Emily Wyrwa

The first time Stephen Nedoroscik was recognized in public was long before he went viral for his glasses at the 2024 Paris Olympic games.

Before the world knew him as “pommel horse guy,” and before he dove into the unknown world of “Dancing with the Stars,” someone tapped him on the shoulder of his hometown bar Ralph’s in Worcester. He had seen Nedoroscik at the 2021 World Championships for men’s gymnastics, and wanted to buy the gymnast a drink. It was 2022 — Nedoroscik’s second time ever at the bar.

Chad McDonough turned his ambivalence for cooking into a livelihood alongside one of his closest childhood friends, Tommy Guarino. The pair met in 2005 at a police summer camp when they were 5 years old, and they graduated from high school together. Now they’re business partners — and brothers.

When Mica Tenenbaum and Matt Lewin were in college, they were no strangers to the eight-hour bus rides between Boston and Philadelphia.

Before Marceau became a performer, he was born Marcel Mangel and as a teen fled Nazi-occupied France. His cousin recruited him into the resistance, and he was tasked with smuggling Jewish orphans into Switzerland. According to Pailet, many have speculated the games he played with those children became the foundation of his mime act.“It’s exciting to be at this stage and to be in Williamstown, which is a place that has a history of artists coming together in the summer to develop their ideas,” S...