KATHERYN KROTZER LABORDE (Stay)
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Katheryn Krotzer Laborde has worked as a writer in one form or another for more years than she cares to admit. A writer of prose, she is a past recipient of the Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship in Literature and received a Louisiana Cultural Economy Grant for her writings on Katrina evacuation and recovery. An Assistant Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana, her writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, Callaloo, Xavier Review, and other journals and anthologies.

CATHY LADMAN (Forever)
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One of the country's top comedians, Cathy has not only appeared on The Tonight Show nine times, but was also the only female comic to appear on the last two Johnny Carson Tonight Show Anniversary shows. Cathy has had her own HBO One Night Stand comedy special and, in 1992, was awarded the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up Comic.

Cathy's film credits include The Aristocrats, White Oleander, What Planet Are You From?, My Fellow Americans, and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. Her television appearances include a recurring role on Caroline in the City, regular appearances on ABC's Politically Incorrect and Comedy Central's Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, and guest starring roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Everybody Loves Raymond.

Cathy's writing career includes developing original television treatments, episodic scripts, and feature-length screenplays. Cathy spent seasons writing on The Caroline Rhea Show (2002), The Wayne Brady Show (2001), Caroline in the City (1997), and Roseanne(1996). She recently wrote on the pilot episode of Bravo's, Situation: Comedy.

In addition to stand-up, TV, and film, Cathy has been doing more live theatre. She was in the 25th Anniversary Production of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove in Los Angeles. She developed her show, Scaredypants, with HBO and took it to the Aspen Comedy Festival. She is currently working on a new solo show, Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?

Cathy will be appearing on the Funniest Mom in America 3, which premieres in April on Nick at Nite.

PORTIA LANGWORTHY (The Beast with Two Backs)
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Portia Langworthy is a Seattle-based small business owner and writer. In 1986 she starred in the 8th grade production of "The Littlest Angel" where, despite her near panic attack onstage, she won rave reviews from her mother and an extra scoop of ice cream for dessert. When not writing, Portia can be found watching The Simpsons reruns with her husband, collecting euphemisms for sex (her current favorite being "the beast with two backs"), and pursuing her Nonfiction Writing Certificate from the University of Washington. FRESH YARN presents her first published piece.

Beth enjoys being on the radio and has hosted a daily live talk show on Comedy World, is a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, and is "the self help consultant" for ABC Radio's Satellite Sisters.

Beth also enjoys being on TV and in film and often plays offbeat authority figures. Club owners, gallery owners, A&R execs, movie producers. She recently appeared on Sex and the City as a performance artist. She actually did begin her career as an NEA-funded performance artist and her current artwork is available through Ghetto Gloss in Los Angeles. (ghettogloss.com).

Beth, and her partner Greg Miller have developed shows for Oxygen, Disney,
and MTV. They've created and produced Say the Word, a reading series for
comedy writers, which is now available on two CDs, and The Other Network,
which presents great unaired TV pilots introduced by their creators.

Beth has written for Utne Magazine, LA Weekly, Premier Magazine and run her mouth on CNN, NBC news, Politically Incorrect and E!. She is at work on two books, practicing yoga and remodeling a Meiselman home in Palm Springs. For more info go to: uncabaret.com.

MAXINE LAPIDUSS (A-One and A-Two-A Macadamia Nuts); (Scared Medicine)
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Maxine Lapiduss is an entertainer, TV comedy writer/producer, New Media entrepreneur, and "Reality Show Diva." She starred in the 8-hour reality series for Bravo called Situation: Comedy -- a documentary in the style of Project Green Light about writing and producing sitcoms. Sean Hayes (Will and Grace) created the series.

Maxine has written and produced some of the most popular half hour comedies of the past decade including the final season of Ellen (Three Emmy nominations), Roseanne, (Emmy nomination as Best Comedy Series and a Golden Globe award the years Maxine was there), Home Improvement (People's Choice Award for Best Comedy Series) and the last season of Dharma and Greg, to name a few. She continues to create series for TV.

Her first live theatrical venture, SITUATION TRAGEDY: Observations on 10 years in Hollywood...with Bongos, wowed critics and audiences alike. It ran to sold-out houses in Hollywood, won fourteen Dramalogue Awards, and was nominated for an Ovation Award (The LA "Obie") for best New Musical. Her new live show will be premiering in LA in the spring. For more info go to www.maxinelapiduss.com.

