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Julia Dahl is currently on the writing staff for NBC's The West Wing and is attached to write the third installment of HBO's If These Walls Could Talk. She also wrote and produced three seasons of Party of Five, has written several screenplays, and had a full-length play, Wonderland, produced off-Broadway. Dahl attended Tufts University, but left in her junior year to pursue her writing career.

John Romano has been writer, producer and consultant on more than a dozen television shows including Hill Street Blues, L.A.Law, Knot's Landing, Party of Five, Third Watch, and Providence. In addition, he has created three series of his own: Class of '96 (Fox); Sweet Justice (NBC) with Cicely Tyson; and Michael Hayes (NBC) starring David Caruso. Previously, Romano was assistant professor of English at Columbia University, and is the author of Dickens and Reality (Columbia, 1979).