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Millicent (Millie) Simmonds is a BAFTA nominated American actress from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania best known for Wonderstruck (2017), A Quiet Place (2018), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), and Helen & Teacher. She made her Broadway debut in 2023 starring opposite Laurie Metcalf in Levi Holloway's Grey House, directed by Joe Mantello.

Millicent originally hails from Bountiful, Utah, and grew up performing and telling stories in American Sign Language. A self-described class clown, at the age of nine Millicent joined the drama club at her elementary school, where she fell in love with acting, playing Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2016 her drama teacher received an email with a casting call looking for a Deaf actress for the part of Rose in a film adaption of Brian Selznick's award-winning novel Wonderstruck. She quickly thought of Millie and encouraged her to try out. Millie, then twelve, sent in a one-take audition that brought the film's director Todd Haynes to tears, winning her what would become a stunning breakout role. Millicent and Wonderstruck debuted at Cannes and the New York Film Festival. She was named one of the Breakthrough Entertainers of 2017 by AP, and Time Magazine listed Rose as one of the Top 10 Movie Performances of the year. Millicent landed her next major film role as Regan Abbott in John Krasinski's horror-thriller A Quiet Place, working alongside Emily Blunt and Noah Jupe. Krasinski was adamant about casting a Deaf actress to play Regan, wanting to use accurate, researched American Sign Language with the help of Deaf ASL experts and advisers including Douglas Ridloff. Her experiences became resources and inspiration for the script, story, and sound design, and the film received an Oscar nomination in the latter category. A Quiet Place was a surprise critical darling, debuting at the South By Southwest Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. In 2017, Millicent became the first Deaf actor nominated for a Critics' Choice Award with her work in Wonderstruck. She was nominated a second time only a year later, in 2018, for her critically acclaimed performance in A Quiet Place. In 2021, Millicent's reprisal of the character Regan in A Quiet Place's sequel outing earned her a historic BAFTA Rising Star nomination and the coveted Chainsaw Award. In 2021 Millicent took a major creative leap when she announced she would be both producing and starring as Charlie Serrano in an adaptation of the New York Times Best Selling novel True Biz Project by Sara Novíc. Millicent's prolific career has opened the door for new, authentic representations of Deaf American culture and the wider disability community in film, TV, and media. Millicent is one of five siblings and loves to spend time with her family and friends. An avid reader and writer, she enjoys the outdoors, rock music, spoon collecting, painting, and riding her motorcycle. She hopes to continue acting, writing, and filmmaking for as long as she can.

This sweet, wholesome, porcelain-skinned beauty was your typical bouffant blonde of the early-to-mid 1960s. She was picture perfect, whether romping along the coast of Malibu Beach in a bikini or peering over a white picket fence as the girl-next-door. Pat Priest was born Patricia Ann Priest on August 15, 1936 in Bountiful, Utah. Her mother, Ivy Baker Priest, was a renowned government official and served as United States Treasurer under the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration from 1953-1961. She also was California's Treasurer while Ronald Reagan was Governor from 1966-1974. Living a glamorous débutante's life in Washington, D.C. during her mother's 1950s term, she won attention as a beauty contest winner in the area.

Stagestruck, she moved to Los Angeles and pursued commercials, modeling and community theater work. She happened to be in the San Francisco Bay area, in 1964, when she got the call from Hollywood as a possible replacement for lookalike actress Beverley Owen, the original Marilyn Munster, who was suddenly leaving the series The Munsters (1964) for marriage. Most viewers never caught on that there was a cast change. The decorative sitcom role did wonders for Pat as the prettiest resident of 1313 Mockingbird Lane, making her a minor household name. On the down side, she was given very little to do but to serve as a pretty and innocent foil for the weird and funny characters around her.

Her one-joke premise revolved around her feeling abnormal amid her ghoulish relatives. The series ran another two seasons with Pat, then she went on to what would become a less-than-enviable post-Munsters career. Other than a few guest roles in such series as Bewitched (1964), Perry Mason (1957), The Virginian (1962) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), the pickings grew scarce. Deemed too old to play Marilyn after the series was canceled (she was 29), she was replaced by redheaded Debbie Watson for the feature film, Munster, Go Home! (1966), which included the rest of her series cast.

She did dally around with Elvis Presley in Easy Come, Easy Go (1967), one of his lesser vehicles, and also appeared in the sub-par cult horror film, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971), which co-starred Bruce Dern and Casey Kasem, but film roles were almost non-existent after that. Pat finally retired from acting in the 1980s but still attends many of the nostalgic conventions and Munsters revivals around the country. At last report, she was restoring and selling homes in Idaho, where she had lived for over 20 years. Married twice, she has two sons: Pierce and Lance Jensen.

A filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher, James Morrison was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He served his time as a clown and wire walker in the circus in the mid-70s, before serving his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre in their '78-'79 seasons after a year studying in New York before settling on the West Coast in 1981. Since then, he has appeared at some of America's foremost theatres including the McCarter Theatre, the La Jolla Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, LA TheatreWorks and The Old Globe with such renowned directors as Robert Egan, Emily Mann, Des McAnuff, Jack O'Brien, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jose Quintero, Martin Jarvis, Don Amendolia, and Harry Mastrogeorge, his acting teacher since 1982.

He is a SAG Award nominee (24 - Best Ensemble) and the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance and three Drama-Logue Awards. In 1985 he appeared in the London premiere of Emily Mann's Still Life at the West End's Donmar Warehouse and the Riverside Studios after a stint in The Edinburgh Festival at the Traverse Theatre where the production received a Fringe First Award.

His radio credits include L.A.TheatreWorks productions of Pressure - as General Eisenhower, The Rainmaker as Starbuck with the cast of the Broadway revival, Ruby McCollum in which he stars as William Bradford Huie, Judgement at Nuremberg - starring as Chief Justice Dan Haywood - Julius Caesar and the U.S. tour of In the Heat of the Night.

Morrison's short film, Parking (1996), which he wrote and directed, was produced by his wife, Riad Galayini. Parking screened at twenty film festivals worldwide including New York's New Directors/New Films presented by Lincoln Center at the Museum of Modern Art, Slamdance (audience choice award for best short), Austin's South By Southwest Festival, the Central Florida Film Festival (third place narrative film award), the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, the Montreal World Festival, The Festival of U.S. Shorts in Brisbane, Australia, Ireland's Cork International Film Festival, and the Northampton Film Festival where it received the Best Short of the Festival Award. Parking also ran on Sundance Channel for 18 months.

With Ms. Galayini, he co-wrote and co-produced her directorial debut, Nude Descending (1997), which received The George Melies Award at the 1998 Taos Talking Picture Festival and has screened at the Nashville Independent Festival and Short Cuts in Paris. In 2000, Nude Descending was selected for special recognition by the Hitchcock International Director's Series presented by the American Cinematheque.

Their latest film, the documentary, Showing Up (2014), is a feature-length conversation about the actor's audition.

Most recently, James developed and performed his one-man play, Leave Your Fears Here at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. The play went on to premiere at the Great Barrington Public Theatre in Massachusetts. Morrison's plays have also been produced and/or developed at the Sundance Institute, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, L.A. TheatreWorks, The MET Theatre, Two Parts Theatre Company, The Classical Theatre Lab, City Theatre in Miami, The Road Theatre, The Mojo Ensemble, The Wooden O, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the Salt Lake Acting Company where he has directed several plays including those by Sam Shepard, John Robinson, Larry Shue and Beth Henley.

As a singer/songwriter his albums, Son to the Boy and I Broke Free are available on iTunes CD Baby, Amazon and all digital outlets.

James was a Lecture Fellow at Bournemouth University School of Media in England and received his certification to teach Hatha Yoga from Ganga White and Tracey Rich at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara where he sits on the Board of Trustees. He taught regular classes at the YogaWorks Center for Yoga in Los Angeles for 10 years.

James and Riad live North of Los Angeles and their son, Seamus, a recent graduate of UCSB and received his master's degree from Pepperdine University.

Bryan H. Carroll was born on 13 February 1967 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Why We Ride (2013), Collateral (2004) and Titanic (1997).

Tara grew up in Bountiful, Utah and is the second oldest of 4 children. The Champ and Kramer vs. Kramer were 2 of the many movies which inspired her to be an actress. She also studied ballet and had every word memorized from the movie The Turning Point. She attended Brigham Young University for two years with an Acting Scholarship. She started in theater and got her first supporting role in Rob Diamond's film Our Father's Keeper (2018). Tara also discovered a love of writing and has gone on to win various awards for her short films.

James E. Reilly was born on 15 July 1948 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Guiding Light (1952), Days of Our Lives (1965) and Passions (1999). He died on 12 October 2008 in New York City, New York, USA.

