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- Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Meghan Trainor is a Grammy-winning American pop singer known for such smash hits as "Lips Are Moving" and "All About That Bass." Born on December 22, 1993, Meghan Trainor was raised on Nantucket Island and spent her childhood surrounding herself with music, learning to play various instruments and writing her own songs. When she was 18, after having self-recorded three of her own albums, she was signed to a music publishing deal, which soon led to another with Epic Records. She then co-wrote "Meghan Trainor: All About That Bass (2014)" a song that the young singer soon took to No. 1 around the world. With follow-up songs such as "Meghan Trainor: Lips Are Movin' (2015)" and ""Dear Future Husband" by Meghan Trainor (2015)," Trainor's debut album also took the charts by storm. Her family had musical roots (her dad was a church organist and her uncle, Burton Toney, was a bona fide recording artist), and Trainor took an early interest as well. She tinkered with making music as young as age 7 while she learned the piano. It would only be a few years down the road that she wrote her first song at age 11. The following years would find her penning songs and branching out into playing the guitar, ukulele and percussion instruments. As she got more serious, her parents bought her software that allowed her to record her own songs, and she continued on the musical path right through her time at Nauset High School on Cape Cod. Those four years were spent singing, playing trumpet in the jazz band and honing her guitar skills, while also singing with local band Island Fusion. She was a two-time enrollee (2009 and 2010) in the Berklee College of Music's five-week Performance Program, and she made the finals of the program's songwriting competition. Also during this period, Trainor was named Best Female Artist at the 2009 International Acoustic Music Awards and won the grand prize at the 2010 New Orleans Songwriters Festival. Ever ambitious, by the time Trainor was 18 she had recorded three albums of her own material. Her parents were huge supporters, and they would take her to regional songwriting conventions through her teen years. The conventions were a chance for songwriters to get their material heard, and one such session led to the first big step in Trainor's career. When she was 18, Trainor signed a publishing deal with Nashville's Big Yellow Dog Music. With the deal in place, the first big piece of Trainor's dream fell into place and a realization took hold that she could make a career out of her music. Before long, Big Yellow Dog was sending Trainor-penned songs to the likes of Grammy winner Rascal Flatts, Sabrina Carpenter and a host of others. With that level of success under her belt, Trainor soon signed with Epic Records, where her first single was the massive hit "Meghan Trainor: All About That Bass (2014)," which was released in June 2014. At first, Epic pitched the song to several other singers to perform, but when there were no takers, Trainor herself sang it.- Writer
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- Additional Crew
Emmy-winning writer and producer Donick Cary got his start writing for "Late Night with David Letterman." He continued working with the show through its move to CBS, serving as both head writer and the "guy in the bear suit."
After five years in Late Night, Cary moved to "The Simpsons," where he served as a co-executive producer for four seasons (Seasons 7-11). He then served in the same capacity on NBC's "Just Shoot Me", HBO's "Bored to Death", Fox's "New Girl" and NBC's "Parks and Recreation." Cary has produced pilots for and developed with: Brillstein Grey, Sony Television, Happy Madison, Conaco, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, FX, HBO, the WB and Nickelodeon.
In 2004 Donick created the animated series "Lil' Bush" for Ampd mobile cell phones. The show was then picked up by Comedy Central and became the first mobi/web-series ever to move from cell phones to television. To handle the animation Donick founded Sugarshack Animation (Sugarshackanimation.com) with offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and Sofia, Bulgaria.
Donick has also directed music videos, including "Ohm" and "Is That Enough" for Yo La Tengo.
Currently, Cary is writing and producing "Silicon Valley" for HBO and directing a feature documentary entitled "Bad Trip" (a comic exploration of tripping) for Ben Stiller's Red Hour films.
