post-production on The Earth Moves, a documentary series about Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Lena Dunham is the ultimate multi-hyphenate, an award-winning actor, writer, director, producer and philanthropist. This April, Random House released her highly anticipated second memoir, Famesick, providing a decade-long reflection on fame and illness. The book became a viral sensation and an instant #1 New York Times Bestseller. Dunham directs the upcoming Netflix romantic-comedy GOOD SEX starring Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, and Meg Ryan. Last year, she made her return to television with the Netflix series Too Much starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe. She created, wrote, directed, and produced the series through her company Good Thing Going alongside Working Title Television. Dunham co-hosts The C-Word podcast with Alissa Bennett, available for free on all major platforms.

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