Jonathan Gann realized early on that his true happiness could only be found in creation. Since someone had already created the world, mankind, the wheel and the light bulb, Jon gravitated instantly to the next best thing...film making. Jon is the president ad creative director of the Gann Agency, a firm specializing in graphic design, web site development, advertising and client image management. He also heads up GannFilms which produces a range of high quality, effective works from corporate videos to broadcast commercials, to award winning short films. Jon's short film "Cyberslut" was a winner in the 2002 ROSEBUD Film and Video Festival. It has become the most screened gay-themed short film in history, playing more than 48 film festivals and television screenings worldwide. A graduate of the University of Deleware, Jon resides in Washington, DC with his pet pygmy hedgehog, margaret Dumont.

Edward Purcell is an International Education Consultant with a long and varied involvement with many aspect of the visual and performing arts. A life-long Washingtonian, he is an Art Historian by training and has exhibited work in textile design and fine crafts throughout the US. Over the past few years he has worked with the Arts Club of Washington to set up a number of performing arts roundtables and with a group of Episcopal Churches is putting together a series of "Mystical Moments" performances exploring the connection between faith and the arts. He is an avid researcher in both the history or art and costume, and has served on the Boards of several local theatre companies.

Suzanne Richard is the Accessibility Specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Office of AccessAbility and has a BA in theatre from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Open Circle Theatre - Washington's first professional theatre dedicated to showcasing the works of artists ad arts administrators with disabilities. Open Circle produced Christopher Durang's "Laughing Wild" las year at the 1409 Playbill Cafe, and will be producing "Jesus Christ Superstar" and Brecht's "The Caucasion Calk Circle" at Washington Shakespeare Company's Clarke Street Playhouse in the 2004-05 season. As an actress she has performed with the following companies in the Greater DC area: The Folger Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, Studio Secondstage, Project Y, Imagination Stage, Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre Program, Seize the Day, Venus Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival; and her film credits include The Snowflake Crusade, Focus on Me, The Bland Pitch Project.

Kim Roberts is the author of a book of poems, The Wishbone Galaxy, and editor of Beltway: An Online Poetry Quarterly. She has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the DC Commission on the Arts, and the DC Humanities Council, and has received writer's residency awards to 10 artist colonies (in California, New Mexico, Wyoming, Minesota, Illinois, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, and New York). She is an Arts Education and Literary Programs Specialist for the Cultural Affairs Division of Arlington County, Virginia.

John Stuhldreger is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker who works as a Television producer for the Arlington Public Schools. John has also done work for National Geographic, History Channel, ESPN, Fox Sports, PBS, ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, NBC NIghtly News and America's Cup Stars and Stripes Sailing Syndicate. John's documentary film "It's just me...Integration of the Arlington Public Schools" was a nominee in the 2002 ROSEBUD Film and Video Festival.