Cary grew up on Nantucket Island, graduating from Nantucket High School in 1986. He is the son of actors Richard and Mara Cary and the brother of actress Martha Cary, the latter two of whom have done voices for his show Lil' Bush.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jack Daly was born on 28 September 1914 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Bluff (1955), Badman's Gold (1951) and Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). He died on 2 June 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Leah Farrell was born on 7 June 1982 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. Leah is a director and writer, known for Greetings (2010), A Fronteira (2003) and Absolution (2009).- Melissa Foxx was born on the 25th of August in Nantucket, Massachusetts into a family that had newspaper ink in their veins. She followed in their esteemed footprints working for newspapers and even worked in the television industry by the time she left for collage in Salem of West Virginia. She distinguished herself there as the first freshman student to have a show in the history of the school. She was an intern with WBZZ B-96FM, which led to her first on air job until heading to Orlando Florida in May of 1992. She was quickly hired at WHTQ Q-96FM but just as quickly left to work at WJRR 101.1 FM. It was then that she began her workaholic attitude of being in two places at once. She took on the job of writing and anchoring the news at WWINZ 740AM. Feeling the strain of it all, Melissa left radio altogether for a job with the Burger King Corporate office in management, but soon missed the personal satisfaction that radio performance allowed her. Then in 1997 Jenny Sue Rhodes was moving behind the scenes as Program Director at WTKS 104.1 Real Radio, so they needed someone to take over as host of the then hour long morning news show before Howard Stern and to give the local slant during breaks of his show. The cutting edge wit of sarcasm that is Melissa Foxx was just the ticket into that spot. The News Thang took on Melissa's personality and style with ease. She returned to WWNZ 740AM on The Movie Guys and even bankrolled the Get a Life Show herself in order to express her love of music and give the local musicians a forum for their art to be heard. Melissa has since moved on to become a manager/promoter for singer Linda Nunez.
- Dalton Dearborn was born on 1 October 1926 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for JFK (1991), Deadly Illusion (1987) and Who's That Girl (1987). He died on 25 May 2002 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Sophie Uma Timms was born on 3 December 1997 in Nantucket. Sophie Uma is an actor, known for Sharp Things (2023), Right Where You Left Me (2022) and Meghan Patrick: Cool About It (2021).
- A.J. Mleczko was born on 14 June 1975 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. She has been married to Jason Griswold since 2000. They have four children.
- Alfred Kidder was born on 2 August 1911 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 2 February 1984 in Massachusetts, USA.
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Bridget McGuinness was born in Nantucket, MA, to John McGuinness, a high school history teacher, and Mary (Fee), an elementary librarian. McGuinness has a younger sister, Kathryn. At a young age, McGuinness was always singing around the house and putting on shows. By the age of 10, McGuinness knew she wanted to be an actress. McGuinness did many plays growing up but it wasn't until she was a junior in high school that she decided she wanted to act in film and television. So McGuinness signed up for acting classes in Boston and traveled every weekend for five months with her dad for classes. That same year, McGuinness won a statewide competition and got to sing with Kelly Clarkson. McGuinness' passion for acting kept growing and now is majoring in film at Suffolk University. McGuinness is very driven and has been since a young age. McGuinness knew that this business is tough but she never gave up and when she heard no that only made her work harder. McGuinness is very well liked by her peers and is considered to have strong leadership skills. Taking the acting classes in Boston and the traveling helped McGuinness learn her lines at fast pace, wake up early and to get used to traveling for work. McGuinness' acting experiences include "That's My Boy" (2012) as a Wedding Guest, "The Forger" (2014) as a Club Goer; "The Grey Lady" (2014) has an extra, and "Chicago Fire" (2014) as an Apartment Resident. McGuinness also worked as a production assistant on "The Grey Lady." What McGuinness wants to accomplish is making films or television shows that will bring raw emotion to an audience. Having the audience truly feel your performance is what McGuinness wants for her career. Whether it is big budget or smaller budget films, McGuinness wants to entertain people with her talent and personality.- Bill Dixon was born on 5 October 1925 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. He was a composer, known for Wealth of a Nation (1966) and Imagine the Sound (1981). He died on 16 June 2010 in North Bennington, Vermont, USA.