RUTH LeFAIVE (The Scope of Distance)
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It all started with the Brown IBM Electric Typewriter, back when brown wasn't a fashion "Do". Ruth abandoned efforts at writing her autobiography when she was just eight years old, only 13 pages into the story, and has successfully withdrawn from countless projects ever since.

Her most recent escape, from a twelve-year pigeonhole of comfort in TV and Film post-production, has left her pondering a more meaningful existence pondering the meaning of existence. Once published in the collection Around & About L.A.: Creative Nonfiction by Emerging Los Angeles Writers, Ruth finds herself in perpetual emergence.

She writes at home, forty-two paces from the West Los Angeles 7-11 where they affectionately call her, "No Nacho?" each time she buys low fat frozen yogurt. Although often slipping in honest and unnecessary confessions about her recovery from junk food addiction, she usually does not refer to herself in the third person.

TODD LEVIN (Soteriophobia: The Annual Birthday Revue); (A Man of Great Principles); (My Racist Aunt)
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Todd Levin is a comedian and writer living in Brooklyn. He performs in clubs and alternative venues all over New York, including Stand-Up NY, The Laugh Lounge, Rififi, PSNBC, and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and will be making his television debut on Comedy Central's Premium Blend later this year.

His writing has appeared in Salon, Glamour, The Modern Humorist, McSweeney's, The Onion and, too frequently, his own web site www.tremble.com. Todd also co-produces and co-hosts the popular monthly comedy reading series, HOW TO KICK PEOPLE, which The Onion calls "a winning hybrid of comedic storytelling, performance, and other random bits."

JOHN LEVENSTEIN (It Feels Worse); (Dixie Canyon)
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John Levenstein is a TV writer/producer, currently working on the Fox show Arrested Development. Previous credits include The John Larroquette Show, Secret Lives of Men, and What About Joan. He's written and/or produced pilots for Fox, CBS, NBC, and ABC, along with writing and directing the self-produced pilot Sonoma. John also reads his essays at the Los Angeles series Sit 'n Spin. For more, go to www.saltinwound.com.

TUCKER LIEBERMAN (The Weight of the Wannigan)
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Tucker Lieberman has a masters degree in journalism and has written for five anthologies on gender studies (two forthcoming). His poetry has recently been published online at Snakeskin (www.snakeskin.org.uk) and Ariga (www.ariga.com). He enjoys train rides, bread baking, and Shabbat services at synagogue in Providence, R.I.

CLAUDIA LONOW (West Side Story)
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Claudia Lonow was born in a trunk... of a tree. She is a woodland nymph. However, that hasn't stopped her meteoric rise in Hollywood. She created the television show, Rude Awakening, which ran on Showtime for three groundbreaking seasons; and Good girls Don't,which ran on the Oxygen network for eight critically acclaimed episodes. In between these bursts of brilliance, she's served as co-executive producer on other television shows such as: Less than Perfect, and The War at Home. She can also be seen performing in the literary and performance showcase Sit 'n Spin. Oh, and she played the part of Diana Fairgate (the chubby loud-mouthed daughter of Michele Lee), on the nighttime soap opera, Knots Landing.

Following a quick ten-year stint working comedy clubs all over the country, she turned to a career in television sitcom writing. She has been a writer/producer on numerous sitcoms, including Living Single; Sister, Sister and The Tracy Morgan Show. Bernadette has written many short stories and poems. She is married to the best massage therapist in Los Angeles.

MEREDITH SCOTT LYNN (My Life with Her Dog)
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Meredith founded Big Hair Productions and produced, along with director Julie Davis, the indie film I Love You, Don't Touch Me! which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in '97 and was released to critical acclaim by MGM. Immediately following she was offered the role opposite Sean Hayes in, and then signed on to produce, the independent film success and Sundance festival favorite, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. Meredith soon co-directed the original screenplay Standing On Fishes in which she co-stars with Kelsey Grammer, Jason Priestley, Pamela Reed and writer Bradford Tatum. She co-produced and co-stars in How to Go Out On A Date in Queens with Jason Alexander, Rob Estes, Ron Pearlman and Kimberly Williams. She developed and directed the short film, Demo Reel…a tragedy in 10 minutes which opened the shorts program at HBO's prestigious US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and wrote, and is attached to direct, the film Pay The Ladies for executive producer Amy Heckerling and producers Matthew Rhodes and Judd Payne. She recently founded 1Train Films, a new company on a mission to make movies people want to see…

Along with her film endeavors, Meredith has multiple television projects that are either sold or in development hell with everyone else's. She is also very active in the production of fundraising events and PSA's for issues and causes that move her.

