Bill Irwin is a Tony Award–winning actor, director, writer, and clown. His original works include The Regard of Flight, Largely New York (four Tony Award nominations), Fool Moon, Old Hats, The Happiness Lecture, and others. He has played in many Broadway, Off Broadway, and regional stage productions, including On Beckett, an evening of passages from Samuel Beckett’s work, at Irish Repertory Theatre; The Iceman Cometh; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?; Waiting for Godot (2009 Drama Desk Award nomination); Endgame; The Tempest; Texts for Nothing; Garden of Earthly Delights; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Showboat; and the Tony Award–winning Fool Moon, which he created with David Shiner. On television, Irwin appears as Mr. Noodle on “Elmo’s World” and Cary Loudermilk of “Legion.” The Regard of Flight, with Doug Skinner, Michael O’Connor, and Nancy Harrington, appeared on PBS. His film credits include Rachel Getting Married, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Eight Men Out, Interstellar, Stepping Out, The Unsilent Picture, and more. Irwin was an original member of Kraken, a theatre company directed by Herbert Blau, and was also an original member of the Pickle Family Circus of San Francisco with Larry Pisoni and Geoff Hoyle. Irwin is the grateful recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.