Alexis Clements, editor/writer
Clements is a writer currently based in New York City. One of the 06/07 fellows of the Dramatists Guild of America, recipient of a Puffin Foundation Artists Grant and a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, she writes plays, short stories, articles and is the founder of New Acquisition. Her work has been produced and published in both the US and the UK. Recent theatrical productions include: Conversation (New York, NY);Your Own Personal Apocalypse (New York, NY); The Interview (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, UK); Causality (Wheeling, WV); Three Choices (Chesterfield, UK); Pieces (Washington, DC, & Iowa City, IA); Class and The Great American Novel (Washington, DC); Finding Words and Unfettered (Kansas City, MO). Her play, Pieces, was also recently published by KNOCK Magazine. Her short stories have appeared a handful of literary magazines and collections, including two different anthologies published by Route (UK), Bonne Route and Ideas Above Our Station, and also on the Guardian's website, after winning a competition they co-sponsored with SciTalk. Her articles and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The Brooklyn Rail, Nature, Aesthetica, The L Magazine, and Travel New England. In fall of 2007 she joined the America-in-Play workshop, where she is eager to reconnect with her Yankee roots. She has a M.Sc. in Philosophy & History of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Emerson College.
Read more about her work here: www.alexisclements.com.

Dyana Kimball, theatre director
NYC productions include: CONVERSATION by Alexis Clements (University Settlement, Emerging Artist Theatre and Dramatists Guild); NUMBERS by Kieron Barry (Manhattan Repertory Theatre); YOUR OWN PERSONAL APOCALYPSE by Alexis Clements (Chashama and OMFM); Georg Buchner's WOYZECK (Central Park); Elmer Rice's THE ADDING MACHINE (Theatre at Riverside Church); Bertolt Brecht's BAAL, ISLAND OF SLAVES by Marivaux, and Bixby Elliot's LOVE AND LITERATURE (Schapiro Theatre at Columbia); LIBRARY PLAY by Paul Cohen (J. Houseman Theatre), STILL LIFE by Emily Mann (Belt Theatre), RUBBER by Tom Sleigh (RAW Space) and CHOPPING by Magdalena Gomez (HERE Arts Center). Regional: ORESTES 2.0, by Charles Mee Jr.-Brookville, NY (LIU, CW Post guest director); DON GIOVANNI, by Mozart-Juneau, AK (Opera-to-Go); WHAT WILL I DO WHEN YOU'RE GONE, by Neil Bell-Cambridge, MA (The Market Theatre/BTM); TRAVELING NAKED, by Debra Lake Fortson-Boston, MA (Boston Playwrights Theatre); THROUGH THE LEAVES, by Franz Xaver Kroetz-Boston, MA (BDL); TRANSFIGURATION OF BENNO BLIMPIE, by Albert Innurato-Boston, MA (BDL). Dyana received her MFA in directing from Columbia University and currently teaches directing at Marymount Manhattan College. She is also a teaching artist in NY public schools and is the head of Columbia University's Theatrical Collaboration Program for High School Students.
Read more about her work here: www.dyanakimball.com.

Beth Royer, poet
Beth Royer achieved an admirable level of success as a poet in high school and college. Among her awards were an Honorable Mention from NFAA/ARTS and Princeton University back in 1997, and a fellowship to study poetry at Bucknell University in the summer of 2000. She briefly attended graduate school for poetry in the South, but fled the lizards and sunshine for an office job, steady paychecks, and the love of a good dog named Lola Bandita Conine. Her poetry has appeared in Slipstream, Gulf Stream, Prairie Schooner, and Backwards City Review. Her short fiction has appeared in Quick Fiction, and in the anthology Brevity & Echo. A chapbook of her poems was published in 2004 by Slipstream Press entitled Radio Dreams, which featured a bunch of poems from her senior thesis at Emerson College. Frankly, she needs to work on new poems, but in the meantime, she is crunching numbers, working part-time toward her degree in librarianship, and selling crafty stuff at www.threedogparty.com. When not engaged in any of these activities, she is hanging out with her dog, who looks totally excellent in pearls.

Julia Vallera, artist/illustrator
Vallera is currently a part-time faculty member and student advisor at Parsons School of Design, NYC. She is also a designer/technical artist for Snoozer Loser Art Collective, NYC. Her animations have been featured in the International Children's Festival (New York), the Siggraph Animation Festival (California), and the Krok Film Festival (Ukraine). Her work has been exhibited at Glasshouse Gallery, NYC; NGC 224 Gallery, Queens, NY; Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY; and the Culture Factory, Norwalk, CT. And she has been featured in articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Textually.org. She received her B.F.A. in Illustration and Animation from Parsons School of Design, New York.
Read more about her work here: www.juliavallera.com.

Hillary Kolos, videographer
Kolos was the associate producer for the PBS documentary Declining by Degrees. She recieved her BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in Film and Television Production. Since graduating Kolos has worked on a wide variety of films and TV shows including as an interviewer for CBS's Creature Comforts USA, 2nd Assistant Director for BET's Multitude of Mercies, Post Production Assistant on A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter for A&E, and Outreach Coordinator for PBS' Race to Execution. She is currently a media educator in two NYC public schools and working with filmmaker Paul Deviln on his new film BLAST.