An actress, she most recently co-starred with Leslie Ann Warren and Jack Klugman in Sal Litvak's When Do We Eat? She played Detective Jackson opposite Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett and Bruce Greenwood in the poorly marketed comedy, Hollywood Homicide. She was lesbian activist Enid Wexler in MGM's Legally Blonde, co-starred as the aggressive bridesmaid "Debbie" in Dreamworks' Forces Of Nature with Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock and as the "Credit Vixen" in Paramount's A Night At The Roxbury.

ANNAH MACKENZIE (Salvation Lake)
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According to her business card, Annah is both a "creative consultant" and an "academic expressionist." In reality, though, she is a bartender in Brooklyn, slinging wine and stinky cheese to those who have been paying their rent on time for years. She's been moving around steadily for the past ten years, from Madagascar to Krakow, and her next stop will be Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a PhD in American Culture. While this new four-year plan gives the illusion of focus, she kind of digs not knowing what the hell she's doing and she remains hopeful that one day she'll have a less nebulous title for her business cards. This is her first published piece.

JEN MAHER (Far From Home)
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Dr. Maher teaches in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her fields include Popular Culture, American Women's Literature, Third Wave Feminism, and Gender and the Body. She has published in academic and popular venues, including fictional autobiographical works in Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth about Women's Friendships and Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership. She is a frequent contributor to Bitch: A Feminist Response to Popular Culture and is very proud to be part of the new Farrar Strauss and Giroux anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism From the Pages of Bitch Magazine. She is currently at work on a longer memoir tentatively titled My Orthodontist Was a Porn Star: Memoirs of a Southern California Girlhood, and an academic project focused on representations of teachers in popular culture whose title isn't nearly as good. She still dreams of one day starting an all-girl Bruce Springsteen cover band.

JERRY MAHONEY (The Year I was Special)
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Jerry Mahoney likes to write just about everything in the world -- from personal essays to screenplays to fiction to angry, ranting message board posts -- everything except bios, because he sometimes has trouble figuring out what is relevant and what isn't. He is a graduate of USC film school, a reality TV writer/producer, an avid pretzel eater, and he once bowled a 244 game.

Jerry created the uncreatively-named MTV reality show The Reality Show, which has the distinction of being the first MTV series to be transferred to the internet midway through its run. It was not a big hit. But it was still fun to work on, and he got to meet Omarosa.

Although Jerry has had moderate success with his writing career, he has had no success finding someone to represent him. If you enjoy comedy and have heard of Billy Crystal, you are better than Jerry's most recent agent.

Through a bizarre coincidence, Jerry Mahoney shares his name with a famous ventriloquist's dummy, who has delighted children around the world. Jerry Mahoney the person has made it his ultimate life goal to someday be the #1 search result on Google for his own name. He has a lot more children to delight before he can hope to accomplish this. Jerry writes infrequently of his adventures at Why Jerry Why.

HEATHER MAIDAT (Shalloween)
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Heather Maidat has written for television shows like Girls Behaving Badly, Shipmates and History IQ as well as MTV specials and a show called Yoga-on-Demand. She's written promos for ABC Family and BET and has been published on Blacktable.com, GirlComic.net and in the Indierock Guide to Dating.

On other jobs Heather has helped Dr. Ruth find her purse, and once at Comedy Central's Friars Club Roast, Abe Vigoda, TV's "Fish," mistook her for a waitress and asked her for the fish.

ALEXIS A. MAISLEN (March of the Matchstick Men)
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Alexis A. Maislen is a freelance writer with an MA in Writing from DePaul University in Chicago. Her work has been published in The Hartford Courant, The Hartford Advocate, The Hartford Business Journal, Conscious Choice magazine, and other publications in the Chicago area and New England. She is currently working on her first nonfiction book and studying to be a librarian. When not writing, she spends her time working out at the gym, reading young adult lit, designing web sites with good strong coffee, watching re-runs of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, blogging, reading zines, journaling, meditating, and practicing yoga.

