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Isis King, an American actress, model and activist, is one of this generation's most influential transgender women. She rose to fame as the first woman of transgender experience to compete on both the 11th and 17th (All-Star) cycle of America's Next Top Model while living in New York in the Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ homeless youth.

As an actress, King has played pivotal roles in the Emmy award-winning Netflix series When They See Us and on hit shows such as L-Word: Generation Q, Equal, Good Trouble, The Bold and The Beautiful and Shameless. As a model, King has graced the covers of LGBTQ and mainstream magazines and has slayed the runway for many notable fashion designers, including Fenty by Rihanna, Gabrielle Union, Christian Cowan and Betsey Johnson.

King is an ambassador of the human spirit and believes in the importance of following your heart. She travels the country speaking to young adults at colleges and universities about self-love and living in the truth of your existence.

Melody Hurd was born on 28 October 2011 in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Fatherhood (2021), Battle at Big Rock (2019) and Cross (2024).

Haneefah Wood was born on 16 September 1979 in Greenbelt, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Hello Tomorrow! (2023), Truth Be Told (2019) and Murderville (2022).

Keivonn Woodard was born on 9 February 2013 in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for The Last of Us (2023), Fractal and Steal Away.

Robert Dolan was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland, USA. Robert is an actor and producer, known for Justified (2010), Law & Order (1990) and Close to Home (2005).

Kenneth Wayne was born on 16 November 1992 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for Treacherous Behavior, Another Love Story and Active Threat Response (2019).

Karla Puno Garcia was born in Prince George's County, MD. She is a choreographer known for the 76th Annual Tony Awards Opening Number and Lifetime Tribute number in a year where the broadcast was unscripted. She also choreographed Power: Raising Kanaan Season II and additional scenes in the Lin Manuel Miranda directed film tick, tick... Boom! She performed on Broadway for several years most notably in Hamilton.

Imani T. Williams was born in the DMV, (DC, Maryland, Virginia) USA. She grew up in Alexandra, Virginia then graduated from Friendly High School class of 2006 in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Graduating from Friendly High School she attended Trinity Washington University in Washington DC on a full basketball scholarship then transferring to Frostburg State University, She is the only daughter of Carlise Taylor along three brothers, Darryl, Loren, and Desmond. Being the only girl growing up with three brothers she learned to love to play sports from basketball, softball, flag football, cheerleading, and skateboarding.

She eventually moved to Miami, Florida and began modeling right away appearing in several national print advertisements. Imani continued being casted in commercial, print work for catalogs and theatre throughout Florida. Imani realized she wanted to pursue her acting career once featured on the television series "Burn Notice" starring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, and Bruce Campbell airing on USA.

Imani began studying acting scripts and scene study with Acting Program Pinnacle Actors Group in Fort Lauderdale Florida preparing for her move to Los Angeles to showcase her natural talents in The Pinnacle Actors Showcase, Months later she relocated to Los Angeles, California receiving the top interest out of all 22 agents and managers for interviews. Guest-starring on the television series "Disaster Date" and "General Hospital" Imani received her SAG Eligible within her first six months in Los Angeles also landing the lead role in a Nike Commercial.

In additional to her acting career she is also a talented dancer appearing as a lead in many hip hop music videos while in Miami, with the experience of Jazz and Tap Dancing.

Imani Williams is one of Hollywood's most promising young talents as her career continues to evolve with exciting and new challenging projects

Aylor Wells was born: Eugene Aylor Crowell 3rd in Maryland. As a kid, Gene became fascinated with horror, sci-fi and fantasy films. When he was 9, Gene saw an article in Starlog Magazine that featured photos of Forest J. Ackerman and his famous collection of classic movie monster memorabilia. Gene was so inspired by those images, he started collecting monster masks, toys, posters, and props and costumes.

At 15, he met Washington DC make up artist, Tim Davis. Visiting Mr. Davis' studio became the catalyst for Gene's interest in the film making Arts. When he was 17, Gene along with his best friend Gordon Landis, began making short films for Metro-Vision. A local public access channel. They worked together on "The McCrory Movie" which followed the antics of teenagers working in a local five and dime store and the more serious, "Death before 21" a film about teen suicide. Both films ran for years on public access. Gene also got his first break in a real feature film as an actor for Phil Cook's "Invader" 1992.

In the early 1990s, Gene and Tim Davis joined the Baltimore Horror & Fantasy Film Society (Fanex) and worked on numerous short films and live stage shows together with director Mitch Klein. In 1992, Gene penned his first article. An interview with local Baltimore TV personality, George Lewis who played "The Ghost Host" for WBFF-TV 45 for Scary Monsters Magazine.

In 1997, Gene successfully tracked down all five child stars of the 1971 cult film "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" for a retrospective article he wrote in S.P.F.X. Magazine. The magazine was so successful, Warner Brother's hired Gene to work on the anniversary DVD release of the film as "Wonka Historian". In 1999, Gene had the opportunity to work with Washington DC horror host, Dick Dyszel on the WDCA-TV 20 Creature Feature's Y2K New Years Eve Special.

Gene can also be seen in the films: Crawler, Sealed Fates and Blood, Boobs & Beast: A documentary on Baltimore film maker, Don Dohler. Gene also wrote and starred in the hit Youtube documentary: "Our Blair Witch Adventure". An independently made video tour of the Blair Witch Project filming locations.

Michael Beasley was born on 9 January 1989 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, USA.

Garett Coleman was born on 30 April 1998 in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. He died on 5 May 2009 in Columbia, Illinois, USA.

Whitey Schmidt was born in 1939 in Prince George County, Maryland, USA. He died on 18 July 2014 in Crisfield, Maryland, USA.