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Lois Bonfiglio has produced two other TNT Originals: Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee and Broken Trust. Bonfiglio's other credits include Old Gringo, which teamed Jane Fonda with Gregory Peck and Jimmy Smits, and The Morning After. She also produced the Pulitzer Prize®-winning Bright Shining Light for HBO. Earlier in her career, Bonfiglio was vice president of East Coast production for TriStar Pictures and opened the New York offices for that studio. Before TriStar, she served as East Coast vice president of The Ladd Company and Lorimar Productions. She has also taught at Columbia University's School of Film.

Native Australian Rod Hardy began his directing career in his homeland, where he directed some of Australia's most successful television productions. He has directed a succession of acclaimed TV productions here in the United States, including Between Love and Hate, starring Susan Lucci; Rio Diablo; My Name is Kate; Grounds For Murder, starring John Ritter and Henry Winkler; and The Yearling. Hardy also helmed the prestigious miniseries Buffalo Girls for CBS, which garnered both Golden Globe® and Emmy® nominations and starred Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Sam Elliott, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Coyote and Jack Palance. His feature film credits include Thirst, which won Best Picture at the Asian Film Festival; Robinson Crusoe, starring Pierce Brosnan; and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, starring Michael Caine.

Dennis Bishop's credits include serving as line producer on Promised Land, in association with the Sundance Institute; Kid Brother, which won the Grand Prix des Ameriques award at the 1987 Montreal Film Festival; and Horton Foote's Academy Award®-winning The Trip to Bountiful. He served as executive producer of Disney's hit comedies Houseguest and The Big Green and co-producer of Rysher/Paramount's The Evening Star. Bishop was vice president and director of production at HBO Pictures, where he supervised the physical production of such award-winning films as Barbarians at the Gate, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom and And the Band Played On.

Larry Brothers has been a screenwriter for the past 13 years. His credits include Fever for HBO and Innocent Man for Disney. He most recently finished the script for Mandalay's upcoming Killing Game. Brothers wrote the play Storm and has had several short stories published.