INGRID MALTRUD (Places With You and Places Without You)
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Ingrid Maltrud is a corporate communications alchemist who turns dry financial gobbledygook into fascinating prose. When she's not writing about hedge funds, she's writing fiction and non-fiction on topics ranging from death to love to bullies. Ingrid escaped LA for Santa Fe and is blessed to live with two muses and numerous spiders who watch over her as she spins tales. When she's not at the computer, she's involved in hospice, bodywork, salsa dancing and traveling. She is currently working on several pieces relating to abortion, corporate intelligence, a screenplay adaptation of Wagner's Parsifal and a pitch to the Oprah Show on the salvation of best friends.

DINAH MANOFF (Fremo)
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Dinah Manoff is an award winning actor and director. She has written for both stage and television and had several short stories presented at the prestigious writer's forum Spoken Interludes and recorded for NPR's KCRW.

She has had numerous roles on stage and film, among them, Grease, Ordinary People, and Child's Play. Dinah has starred in the television series, Soap, Empty Nest and most recently State of Grace.

She received a Tony award for her role in Neil Simon's play, I Ought to be in Pictures (which she reprised in the feature film), and won the prestigious L.A. Theater award for her stage adaptation and direction of her father's novel, A Telegram for Heaven.

Dinah is the daughter of actress/director Lee Grant and the late writer Arnold Manoff. She and her husband and their three boys reside in Bainbridge Island, Washington where she has recently completed her first novel.

HAYWARD HAWKS MARCUS (The Man Who Could be Hung)
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When not jawing with toothy coyotes in the hills above Monterey Bay, Ms. Hawks can be found squirreled away in her lair, rabidly hitting the keys, or fishing through her dog-eared dictionary for obscure words like "fubsy" just to drive her editor batty. Currently, she is putting the final touches on Stardust Drive-In, her epic novel about love, betrayal, and the importance of supernaturally protective footwear.

Already racking up prizes in local publications for its verve and rare Steinbeckian qualities, excerpts from Stardust Drive-In have received both First Place and Honorable Mention awards in The Monterey County Weekly.

She is also writing the companion novel to her screenplay, Coyote Highway, and is the head writer for a children's comedy sketch TV show, now in preproduction. She is also, by the way, a champion dirty limerick writer.

Anyone wishing to know more, or the meaning of fubsy, might try this blog: http://humorevolution.typepad.com/

DAN MARTIN (Sergeant Masterson, M.D.)
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Dan Martin has been an assistant on several television shows, recently on the new Comedy Central Production Happy Game Fun Bomb. He is currently the Producer's assistant on the NBC pilot Lies and the Wives we Tell them to.

Dan has written numerous screenplays and pilots and is finishing his book Operation: Cure Boredom, a collection of humorous essays about his experiences in the military.

Dan was kicked out of high school and college, but passed Chemical Warfare Training with flying colors.

TIMBER MASTERSON (Off the Charts in Tears)
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Timber Masterson is a writer/actor/TV host-type-fellow who resides, presently, in Toronto, Canada, (Why?) and yes, it’s a long story. “Are there no points for having survived New York and L.A? Who do I talk to about such matters?” His mammoth personal saga, A Long Way From Kind And Pretty, is now complete and on the lookout for an agent/publisher. While finishing his book, Tim’s been cleansing his mind, organizing his website and contributing his imaginative tales to So New Media, Word Riot, Opium Magazine, Unlikely 2.0, Yankee Pot Roast, 3 AM Magazine, Milk Magazine, Noo Journal, Wandering Army, Now Magazine, The National Post, and other publications that accept his heartfelt jazzy epistles.

For a while, he co-produced and hosted a once-a-month interactive literary gathering called Word Substance Spatula at Toronto's updated Drake Hotel. Mr. Masterson occasionally shows up at writerly festival things like the 215 in Philadelphia and reads from his book or one of his staggeringly heartbreaking, yet whimsical, tales of courage and the pursuit of giggling. Look out for his next project, a compilation of published essays, A Bizarre But Entertaining Life I Seem To have Survived: True Imaginings From The Dementia Cul De Sac.

For more info check out www.timbermedia.com.

KATHLENE McGOVERN (A Less than Blessed Event)
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Kathlene has worked as a dancer from Atlantic City to Tokyo. After wearing feather headresses for two shows a day in such exotic locales as Guam (the island that is the world's biggest consumer of SPAM and boasts the world's largest K-Mart), she moved to New York.

