Lance Guest grew up performing in lots of high school theatre, surfing and playing guitar. In 1978, he started at UCLA as a theatre arts major and, continued performing in college theatre for two and a half years, receiving the school's Shakespeare award in 1980. Originally planning to work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, he attended an "open call" for the TV show "Fame" and was told by casting director Linda Francis that Performing Arts High School "didn't have a basketball team", but that Guest should have an agent. The next day he got a phone call from his first agent and started working so frequently in film and TV that he had to, quite reluctantly, drop out of school. His first TV role, at age 20, was as a recurring young reporter during the last two years of the award-winning Lou Grant show. His first film role, a month later, was as Jimmy, a young ambulance driver in the cult horror classic "Halloween II"(1981) with Jamie Lee Curtis. During post-production, the film's writer/producer, John Carpenter, was good friends with Nick Castle, who had seen some footage of Guest in the editing room. Castle was set to direct a new feature entitled "Centauri's Recruit ", later to be made in 1983 as "The Last Starfighter" with Guest in the title role. Upon wrapping the film, Guest went to Chicago to star in "The Roommate" a low-budget indie based on a John Updike short story. At the end of that year, Guest moved to New York City to continue studying acting and was performing in a play in Santa Fe, NM when "The Last Starfighter" opened in summer of 1984. He subsequently turned down several studio offers to instead star in another low budget indie about a bluegrass musician in Appalachia, which ultimately stalled in production. Having been told that "Starfighter" didn't make any money, Guest returned to LA, worked in a couple of TV movies, and was on his way to audition for the Yale School of Drama, when he was cast in the West Coast Premiere of Christopher Durang's "Baby With the Bathwater", which ran in LA for 5 months. He continued to work in theatre during the next year, until he was offered the part of Michael Brody in "Jaws the Revenge"(1987) followed by "The Wizard of Loneliness" (1988). Having finally settled in Los Angeles, he continued to work regularly in film and TV, as well as small theatre, for the next 20 years until he began a workshop of a new musical about Sun Records' Sam Phillips and the legendary 1956 impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, one of the first musicals to feature cast members playing all instruments. Guest created the role of Johnny Cash in "Million Dollar Quartet", which played first in Chicago in 2008 and moved to Broadway in 2010, where he received a New York Drama Guild nomination. Guest left the show in 2012 when it went on tour, although he continued to live in New York with his wife Danna Hyams and their son, Jack. Guest completed filming thriller "Late Phases" (2014) in summer of 2013 and moved back to LA with his family.