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Peter Jessop was born on 29 June 1964 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Fallout 4 (2015), Resident Evil (2002) and Mass Effect (2007).

Massachusetts native Jonathan Richman first gained fame as the frontman for the legendary The Velvet Underground-influenced proto-punk band "The Modern Lovers", who recorded their first and only album in 1973. The self-titled record included such classics as "Roadrunner", "Pablo Picasso" and "She Cracked". Yet despite his punk rock notoriety - "Roadrunner" was famously covered by Sex Pistols - Richman had a musical change of heart and resurfaced in 1977 with a new incarnation of his band on the album "Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers", and a new sound typified by simple, acoustic songs with sweet and often childlike lyrics. He gained a loyal cult following and has continued to release albums and tour. Richman made his first film appearance with a brief cameo in the Farelly brothers' 1996 film, Kingpin (1996), and later received some of his most notable mainstream exposure when he sang tunes such as "True Love is Not Nice" in 1998's Farelly smash-hit There's Something About Mary (1998).

Jonathan Bray was born in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for King Richard (2021), Castle (2009) and The Walkaround (2012). He has been married to Kristin Bray since 10 September 2005.

Best remembered by many cliffhanger fans of the 30s and 40s as staunch, gung-ho hero Don Winslow, athlete-turned-actor Don Terry identified quite well with his alter-ego. An adventurer at heart, he was born and christened Donald Prescott Loker on August 8, 1902. His parents were of Old English background. He enlisted in the Marines as a teenager but honorably discharged less than a year later due to a disability.

Don attended Harvard and played freshman football, basketball and baseball, working in coal yards to pay his tuition. Joining the Reading Keys in the International Baseball League, he later played pro football in Boston and Providence as part of the Steamrollers team. Along the way he fought under the name of "Bobbie Dinsmore" in the boxing arena and circled the globe on cargo ships.

Somehow the wanderlust Don Loker managed to migrate to Hollywood and there found a curiosity in movie-making. He gave himself the stage name of Don Terry and started in movie bits. Occasionally finding virile leads in action dramas, he slowly built up a stalwart reputation in this area. His first serial was as a hard-nosed reporter in The Secret of Treasure Island (1938). Universal Studios showed interest in his work and signed him up in 1941, becoming one of their more popular serial players in the early 40s. Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) became his signature role. Terry played the grim, tenacious Winslow with a set determination and gritty sense of purpose that thrilled war-time audiences at the time. In the story the Winslow character is assigned to Navy intelligence to battle the unscrupulous Scorpion organization.

More staunch heroics would come his way with the sequel Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943). After that role Terry himself enlisted in the Naval Reserve and was made Lieutenant Commander in the Pacific. He was awarded the Purple Heart in 1944. By the time he left the service in 1946, he left movies as well and turned to business ventures. Married twice, he became a noted philanthropist in later years. Don Terry (aka Don Winslow) died in 1988 in Oceanside, California.

Jonah Adelman was born on 15 December 1979 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for JCW Spring Fever (2003), NWA: Total Nonstop Action (2002) and WWE Raw (1993).

Paul J. Salamoff has worked for over 30 years in film, TV, video games, and graphic novels as a writer, producer, director, executive, and make-up f/x artist.

He is the author of On the Set: The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette, The Silent Planet, the graphic novels Hired Guns, Discord, and Logan's Run. His short stories and essays have appeared in anthologies, including Midian Unmade: Tales from Clive Barker's Nightbreed and The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe.

Paul currently teaches screenwriting at New York Film Academy. He is a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominee who made his feature-film directorial debut in 2019 with Encounter, a science fiction drama based on his original screenplay, which won Best Independent Film at the 46th annual Saturn Awards.

