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 Neal A. Baer, MD, is an executive producer and writer on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and from 1994 to 2000 was an executive producer and writer on ER. He holds a B.A. in political science from Colorado College, where he was magna cum laude, and a Master of Education, a Master of Arts degree in sociology and a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard. From 2001 to 2005, he was an adjunct professor at USC. Baer has published numerous articles regarding health and the depiction of health and healthcare providers on television. He is the elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association; a member of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology; a member of the board of directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility; a member of the board of directors of Advocates for Youth; a member of the board of directors of the Partnership for Public Service; and a trustee of the Humanitas Prize.
 Ron Bass spent 17 years as an entertainment attorney before turning to screenwriting in 1984. His list of credits is long and illustrious: Rain Man (for which he received the 1988 Academy Award), Sleeping With the Enemy, The Joy Luck Club, The Enemy Within, When a Man Loves a Woman, Dangerous Minds, Waiting To Exhale, My Best Friend's Wedding, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, What Dreams May Come and Snow Falling On Cedars encompass just part of his career. He has been nominated for two Writers Guild Awards, for Rain Man and The Joy Luck Club.
 Leading this year’s line-up is 2007 Negotiating Committee Chair, Emmy-winning writer John Bowman, who brings over 20 years of television writing and producing experience to the team. A WGAW member since 1988, Bowman serves on the WGAW’s current Board of Directors, having been a board member since 2004 and recently elected in 2006 to a second term through 2008. An integral member of the guilds’ 2004 Negotiating Committee, Bowman has also served on the WGAW’s Organizing Committee from 2004 to present, as was recently elected as a trustee of the Writers Guild’s Pension & Health Funds, after serving as an alternative trustee from 2004-06. A 1980 graduate of Harvard College, as well as a 1985 graduate of Harvard Business School, Bowman’s writing credits include Saturday Night Live, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, In Living Color (head writer), Martin (creator/executive producer), Murphy Brown (executive producer), and Cedric the Entertainer Presents (creator).
 In the late 1980s, Marc Cherry won $15,000 on the Dick Clark game show $100,000 Pyramid, took his winnings and moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in writing. Cherry's writer-producer credits include The Golden Girls and its sequel, The Golden Palace. He also served as writer and executive producer on the television comedies Some of My Best Friends, The Crew and The Five Mrs. Buchanans. Following a difficult three-year hiatus of unemployment, during which his long-time agent was arrested and charged with embezzlement, Cherry got his second big break as creator and executive producer of Desperate Housewives. Cherry has recently signed a development deal with Touchstone Television producing under the banner Cherry Productions.
 Bill Condon recently wrote and directed Dreamgirls. Prior to that he wrote and directed Kinsey and Gods and Monsters, which earned Condon an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. As a writer, Bill Condon adapted the big-screen version of the musical Chicago, for which he received a second Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Condon currently serves on the board of Film Independent, as well as the Independent Writers Steering Committee of the WGAW.
 Carlton Cuse is the writer and executive producer of Lost. His previous credits include creating the television series Nash Bridges, Martial Law and The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. In partnership with feature writer Jeffrey Boam, he helped develop the films Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3 and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He has won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Producers Guild Award and a Writers Guild Award for his work on Lost.
 David A. Goodman began his writing career on the sitcom The Golden Girls in 1988, and since then has written on staff and freelance for 15 television series, including Wings, Dream On, Flying Blind, Star Trek: Enterprise and Futurama. In 2000, he served as co-executive producer on Family Guy in its third season, and in 2004 returned as executive producer and showrunner for the new run of the series. He was elected to the WGAW Board of Directors in 2006.
 Stephen Gaghan is a writer and director whose feature scripts include Rules of Engagement, Havoc and Traffic, for which he won the 2000 Academy Award, Golden Globe, Writers Guild of America Award and British Academy Award. He wrote and directed Syriana, which was nominated for best original screenplay. His next film will be Blink, based on the book by Malcolm Gladwell, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. He has contributed writing to many other films and television shows including Black Hawk Down, The Practice, American Gothic and NYPD Blue, for which he was awarded the 1997 Emmy for Best Dramatic Writing.
