Ryan Murphy is an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, Tony® and Peabody Award-winning screenwriter, producer and director. He created the cult-favorite series Popular, Golden Globe-winning television drama Nip/Tuck, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series Glee, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning anthology series American Horror Story and American Crime Story, Emmy-winning anthology series FEUD, Pose, Scream Queens and 9-1-1.  

Murphy’s first installment of American Crime Story, The People v. O.J. Simpson, was released in 2016 and earned 10 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series. The second installment, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, won seven Emmy awards in 2018, including Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series and Outstanding Limited Series, and won two Golden Globes for Best Television Limited Series and Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series. Murphy’s FX drama Pose has earned 20 Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Billy Porter in 2019. The show also made history by featuring the largest transgender series regular cast and the largest LGBTQ cast ever for a scripted series. The third installment of American Crime Story, Impeachment, was released in September 2021. 

Murphy recently wrote, directed and produced several series for Netflix, including Halston, which was nominated for five Emmy awards; Hollywood, which was nominated for 12 Emmy awards; The Politician, which was nominated for eight Emmy awards and two Golden Globes, including Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy; Ratched, which had 48 million viewers in its first 28 days after release and received four Emmy award nominations; The Andy Warhol Diaries, which premiered in March 2022; The Watcher starring Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale and Jennifer Coolidge; and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story starring Evan Peters, which currently stands as Netflix’s third most popular series of all time with 701.37M hours viewed in its first three weeks.

On stage, Murphy produced the Tony Award®-winning Broadway hit The Boys in the Band starring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer. In 2020, he produced a film adaptation of the play for Netflix featuring the same cast.

Murphy directed the HBO movie The Normal Heart, which received Emmy and Golden Globe awards, including the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie. He also wrote and directed the Golden Globe-nominated film Running with Scissors starring Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow and the box office hit Eat, Pray, Love starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. Murphy most recently directed the feature adaptation of the Broadway hit The Prom, which received two Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. 

In 2018, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2019, he was selected as a “Titan” for TIME Magazine’s annual “100 Most Influential People” list.

Lou Eyrich is a 17-time Emmy®-nominated costume designer and producer behind the hit television series Glee, American Horror Story, Scream Queens, FEUD, Pose, Ratched, The Politician, Hollywood, The Watcher and American Crime Story. She currently has five Emmy Awards. She has been nominated for a Costume Designers Guild Award 14 times, taking home nine.

A Minnesota native, Eyrich spent several years working with Prince at Paisley Park and on tour. She also toured with Bette Midler and The Manhattan Transfer before segueing into film and television. She credits a fellow costume designer and mentor for taking her on as an entry-level costumer in Minneapolis and instilling the love of all that goes into developing a character and getting it to screen.

Eyrich has been working alongside Ryan Murphy for 23 years, starting on his first show, Popular, in 1999.   She has collaborated with him on dozens of shows and films and loves overseeing all the costume departments on RMP projects.

Zac Posen is an internationally acclaimed fashion designer. Posen, known for his rare talent of draping, is a master artist of his craft with an unmatched expertise in understanding the human form. Born and raised in New York City’s SoHo to a painter and lawyer, Posen was raised in the worlds of business and fashion. With New York City as his inspiration and teacher, Posen was informally trained and guided by art, culture, theater and business at the highest level. Posen is recognized by many as the King of American couture.

In 2001, Posen launched an eponymous collection at the age of 21 with a strong vision for American glamour with classic couture technique and striking innovation. The artisanal craftsmanship and stunning anatomical construction were immediately recognized on a global scale. Posen functioned as a New York-based atelier filled with skilled artisans that executed thousands of designs between 2001 and 2019.

Through Posen’s 23 years of experience in the business of fashion, he has cultivated a deep understanding of the elements necessary to sustain a global brand while utilizing his talent and skill as a designer. His insight is invaluable – his experience vast. Posen’s career thus far has been bestowed awards and memberships by the Chambre Syndical, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and many others.

Posen has a long history with Hollywood as he was and continues to be the go-to designer for leading entertainers, stars and public figures. His dresses are demanded by the likes of Rihanna, Li Bingbing, Beyoncé, Natalie Portman, Uma Thurman, Deepika Padukone, Princess Eugenie, Claire Danes, Debbie Harry, First Lady Michelle Obama, Demi Moore, Cate Blanchett, Oprah and Gwyneth Paltrow, among countless others. His presence in Hollywood extends from the red carpet to the silver screen where his designs have been featured in the feature film The Outfit, written by the Academy Award®-winning writer of The Imitation Game. His designs were also featured in both Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2. The demand for his work in entertainment is constantly on the rise.

A consummate natural speaker and celebrity persona, Posen has engaged with countless institutions on topics ranging from fashion, food and tech. Having the utmost respect for aspiring designers, Posen has spoken and conducted critiques at institutions such as Harvard, Wharton, NYU, RISD, SCAD and many other top-tier schools. For six seasons, Posen served as a judge on the Emmy®-nominated television show Project Runway.

Posen serves as Ambassador for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and CARE. Additionally, he supports St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, the LGBTQIA community, City Harvest and countless other charities and causes.

Marie Geneviève Cyr is an Associate Professor of Fashion Design and the Director of the BFA Fashion Design program at Parsons School of Design. She has an MA in Visual Culture/Fashion Theory from New York University, a BA in Design and Applied Arts from the Edinburgh College of Art and a Certificate in High Impact Leadership from the Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was nominated in 2009 for a Genie Award by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for “Best Costume Design” for the feature film Who is KK Downey?.  Her research lies on the discourse of material and visual culture; looking at advertisement, rethinking design methodologies and global identity. Her most recent research examines the politics of abstract desire, hyper-reality, hyper-consumption, and the online social space - the internet. She is interested in new questions on how do Post-Internet artistic strategies influence fashion design practices. 

Cyr has spent extensive time in Asia, more specifically China, studying design practices. In addition to Parsons School of Design, Cyr has created and taught experimental design processes workshops for universities such as Donghua University (Shanghai), Royal College of Art (UK), Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), HEAD (Geneva), and various art organizations. 

She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Red Gate Gallery (Beijing, China, 2014), and Palazzo Monti (Brescia, Italy, 2019).