BOB BALABAN (Jonathan Steinbloom) produced last year's Gosford Park (Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award®, British Academy Award®, New York Critic's Award®, SAG Award®). He produced, directed and wrote The Last Good Time, starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Maureen Stapleton and Lionel Stander, which won best director and best film at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and directed Parents, starring Randy Quaid, Sandy Dennis and Marybeth Hurt.

As an actor, Broadway appearances include Plaza Suite, The Inspector General (Tony® nomination) and Speed the Plow. Off-Broadway includes You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The White House Murder Case, Marie and Bruce, Pavlo Hummel and Some Americans Abroad. Bob has appeared in nearly fifty movies, including Midnight Cowboy, Catch 22, Close Encounters, Altered States, 2010, Absence of Malice, Prince of the City, Deconstructing Harry, Jakob the Liar, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, The Mexican, Ghost World, and Gosford Park.

Currently Bob is the producer/director of the hit Off-Broadway evening, The Exonerated. He is also writing a series of children's books for Scholastic called McGrowl, publishing his account of the filming of Close Encounters, titled Spielberg, Truffaut and Me, and preparing to produce and direct a movie in the spring. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, writer Lynn Grossman, and his children, Hazel and Mariah.



Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, JENNIFER COOLIDGE's (Amber Cole) performing career began in New York, where she became a member of the Gotham City Improv group. Eventually this led her to Los Angeles, where she joined The Groundlings and continued to develop her passion for improvisational acting.

Recently, Coolidge has appeared in hugely successful commercial films including Legally Blonde and Best in Show. She is also widely known for playing the iconic character of "Stifler's Mom" in the worldwide smash films American Pie and American Pie 2. Coolidge's feature film credits also include the hit comedies Down to Earth, opposite Chris Rock, which reunited her with Chris and Paul Weitz, the writer/director team of brothers behind American Pie; A Night At The Roxbury, directed by John Fortenberry; and the critically acclaimed Trial And Error, starring Jeff Daniels, Michael Richards and Charlize Theron.

Coolidge is currently shooting her starring role opposite Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2.

Coolidge has been a series regular in a number of comedy series, including two sketch shows: ABC's She-TV and Saturday Night Special. She's also guest-starred on a variety of television shows including Seinfeld, King Of The Hill and Ladies Man with Alfred Molina.

Coolidge continues to appear in the L.A. theater comedy smash The Actors Showcase in which she appears with other "Groundlings" members.

She lives in Los Angeles.



JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS (Terry Bohner) is a gifted and incredibly diverse artist. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Scott Donlon in the Christopher Guest film Best in Show, as well as David Letterman in the HBO film The Late Shift. He has also starred in such hits as Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog and Ridley Scott's G.I. Jane.

Scores of television roles include everything from Elaine's bald boyfriend on Seinfeld to Carol Burnett's riverdancing paramour on Mad About You, as well as dramatic turns in Tom Hanks' From the Earth to the Moon and the controversial ABC drama, Nothing Sacred.

Higgins recently starred with Martin Short in Short's improvisational film LaLaWood, in addition to starring in a new pilot for the WB television network, Untitled Barcelona Pilot, which is being produced by Carsey Werner in conjunction with Mark Burnett (Survivor). He recently partnered with Bob Balaban (Gosford Park) to co-create, co-produce and star in a project for Imagine Television.

Higgins, a longtime veteran of Broadway and regional theatre, created the title role in Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey for the New York stage and is internationally recognized as a leading interpreter of Harlequin, from the Italian commedia dell'arte. He has played a litany of the great classical roles from Shakespeare and Shaw to Sheridan and is also a well-respected improviser and comedian, co-writing and starring in such Off-Broadway successes as The National Lampoon Revue for Showtime, and The Comedy of Errors for the New York Shakespeare Festival.



After obtaining a degree in Speech from Northwestern University, Ohio-born MICHAEL HITCHCOCK (Lawrence F. Turpin) went on to obtain his Masters degree in Film and Television Production at UCLA. He subsequently became a performer with the famed Los Angeles theater group, The Groundlings. His considerable stage work with the award-winning improvisational group eventually led to several television guest appearances and a series regular role on the WB's new comedy On the Spot.

Hitchcock's feature film credits include Christopher Guest's Waiting For Guffman and Best in Show, as well as Heartbreakers opposite Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Badge starring Billy Bob Thorton and Patricia Arquette, Sol Goode opposite Balthazar Getty and Jamie Kennedy, And God Spoke, starring Steven Rappaport and Michael Riley, and the critically acclaimed Miramax film Happy, Texas with Steve Zahn and Jeremy Northam.

As a writer, Hitchcock's credits include such feature films as New Line Cinema's acclaimed Where The Day Takes You and MGM's House Arrest, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollack. He is also a writer and producer for Mad TV and has written a number of telefeatures.



