Anne Rice (born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed books from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death from cancer in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

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Steven E. Levitan (born 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and producer of television comedies. He has created such TV series asJust Shoot Me!, Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, and Modern Family. As executive producer, Steve won an Emmy Award in 1996 for Frasier in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. He was also nominated in that same year for Outstanding Writing in Comedy Series category for The Larry Sanders Show. He was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series category for Just Shoot Me! and two more as executive producer. Steven won the Humanitas Prize(for writers whose work best communicates and encourages human values) in 1996 for the Frasier episode titled "Breaking the Ice." Steven has also won a CableACE Award and a Writers Guild nomination for The Larry Sanders Show. He also garnered a Producers Guild Award and a Television Critics Association Award for Frasier, a People’s Choice Award for Stark Raving Mad and a Golden Globe nomination for Just Shoot Me!

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Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director and producer of Bowling for Columbine,Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, three of the top five highest-grossing documentaries of all time. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, documenting his personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth. Moore is a self-described liberal who has criticized globalization, large corporations, gun ownership, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system in his written and cinematic works. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. In 2005, Moore started the annual Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan. In 2008, he closed his Manhattan office and moved it to Traverse City, where he is working on his new film.

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Cash Garner Warren born on January 10, 1979, is an American producer. Warren attended high school—Crossroads School—in Santa Monica, California, with famous actress Kate Hudson. At Crossroads, Warren also played basketball with his buddy Baron Davis, who is now an NBA basketball star, currently playing as point guard for the Golden State Warriors. After Crossroads, Warren went on to “bigger and better things” by attending Yale, where he later graduated. Warren started making his living as a Hollywood film and television crewmember, director’s assistant, and producer in, with Taxi (2004), and Fantastic Four in 2005 as Tim Story's assistant. Warren decided to try his hand at producing in 2006 with the film Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi, and most recently, with The Baron Davis Project, starring his friend and NBA star Baron Davis.

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Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time.

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John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award. Cusack gained fame in the mid-1980s after appearing in teen movies such as Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, One Crazy Summer, and Sixteen Candles. Cusack made a cameo in the 1988 music video for "Trip At The Brain" by Suicidal Tendencies. His biggest success in that genre is arguably his starring role as Lloyd Dobler in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything. His roles broadened in the late 1980s and early 1990s with more serious-minded fare such as the political satire True Colors and the film noir thriller The Grifters. Cusack became a proven box office success with his roles in the dark comedy Grosse Pointe Blank and the Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster Con Air. In the years hence, his range of films has diversified, appearing in roles such as an obsessive puppeteer in Being John Malkovich, a lovelorn record store owner in High Fidelity, and a Jewish art dealer mentoring a young Adolf Hitler in Max. He starred in the horror film 1408, based on Stephen King's short story of the same name. He next appeared as a widowed father in the Iraq War-themed drama Grace is Gone and as assassin Brand Hauser in the dark political satire, War, Inc., along with Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei.

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Michael McIntyre (born 1976, Merton) is a British comedian and writer. Mcintyre's first DVD Live & Laughing is the fastest selling debut stand-up DVD ever. He was nominated at the 2008 British Comedy Awards for Best Live Stand-up and nominated at the 2009 South Bank Show Awards for Best Comedy. In 2008 he was the fastest selling comedian at the Edinburgh Festival . and sold out five nights at London's 3600 capacity Hammersmith Apollo.

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Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969 in East Dulwich, London), more commonly known as Sue Perkins, is a British comedian, radio and television presenter, actress, and writer.

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Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2006) and Juno (2007) as well as utilizing unique opening sequences.

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Gigi Levangie Grazer (born January 1963) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born Georgianne Levangie in Los Angeles, Grazer attended UCLA, where she majored in political science. Her Hollywood career began as an assistant to producer Fred Silverman, who dissuaded her from attending law school by offering her a substantial raise and writing assignments for the television series In the Heat of the Night. Grazer is the author of three novels: Rescue Me (2000), Maneater (2003), and The Starter Wife (2006), which was adapted for a 2007 miniseries on the USA Network. Its success led to a regular series that lasted one season.

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