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Christine Woods was born on 3 September 1983 in Lake Forest, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Hello Ladies (2013), Perfect Couples (2010) and Flashforward (2009).- Producer
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Reid Carolin was born on 10 January 1982 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Magic Mike (2012), Dog (2022) and Magic Mike XXL (2015).- Writer
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When Dave Eggers was 21 and living in Lake Forest, Illinois, both his parents died of cancer five weeks apart, leaving Eggers to raise his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. He moved to California and, though he tried to continue his life as a cool young San Francisco bohemian, he was also leading a not-so-secret double life as a single "dad" raising a son in Berkeley. In 1993, Eggers founded the now-defunct Might Magazine. After a brief stint as a writer at Esquire, he published a tragicomic memoir entitled "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", recounting his family tragedies. The book became the literary sensation of the year; Eggers was hailed as "the J.D. Salinger of Generation X", and the book was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1998, Eggers returned to the avant-garde magazine world with the eccentric www.McSweeneys.net online magazine. This developed into Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary quarterly that comes out in a different form every issue and contains top-notch fiction from today's leading writers. McSweeney's has since grown into McSweeney's Publishing which publishes two print magazines, "McSweeney's" and "The Believer", and prize-winning books. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, which is a non-profit organization with several locations in the United States: San Francisco (the original location, called 826 Valencia, after its street address), New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, and Ann Arbor. Every location has its own unique storefront. The front of 826 Valencia is a Pirate Supply Store; the front of 826NYC is a Superhero Supply Company; etc. All proceeds from each store go toward the tutoring centers.- Actor
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Chris Ward was born on 2 September 1975 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007), Sealab 2021 (2000) and Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (2013).- Brandon expressed an interest in acting at the age of 3 and by 5 was already a member of SAG. His first lead role in the feature film, Smitty (2012), which was released in April 2012. Brandon plays the lead role of Ben Barrett and worked alongside: Peter Fonda, Mira Sorvino, Louis Gossett Jr., Lolita Davidovich, Jason London, and Booboo Stewart. Since then, he has gone on to film several other features including: The Martial Arts Kid (alongside Kathryn Newton & Sydney Sweeney), Fishes N Loaves: Heaven Sent (alongside Patrick Muldoon & Dina Meyer), & Weiner Dog Nationals. Brandon has co-starred on: Supah Ninja's, Tosh.0, and Instant Mom. He also appeared in the 300th episode of Grey's Anatomy as Gregory Williams (AKA Baby George) and has had lead roles in two TV Christmas movies: Beverly Hills Christmas (alongside John Savage & Dean Cain) & This Is Our Christmas.
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Jeff Pilson was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. He has dedicated his life to music. In 1983 Jeff was asked to join Dokken as the bassist along side vocalist Don Dokken, Guitarist George Lynch and drummer Mick Brown. He joined the band and from there they went on to record Tooth & Nail in 1984, Under Lock and Key in 1985, Back for the Attack in 1987 and Beast from the East in 1988. Then in 1989 there was a five year break-up. But Jeff kept playing. He played with several different bands and formed his own, War & Peace. Then in late 1994 Dokken was back again. They recorded a live album/video called One Live Night in December '94. Then they released Dysfunctional in 1995 followed by Shadowlife in '97. After that album George Lynch left the band. In '98 Dokken hired Guitarist Reb Beach from the band Winger. Then in '99 they released Erase the Slate which was followed by a Live album/video/DVD Live from the Sun and it was released in 2000. Jeff and Dokken are still rokken and hopefully will be for many years to come.- Actress
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Christopher Templeton was born on 26 February 1952 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Hunter (1984), Ready, Willing & Able (1999) and Simon & Simon (1981). She died on 15 February 2011 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Sarah Brackett was born on 13 May 1938 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Bunny Caper (1974), Katy (1976) and The Old Men at the Zoo (1983). She died on 17 June 1996 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
- Nora Greenwald was born on 7 September 1977 in Forest Lake, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for WCW Monday Nitro (1995), WWE Smackdown! (1999) and WCW Thunder (1998).
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Andrea Behm is an American actress, writer, and producer. She was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, and relocated to Los Angeles after receiving a BA from The University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, where she studied English and French. She has a background in comedy from The Groundlings School and Theater, and stand up.- Brady Moore was born on 10 January 1989 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Charm (2004), Tokyo Vice (2022) and The One I Can't Have (2012).
