Love Letters

LEA THOMPSON is an accomplished American actress, director, and producer, best known for her iconic portrayal of Lorraine Baines in the Back to the Future trilogy. That role cemented her status as a beloved figure of 1980s cinema including Some Kind of Wonderful, Howard the Duck and Red Dawn. She recently wrapped producing and directing the series Anna Pigeon for the USA network, based on the bestselling “Anna Pigeon” book series. The series premiered on the USA Network on August 7th, 2026 and debuted to an 8-year rating high for USA. Thompson also recently appeared in a production of the musical Three Months Later, starring alongside Kristen Bell, Camille Chen and Michael McKean. On television, Thompson has starred in several award-winning series throughout her storied career. She garnered widespread acclaim as the title role in the “Must see” 1990s sitcom Caroline in the City, and as Kathryn Kennish in ABC Family’s Peabody Award-winning series Switched at Birth. She has a prolific independent film resume including 3 films in competition at Sundance. Thompson expanded her creative talents into directing with her 2006 debut on the movie for television series Jane Doe, in which she also starred. She later directed the star-studded 2017 comedy feature The Year of Spectacular Men, whose success led to directing opportunities on numerous popular series, including The Goldbergs, Mom, Young Sheldon, Star Trek: Picard,  Resident Alien and Will Trent. Her versatility in both comedy and drama—on camera and behind it—has made her a sought-after director in film and television. Lea has had a full unpredictable life as a ballet dancer, actress, a singer on Broadway, director, producer, advocate, wife for 36 years to director Howard Deutch, mother of two amazing daughters Madelyn and Zoey Deutch and now a grandmother. Her enduring talent, versatility, and passion for meaningful work continue to shape her remarkable career.

John Shea, Primetime Emmy Award winner John Shea, one of the most versatile actors of his generation, has continually received critical acclaim for fleshing out a wide range of fully dimensional characters for stage, film, and television. After his film debut in the English thriller Hussy opposite Helen Mirren, Shea burst onto the international scene in Costa-Gavras’ 1982 Academy Award winning political thriller Missing, which also won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Starring opposite Sissy Spacek, he began a tradition of working with talented leading actresses in the forty films that he’s shot around the world. He’s thrilled to be reunited with Lea Thompson with whom he shot the limited series A Will of Their Own and the critically acclaimed feature, James Hemphill’s The Trouble With the Truth. Since his Broadway debut starring as a Yeshiva boy in Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singers’ Yentl at age 27, he has starred in twenty productions of new and classic plays On and Off- Broadway and in London’s West End where he starred in The Normal Heart. Shea’s television work includes leading roles in five series including the international hits Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman as Lex Luthor, Mutant X for Marvel and Warner Brothers, Agent X opposite Sharon Stone, and the original Gossip Girl as Harold Waldorf. Shea is an award-winning filmmaker who co-wrote, directed, and acted in the drama Southie set in South Boston during the heyday of the Irish mob. Shea also wrote, directed, produced, and acted in the romantic thriller Grey Lady, the first major feature film shot entirely on Nantucket; both are distributed internationally by Lionsgate Films. He also produced their soundtracks. After graduation from Bates College, he studied acting at the Yale School of Drama, graduating with an MFA in Directing. In New York he worked with mentors Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio, Joseph Papp at the Public Theatre, and Robert Kalfin at The Chelsea Theatre. While at Bates, Shea got his professional start at The Theatre Workshop with founder Mac Dixon. Years later, returning to help produce, direct, and act in forty productions as Artistic Director, Shea helped restore TWN as a professional, collaborative and creative force. As Artistic Director Emeritus his recent work includes acting in Terms of Endearment, in James Gallagher, in Sylvia and directing and playing Ahab for twelve seasons in Orson Welles’ Moby Dick Rehearsed. Shea’s married to the artist Melissa MacLeod and has three children, Jake, Miranda, and Caiden. See Wikipedia, IMDB, etc.