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Meghann Fahy was born on 25 April 1990 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for The White Lotus (2021), Drop (2025) and The Bold Type (2017).

Erinn Bartlett was born on 26 February 1973 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for The Benchwarmers (2006), Shallow Hal (2001) and Little Nicky (2000). She has been married to Oliver Hudson since 9 June 2006. They have three children.

John DeLuca was born on 25 April 1986 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for General Hospital (1963), Staten Island Summer (2015) and Teen Beach Movie (2013).

Damien Fahey was born on 1 June 1980 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Family Guy (1999), The Great Buck Howard (2008) and Robots (2005).

Gina Fricchione was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. She is known for Hitchcock (2012), Chocolate City (2015) and Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (2016).

Joseph Piccuirro was born on 23 January 1988 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Bright (2017), Good Trouble (2019) and Station 19 (2018).

Barry Katz is an Emmy and Grammy nominated TV-film-record producer, talent manager, and podcast host. He is universally known for representing iconic artists like Louie Anderson, Ken Jeong, Andy Dick, Hasan Minhaj, and Mike Epps, giving the first quality stage time in New York City and Boston to future stars like Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Sarah Silverman, Anthony Clark, Dave Attell, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dana Gould, Timothy Olyphant, Denis Leary, and the late Patrice O'Neal, as well as helping launch the careers of some of the most extraordinary comedy artists in the business-including Dave Chappelle, Nick Swardson, Louie CK, Felipe Esparza, Bill Burr, Frank Caliendo, Marc Maron, Whitney Cummings, Bill Bellamy, Judah Friedlander, Wanda Sykes, Bert Kreischer, Jeff Dye, Jim Gaffigan, Dane Cook, Steve Byrne, Jeffrey Ross, Neil Brennan, and former and present SNL stars Darrell Hammond, Jay Mohr, Melissa Villasenor, Jim Breuer, and Tracy Morgan.

Throughout his career, Katz has sold 37 out of 38 stand-up comedy specials he produced and has brokered an unprecedented 100 TV development deals, created 3 television shows, and executive produced over 50 different specials, documentaries, reality shows, and scripted series including the YouTube TV produced Telethon for America (with Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Jennifer Lawrence, Pete Davidson, Alicia Keys, Charlize Theron, Ray Romano, Chelsea Handler, and Jane Fonda), NBC's Whitney, Netflix's The Road Trick, FOX's Action, HBO's Tourgasm, Showtime's Jay Mohr: Happy. And A Lot, History Channel's Houdini: Unlocking the Mystery, TBS's Frank TV, Comedy Central's Whitney Cummings: Money Shot, HBO's Heidi Fleiss: The Would-be Madam of Crystal, the syndicated Bellamy/Tim Meadows/Jon Lovitz/Vivica Fox sitcom Mr. Box Office, and 7 seasons of the Emmy-nominated NBC series Last Comic Standing.

Katz started his involvement in the film business when he helped Chappelle and Neal Brennan (who eventually went on to create Chappelle's Show) sell the cult classic Half Baked to Universal Studios and went on to produce several films after that, including Employee of the Month (starring Jessica Simpson and Cook), Good Luck Chuck (starring Jessica Alba), My Best Friend's Girl (starring Kate Hudson and Alec Baldwin), I Killed JFK (about the only living person in history to admit to killing Kennedy), and Misery Loves Comedy (starring Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Judd Apatow, and Larry David).

Katz was the first manager to work with a comedy artist to use social media to accelerate their career, with Dane Cook. At the height of his popularity, he was able to press a button on his computer and sell out 2 shows in one night at Boston Garden and 2 shows in one night at Madison Square Garden for a total of 75,000 tickets sold in less than a week-which had never been done before. In the recording world, he has produced Grammy nominated, multiple gold, platinum, and double platinum albums, while becoming the only manager/producer to debut a comedy album in Billboard's top 5 national charts-twice.

In other facets of the business, Katz was one of the driving forces behind the launch of Comedy Dynamics, which has become one of the largest independent comedy production and distribution companies in the world. Additionally, he was involved in the original sale of the Emmy-nominated Comedy Central Roasts to the network, which has become one of the longest running, most profitable, annual specials franchises in the history of TV.

Originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Douglas' interest in acting began with his first pair of Underoos. The joy of pretend fired his passion and imagination for more. Some years later during rehearsals for his high school's production of "Grease," Douglas came to realize he had found his haven. Studying in England at the British American Drama Academy and in Ithaca College's BFA Acting Program soon followed. Upon graduation, Douglas spent a summer with the Hampshire Shakespeare Company before moving to New York City. In New York, Douglas found success in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway show, "Never Swim Alone" as well as in the NYC Premiere of "The Action Against Sol Schumman" by Jeffery Sweet. In addition, he also shot several national commercials and plenty of short films, one of which he costarred with Peter Boyle.

Susan Carol "Sue" Nichols was an artist from Massachusetts, active in the field of animation from the 1980s to the 2010s. She variously worked as a story writer, a visual development artist, a character designer, a storyboard artist, and a supervising artist. She is primarily remembered as one of the credited writers for the feature films "Aladdin" (1992) and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996). In 2020,she was posthumously awarded with a Winsor McCay Award for her contributions in animation.

In 1965, Nichols was born in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The town is located about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from downtown Springfield. The former basis off its economy were its brownstone quarries. Nichols received her secondary education at the East Longmeadow High School, the only secondary school in her hometown. She graduated in 1983.

Nichols enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) to study visual animation. She formally graduated in 1987, and would later return to CalArts as a faculty member. Prior to her graduation, she had already served as a design artist for the syndicated television series "My Little Pony" (1986-1987). From 1986 to 1989, she served as a model designer for the long-running series "Muppet Babies" (1984-1991). She was credited as a character modeler in early episodes of the educational series "McGee and Me!" (1989-1995).

Nichols was eventually hired by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, and would remain affiliated with the animation studio for decades. Her debut film was "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), where she was a visual development artist. Her subsequent film credits included "Aladdin" (1992), "The Lion King" (1994), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996), "Hercules" (1997), "Mulan" (1998), "Fantasia 2000" (1999), "The Emperor's New Groove" (2000), "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" (2001), "Lilo & Stitch" (2002), "The Princess and the Frog" (2009), and "Moana" (2016).

During the 2000s, Nichols started working for the sibling studio Disneytoon Studios (1990-2018). Many of the studio's films were direct-to-video productions. Her film credits for the studio included "Piglet's Big Movie" (2003), "Mulan II" (2004), and "Bambi II" (2006).While commercially successful, these films were dismissed as derivative works by critics.

In 2015, Nichols was diagnosed with breast cancer. While she continued working in animation, her output was rather limited in this period. She died in September 2020, at the age of 55. Disney commemorated her death with an online listing of her achievements in animation, and through providing photos of her character designs from the 1990s.

Ryan Horrigan is a highly skilled and accomplished senior executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience developing, launching, and scaling consumer technology products and entertainment offerings across established and emerging digital platforms at Fortune 500 companies and disruptive startups. Ryan has deep domain expertise in gaming/interactive, film and TV, digital content, immersive media (VR/AR), and generative AI. He founded next-gen gaming platform Artie (acquired) and was the Chief Content Officer at pioneering VR/AR company, Felix & Paul Studios.

During his early career as a film studio executive, Ryan led the development and managed the productions of films for New Regency (20th Century Fox) during its pursuit of three Academy Award Best Picture winners in a row: 12 Years a Slave,Birdman, and The Revenant, and while at Paramount Pictures during the development and production of The Fighter, Rango, David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, JJ Abrams' Star Trek, and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.

At CAA Ryan worked with writer and director clients and intellectual property holders in packaging, sales, and strategy for film, TV, and digital at the leading global talent agency.

Kyle Smith was born in 1966 in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer, known for Love Monkey (2006) and The Mark Steyn Show (2016). He has been married to Sara Austin since 25 August 2007.

William 'Bill' Rinaldi was born on 21 March 1983 in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for Dinotrux Supercharged (2017), Dinotrux (2015) and The Legend of Korra (2012).