EUGENE LEVY (Writer/Mitch Cohen) previously co-starred in Christopher Guest's Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman, sharing writing credits with Guest on both films. Levy's film credits also include American Pie, American Pie 2, Serendipity, Like Mike, Almost Heroes, Father of the Bride 2, Multiplicity, Once Upon A Crime (which he also directed), Stay Tuned, Armed and Dangerous, Club Paradise, Splash, National Lampoon's Vacation and Running. He can currently be seen on the big screen appearing with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah in Bringing Down the House. Levy's upcoming projects include appearing in Dumb and Dumberer, set for a summer 2003 release, and reprising his role as Jim's Dad in American Pie 3, the third installment of the smash hit series.

Levy began his career on the acclaimed comedy series SCTV, starring for eight seasons and portraying a gallery of memorable characters, including Earl Camembert, Bobby Bittman, Alex Trebel and Stan Schmenge. Other television credits include Hiller and Diller, Mad About You, The Drew Carey Show, Billy Crystal's Don't Get Me Started, Bride of Boogedy, The Last Polka, The Enigma of Bobby Bittman (which he also wrote and directed), Maniac Mansion (which he produced), and Showtime's Sodbusters (which he co-wrote and directed).

JANE LYNCH's (Laurie Bohner) most recent feature film credits include Collateral Damage, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Christopher Guest's Best in Show.

This season Lynch appeared as Nurse Doctor Poole in the ABC television drama MD's. She can also be seen in The Big Time, a TNT original movie. Lynch has recurring roles in several top-rated television shows including The West Wing, 7th Heaven, Felicity, Judging Amy and Arli$$ plus many guest starring roles on such popular shows as Frasier, The Gilmore Girls, Boston Public, and The Division.

Lynch has an extensive theatrical background. As a writer/producer/performer she gave birth to the critically acclaimed Oh Sister, My Sister! garnering the LA Weekly Comedy Ensemble of the Year Award. Lynch has also performed with the Second City National Touring Company, Steppenwolf Theatre and in The Real Live Brady Bunch at L.A.'s Westwood Playhouse and the Village Gate in New York.



Since beginning his career as a member of the satirical Credibility Gap, multi-talented actor, writer and director MICHAEL McKEAN (Jerry Palter) has become associated with some of pop culture's most iconographic film and television shows of the last three decades. McKean starred in the '70s series Laverne and Shirley, also serving as writer and sometime director. He co-wrote, composed music for and starred in Rob Reiner's classic rock comedy This is Spinal Tap, with Christopher Guest, Reiner and Harry Shearer.

In addition to starring in Christopher Guest's Best in Show, McKean's most recent feature film credits include the next HBO Film titled And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself with Antonio Banderas; 100 Mile Rule (Brent Huff, dir.); R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse (Joe Dante, dir.); and The Guru (Daisy von Scherler Mayer, dir).

McKean just completed the Independent Film Channel 2002-03 Image Campaign as writer, director and star in their newest series of highly regarded television commercials.

Recent films include Auto Focus for director Paul Schrader, Little Nicky with Adam Sandler, Beautiful with Minnie Driver, Clint Eastwood's True Crime, Teaching Mrs. Tingle starring Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes; and Mystery, Alaska with Russell Crowe. McKean's long list of motion picture credits includes such films as The Brady Bunch Movie and The Big Picture, which McKean also co-wrote with Christopher Guest.

McKean begins his third season on Martin Short's television series Primetime Glick. He was a regular on Saturday Night Live, Tracey Takes On and Dream On, for which he has also directed episodes. Since 1976, the ubiquitous performer has appeared in over 75 different projects.



LARRY MILLER (Wally Fenton) has previously appeared in both Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman. Miller got his start touring as a stand-up comic. A scene-stealing role as a boutique manager in Pretty Woman in 1990 opened the door to roles in such films as Necessary Roughness, 10 Things I Hate About You, Corrina, Corrina, Radioland Murders and The Nutty Professor I & II.

In 1992, Miller starred in his own HBO comedy special, Larry Miller: Just Words, which was nominated for a CableACE® Award. He had a recurring role on Mad About You, and was a series regular on the television shows Pursuit of Happiness and Life's Work. Miller also made an impressive dramatic turn on Law & Order, in the role of a man accused of murdering his wife. His recent television appearances include recurring roles on 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, My Wife and Kids and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.



CATHERINE O'HARA (Mickey Devlin Crabbe) made her professional acting debut in 1974 with the celebrated Second City improvisational company. Subsequently, she and a number of her Second City colleagues created the Emmy® Award-winning television series SCTV.

O'Hara made her feature film debut in After Hours. Other film credits include Home Fries, Late Last Night, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Heartburn, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Dick Tracy, Wyatt Earp, Tall Tales, Orange County and Last Of The High Kings. She received a Genie® award for The Life Before This in Canada.