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Carla Rueckert was born on 16 July 1943 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973), The Get-Man (1974) and Abby (1974). She was married to James McCarty and James DeWitt. She died on 1 April 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.- Actor
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Adam Pearce was born on 24 June 1978 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for WWE Raw (1993), Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (2010) and Seven Levels of Hate (2013).- Music Department
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Allison Wright Clark was born on 22 December 1968 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. Allison Wright is known for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), The Good Wife (2009) and The Middleman (2008). Allison Wright has been married to Brendan O. Clark since 29 May 1999.- Actor
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Matt Ukena was born on 17 August 1980 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for TURN: Washington's Spies (2014), Birds without Feathers (2018) and Bottomland (2018).- Writer
- Actress
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Susan Gauthier was born on 2 May 1959 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Anastasia (1997), The Tracey Ullman Show (1987) and The Carol Burnett Show (1991).- Casting Department
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Mathew Klickstein grew up in Lake Forest, California.
While still in college, Mathew established the first official Slam Poetry competition to be held on a university campus, and his self-published novel, This Book is Called Counter, quickly became an underground DIY phenomenon across the country.
Immediately after receiving his BFA from the University of Southern California's undergraduate screenwriting program in 2003, he co-created and produced a weekly television show for National Lampoon Networks called Collegetown, USA. He was also head writer and field producer of Collegetown during its first season.
Thereafter, Mathew knocked around in the world of feature film production, meanwhile seeing his articles printed in such publications as: OC Weekly, Fade-In Magazine (hailed as "the Best Movie Magazine of the Year" by the Washington Post during his tenure), Alternative Press Magazine, the UK's ABLE Magazine, and France's Le Magazine Double.
Short stories and articles of Mathew's appeared in sundry online and print publications, as well.
In 2006, Mathew became the Editor-In-Chief of Entertainment Today, Southern California's oldest free-weekly paper (est. 1967). He retired from that post in early 2007, after which time he sold his first screenplay to a small Warner Bros.-based production company. Concurrent with this, Mathew optioned a screenplay to a young independent producer.
During the same period of Mathew's script sales, he was invited to assist a prominent Newport Beach couple with the penning of their harrowing WWII memoirs.
In early 2008, Mathew conceptualized and co-founded clothing line Better Bacon Apparel, a hybrid experiment in fashion that melded the worlds of "high fashion" and "outsider art." The line was on sale in boutiques around the globe, was involved in various high-profile events such as: the 2008 Oscars, the LA Lakers End-of-the-Season Party, and the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, and was featured in Men's Vogue and Elle Magazine.
Mathew is the writer of 2009's Against the Dark, which has the dubious distinction of being Steven Seagal's first horror film, released through Sony Pictures.
After spending five months in Portland, Oregon - where, amongst other creative endeavors, he contributed pieces to the town's Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly, Willamette Week - he was tapped by bestselling author Laurie Graff (You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs) to help her adapt to screenplay her latest novel, The Shiksa Syndrome (Doubleday).
Before leaving Portland, Mathew became friendly with the folks at AtomSmashers, a nascent publishing company that specialized in graphic novels and children's books. Mathew's experimental novella Daisy Goes to the Moon was published and distributed by AtomSmashers in 2009.
His 2010 feature-length rockumentary, Act Your Age: The Kids of Widney High Story - involving the adventures of a group of young adults with developmental disabilities in a rock band - screened at various festivals and specialty venues around the country and in the UK. Starting November 2020, a tenth anniversary remastered version of the film began streaming on Troma Now.
Mathew spent 2011/2012 working as an entertainment reporter for Boulder's two daily newspapers - Colorado Daily and the Daily Camera. He also spent his time in Boulder directing and producing projects on such subjects as actress/activist Pam Grier and Hunter S. Thompson's video biographer, Wayne Ewing.
Also in 2012, Mathew worked with the non-profit "disabled theater" group Phamaly (the only theater organization in the country to work exclusively with actors with various disabilities) to accrue funding in order to produce the 25-year-old group's first production based outside of Denver.
This pilot program, "disLabled" - a 90 minute variety show including live music, video projections, comedy sketches, and monologues - was originally conceived by Mathew who co-wrote (along with the actors) and co-directed the show with Phamaly regular Jeremy Palmer. The production premiered at the Dairy Center for the Arts in April of 2012, and each of the three performances sold out.
Shortly before leaving Boulder, Mathew wrote a profile of a local erotic lit publishing company run by two young women - Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade - called Oysters & Chocolate. Befriending LaRousse and Sade, Mathew decided to try his hand at the genre. Inspired by the likes of American Psycho, Lolita, and the works of Elfriede Jelinek, Robert Crumb, and Henry Miller, Mathew's black comedy "horrotica" novel Rag Doll was edited by LaRousse and Sade, and published by Oysters & Chocolate in late 2012.
Rag Doll was well-received in the erotic literature community, with Erotic Trade Only Magazine's "Best Erotic Writer (2015)" Kay Jaybee championing its being "oddly appealing and bizarrely imaginative."
Mathew participated in readings of Rag Doll at such venues as a lesbian-led Gay Pride Day event in Denver and at various women's groups events in both Colorado and New York City. After LaRousse and Sade closed their company, Mathew found a publisher in Blushing Books, which in 2013 published Rag Doll through a new, "experimental" imprint called Blushing Edge. In late 2017, a new administration at Blushing Books closed the imprint while updating their catalogue. Rag Doll is at this time no longer available for purchase.
It was in 2012 that Klickstein also contributed two e-books to Boulder startup Oak Creek Press (memoir Back to Hollywood and talking children's book My Dog Forgot How to Read, with Mark Johnston, illustrated by Angie Dobson and voiced by Jill Woodhouse). Oak Creek Press closed its doors in 2017, leaving both e-books unavailable for purchase.
Klickstein's highly-acclaimed oral history of the Nickelodeon network, SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age, was published by Penguin Book Group USA in late 2013. It has since been named to such "Best Of" lists as those compiled by the likes of: Entertainment Weekly, Parade Magazine and Publishers Weekly. An updated 5th anniversary edition of the book, including a new intro by Nick Arcade host Phil Moore, was released by Penguin Random House in late 2019 in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Nickelodeon. Years later, on May 12, 2022, SLIMED! was used as a clue on an episode of Jeopardy!.
Mathew produced and hosted (along with SLIMED! foreword writer and book interviewee Marc Summers) what may to this day be the largest reunion gathering in pop culture history, as part of the book's launch event at the prestigious 92Y culture space in New York City in September, 2013. Nearly 40 "Classic" Nickelodeon personnel attended a series of what became three hours of panels, live music (including the first-ever performance by the Beets, the fictional band from the animated series Doug, comprised of show composers and sound effects gurus Dan Sawyer and Fred Newman) and autograph signings.
Mathew produced and hosted similar events throughout the country and later, in late 2014, toured with the book as part of the Jewish Book Council.
Thanks largely to the travel and remote work afforded by becoming a casting producer for Food Network's popular "restaurant rescue" series Restaurant: Impossible in 2013, Mathew again indulged his wanderlust and began exploring the Midwest. In mid-2014, he ended up in the quaint but quirky and creative town of Lawrence, Kansas.
While in Lawrence, Mathew took part in numerous artistic enterprises, including dipping his toe in the burgeoning comedy scene, quickly being snatched up as a regular feature at a monthly showcase after so doing.
During his two years in Kansas, Mathew created and contributed a regular column to a weekly supplement in Kansas City's daily newspaper the Kansas City Star (Ink) called "Kitchen Conversational" (later renamed to "Kitchen Convo") that had him speaking with various foodie personalities throughout the region.
He produced/hosted a live panel of such personalities during the Free State Festival (an annual, week-long arts and culture festival in Lawrence) in 2016. He concurrently was hired to adapt the recent stage play LA Diner (loosely based on the final days of Marilyn Monroe's life and performed in Boulder/Denver a year earlier) to screenplay, and brought longtime Kansan film professor, musician and filmmaker Jon Niccum onboard to assist with the assignment which they completed; the film is currently in pre-production status.