 Carl Gottlieb just won a 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Independence, a mini-short for which he co-authored the script. He's taught screenwriting at Columbia University, AFI, USC and the University of Miami, and has appeared in France at film forums in Beaune, and at Equinoxe. His credits include acting in and co-writing Jaws and The Jerk, and writing Jaws 2, Which Way Is Up, Jaws 3D, Dr. Detroit and Caveman, which he directed. He also directed The Absent-Minded Waiter, nominated for an Academy Award for live action short film. His book The Jaws Log is still in print, and he's just published Since Then; How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It, the sequel to Long Time Gone, The Autobiography of David Crosby. Long active in the Writers Guild as an Officer and Board member, he's served on the Board of the Franco-American Cultural Fund, and is currently chair of the Policy Research Group of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds.
 Howard Michael Gould joined the Guild in 1988. He worked for 10 years in television at all levels, from freelancer to showrunner, and has worked in features for the last eight years. His credits include Home Improvement, Cybill, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Mr. 3000 and Shrek the Third.
 Susannah Grant has been a member of the Writers Guild since 1994. She co-wrote Walt Disney Pictures' Pocahontas in 1995, then joined the staff of Fox TV's Party of Five, and over the following three years, served as one of the show's writers, producers and also directed one of the episodes. Since then, she co-wrote the scripts for Ever After (1998) and Charlotte's Web (2006); wrote 28 Days (2000), Erin Brockovich (2000) and In Her Shoes (2005); and wrote and directed Catch and Release (2007).
 Mark Gunn began his writing career by co-creating and executive producing the MTV series 2gether in 2000. Since then he has worked with his cousin Brian Gunn in television and features, and is currently writing Juvie for Universal Pictures and Steve Carell, Mighty Mouse for Nickelodeon Films and Paramount Pictures, and Girlfriend Experience for DreamWorks and Montecito Pictures. He was elected to the WGAW Board of Directors in 2006.
 Robert King is a current member of the WGAW Board of Directors. He also serves on the Credits Review Committee. He has been a member of the Officers Nominating Committee, the Freelance Writers Committee, the Editorial Advisory Committee and the Writers Image Campaign Committee. His credits for television and screen include Clean Slate, Speechless, Principal Takes a Holiday and Vertical Limit.
 Aaron Mendelsohn is the co-writer and co-creator of the Air Bud family film franchise, which to date has sired six sequels. He has written extensively for the big and small screen and currently has two films in pre-production: the CG-animated feature Cat Tale, starring Sean Astin, Elisha Cuthbert and Alan Cumming, and the family feature The Three Investigators: The Secret of Terror Castle, adapted from the classic Robert Arthur book series. He recently wrote and directed the comedy Chapter Zero, starring Dylan Walsh and Penelope Ann Miller. Mendelsohn was on the 2004 Negotiating Committee and is currently serving his second term on the WGAW Board of Directors. He also sits on the National Council.
 Carol Mendelsohn has been the showrunner and executive producer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation since the pilot episode. She is also a co-creator and executive producer of CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. Mendelsohn began her career writing for Stephen J. Cannell on such shows as Stingray and Wiseguy. She was promoted to producer on Tour of Duty and later, Gabriel's Fire. She earned her executive producer stripes during a five-year stint on Melrose Place. As a producer and writer, she has been nominated for multiple Emmys, Golden Globes, Writers Guild Awards and two Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Writers of America Award. In 2005 she was honored with the Publicists Guild Award for Showrunner of the Year. Most recently, CSI: brought home its fourth People's Choice Award winner as America's Favorite Drama.
 Marc Norman earned producing and writing Oscars for the 1999 Shakespeare in Love. His book What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting will be published by Crown/Harmony in October of 2007. Norman has been a member of the WGAW Screenwriters Council and the board of the Writers Guild Foundation.
