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Jesse James Keitel is an actress, writer, and artist from eastern Long Island, NY. She has been an advocate in moving the needle for the LGBTQ+ community's timely representation in Hollywood and was honored with the Equality Award by the Human Rights Campaign in 2022. Keitel's groundbreaking casting as Jerrie Kennedy on David E. Kelley's 'Big Sky' made history marking her as ABC's first openly transgender series regular. Jesse attended Pace University in New York City where she received a BFA in Acting.

Arthur J. Nascarella's appearance in films is often as a mobster or police officer, but he has also portrayed fathers, a priest, and other good men. His notable film credits include a corrupt cop in Cop Land (1997), the hypocritical ambulance Captain Barney in Martin Scorsese's film Bringing Out The Dead (1999) and fed-up casino boss, Nicky "Fingers" Bonnatto in The Cooler (2003). He's played principal roles in multiple Spike Lee films, including New Jersey Drive (1995), Clockers (1995), He Got Game (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). On television, he currently appears on the Showtime series Billions as the local pizza shop owner Bruno Capparelo, and he played fictional mobster and Capo Carlo Gervasi in The Sopranos.Before he became an actor, he was a 21-year veteran of the NYPD. He also served eight years in the United States Marine Corps.

Julie Halston is an American actress and comedian. She first achieved recognition as an actress through her co-starring performances in the comedy plays of writer-performer, Charles Busch in the 1980s in New York City. She wrote a series of one woman comedy shows that eventually led to a successful Off-Broadway production entitled, Julie Halston's Lifetime of Comedy (1992). The show earned her an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Play for that season and landed Halston a CBS network development deal. The pilot was called Those Two and co-starred Harvey Fierstein. She went to Hofstra University, where she received a B.A. in Theatre Arts. She was married to broadcaster Ralph Howard until his death in 2018 of pulmonary fibrosis. In 2021, she received the Isabelle Stevenson TONY Award for her enormous fund raising efforts for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

Billy Lewis Jr. is an NYC based singer/songwriter/actor. Billy has appeared internationally on screen & stage in Jesus Christ Superstar Live (NBC), Glee (FOX), Bat Out Of Hell (West End), Bat Out Of Hell (North American Premiere/Toronto), National Tours: Spring Awakening, Hair & We Will Rock You. Regional: Spring Awakening, Hair, Hedwig & the Angry Inch. Billy's original music is available on all music platforms.

Film producer, writer, magazine journalist and legendary rapper in the hip-hop underground, R.A. Thorburn better known to the world as R.A. the Rugged Man, was the target of a nine-label bidding war when just a teenager, and signed to Jive Records in 1992 and Priority/Capital Records in 1998 before going independent in 2004 in which he released his indie hit album "Die, Rugged Man, Die!" which became a worldwide success.

R.A.'s musical resume not only speaks for itself, but has resulted in his teaming with some of the greatest artists in rap history - from Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, and the late great Notorious B.I.G. to multi-platinum producers Erick Sermon, Trackmasters, DJ Quick, Alchemist, Havoc, Buckwild, and Ayatolah. He was featured on all of Rawkus' Soundbombing albums alongside Redman, Eminem, and Mos Def; the platinum selling WWF Aggression album which featured Snoop Dogg and Method Man; and can even be heard in the blockbuster video game Tony Hawks Underground. When asked about R.A., The late great Notorious B.I.G. was once quoted as saying, "I thought I was the illest!"

In addition to his hip-hop notoriety, R.A. writes a monthly movie column for Mass Appeal magazine, is a major contributor to The Ego Trip Book of Rap Lists (St. Martin's Press) and Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism (Harper Collins), and his writing also appears regularly in magazines like Vibe, King, Complex, Source, etc. His articles have featured guest appearances from celebrity pals like Scarlet Johansson, Dame Dash, Ice Cube, Usher, Chuck Norris and David Cronenberg. Mr. Rugged has also recently signed a book deal that will explore his maniacal love of boxing to be co-authored with Maxboxing's Doug Fischer and scheduled for publication in '08 from Testify / Powerhouse Books.

A rabid horror-film fan, R.A. the Rugged Man has written three screenplays with cult-film director Frank Henenlotter - "Sick in the Head," "Love is Hell," and "Bad Biology" - the latter of which is in post production and scheduled for release late '07 with R.A. as producer.

Jackie Tonawanda was born on 4 September 1933 in Suffolk County, New York, USA. She died on 9 June 2009 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Anthony Michaels was born on 20 June 1970 in Copiague, Suffolk County, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for ECW Heat Wave '95 (1995), ECW Hardcore Heaven 1995 (1995) and Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1992).