Jim Capobianco is a director, writer & storyboard artist with an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Ratatouille who also worked on Pixar’s Toy Story 2, UP and Inside Out.

George Schlatter is a veteran of over 60 years in network television. As producer, director and writer, George created Laugh-in, Real People and The American Comedy Awards.

A versatile director of theatre, film & television with credits ranging from Home Improvement to Friends. Andrew is the creator of the new series tendingthefirepod.com

John Gilkey is an award-winning circus performer, actor, director and teacher who has performed live for more than four million people as principal character with Cirque Du Soleil.

Bill Persky is a legendary Emmy-award winning TV writer, director & producer who co-wrote many of the classic episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and created the TV series That Girl before going on to direct 100 episodes of Kate & Allie.

Lindsey Ferrentino Is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose plays include Ugly Lies the Bone, Amy and the Orphans, This Flat Earth and The Year to Come. She is writing the book for the new musical Queen of Versailles with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.

Randy Pitchford is the founder and CEO of the Gearbox Entertainment Company, the executive producer of the Borderlands Movie, the publisher of Genii Magazine and the new owner of Hollywood’s Magic Castle.

Christine Toy Johnson is a Tony-honored, Obie, Rosetta LeNoire, JACL, and Asian American Arts Alliance award-winning writer, actor, director, filmmaker and advocate for inclusion. Christine was a cast member of the first National Tour of the musical Come From Away.

A two-time Emmy award-winning director of the #1 local PBS show in the country and producer for Plum Media.

A British video game designer and director best known as the writer of Her Story and Immortality. Sam is the founder of Half-Mermaid, a video game production company based in Brooklyn, NY.

An award-winning global director of cirque, cinema & stage. As comic act designer he specializes in clowns, characters and story components. Stefan is the author of The Power of HA! Connecting through the heart of humor.

A critically-acclaimed musician and producer known for his touring shows Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience, Yesterday and Today: The Beatles Interactive Experience and Billy McGuigan's Pop Rock Orchestra.

A theatre director, puppeteer, and African American theatre historian and archivist who received his MFA in theatre directing from Northwestern University.

The director behind comedian Mike Birbiglia’s many one person shows, co-founder and co-artistic director of The Barrow Group and author of An Actor’s Companion: Tools for the Working Actor.

The creator of Freaks and Geeks and the director of Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy and The School for Good & Evil. Paul is also the author of Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun.

A music director, conductor, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger and orchestrator who toured nationally with The Producers, Anastasia, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Sunset Boulevard and Les Miserables.

The Guthrie Theater’s Senior Artistic Producer who served on artistic staffs for the City Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club and Hartford Stage, where she worked principally on the development of new plays & musicals.

A self-taught filmmaker who has directed four feature films, three documentaries and over 1300 national & regional commercials, as well as Maria Bamford’s acclaimed Netflix Comedy Special.

New Zealand’s critically-acclaimed, collaborative theatre company that explores mask, character, puppetry, story, music, pathos and humor in pursuit of the serious laugh. Listen Now

A Canadian figure skater and choreographer who has two Emmy Awards; one for Scott Hamilton: Upside Down and the other for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Listen Now