Lauren Graham is an actor, writer, and producer best known for her roles on the critically acclaimed series Gilmore Girls and Parenthood. She is currently an executive producer on the Disney+ show The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, in which she also stars. She is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It; Talking as Fast as I Can; and the novel Someday, Someday, Maybe. She has been a successful actor for nearly three decades, appearing in TV, film, and on Broadway. She holds a BA in English from Barnard College and an MFA in acting from Southern Methodist University. Lauren Graham lives in New York and Los Angeles.

Sam Pancake is an actor, writer, and comedian who was born in Petersburg, VA, and grew up in Romney, WV. He attended Hampshire High School and graduated cum laude from West Virginia University with a BFA in Theatre. After moving to Los Angeles in 1987, Sam started appearing in television commercials and sitcoms, and over the past three decades, he has been a constant presence on stage, TV, and in movies. He can currently be seen in his recurring role as Carter French in the hit ABC drama A Million Little Things, as well as in the Hallmark Channel’s perennial favorite Holiday Engagement, now on Netflix.

He has recurred or guest-starred on many TV series, including Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, The Mick, Transparent, Major Crimes, Documentary Now, Arrested Development, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Will and Grace, Charmed, West Wing, NYPD Blue, and many more.

Sam was a regular on two back-to-back critically acclaimed series, Fox’s Kitchen Confidential, with Bradley Cooper, created by Darren Star, and Lifetime’s improv-based sitcom, Lovespring International, with Jane Lynch and Wendi McLendon-Covey.

His extensive film work includes You’re Killing Me, Space Station 76, starring Patrick Wilson and Liv Tyler (which he also co-wrote), The Hungover Games, Out West, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3, Over Her Dead Body, Straight Jacket, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!, Legally Blonde 2, Gia, and the cult drag hit Girls Will Be Girls. Sam has performed for years on LA stages in theatre, sketch, improv, storytelling, stand-up, and most recently as Sophia in Golden Girlz Live at Casita Del Campo.

He has written and regularly performs four different one-man shows: The Head Is Not Reliable, about his unusual Appalachian childhood as a Pancake; Wasted On A Boy, which covers his last thirty years as an out working actor in Hollywood; Hot Sticky and Sweet, a broad three-character comedy show; and Fritzie Zimmer in “What’s Left of Me!”, in which he plays the world's oldest openly gay stand-up comedian and cabaret singer, Fritzie Zimmer.

Yes, Pancake is his real last name.