D.B Gilles is an American playwright, author, and educator. His plays have been produced in New York, regionally, and internationally. Four of his plays are published by Dramatists Play Service: Men's Singles, The Girl Who Loved The Beatles, The Legendary Stardust Boys and Cash Flow. His most popular play, Men's Singles, has been produced throughout the world.  In addition to being a playwright, Gilles is the author of one of the most popular screenwriting books The Screenwriter Within: How To Turn the Movie in Your Head into a Salable Screenplay  and co-author of the George W. Bush parody W. The First 100 Days: A White House Journal His film work include the screen version of his play Men's Single, "Burn Rate", "Thinly Disguised" , and the screen adaptation of Spinning Into Butter. He has written pilots for CBS and wrote for "Herman's Head" and "Barclay's Beat" for FOX.  He has also been published in The New York Times.

Currently, Gilles teaches screenwriting and writing for television in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University's Tish School of the Arts.

David Trainer is an American television director. He is perhaps best known for directing every episode of the Fox sitcom That '70s Show except the pilot "That '70s Pilot" (which was directed by Terry Hughes). He also directed the first two seasons of the television show Boy Meets World (also a supervising producer) and over 60 episodes of Designing Women. Among many others, his directing credits also include several episodes of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Anything But Love, My Boys and Hot in Cleveland. He also wrote episodes for the soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1977 and the sitcom Misery Loves Company which he co-created with Michael Jacobs and Bob Young in 1995. He has been nominated for three Emmys for his work in television.