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Tim Suhrstedt was born on 5 August 1948 in Catonsville, Maryland, USA. He is a cinematographer, known for Idiocracy (2006), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Mystic Pizza (1988). He is married to Deborah L. Scott.

Drew Ebersole was born on 4 July 1967 in Catonsville, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Cry-Baby (1990) and ER (1994).

Joanna was born in Catonsville, Maryland on October 31st, 1985. She began acting "professionally" (dinner theatre, mostly) at the age of nine.

She attended high school at Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, studying acting. It was during her senior year that she filmed the independent movie "Camp". She auditioned for every one of her high school shows, but was never cast until her senior year, when she played Linda in "Holiday".

She attended the University of Maryland at College Park, majoring in Theatre Performance with a minor in English, concentrating her studies in Shakespeare. During college, she performed with many student groups, was a member of a comedy group where she wrote and performed sketches and stand up. She wrote a found text play "Bringing it Home", and directed several plays, including "Bus Stop", "Home at Six", and "The Vagina Monologues". During college, she also began working with the Catonsville Children's Theatre company as a director and choreographer. Before her senior year began, she played the bit part of "Dawn" in "New York City Seranade".

Joanna graduated from College Park in May of 2007. As of November, 2007, she is still working with the Children's Theatre as well as teaching drama at Carver Center.

A Los Angeles-based award-winning producer, editor, essayist, and author. Roe has produced over two dozen productions for video, television and the internet, and has created work for clients in the private, corporate, non-profit, and government sectors.

He has written film critique, theory and history for numerous publications, including Film Inquiry, Screen Anarchy, and IonCinema. He writes DVD/Blu-ray reviews for Under the Radar, movie reviews for Film Threat, creates regular video essays for the Anime News Network, and contributed a feature to the June 2021 issue of Cineaste Magazine.

Tracy Tobin was born in Catonsville, Maryland, USA. She is known for Super Troopers (2001), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) and New Guy (2003).

American author, playwright and screen writer Frederic Arnold Kummer was born on 5 August, 1873 at Cantonsville, Maryland, to Arnold and Mary Morris Kummer. His father, who had emigrated from Germany in 1859 and had fought in the American Civil War, was part owner of Kummer & Becker, a banking and brokerage house in Baltimore that also acted as agents for the North German Lloyd Steamship Line.

Before Kummer turned to writing full time in 1907, he had been the chief engineer for the American Wood Preserving Company and later general manager of the Eastern Paving Block Company. Kummer was an 1894 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he had earned a degree in civil engineering. In 1901 he was awarded the Collingwood prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for a paper he wrote on wood block paving techniques.

Not long after embarking on his writing career Kummer found success with stories like: "Mr. Buttles" (1908), "The Choice" (1909), "Are You a Suffragette?" (1911), "The Other Woman" (1911), "A Song of Sixpence" (1913), "The Painted Woman" (1913), "One Million Dollars" (1913) and "The Brute" (1914). His most popular book was probably "Ladies in Hades" (1928).

Kummer had also found some success as a painter before turning to writing. Two of his marinescapes were displayed at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.

Frederic Arnold Kummer married Clare Rodman Beecher (Clare Kummer) on 16 October, 1895 at Nutley, New Jersey. Before divorcing in 1903, the couple had two daughters, Marjorie and Frederica. Marjorie would later become the wife of actor Roland Young. On 14 June, 1907, he married Marion J. McLean of Norfolk, Virginia. Their union would produce a daughter and two sons, Marion, Frederick Jr. (or Frederic Jr.) and Joseph Talbot Tennant Kummer.

After a battling a two year illness, Frederic Arnold Kummer passed away on 22 November, 1943, at Baltimore, Maryland. He was survived by his second wife and all five offspring.