LUKE PERRY "Jeremiah" Prior to taking on the dual roles of star and executive producer for Jeremiah, Luke Perry made his Broadway debut as Brad Majors in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." In recent years, he appeared in feature films including "Fogbound" and the spy thriller "The Enemy," opposite Roger Moore. His television credits include the miniseries "Johnson County War," the TBS thriller "The Triangle," and an eight-episode run as the Reverend Jeremiah Clouthier on the series "OZ." During his years on "Beverly Hills 90210," Perry appeared in several independent films and major studio productions. These included Columbia's "Fifth Element," the SHOWTIME Original Picture "RIOT," "Normal Life", and "American Strays." He also co-starred with Chris Penn, Michael Madsen and Mary Stuart Masterson in "The Florentine." Perry made his feature film debut in the starring role of real-life champion bull rider Lane Frost in "8 Seconds," which he also co-produced. -back to credits MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER "Kurdy" An Emmy -nominated child actor for his regular role on "The Cosby Show," Malcolm-Jamal Warner has matured as an actor but has also received accolades in several new creative ventures: directing, playing bass for his band Miles Long, Performance Poetry gigs and civic-minded advocacy appearances. His theater credits include "Cryin' Shame," "Freefall" at the Victory Garden Theatre in Chicago, the off-Broadway play "Three Ways Home," at the Astor Place Theatre, and in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the La Jolla Playhouse. A seasoned director, Warner was the resident helmer as well as star on "Malcolm and Eddie." He also directed episodes of "The Cosby Show," "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "All That," and a host of music videos. His film short "This Old Man" received critical acclaim on the festival circuit. Additional directing credits include the Saturday morning teen magazine "All Ax-S," featuring Jaleel White and Kriss Cross, Nickelodeon's "Keenan and Kel" and the AIDS awareness video "Timeout: The Truth about HIV, Aids and YOU." The video, which starred Magic Johnson and Arsenio Hall, earned Warner the NAACP Key of Life Image Award. Always civic-minded, Warner has been involved in several programs that reach out to the community. He hosted the Emmy Award-winning "Kids Killing Kids" and directed "Teen Files: Truth About Violence." -back to credits SEAN ASTIN "Mister Smith" Sean Astin, currently appearing in "The Lord of the Rings," began his acting career at the age of nine, appearing opposite his mother Patty Duke in the ABC after school special, "Please Don't Hit Me, Mom." As a teen actor, he appeared in "Toy Soldiers," "The War of the Roses," and "The Goonies" among others. His more recent credits include "The Long Way Home," "Courage Under Fire," "Rudy," and the SHOWTIME Original Picture "HARRISON BERGERON." In 1994, Astin produced and directed the Academy AwardŽ nominated short film "Kangaroo Court." More recently, he directed "On My Honor" and, while filming the "Rings" trilogy in New Zealand, he directed the documentary short, "The Long and Short of It." -back to credits J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Executive Producer/Writer/Creator J. Michael Straczynski is considered one of the most prolific and highly-regarded writers currently working in the television industry, having written more than 200 episodes. He served as executive producer and creator of "Babylon 5," which ran successfully for five years in syndication and "Crusade," which ran on the TNT Network in 1999. He also wrote and executive produced the pilot movie for a new "Babylon 5" sequel series titled "The Legend of the Rangers" in 2001. Straczynski recently adapted his popular comic "Rising Stars" into a feature screenplay for MGM and Atlas Entertainment, with the film tentatively set for production later this year. He also wrote and produced such series as "Murder, She Wrote," "Jake and the Fatman," "Walker, Texas Ranger," and "The Twilight Zone." He launched a second comics title for Top Cow, entitled "Midnight Nation" then debuted his own audio drama series, "The City of Dreams," on the Sci-Fi Channel's SciFi.com. Straczynski also took over as writer on "The Amazing Spider-Man" for Marvel Comics. In 1996 and 1998, he won the coveted Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the most important award in the science fiction genre and was twice awarded the Space Frontier Foundation's "Vision of the Future" Award. Straczynski is also the author of the nonfiction book, The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, which has become one of Writer's Digest Books best-selling titles. -back to credits SAM EGAN Executive Producer/Writer For five years, Sam Egan served as executive producer and writer on the SHOWTIME series "THE OUTER LIMITS." Among his notable episodes were the 100th episode titled "Tribunal," and the two-hour season finale of the show's 6th year "Final Appeal," which starred Charlton Heston, Robert Loggia, Amanda Plummer, Hal Holbrook, Cicely Tyson, Swoozie Kurtz, Michael Moriarty, Kelly McGillis and Walter Langham. Prior to "THE OUTER LIMITS," Egan was co-executive producer of ABC's "Second Noah," and consulting producer on CBS' "Northern Exposure." He has been active in alternative media, most recently developing and writing "The Dream Detective," an animated flash-animation Internet series which premiered in 2001. He also co-created "The Santa Fe Mysteries," an interactive CD-ROM series. Egan created "Snoops" and "Sweating Bullets." He also served as co-producer and co-writer of "Imagine - John Lennon," and co-writer of the cult comedy "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark." Egan was producer/writer of "The Kid Who Loved Christmas" starring Della Reese, Vanessa Williams, and Sammy Davis, Jr. and was executive producer/ writer of CBS' "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women" starring Steve Martin and Ricky Jay. For his writing and producing, he received an Emmy® nomination and four Gemini nominations. One of the Gemini nominations was for Best Writing On a Television Drama for the "Tribunal" episode of SHOWTIME's "THE OUTER LIMITS." He is a winner of the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, a three-time winner of the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Television Series, and a two-time winner of the Golden Pen, from P.E.N., the international writers' organization. He has also won the Scott Newman Foundation Award for Best Television Drama. -back to credits