Another such project while Mathew lived in Kansas involved a live-action theater production of Lord of the Flies as re-imagined by a group of local girls (age 8-16) under the umbrella of local theater group Orange Mouse Theatricals. Mathew ran the six-month long series of three-hour workshops with the girls who worked together to write an entirely original, topical hour-long piece, which they premiered at Lawrence's Cider Gallery as part of a Final Friday art walk event. A follow-up q&a with the writers and cast followed at art/culinary space Culinaria.
Along with his wife whom he met while living in Lawrence, Mathew moved to Baltimore in the summer of 2016 in order to become the senior reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times, one of the oldest Jewish publications in the country. Seven months later, Mathew sold the proposal for his latest book project and subsequently left his post at the Jewish Times in order to focus on his book.
It was also around this time that Mathew finished his documentary about Marc Summers, On Your Marc, which toured around the country as part of a series of screening/live events throughout the month of October in partnership with such organizations as Alamo Drafthouse. The tour received a great deal of acclaim in local and national publications, including People Magazine, and sold out many venues, totaling a dedicated audience that numbered into the thousands.
Meanwhile, Mathew's new book deal had him co-authoring, with lifetime Simpsons series writer Mike Reiss, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons (Harper Collins, 2018). Around this time he also ghostwrote the comedic memoir Being Mr. Skin: 20 Years of Nip Slips, Cheek Peeks, and Fast-Forwarding to the Good Parts before shortly thereafter penning the comedic novel Selling Nostalgia: A Neurotic Novel (both through Post Hill and distributed by Simon & Schuster).
Mathew's first comic book series, You Are Obsolete, is a modern tech twist on the likes of Children of the Corn/Village of the Damned etc., and was published Sept 2019 - Jan 2020 by AfterShock Comics. A trade paperback version of the book was released April 2020, followed by a Spanish translation in June 2021. The story is currently in active development as a TV series.
Klickstein long hosted and co-produced his podcast about "Nerd/Geek Culture" called NERTZ (based on his book Nerding Out: How Pop Culture Ruined the Misfit (Business Weekly, 2018, released exclusively in China). The first episode premiered via WIRED before, starting in June 2020, Heavy Metal Magazine partnered with Klickstein to distribute NERTZ episodes via their streaming and social networks.
In late 2017, Klickstein's wife and he moved back to Boulder where he continued to contribute to various publications and productions, as well as worked in various capacities throughout the community. In February 2020, Klickstein and his wife moved once again to Dayton, Ohio.
His first middle-grade reader, The Kids of Widney Junior High Take Over the World! was released in Sept 2020. The book won an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) for Juvenile Fiction and was also released as an audiobook by Blackstone Audio in late 2021, narrated by Cary Hite. Klickstein's first audiobook original project, So You Need to Decide, involving many of modern comedy's top names (eg Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, and Judy Gold) was additionally released in 2022 in partnership with alt-comedy and UnCabaret impresario Beth Lapides. Vulture listed the book among its "Best Comedy Books of 2022 (This Far)" in late 2022.
In Summer 2021, Klickstein led a writing/theater workshop in Dayton involving children developing their own reimagined version of George Orwell's immortal classic Animal Farm. The group worked under the auspices of local theater organization Dare 2 Defy and created the play collaboratively, Plagiarism Is Fun! The Musical, which ran at the Brightside Music & Events Venue in downtown Dayton August 10 and 11. He again worked with Dare 2 Defy - now called TheatreLab Dayton - on a similar devised theater project with children, this time focusing on a series of intermingled monologues the children named MONSTERS -- From Outer Space!!!.
SiriusXM released Klickstein's six-part oral history/audio documentary of the origins of Comic-Con and fandom, Comic-Con Begins, in late June 2021. His next book for younger readers, So Good to be Bad, was released as an audiobook original by Blackstone Audio in Sept 2021 and lauded by #1 NY Times bestselling author Gordon Korman who gushed, "If you like to laugh, this is the GOOD/BAD story for you!"
On Sept 6, 2022, Fantagraphics released a 500-page, full-color (400+ pics/art) major expansion of the Comic-Con Begins audio doc series, See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture. Forewords were written by Stan Sakai (Usage Yojimbo) and Jeff Smith (BONE), with an afterword by Wu-Tang Clan's RZA. The book was also released as an audiobook on the same day by Blackstone with a full cast of voice performers involved.
