Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great speakers.

RANDY COHEN’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for Late Night With David Letterman, for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, The Punishing Blow, ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything, was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

JACQUES D’AMBOISE (Founder, NDI) is a director, teacher and world-renowned ballet dancer and choreographer. He became a member of the corps de ballet at the age of 15, elevated to principal dancer at 17, and 33 years later, at the age of 50, put away his dancing shoes. Jacques d’Amboise is known for his definitive performance in the Balanchine ballet Apollo. Mr. d’Amboise founded National Dance Institute in 1976. Its purpose is to inspire children to excellence using the arts, with dance as the catalyst. NDI and its associate programs have reached more than 2 million children… and counting! A documentary film about his work, “He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’,” won the Academy Award, and he has received many honors including the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of the Arts, and the MacArthur Fellowship.

DANIEL ULBRICHT (New York City Ballet) was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and began his dance training at the age of 11 at the Judith Lee Johnson Studio of Dance, studying with Lenny Holmes. He also studied at Les Jeunes Danseurs with Javier Dubraq and attended the Chautauqua Summer Dance Program, training with Jean Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride. In 1999, Mr. Ulbricht was invited by the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, to continue his training during their Winter Program. As a student at SAB, Mr. Ulbricht performed with New York City Ballet as a Jester in Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty. In December 2000, he became an apprentice with New York City Ballet and in November 2001 he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. In January 2005, Mr. Ulbricht was promoted to the rank of soloist and principal dancer in May 2007.