O'Hara co-starred in the Christopher Guest-directed films Best in Show and Waiting For Guffman.

In addition to appearing on such television series as The Larry Sanders Show, The Outer Limits, Saturday Night Live (as guest host), and the 2003 season premiere episode of Six Feet Under, O'Hara has also directed The Outer Limits and HBO's Dream On series.



PARKER POSEY (Sissy Knox) recently received an Independent Spirit Award® nomination as Leading Actress for her work in Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity, as well as a Golden Globe® nomination for her work opposite Shirley MacLaine in the CBS film Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay. Other films from her vast repertoire include Best in Show and Waiting For Guffman (both with Christopher Guest), The Sweetest Thing, The Anniversary Party, Wes Craven's Scream 3, Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail, Suburbia and Dazed and Confused (both for Richard Linklater), Clockwatchers, The Daytrippers, and three films for Hal Hartley (Amateur, Flirt and Henry Fool). For her performance in The House of Yes, she received a Special Jury Prize® at The Sundance Film Festival.

Parker will next be seen on the big screen in Thom Fitzgerald's The Event opposite Olympia Dukakis and Sarah Polley.

On stage, Parker starred in the Los Angeles premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, and starred on Broadway opposite Matthew Broderick in Elaine May's Taller Than A Dwarf. Off-Broadway, she recently starred opposite Robert Sean Leonard in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July.



HARRY SHEARER (Mark Shubb) began acting at the age of seven at the suggestion of his piano teacher-turned-agent. He made his film debut in the classic Abbott and Costello Go To Mars and had a small role in the first Cinemascope movie The Robe.

The young thespian appeared often on The Jack Benny Show as well as making appearances on GE Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and playing the role of Eddie Haskell in the pilot episode of Leave It To Beaver.

Shearer gained national recognition as one of the creators and stars of This is Spinal Tap, where he portrayed heavy metalist Derek Smalls in the mock rockumentary. Shearer was a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live for two seasons. His on-screen performance as a NASA recruitment official in The Right Stuff shows that he can also support a convincing "establishment" persona as well. Shearer's other film work includes Teddy Bears' Picnic, which he wrote, directed and performed in, The Truman Show, Godzilla, Dick, Oscar, The Fisher King, Wayne's World II, and Pure Luck.

In addition to his big screen performances, Shearer's skills as an actor, director and writer have been showcased on film, cable television, network television, radio and personal appearances. His television work has included Politically Incorrect, Martin Mull's Portrait of a White Marriage, HBO Comedy Hour Live: The Magic of Live, Fernwood 2 Night, Ellen, Murphy Brown, L.A. Law and The News Hole for which he won his second Ace Award® for Best Game Show ('95). Shearer is now known to a new generation as the voice of Mr. Burns, Smithers and Ned Flanders, among others, on the international hit series The Simpsons.

Shearer has also reported on the '96 Presidential Conventions and Election and the O.J. Simpson civil trial for Microsoft's Slate Magazine.

With his friend Tom Leopold, Shearer collaborated on the book and lyrics of J. Edgar! The Musical, recorded for L.A. Theatre Works and presented this year as a staged reading at the Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. The musical comedy portrays the most secretive of clandestine 20th Century love affairs, between J. Edgar Hoover and trusted companion Clyde Tolson.



FRED WILLARD (Mike LaFontaine) radiates a unique charm that has established him as one of our generation's most gifted comic actors. A master of sketch comedy, Willard is most heralded for his quick wit and improvisational expertise, which he has exemplified in recent appearances on Ladies Man, The Simpsons and King of the Hill. He is also well known for his distinguished recurring roles on other successful, award-winning television sitcoms including Mad About You and Roseanne (for which he received an Emmy® nomination).

Willard's featured appearances in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno are indicative of his ability to transform any character into a unique comic portrayal.

Willard's work in Best in Show brought him an American Comedy Award® for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture and a Best Supporting Actor award from the Boston Society of Film Critics. Waiting For Guffman earned him an American Comedy Award® nomination and a Screen Actor's Guild® nomination for Funniest Supporting Actor. Some of his other film work includes The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, Idle Hands, Permanent Midnight, This is Spinal Tap, Roxanne and the Academy Award® winning short film, Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall.

Willard is an alumnus of Second City and was founding member of the classic improv group The Ace Trucking Company. Willard and Martin Mull co-starred in Norman Lear's innovative cult classic late night talk show, Fernwood 2Night, which aired recently on Nick At Nite and was celebrated this year at the Museum of Television & Radio. Years later Willard was a series regular, playing Martin Mull's gay lover on the award winning show, Roseanne.

Willard's theatre credits include Promises, Promises, Little Murders, Isn't It Romantic and Elvis and Juliet. Willard recently completed a sold out run of his one-man show, Fred Willard: Alone At Last! (with a cast of twelve) and received two Los Angeles Artistic Director awards, for Best Comedy and Best Production.