Leilani Downer has written for several network television sit-coms including A Different World for NBC, and Good News for UPN.  She was Executive Story Editor for ABC's Growing Pains, and was a producer on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper on ABC, Fresh Prince of Bel Air on NBC, Sister, Sister on the WB and Rewind for FOX.  In addition, Leilani has written pilots for FOX, ABC and NBC.  Her other credits include working on the Moody Broadcasting Network radio drama, Proclaim!  And writing stand-up material that appears on down-home comedian Chonda Pierce's On Her Soapbox video and album that was taped live at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee for Word Records. In 2006 she created the Peter Glenville Short Film Program, producing Act One Inc.'s first short film, entitled "Pie N' Burger," a film written and directed by Clare Sera.  Currently Leilani works as a "script doctor," punching-up and rewriting screenplays for studios such as Revolution Films and a number of independent feature film companies. 

When not writing, producing, developing or pitching her own projects, Leilani enjoys working with Act One, Inc., lecturing and mentoring young artists interested in television and film.  She is an active member of Biola University Media Task Force; and sits on the board of The Peter Glenville Foundation, a non-profit organization which has a mandate to give back to the visual arts.

With a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Minnesota and a Masters of Divinity from a Canadian seminary, Titus has made every effort to complicate his education while never committing to anything for too long. That is, anything except his brilliant special-someone, Rochelle. This, however, is not entirely true. After failing a 3rd grade spelling test, Titus was to have his mother sign the test as evidence that she had seen it. Many people have tried to explain what happened next. Some say he dissociated from himself, others say he willfully committed a crime but Titus suggests that he traveled to a distant land in his imagination where anything is possible&even under-age forgery. You see, Titus flipped the test over and practiced signing his mother's signature and did not flip it back until he knew he could reproduce a seamless counterfeit on the front. He handed it in with a bravado not often seen among the prepubescent. The fall-out of that affair confirmed that the greatest (and safest) place in all the world was his imagination. When he isn't concocting a fiction in his mind, you can find him in Vancouver, British Columbia enjoying the company of his wife and friends while sipping on a sweaty can of Limonata.

Heather McDonald's work has primarily been in theatre as a playwright and director. Her play An Almost Holy Picture was produced on Broadway starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Michael Mayer. It was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. The play premiered at The La Jolla Playhouse starring David Morse and received the Kesselring Award for Best New American Play . Her other plays include When Grace Comes In, Dream of a Common Language, Available Light, The Rivers and Ravines, and Faulkner's Bicycle  and have been widely produced Off Broadway and at such theatres as Arena Stage, The McCarter Theatre, Signature Theatre, The La Jolla Playhouse, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Center Stage.

Heather was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and composer Jake Heggie ("Dead Man Walking") to write the libretto for an opera based on Graham Greene's novel The End of the Affair. The opera, also titled The End of the Affair, had its world premiere at Houston Grand Opera and has received 4 subsequent productions.

Her work has been awarded three NEA Playwriting Fellowships, a McKnight Foundation Fellowship, nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (finalist), and a Theatre Communications Group Extended Collaboration Grant and Residency Award.

Her work as a director has been nominated for 8 Helen Hayes Awards and won four including Outstanding Resident Production for her direction of her own play Dream of a Common Language. Her plays are published by Samuel French, Inc. and The Dramatists Play Service. She has written and sold two screenplays. One, Rocket 88 , was an original screenplay about the birth of rock 'n roll. The other, Walking After Midnight, was an adaptation of a novel by Maureen McCoy about a female country/western songwriter.

Heather has had a long commitment to teaching and working with students. She is an Associate Professor at George Mason University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. She has taught many other workshops around the country and is on the faculty of the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive. She received her MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and lives near Baltimore with her two daughters Louise Whalen and Marilyn Grace