 Shawn Ryan has been a member of the WGA since 1990, after winning the Columbia Pictures Television Comedy Playwriting Award and selling a story to the NBC sitcom My Two Dads. His animation credits include three episodes of Life with Louie, for which he was nominated for a Humanitas Award. Ryan's first staff job in television was in 1997 with Nash Bridges; he spent three years there, rising from staff writer to co-producer, writing or co-writing 11 episodes of the series. From there, he spent a year on the series Angel, writing or co-writing five episodes. Ryan left Angel to executive produce his series The Shield for FX in 2001. For his work on The Shield, Ryan has received a Golden Globe, an AFI Award, a Golden Satellite Award, a Peabody Award and an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Currently, he is also the executive producer of The Unit and of Women's Murder Club, a pilot for ABC written by two of his former Shield writers, Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain. In the feature arena, Ryan is currently writing a movie for James L. Brooks. Ryan's service to the Guild began in 1999, when he was appointed to the Television Writers Council. He has also served one term on the Board Nominating Committee.
 Robin Schiff has written, executive produced or directed so many film and television projects that she is exhausted just thinking about them, but they're listed ad nauseum on IMDb.com. Some highlights include her season executive producing-showrunning Grosse Pointe, the well-reviewed yet inexplicably short-lived WB TV series created by Darren Star. She wrote the screenplay for and executive produced the 1997 cult hit Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, and co-created the delightful, entertaining and intelligent but inexplicably short-lived CBS sitcom Almost Perfect. Schiff was a member of The Groundlings improv comedy group, which was an important formative experience in her creative evolution. She is a member of the board of the Writers Guild Foundation. She is working on numerous projects, and is especially excited about a musical version of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, which she's working on with Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch ) as composer and lyricist. She's been a member of the WGA since 1980 and is currently serving on the Board of Directors.
 Steven Schwartz writes for both movies and television. He is the writer and producer of the movie Critical Care, for which he won an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. His television credits include the drama series 100 Centre Street, starring Alan Arkin, and The Practice. Currently, Schwartz is a member of the WGAW Membership Finance Committee and serves on the Board of Directors/Trustees of the WGA Pension and Health Funds.
 Ed Solomon has written extensively in film and television. His movie credits include Men in Black, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (co-written with Chris Matheson), Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (co-written with Chris Matheson), Leaving Normal and Levity, which he also directed. He is currently writing Tokyo Suckerpunch for Sony Pictures and Tobey Maguire, and Nowhereland (co-written with Chris Matheson) for Paramount Pictures and Eddie Murphy. For television he was a staff writer on It's Garry Shandling's Show.
 Dan Wilcox is a member of the WGAW Board of Directors and a lifetime member of the Guild. He serves on more committees than he cares to count, including the current Negotiating Committee, the Waiver Committee, the Committee Advisory Panel (CAP), the Newswriters Committee and the Daytime Committee. He is a delegate to the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds and attends National Council meetings as an alternate. He has had a long and varied career, starting with Captain Kangaroo and Sesame Street and ranging to adult fare like M*A*S*H, Newhart and Cosby. He has also been credited on several dramas, including Roots II and Diagnosis Murder.
 Larry Wilmore began his career as a stand up comedian and writer for other comedians. His first break as a writer in television was on In Living Color, for which he received an Emmy nomination. He went on to write for several sitcoms, including Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Jamie Foxx Show. Wilmore co-created The PJs with Eddie Murphy, which was also nominated for an Emmy.
He then created the critically acclaimed The Bernie Mac Show. Wilmore won an Emmy, a Peabody and a Humanitas award for his work as creator and executive producer of the The Bernie Mac Show. He is currently serving as a consulting producer on the NBC sitcom The Office.
Recently, Wilmore has returned to his performing roots and has appeared on The Office as diversity training specialist “Mr. Brown.” He is also appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as the “Senior Black Correspondent,” and is developing projects for himself for television and film. Wilmore is a former WGAW Board member and also sits on the Board of Governors for the Museum of Television & Radio.
PHOTOS: DAVID A,GOODMAN, STEPHEN GAGHAN, HOWARD MICHAEL GOULD, AARON MENDELSOHN AND STEVEN SCHWARTZ BY LEROY HAMILTON. CARL GOTTLIEB BY NURIT WILDE. ED SOLOMON BY ZARA TZANEV.
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