Trey Callaway is an American film and television writer and producer. Callaway is the executive producer and co-showrunner of the Fox Television crime procedural A.P.B. (TV series) and was the showrunner of The CW drama The Messengers (TV series). He also wrote the screenplay for the movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. He co-created and executive produced the science fiction television series Mercy Point on the UPN network.

Callaway performed as an actor in the series and among other roles, also had an uncredited speaking role in The Outsiders. A graduate of Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma, Callaway was once an on-air radio personality at KRMG (AM) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to working with entertainment figures like Harrison Ford and Tim Burton, Callaway has penned several original pilots for American TV networks including CBS, ABC, The CW, Turner Network Television, Showtime Network, Arts & Entertainment Network, and The Disney Channel, and has written and produced for shows like Rush Hour, Revolution, CSI: NY, and Supernatural.

Callaway is also a professor in the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.

Chris Cagle is an American country music artist. He was first known for writing songs for David Kersh before signing to Virgin Records Nashville in 2000. Cagle made his debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts with the single My Love Goes On and On, the first single from his debut album Play It Loud. The album, which was certified gold in the United States, also produced the Top 10 hit Laredo and I Breathe In, I Breathe Out, his only number one hit.

Play It Loud was followed in 2002 by Chris Cagle, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Also a gold album in the United States, it produced the Top 5 hits What a Beautiful Day and Chicks Dig It. Anywhere But Here, his third album, followed in 2005 and produced the number 12-peaking Miss Me Baby. A fourth studio album, titled My Life’s Been a Country Song, was released in 2008, and its lead-off single, What Kinda Gone, peaked at 3 on the country music charts in early 2008. After exiting Capitol in 2008, he signed with Bigger Picture Music Group in 2011.

Cagle retired from country music in 2015.

Kurt Heinzman (Caceres) is an American actor best known for his role as Hector Avila on the hit Fox drama Prison Break. He was also a standout football player during his college days while attending Sacramento State University. Caceres stars in the video game in the Need for Speed franchise Need for Speed: Undercover as Hector Maio a street racer/car thief.

Po Bronson has built a career both as a successful novelist and as a prominent writer of narrative nonfiction. He has published six books, and he has written for television, magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.

Po Bronson’s book of social documentary, What Should I Do With My Life?, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and remained in the Top 10 for nine months. His first novel, Bombardiers, was a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom. His books have been translated into 19 languages.

Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s New York magazine articles on the science of parenting won the journalism award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Mensa Award, and a Clarion Award. Their articles for Time won the award for outstanding journalism from the Council on Contemporary Families. Their recent collaboration, the book NurtureShock, has been a New York Times bestseller and was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Currently they are writing regularly for Newsweek.com.

Prince Lorenzo Borghese is an Italian-American businessman, television personality, and member of the prominent noble Borghese family. Besides being a cosmetics entrepreneur and animal advocate, Borghese was a featured bachelor on the ninth season of ABC’s The Bachelor. He is the son of Prince Francesco Marco Luigi Costanzo Borghese and his American wife, Amanda Leigh. Borghese’s paternal grandmother was Princess Marcella Borghese, who founded the Borghese cosmetics line in 1958.

Wilfred Bailey Everett “Bill” Bixby III was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist. After being drafted into the marines he moved to Hollywood to begin his acting career. It spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films and on television series.

He is known for his roles as Tim O’Hara on the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett on the ABC comedy-drama series The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, stage illusionist Anthony Blake in the NBC crime drama series The Magician, but is perhaps best known for his role as scientist Dr. David Banner on the CBS sci-fi drama series The Incredible Hulk. He finished his career by directing 30 episodes of the NBC sitcom Blossom.

Born in Flushing, New York, Ted Bassell grew up gearing up for a classical musician career. However after graduating in 1958 he studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse and later appeared in the Broadway production of Same Time Next Year. He then began his 30 year acting career.

He appeared in at least 30 television productions including Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Breaking Up is Hard to Do and Don’t Drink the Water. Perhaps his best-known role was as Donald Hollinger, the steady but suffering boyfriend of Ms. Thomas’s character in That Girl, from 1966 to 1971.

More recently he worked almost exclusively behind the camera, most notably with the Tracey Ullman Show, (1987-90) which won an Emmy Award for best comedy variety series while he was a director. He also directed a feature-film remake of the 1960’s television series Bewitched with Penny Marshall’s production company, Parkway Productions.

Dirk Benedict is an American movie, television and stage actor who played the characters Lieutenant Templeton “Faceman” Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing.

He was exposed to acting his freshman year at Whitman because of a dare from a friend, but Dirk fell in love with the stage. He first appeared on the stage in the short-lived play Abelard and Heloise before his on screen career launched with his appendence in Georgie, Georgia. Dirk’s career spanned almost 40 years with his most notable successes from Battlestar Galactica, The A-Team, and from playing Hamlet on Broadway.

Dirk is also a prostate cancer survivor and has written a book Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy which chronicles his Hollywood rise to fame and his battle with disease using a Macrobiotic approach. Dirk also wrote And then We Went Fishing, directed his own screenplay Cahoots which appeared at film festivals around the world, and appeared as Lt. Colombo and as King Rat”in a Christmas “panto,” on the London stage.

Phi Delta Theta Sports Hall of Fame Inductee

Gary Bender grew up on a farm outside of Ulysses, Kansas, he was an All-State high school football player and won a football scholarship to Wichita State University. After graduation, he went to the University of Kansas, where he received a master’s degree in Radio-Television-Film. He later returned to Kansas to become the radio voice of the Jayhawks.

In 1969, he left the state to take a job as the television sports director of WKOW in Madison. During that time, he broadcast the University of Wisconsin football and basketball games. He was named the Voice of the Green Bay Packers in 1970. He added the Big Ten Basketball Game of the Week on TVS and television coverage of the Milwaukee Brewers to his schedule. Twice he was named the state’s Sports Broadcaster of the Year.

Bender began is network television broadcasting career with CBS in 1975, serving as a play-by-play announcer for the NFL, NBA, college football and basketball. During that time, he broadcast the Final Four from 1982-84, which included Michael Jordan’s game-winning shot as a freshman and the game known as “The Shot Heard Around the World”, as North Carolina State upset Houston at the buzzer. His NFL coverage included the “Hail Mary” game in 1975 as the Cowboys beat the Vikings on a Roger Staubach pass. Bender, during his 12 years at CBS, had the opportunity to broadcast twenty-seven different sports.

He left CBS in June of 1987 and joined ABC as a play-by-play announcer on ABC’s Monday Night Baseball. His assignments included coverage of college football and basketball as well as the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. While in Calgary he described the tragic falls of Dan Jansen in speed skating.

In 1991, Bender went to Turner Sports to serve as the lead announcer for TNT’s NFL Sunday Night Football and NBA Basketball. Since leaving Turner Sports he has broadcast the Phoenix Suns on TV the 17 seasons. Also, during that time he has been the voice of the St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears.

Harry Stephen Ackerman was an American TV producer, first at CBS as vice president in the 1950s, where he helped create, develop, oversaw, and/or approve the casting of Gunsmoke, I Love Lucy, The Jack Benny Show, Burns and Allen, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Our Miss Brooks, and many other shows.

Later, he was an executive producer at Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures. From 1958 through 1974, under the command of Ackerman as Vice President of Production, Screen Gems delivered the classic sitcoms: Father Knows Best, Bachelor Father, Leave It to Beaver, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Monkees, and The Partridge Family. In the late 1940s, before coming to Hollywood, he was involved in the beginnings of the widely heralded Suspense and Studio One dramatic radio anthologies.