Rad Robinson's association with The King's Men quartet was his primary profession, beginning in 1930. From 1934 to 1937 The King's Men (Ken Darby, Arranger & Bass; Rad Robinson, Baritone; Jon Dodson, Lead Tenor; Bud Linn, Top Tenor, were a feature of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra on RCA records and the Kraft Music Hall. They subsequently appeared with many other orchestra leaders, including Rudy Vallee. They were heard, and sometimes seen, in many feature films, including Sweetie (1929) (My Sweeter than Sweet), Hollywood Party (1934) (Feelin' High), Let's Go Native (1930) (title song), Belle of the Nineties (1934) (Troubled Waters), Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), Murder at the Vanities (1934), (Lovely One) and notably The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which they are the off screen voices for the Lollipop Guild. On screen they were remembered as the singing cowboys of the Hopalong Cassidy films. In the costume party scene of the film Honolulu (1939) the King's Men play the Marx Brothers (Robinson plays the wavy-haired Groucho). For a few years they were associated with the Music Department at Disney Studios (Make Mine Music (1946), Pinocchio (1940), and on the long-running radio show "Fibber McGee & Molly." The King's Men group was the basis for the Ken Darby Singers, featured on John Charles Thomas' "Westinghouse Broadcasts" and on many Decca phonograph records, such as Bing Crosby's original recording of "White Christmas." When not singing, Mr. Robinson was the entertainment contractor for the five Howard Hughes hotels, based in Las Vegas.

Tia Link is a New York-trained theater and film actor who specializes in playing unapologetic, smart, and deeply complex characters whose toughness masks a certain inner vulnerability.

She was born and raised in Bountiful, Utah. After living in London and Sydney and traveling extensively, she settled in New York where she began her acting career. Tia Link also has a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Alison Taylor was born on 2 April 1996 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. She is an actress, known for Journeys (2024), Machine Takeover (2023) and The Nightstar Specters (2022).

Josh Tenney was born on 1 April 1976 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He is an actor and casting director, known for Samuel the Lamanite (2006), David & Goliath (2005) and Encyclopedia Brown (1989).

Jay Richards was born on 22 August 1961 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He is an actor, known for Under a Killing Moon (1994) and Twisted Metal: Black (2001).

Michael Judd was born on 29 October 1977 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Gospel Hill (2008), Girlfriends (2017) and Touched by an Angel (1994).

Vicky Parke was born on 17 October 1945 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. Vicky has been married to Frederic Parke since 11 December 1966. They have three children.

Rowenna Erickson was born on 11 November 1939 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. She died on 27 January 2018 in Taylorsville, Utah, USA.

Born in Bountiful, Utah, at Davis county Hospital. Erin grew up in Washington State around Ephrata and Moses Lake area. Moved to Boise, Idaho, to attend Boise State University in 2003. She did not complete a degree. She moved to California in 2009 and started doing background work. After years of doing background work and being around new people everyday, she realized her dreams of being a comedian. Today she is an inspiring comedian and still doing background work. She also writes short comedies for a web series she came up with. She also writes poetry which some rock bands have used for meaningful messages of disappointment in relationships and some dark humor.

Calvin L. Rampton was born on 6 November 1913 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for The Governor & J.J. (1969). He died on 16 September 2007 in Holladay, Utah, USA.

Brenda Jean Anderson has been a public educator for eighteen years and is interested in script writing. She has a B.S. from Utah State University in Logan, Utah, a M.Ed. from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and Brenda attended one year of law school at St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is second in a family of four children. Her father worked at a company that built robots that built cars, and her mother worked at a local library. Both taught her to love life and creative ventures. Her parents raised her listening to Nat King Cole and Aaron Copland and respecting authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville. Brenda Jean is writing a book called Wild Oaks Cemetery.

Hyrum Patterson was born on 20 April 1973 in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He is an actor, known for Love and Action in Chicago (1999), Labor Pains (2000) and Just One Night (2000).

Thad has wanted to be an actor his whole life. As a child he would beg his parents to get him an agent and let him act but due to a tough financial situation they always told him no. He grew up doing community an school theater. After high school he did a year of college then moved to Brazil for two years. He was working as a stock broker and realized that he was making good money but he wasn't happy. He quit his job signed up for and acting for film class and started working in film. he was doing odd jobs and extra work in Utah. On one of his jobs he and his friend Jason Brady met JJ Gerber. He gave them a number to work crew on Blind Guy. Thad didn't make the call because he wasn't sure if he could survive with no pay as an intern. A week after Blind Guy started production Thad decided he had to make the sacrifice of an internship. Blind Guy was crewed up fully so it looked like Thad was out of luck. He happened upon the email address of a local Director who was starting production of a movie the following week. He emailed the Director and got a job as a set PA and a cast van driver for Church Ball. Since then he has worked on The Posseision, The Amazing Race 8, and Unearthed.