Chat with Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce as he answers your questions about comedy, tragedy, and television. David was slated to appear in the musical adaptation of the film, The Visitor at The Public Theater this past spring - join him to hear more about this once and future project!

David Hyde Pierce is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and director who has appeared in three productions for The Public Theater, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Zero Positive; he will someday appear there again in the new musical The Visitor. Last seen with Bette Midler in his Tony-nominated performance as Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly!, his other Broadway credits include Beyond Therapy, The Heidi Chronicles, Spamalot, Curtains (Tony Award), Accent on Youth, La Bête, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway he has created roles in new works by Adam Bock, John Kander and Greg Pierce, Richard Greenberg and Mark O'Donnell.

Pierce made his Broadway directing debut with Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi's musical, It Shoulda Been You, and went on to direct productions of Vanya and Sonia, David Lindsay-Abaire's Ripcord, and a gangster-themed The Importance of Being Earnest. His film credits include Sleepless in Seattle, Wolf, Nixon, Isn't She Great, Wet Hot American Summer, Down With Love, A Bug's Life, and The Perfect Host. His television credits include a short but happy stint on Norman Lear's political satire "The Powers That Be," and a long but happy stint as Dr. Niles Crane on the comedy "Frasier," for which he won four Emmy Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Award.

David is a longtime advocate and spokesperson for the Alzheimer's Association and for CaringKind, and is a board member and fan of Orchestra of St. Luke's.

This is a virtual experience and will be conducted via Zoom. Experience date must be agreed upon by both parties. Expires on Oct 21, 2021. Experience cannot be resold or re-auctioned. Conversation will last 30 minutes in length.