Rick McKay lives in New York City and is the award-winning Producer/Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor of the hit film Broadway: The Golden Age. For five seasons he was a segment producer on WNET13's City Arts, the most honored, locally produced show in television history, which won over 30 Emmy awards. Rick also produced the first story commissioned for the critically successful national PBS series Egg: The Arts Show, garnering another two Emmy nominations as well as helping to create the opening segment of two recent national Tony Awards broadcasts. Rick won four of the industry's prestigious Telly awards for his television work, has produced episodes for the immensely successful series Biography on the Arts and Entertainment network, and has produced for HBO and United Artists. Rick is also an on-air personality on national PBS television, hosting the incredibly successful pledge drives for "Broadway: The Golden Age" around the country and was recently seen co-hosting the non-cable premiere of Liza with a Z with Liza Minnelli on PBS.

There are two sequels of "Broadway" in production now: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age, chronicling Broadway from 1959 to 1981 and Broadway: The Next Generation, which brings the story up to the present. Both are planned for theatrical release, followed by national television and DVD release, in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Rick recently returned from New Zealand, working at famed director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post Productions, finishing his new film, "Fay Wray", which Jackson appears in, along with Naomi Watts, Gore Vidal, Leonard Maltin, McKay and many others. The film is half documentary, chronicling Wray's legendary, iconic career in film - and half road film, as Wray and McKay, despite the half-century difference in their ages, travel the globe, becoming fast friends, while McKay was beginning his career in film and Wray was entering her tenth and last decade, The film is due for release in late 2018.

Rick is also the sole owner and proprietor of Second Act Productions, the New York City production company that produced his Broadway trilogy as well as his other films. "Broadway: The Golden Age" has won over 15 film festival awards, is on 17 critics' Top Ten Films of the year lists and was a hit in theaters around the country. The SONY/BMG DVD is still a best seller and the film premiered on US television on national PBS in March 2006 as one of their most successful national pledge drives ever. Two sequels to the film are already in production with Robert Redford, Liza Minnelli, Glenn Close, Al Pacino, Sydney Poitier, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber and 100 other stars. The sequels will bring the story up to the present and both will open theatrically prior to international TV and DVD releases.

Rick also produced, directed and shot Elaine Stritch: At Liberty for PBS. Much of this footage was also used to make the HBO documentary of the same name, which won Elaine Stritch the 2004 Emmy award, and for which Rick is credited as producer and cinematographer. Rick's first solo film project was Birds of a Feather, a documentary of his adventures searching for drag queens for the legendary director Mike Nichols to help him make his hit film Birdcage. Rick is also an award-winning print journalist with numerous magazine and newspaper articles to his credit. His story Birds of a Feather won him San Francisco's Cable Car Award for "Outstanding Journalist" for feature reporting. Rick also has a successful career as an in-demand film and theatre lecturer around the world. A born raconteur, Rick appears with his films and tells behinds the scenes stories of their creation as well as of the history of film and theatre, while showing never-before-seen out-takes and rare footage from his films and from live performances.

Recently, Rick was awarded "Best Film: Greenwich Village Portrait" for his short film, Greenwich Village: A World Apart (2015) at the first annual Greenwich Village Film Festival, and again won the same category the next year for Greenwich Village: The Times They are a Changin' (2016).

Rick was honored at the Sundance Film Festival by PBS and inducted into the PBS Producers Academy, as one of their "best and brightest documentary producer/directors" for his continuing independent film and television work. Rick has also been honored with the "Special Contribution to Film" Award from Stonybrook University Film Festival and the "Limelight Award" from Ojai Film Festival. Recently Rick was also honored with the "New England Theatre Conference Special Contribution to Theatre Award" and the Theatre Museum of New York City's "Award of Excellence for Theatre History Preservation." Rick is also a Doctor of Fine Arts, after being honored at Five Towns College in New York where McKay, Michael Feinstein and Sheldon Harnick were all presented with degrees at a special event celebrating their work.

His wealth of experience in film, television, live entertainment, and journalism has made Rick McKay one of the most prolific and well-rounded independent producer/director/writers working in the industry today.

Dottie Green was born on 30 April 1921 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 26 October 1992 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

Joel Hurwitz was born in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. Joel is a writer and producer, known for Robot Chicken (2005), American Dad! (2005) and Family Tools (2013).

Andy Ostroff was born on 26 November 1980 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for All My Children (1970), ER (1994) and Quantum Break (2016).

