Sarah Kernochan has won two Academy Awards for her documentaries Marjoe andThoth. As a screenwriter, she has written many films, among them Nine and ½ Weeks, Impromptu, and What Lies Beneath; she both wrote and directed the film All I Wanna Do as well. Her first novel, Dry Hustle, was published in 1977 and reissued as an ebook in 2010. Her second novel, Jane Was Here was published in June 2011. 

Thomas Hulce is an American actor and theater producer. As an actor, he is best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Mozart in the movie Amadeus, his role as "Pinto" in National Lampoon's Animal House, and his role as Quasimodo in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Additional acting awards included a total of four Golden Globe nominations, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award nomination. Hulce retired from acting in the mid-1990s in order to focus upon stage directing and producing. In 2007, he won a Tony Award as a lead producer of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening.