Writer-Producer-Directors Marc and Elaine Zicree have written for virtually all the major networks and studios and have hundreds of hours of produced network shows to their credits, including STAR TREK – THE NEXT GENERATION, DEEP SPACE NINE, BABYLON 5, SLIDERS, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, FOREVER KNIGHT, SMURFS, HE MAN, SUPERFRIENDS, LIBERTY'S KIDS, FRIDAY THE 13TH – THE SERIES and also the bestseller THE TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION. . Recently, they were nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards and won the TV Guide Award for the STAR TREK episode they made with George Takei. Right now, they have projects with Guillermo del Toro, Ray Bradbury, the folks running THE GHOST WHISPERER, the producer of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, directors from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and more.
Guillermo del Toro is not only a man who has dealt with his monsters, but has invited them in for tea. His life-long love for and obsession with fantasy has transformed into a very real and successful career as a screenwriter, special make-up effects artist, director and producer. del Toro got his big break when Cronos (1993) won nine academy awards in Mexico, then went on to win the International Critics Week prize at Cannes. Following this success, del Toro made his first Hollywood film, Mimic (1997), starring Mira Sorvino. Next for del Toro, was The Devil's Backbone (2001), a Spanish Civil War ghost story. The film was hailed by critics and audiences alike. In 2002, he directed the Marvel Comics adaptation Blade II On a roll, Del Toro followed up with another successful comic-book inspired film, Hellboy (2004), starring one of Del Toro's favorite actors, Ron Perlman. He is also the director of the critically acclaimed fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth and co-writer of the upcoming film adaptation of Tolkien's The Hobbit.
When Armin Shimerman was sixteen, his family moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles, where the teenager enrolled in a drama group. The training suited him, and after his graduation from UCLA, Shimerman was chosen as an apprentice at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. He went on to appear in plays at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, and the American Shakespeare Festival. On Broadway, Shimerman received roles in Richard Rodger's final musical, "I Remember Mama," as well as "Broadway," "St. Joan" and Joseph Papp's production of "The Threepenny Opera." Back in Los Angeles, his television career blossomed with recurring roles in Beauty & the Beast and Brooklyn Bridge and a variety of characters in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation–including a Ferengi or two. The transition to a leading role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Quark, the most charismatic Ferengi this side of Humphrey Bogart, was a natural. Following DS9, the actor has appeared in dozens of series, including guest shots on L.A. Law, Seinfeld, and The Practice, and recurring characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Boston Legal. Shimerman continues performing but makes time to teach Shakespearean techniques to students at such places as Los Angeles High School of the Performing Arts, the Theatricum Botanicum, the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre and UCLA, among others. He serves as a National Board Member of the Screen Actors Guild.
On the strength of his 1978 UCLA student film, "Junior High School" (starring 14-year-old Paula Abdul), Michael Nankin was hired by Disney studios as a disgustingly young writer/director. He made a film for them, Midnight Madness, and went on to write screenplays for several years. Writer credits include The Gate, The Gate II, Russkies, and, under the nom de cinema of Manuel Fidello, Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Episodic television provided him the opportunity to produce and direct, so he jumped in with both feet. He has worked on Life Goes On, Picket Fences (and won a Humanitas award), American Gothic, Early Edition, Roar, Cover Me, Strong Medicine, The Agency, Veritas, Invasion, The Dresden Files, Eureka, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and eight episodes of Battlestar Galactica. He has written countless unproduced pilots which paid countless bills. He has been working as a writer/director/producer for 30 years.