Michael David Kehoe, was born on September 24, Mike played Baseball and Ice hockey. Mike works as a full time police officer. He was a member of the Theater Company of Rhode Island. He placed his dream on hold until 2004. He began pursing his passion for acting. He had auditioned for various television shows. He worked as an extra in films, which were based in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He is currently studying (2019) with Steve Blackwood in his cold study and sessions classes. He has taken Basic Acting and scene study with Bates Wilder. Mike was cast as a principal in "Patriots Day" starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, Michael Beach , "Equalizer 2" starring Denzel Washington and "NOS4A2" with Zachary Quinto.

Growing up in Natick Massachusetts, Sue Smith began her career working at Media One, a local cable television studio in Wayland, Massachusetts as a Production and Programming Manager. Leaving to pursue work on the independent film scene, she worked as a Unit Production Manager on "Gabriella" and "An American Dream", two feature length independent feature films shot entirely in Boston. Moving to California in 2000, Sue is currently a union member in good standing at Local 871 and a member of the Producers Guild of America. She has worked on such studio films as "Kill Bill 1 & 2", "The Aviator", "No Country For Old Men", "Friends With Benefits", and "The Front Runner". Turning towards the streaming world last year, Sue has worked on the Paramount Network's, "Yellowstone", and "The Underground Railroad" for Amazon. Inspired by years of working in the industry, Sue is hard at work putting together scripts to pitch and looking forward to moving towards creative Producing.

Harsha Amaravadi was born on 28 January 1994 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman (2006).

Marshall Farnum was born on 19 December 1879 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The House of Mirrors (1916), Wormwood (1915) and Lady Audley's Secret (1915). He was married to Helena M. Scott and Louise A. Lewis. He died on 19 February 1917 in Prescott, Arizona, USA.

David Vaillancourt was born on 27 June 1978 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Big Sleepy Dead Reckoning (2014), Hipster Mania (2014) and The Hunted (2001).

A.J. Lewis is an Emmy and Clio-winning producer and Chief Creative Officer and partner at Fanology. A.J. received his B.A. from Harvard where he was two-time captain of the Division I Men's Volleyball team.

In 2005, he co-founded Attention Span Media, the brains behind Hulu's most watched web series, Dorm Life (2008).

An alumnus of UCLA's prestigious MFA Producers Program, Lewis has worked under such luminaries as former Sony Pictures studio chief Peter Guber and David E. Kelley, creator of Boston Legal (2004), Ally McBeal (1997) and The Practice (1997).

Among his TV credits, A.J. produced AMC's Shootout (2003), hosted by Variety's Peter Bart, and the BIO series Shatner's Raw Nerve (2008).

Paul Haman was born on 20 December 1977 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. Paul is known for The Green Hornet (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and Happy Feet (2006).

Born in Massachusetts and raised on a small Brazilian Island, Luna began her career at the age of 10 acting in multiple comedy plays. In Brazil, Luna got a degree in Dramatic Arts, was part of Shakespeare group studies, and took multiple Improv and On Camera classes. In 2016 Luna relocated to Los Angeles to further pursue her career and studies at UCLA and Improv at The Groundlings and she's been actively acting in the independent film industry since then.

Fred Willis was born on 9 December 1947 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 4 July 2023 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

Doris Dean was born on 23 January 1949 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Convergence (2015), C.U.P.I.D (2012) and Night of the Krampus (2013). She has been married to Bennett Wayne Dean Sr. since 13 April 1968. They have three children.

Ian Young was born on 3 November 1979 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. Ian is a composer, known for Sugartown (2011), Brotherly Love (2014) and Henry John and the Little Bug (2009).

John Carlson was born on 10 January 1990 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He has been married to Gina Nucci since 6 September 2014. They have two children.

Lauren Maffeo was born on 8 March 1989 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Little Erin Merryweather (2003), Anathema (2003) and Alphabet (2002).

Alan Gordon was born on 22 April 1944 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He was a composer and writer, known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Adaptation. (2002) and Imagine Me & You (2005). He died on 22 November 2008 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

Daniel DeMarco was born on 28 September 1956 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.