Klickstein travels frequently around the country to speak and engage with various audiences, communities, conferences, conventions, universities, Jewish Community Centers and other specialized venues talking about all manner of pop culture history, public speaking itself, creative writing, reportage, media analysis and more.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Mya Schmalz was born on 22 August 1981 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She is a costume designer and art director, known for Asteroid City (2023), The Sisters Brothers (2018) and Ghosted (2017).- Cinematographer
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Patrick Meade Jones was born on 13 December 1984 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. Patrick Meade is a cinematographer and producer, known for Red State (2011), This Last Lonely Place (2014) and Idiot Box (2008).- Actor
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Born on May 8, 1990 in Lake Forest, Illinois, Spiros Psihos ambitiously moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting but intended to carve his own path. Confident in his skill and talents as not only an actor but also a producer, he produced the award-winning short film, Chameleon, which would also be his lead acting debut, garnering Psihos numerous awards for his performance domestically as well as internationally. He continues to pursue and develop projects establishing himself further in both acting and producing roles respectively.- Actor
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Eric Priestley was born on 20 May 1978 in Lake Forest, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Barnyard (2006), Delta Green and Trim (2010).- Hank Haney was born on 24 August 1955 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Callaway Live (2015), The Haney Project (2009) and School of Golf (2008). He has been married to Suzanne Rogers since 7 November 2009. They have one child.
- Jayme Padilla was born on 9 August 1978 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Chicago Fire (2012).
- Prince Rostislav Romanov was born on 21 May 1985 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is a producer, known for My Blood Is Red (2019) and Personnel et confidentiel (2006).
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Domenic Migliore grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 12, he started making home movies with his friends. At the age of 14, he started writing short screenplays. He entered several small writing contests and was a semi-finalist in some of them. At the age of 18, he attended Tribeca-Flashpoint Academy for film, but left early to enter a mentorship program where he met actor/writer/producer Tom Malloy. With Tom's notes he completed the feature screenplay, "Sprawl". The film was produced in 2011 (re-titled "Ashley"), it starred "America's Next Top Model" winner Nicole Fox, "Two and a Half Men" star Jennifer Taylor, and Michael Madsen. The film is now available to stream (from Warner Bros. VOD) on Amazon Prime, iTunes, and Google Play.
Domenic has directed 7 short films and 5 music videos. For his short "debeaked", he received the "New Emerging Filmmaker" award at the 2013 Terror Film Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His work has been featured on the horror anthologies "Faces of Snuff" and "Ted Bundy Had a Son", compiled by filmmaker Shane Ryan.
Domenic is also a photographer. His work has been displayed at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and the Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
Domenic lives in Barrington, Illinois.- Actress
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Rica Owen Moore was born on 3 January 1929 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for All Ashore (1953), The Iron Glove (1954) and Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967). She was married to Kingman T. Moore. She died on 12 April 1999 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA.- Director
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John Douglas was born on 13 July 1968 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us (1983), Milestones (1975) and Summer '68 (1969). He died on 25 January 2022 in Burlington, Vermont, USA.- Kevin Walter was born on 4 August 1981 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
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Kevin Walter was born on 4 August 1981 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is known for How to Draw a Bunny (2002).- Actress
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Jan Horvath was born on 31 January 1958 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Anastasia (1997), Rosemary and Thyme (2022) and Snow White (1987).- Editorial Department
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Mark J. Williams was born on 9 February 1985 in Forest Lake, Minnesota, USA. He is known for Star Trek (2009), The Thief (2017) and The Wood Witch (2005).- Writer
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Songwriter ("Fascination", "By the Beautiful Sea"), composer, librettist, writer and author, educated at the University of Chicago (Ph.B). He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a staff writer for the Shuberts, and wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Whirl of Society"; "Honeymoon Express"; and "The Peasant Girl". He wrote the librettos for "Vera Violetta"; "The Passing Show" (12 editions); "The Whirl of the World"; "Dancing Around"; "Maid in America"; "A World of Pleasure"; "Robinson Crusoe, Jr."; "The Show of Wonders"; "Doing Our Bit"; "Sinbad"; "Monte Cristo, Jr."; "The Last Waltz"; "Bombo"; "The Rose of Stamboul"; "The Dancing Girl"; "Topics of 1923"; "Innocent Eyes"; "Pleasure Bound"; "The Midnight Rounders"; "Big Boy"; "Artists and Models"; "Gay Paree"; "A Night in Paris"; "A Night in Spain"; "Ziegfeld Follies of 1927"; "Greenwich Village Follies of 1928"; and "Everybody's Welcome". His chief musical collaborators included Al Jolson, Harry Carroll, Louis Hirsch, Otto Motzan, and Sigmund Romberg. His other popular-song compositions include "My Yellow Jacket Girl"; "Omar Khayyam"; "My Lady of the Telephone"; "Sister Susie Started Syncopation"; "The Ragtime of Pan"; "Lotus Flower"; "Galli Curci Rag"; "Broadway Butterfly"; "Jazza Da-Doo", and "Doing My Bit".- Matt Tobin was born on 18 September 1976 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Finding Christmas (2019).
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Mark Jackson was born on 2 February 1959 in Lake Forest, California, USA. He is known for Men in Black (1997), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Jonah Hex (2010).- Dede Pochos was born on 27 April 1960 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Quiz Show (1994) and Animated Century (2003).
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Kate Dolack was born on 2 September 1982 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. Kate is a producer, known for When Forensics Fail (2007), The Jerry Springer Show (1991) and Escaped (2009).- Austin Romine was born on 22 November 1988 in Lake Forest, California, USA. He is married to Alezandria. They have one child.
- Tate Lee was born on 7 July 1999 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Abundant Sunshine (2009), Charles Miller (2008) and Peephole (2008).
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Derek Rushlow was born on 6 April 1981 in Forest Lake, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Beach Bums (2011), Night of the Living Dead: Genesis and Head Cases: Serial Killers in the Delaware Valley (2013).- Producer
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David Jackson was born on 17 November 1975 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Always (1989), Heisters (2010) and Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017).- Carrie Olejnik was born on 25 January 1962 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Voodoo Soup (1994). She has been married to Francis Crimi since 7 August 1999.
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Bob Amaden was born on 26 January 1971 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Flash Drive (2015), Do Over (2014) and Special Ed (2019).- Producer
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Ryan Clayton Bank is one of the most acclaimed film and television producers his age, receiving national and international professional awards and recognition, including an Emmy nomination. Ryan has also been featured on many radio and television shows, as well as in the print media. He was named one of the "30 Brightest under 30 in Entertainment" by the Chicago Sun-Times. Some of his latest projects include producing content for the Smithsonian Institution and advising the Brookings Institution on media and entertainment. Ryan has also worked for Towers Productions, helping to produce documentaries for A&E Television Networks, The History Channel, and The Food Network.
In 1998, Ryan founded Clayton Entertainment Enterprises, Incorporated, a production and distribution company based in the Chicago area. His company is currently in post production on an international documentary on Dr. Eugene Lazowski, an unknown hero of the Holocaust and World War II. Using a multinational film crew in Poland and the United States, the project, entitled A Private War, led to his spending two days with the Secretary of State of Poland, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the heads of the Polish television and film industries.
Currently, Clayton Entertainment's clients range from both the corporate side to network television and major motion picture studios. Clayton Entertainment is currently developing several new national television shows as well as writing and starting pre-production on several major motion picture releases.- Additional Crew
Taylor Phelps was born on 27 June 1954 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. Taylor is known for The Last Waltz (1978) and The Celluloid Closet (1995). Taylor died on 14 October 1995.- Additional Crew
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- Actor
Christopher Davis was born on 8 March 1985 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for The Platoon of Power Squadron (2009), Arrested Development (2003) and Halo 3 (2007).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Ben Bueltmann was born on 10 September 1987 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. Ben is an editor, known for The Shuffle (2009) and Realization (2006).- Actress
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Erin Davis was born on 6 October 1982 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Daredevil (2003), Freezer Burn (2007) and Beer Pong Saved My Life (2010).- Jim Frederick was born on 22 November 1971 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. He was married to Charlotte Greensit. He died on 31 July 2014 in Oakland, California, USA.
- Jack Trudeau was born on 9 September 1962 in Forest Lake, Minnesota, USA.
- Pete Wilson was born on 23 August 1933 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.