Micheal Reaves is an Emmy award winning television writer and screenwriter, as well as a New York Times bestselling novelist. He has written, story-edited and/or produced nearly four hundred teleplays for various series, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Twilight Zone, Sliders, and Monsters. He was a story editor and writer on Batman: The Animated Series, and on the Disney animated series Gargoyles, and a writer-producer on Invasion America for DreamWorks SKG. Michael's screenwriting credits include two animated Batman features, an HBO original movie, and a dark vision of Captain Planet for the Turner Network. Michael has had twenty-one books published, including the New York Times' best selling Star Wars: Darth Maul -- Shadow Hunter. He has also had short fiction published in magazines and anthologies such as The Magazine of Fantasy And Science Fiction, Heavy Metal, Horrors and Twilight Zone Magazine, and written comic books and webisodes for Eclipse Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Top Cow Productions. Michael's most arcane credit to date is having written dialogue for a rock video by Megadeth. In addition to winning an Emmy, Michael has been nominated for a second Emmy, an ASIFA Award and a Writers' Guild Award. His prose fiction has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award and the Prometheus Award.
Writer/Director Neil Johnson has been directing sci-fi flicks for over ten years, starting with 1998's The Demons in My Head, for which he also wore about 20 other hats including composer and pyrotechnician. Over that time he's created a sci-fi universe in such films as Battlespace and March of the Nephilim. His latest film is Alien Armageddon starring Virginia Hey (Farscape) and Claudia Wells (Back to the Future).
Jim Troesh is an Award-winning actor, writer and producer best known for his three year role as the quadriplegic attorney on Highway to Heaven, a show he also wrote for. He was recently awarded the prestigious Michael Landon award from the Media Access Office and is a winner of the ABC/Disney writing scholarship. Jim wrote the recent theatrical release "Color of the Cross" about a black Jesus, as well as writing and hosting a successful Internet podcast about his career. He wrote, produced and starred "The Hollywood Quad," a sitcom pilot that guest starred two time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle).
Always-charming Jim is a playwright, photographer, theater critic and independent filmmaker famous for shooting Table members' headshots in exchange for a martini. Multiple award-winning playwright, Jim founded the Metropole Theatre Works, 28 plays written and produced; theater/film critic with over 600 articles published; award-winning still photographer, graphic designer; filmmaker, screenwriter; DP, editor and prolific raconteur. Actor with over two dozen television shows, including four appearances on "Night Gallery." Formed Metropole Film Works, LLC, with partner (and Table member) Nancy Fulton. "Back From Iraq", a one-hour documentary about the Iraq war, had its premiere at the Fine Arts in Beverly Hills, November 2005 to over 500 people.
Christopher Aaron Wyatt, sometimes credited as Chris "Doc" Wyatt, (b. 5 October 1975, Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film producer, writer, and second unit director. He produced the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, the 2006 film Think Tank, the 2007 film Beneath, the 2007 film Coyote, and the 2009 film Broken Hill featuring Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton. He is a graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. In 2005 Wyatt was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and shared the nomination for Best First Feature with Jared Hess (director), Jeremy Coon (producer), and Sean Covel (producer). Napoleon Dynamite lost to Garden State (2004). Additionally, that year Wyatt was nominated with Sean Covel for the Producers Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Wyatt is currently producing Cafe (2010) starting Jennifer Love Hewitt (completed) and Murder in the Dark (2011)(Post-production) which he also co-wrote. Wyatt co-wrote with Kevin Burke episodes of the animated TV shows Iron Man: Armored Adventures[6] and Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
George Takei, an actor best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series Star Trek, has more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television guest-starring roles to his credit. George and Tony Award winner Lea Salonga are developing a new musical called "Allegiance" (music and lyrics by Jay Kuo, book by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione). The musical is an epic story of love, family and heroism during the Japanese American internment. Allegiance's world premiere at the Old Globe theatre in San Diego in 2012 will be followed by a Broadway run. George is a regular guest on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM Radio. George was the announcer and on-air personality during Stern's debut week in January 2006. George has made in-studio appearances on the show in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. George is featured in the film Larry Crowne, starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, released in July 2011 by Universal Pictures. Recognized worldwide as a member of the original Star Trek cast, George received a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame in 1986 and he placed his signature and hand print in the forecourt of the landmark Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 1991. George can also be seen on Nickelodeon's live-action comedy series, Supah Ninjas, which premiered in April 2011. He was also a recurring character on 12 episodes of NBC-TV's Heroes from 2007 to 2010, playing Kaito Nakamura.