Muldoon's Picnic (September 2019)

John Carter Cash is an award-winning record producer, singer-songwriter and author, and the grandson of Maybelle Carter and the only child from the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. He has received five Grammy Awards as producer, with a total of 12 nominations, and has produced hundreds of recordings for dozens of artists over the past twenty years, including Willie Nelson, Mavis Staples, Elivs Costello, Kris Kristofferson, and Alison Krauss and Union Station. He has released three solo albums: Bitter Harvest (2003), The Family Secret (2010), and We Must Believe in Magic (2018). 

John Carter is also the author of Anchored in Love, a biography of his mother June Carter Cash, and House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father Johnny Cash, as well as three children’s books. Ravenstone Books published his first novel, the fantasy tale Lupus Rex, in June 2013, and his cookbook Cash and Carter Family Cookbook was released in 2018.

John Carter owns and operates Cash Cabin Enterprises, LLC in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and does nearly all of his music production work in the Cash Cabin Studio, the same studio where his father recorded. He is husband of entertainer and songwriter Ana Cristina Cash.

Ana Cristina Cash is an American singer-songwriter raised in Miami, FL. Her parents moved to the United States in the early 1960s from Cuba during the onset of the revolution. She grew up listening to music from many different genres and her recordings exhibit a broad vocal range, spanning from a resonating contralto to a high coloratura soprano, known to some as a “whistle register.”

Ana started her professional music career at age six in the singing contests of the variety show Sabado Gigante. At the age of 16, she signed to Sony Music’s Latin division and released her first album, Ana Cristina, in the Spanish language. In 2005, she became the first Hispanic in history to perform the "Star Spangled Banner" at a presidential inauguration. The following year, she was invited to perform at the White House for the President of the United States, the Crown Prince of Spain, and world ambassadors. Her most recent EP, The Tough Love, released in 2017 and produced by John Carter Cash, combines the sounds rockabilly, blues, country, and soul.

Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp (Hogarth / Oneworld 2018), which was a finalist for the Hearst Big Book Awards and the Butler Literary Award, and longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Her poetry collection, Gathering Evidence (Carcanet 2014), won the Irish Times Strong/Shine Award and was a finalist for four other prizes. For her short fiction, she won the Moth International Short Story Prize 2018 and an O. Henry Prize in 2019. Her work has appeared in Granta, POETRY, Tin House, Best British Poetry, BBC Radio 3, and elsewhere. She holds BA and MA degrees from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a PhD in English literature from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She was visiting writer at Maastricht University in the Netherlands from 2014-17. Her second novel, The Wild Laughter, will be published in May 2020.

Doug Wright was most recently represented on Broadway by the musical War Paint starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, which played at the Nederlander Theater. His earlier plays include I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize), Posterity, and Quills (Obie Award), as well as books for the musicals Grey Gardens (Tony nomination), The Little Mermaid, and Hands on A Hardbody (Drama Desk nomination). Wright adapted and directed August Strindberg’s Creditors for the La Jolla Playhouse in 2009. Wright also has several credits in film, including the screen adaptation of Quills (Paul Selvin Award, WGA) and production rewrites for Rob Marshall, Steven Spielberg, and others. He has appeared twice as an actor on Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and in the films Little Manhattan and Two Lovers. Wright is currently president of the Dramatists Guild and is on the board of the New York Theater Workshop. He has been a frequent guest at Yaddo and the MacDowell Art Colonies, and has taught or guest-lectured at the Yale Drama School, Princeton University, Julliard, and NYU. He lives in New York with his husband, singer-songwriter David Clement, and cats Glynis and Murray.

Rogue Oliphant is: Sim Cain (drums), Chris Harford (guitar), David Mansfield (guitar), Cáit O'Riordan (bass), Warren Zanes (guitar)