William Goldman (Playwright) is a two-time Academy Award winner for his screenplays ofButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men. Other notable film credits include The Princess Bride, Misery, A Few Good Men, The Stepford Wives, Chaplin, Indecent Proposal, The General’s Daughter, Twins, Year of the Comet, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Hot Rock, The Great Waldo Pepper, Hearts in Atlantis and Dreamcatcher. His novels The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Magic, Heat were all turned into films. Other novels include The Temple of Gold, Soldier in the Rain, Boys and Girls Together, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Thing of It Is…, Father’s Day, Tinsel, Control, The Silent Gondoliers, The Color of Light, Brothers and Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow. Theater credits include Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole with his brother James Goldman, and A Family Affair with James Goldman and John Kander.

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 50 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers. King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.

Stephen lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities including many libraries and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.

Upcoming projects include the new musical Hard Road to Heaven with a book by Willy Holtzman, and music and lyrics by Marty Dodson, David Spangler, and Jerry Taylor. Recent work includes Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home (world premiere co-production Goodman Theatre and Berkeley Rep); The Mousetrap (Hartford Stage); Wait Until Dark (Dorset Theatre Festival); Karen Hartman’s Goldie, Max & Milk (Volt Festival 59e59); Endless Loop of Gratitude with New Neighborhood (New Ohio’s Ice Factory); Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible, MCC, and New York Stage & Film (Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award); When Harry Met Rehab (Chicago’s Greenhouse Theater, Jeff Nominated); Lover Beloved with Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik (Alley Theatre); God’s Ear and The Seagull (Juilliard); Kleptocracy by Kenneth Lin (Arena Stage); These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, Yale Rep – Critics Pick Time Out NY, Best Production and Adaptation LA Sage Awards, Time Out Los Angeles, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Best Production and Best Director). Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Studio Theatre / New Neighborhood); Shakespeare’s Much Ado adapted with Ken Lin (Cal Shakes); 3C by David Adjmi and Thurber’s Where We’re Born (Rattlestick); A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers (Mint - Drama Desk nomination Outstanding Revival of a Play); Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic and Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Outstanding Production of a Play). Jackson is the co-producing artistic director of New Neighborhood and currently teaches directing at Brooklyn College. MFA Directing Yale School of Drama. BFA Acting University of the Arts.

Judy Bowman has been casting with DTF since 2009. RECENT THEATER: Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth), Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong (NY, PCS & tours), A Christmas Carol (McCarter), No Child (Kitchen Theatre Co), The Great Leap (Cleveland Play House), Sharon Playhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks, etc. TV/FILM: Hallmark’s Redemption in Cherry Springs, Big

Dogs (Amazon), One Moment with Danny Aiello, Separation, Hurricane Bianca, Lost Cat Corona, Gold Star. Artios Award nominee for Best Webseries Casting, PT Barnum Award recipient. judybowmancasting.com