Ken Finkleman (born 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian television and film writer, producer and actor. In Canada, Finkleman is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Television series "The Newsroom", in which he starred as television news producer George Findlay. He produced a number of other series for Canadian television as well, including "Married Life", "Foolish Heart", "Foreign Objects" and "More Tears".

Karen Hines is a Canadian actor and playwright. She has appeared in several television series, including "Married Life", "Foreign Objects", "Puppets Who Kill" and "The Newsroom". She has also written several plays, including "Hello...Hello" and the "Pochsy Plays" trilogy. The "Pochsy Plays" were nominated for the 2004 Governor General's Awards. She has worked in the past with another Canadian playwright, Darren O'Donnell.

Jeremy Hotz (born May 31, 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared on "Comedy Central Presents", the Just For Laughs comedy festival, "The Late Show with David Letterman", and "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. He has also worked as a staff writer for Paramount's "The Jon Stewart Show" and has appeared in various American and Canadian motion pictures including: "My Favorite Martian", …

Mark Farrell (born 1968) is an award-winning Canadian comedian and writer, who honed his talent in the Yuk Yuk's comedy club in Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto in 1989. One of the founders of Canada's alternative comedy scene. Farrell helped lead an exodus from the Yuk Yuk's chain, along with other prominent comics such as Brent Butt. Success eventually called, as he appeared in two Ken Finkleman series, Married Life and the first version of The Newsroom.

Matt Watts (born May 31 1975, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) is a comedian, actor and writer. Best known for his work on Ken Finkleman's "The Newsroom", he has recently been working for CBC Radio One, writing and performing in the dramas "Steve, The First", its sequel "Steve, The Second" and "Canadia 2056".

Leah Pinsent (born September 20, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian television and film actress. She is the daughter of Canadian actors Gordon Pinsent and Charmion King. Her first film role, "The Bay Boy", won her a Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She is best-known for her roles as production accountant Veronica Miller in the dramedy series "Made in Canada", …

Holly Lewis is a Canadian actor. Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Holly is best known for her television and film work, though she does have stage experience as well, working primarily in the Toronto area. She is married to stage director Daryl Cloran. Initially providing minor roles in television shows such as "Puppets Who Kill", …

George F. Walker (born August 23, 1947 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. He is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights, and also one of the most widely produced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internationally. His screen credits include "Due South", "The Newsroom" and "This is Wonderland". In 1997, he published a cycle of six new plays, all of which took place in the same suburban motel room.

Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actress best known as Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda". Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Ryder attended the University of Toronto, where she began acting. She formed a local theatre group, Bald Ego Productions, in Toronto after graduation and landed her first film and television roles in the mid-1990s.

Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall is a Canadian journalist, best known for his 2004 book "Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown". The book describes a period in Bishop-Stall's life during which he voluntarily gave up his old life and spent a year living in Toronto's Tent City. A graduate of Concordia University, he has also written for "Saturday Night", "Utne Reader", the "National Post" and "The Globe and Mail".

Colin Brunton was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1955. After creating the short films The Last Pogo (1978), A Trip Around Lake Ontario (1988) and The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989), Genie Award winner for Best Live Action Short), Brunton produced the feature films "Roadkill" (1989) and "Highway 61" (1990) with director Bruce McDonald. Brunton then went on to become the first Executive Director of The Feature Film Project, …