In an effort to never have to high kick behind Matthew Broderick, Eric McCormack, or anyone else singing "76 Trombones," she began writing and acting. She has written and performed stand-up and sketch comedy at Carolines, Stand-Up New York and PSNBC and is a founding member of A Frayed Knot Theater Works.

GEORGE McGRATH (Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come for You?); (Take It From Me, a Four-Time Emmy Nominee)
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Creator and star of the sketch comedy series On The Television. A Groundling from 1984-94, he recently made one of his poorly publicized comebacks in their Ultimate Idol show. He was in Punchline (he and what army?); Was Globey, the Cowntess, the Fish and Zyzzyballubah on Pee-wee's Playhouse, and had a recurring role as "enthusiastic gay" on Tracey Takes On.

George is a four time Emmy nominee (2 for writing Pee-wee's Playhouse and 2 for writing/producing Tracey Takes On), a GLAAD Award winner (for Tracey Takes On Religion) and he won a TV Theme Song of the Year award for the theme for Pee-wee's Playhouse. He currently makes a living writing with the enchanting Tracey Ullman and annually writing a pilot "too funny to film." He hopes to pattern the rest of his career after that of Miss Rue McLanahan, at least as it was portrayed on her Intimate Portrait.

JASON MICALLEF (Timmy, Hand Momma her Gun)
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Jason Anthony Micallef has worked as the writer's assistant on the first season of Comedy Central's Reno 911!, written several short stories, screenplays, and TV pilots. He is presently working on a book of short stories about growing up in the South, and hopes to get paid for something sometime soon.

THOMAS BRYAN MICHURSKI (When We Were Yogurts)
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Bryan has been an advertising art director for 15 years, which has of course, made him unemployable in any profession that doesn't involve sitting in a room with Nerf toys, "making shit up". His award-winning work can be found in Luerzer's International Archive, The One Show, Communication Arts, and landfills all over the world. Go to www.michurski.com to see some of the ads he's created in his search for the big idea.

ELISE MILLER (Some Great Reward)
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Elise Miller hosts and curates the acclaimed New York spoken word series, East Side Oral, "the reading series your mother warned you about." (www.eastsideoral.com). Her first novel, Star Craving Mad (Warner Books) part romantic comedy, part celebrity satire, is in stores now. For more information, please visit www.elisemiller.com.

MARK MILLER (Sometimes You Just Gotta Let Your Hair Down)
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Mark started his comedy career in the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene, where he wrote and performed his own stand-up act, sharing the comedy club stages and often doing improvisational comedy with Dana Carvey and Robin Williams. Encouraged by Jay Leno to move to Los Angeles, Mark became a stand-up fixture at the Comedy Store and Improvisation nightclubs. TV soon beckoned, and Mark became the first 4.0 perfect-score-from-all-three-judges winner on Star Search. Several TV talk show appearances followed. At the same time, Mark created special stand-up comedy material for Roseanne, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Jimmie Walker, Gallagher, Jay Leno, Garry Shandling, Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey and many others.

Mark has had a series of sit-com staff positions, ranging from staff writer to story editor to executive script consultant, to producer, on such shows as The New Odd Couple, Diff'rent Strokes, She's The Sheriff, The Munsters Today, The Carol Burnett Show, (her more recent come-back attempt), Living Dolls, Together We Stand, What A Dummy, The New Hollywood Squares, and Dana Carvey's HBO Special.

Mark has been a nationally syndicated humor columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. His humor essays have also appeared in Playboy and Penthouse magazines, among others. He contributes radio comedy sketches and original material to Premiere Radio Syndicate and to the Jack FM series of CBS Radio stations nationwide. Finally, Mark has contributed comedy material to Showtime, the Playboy Channel, America Online, Weekly World News, and to nationally syndicated cartoonists including Bizarro's Dan Piraro. He is currently developing an edgy new children's feature film called Brokeback Daycare Center, and sincerely hopes for world peace, and for both Paris Hilton and Angelina Jolie to respect his restraining orders. Visit his website at: http://www.jcncomputer.com/markmiller.

WENDY MILLER (My Latest Miscarriage); (Worst Day Ever)
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Wendy Miller is an Emmy award-winning producer, writer and cartoonist. Originally from Chicago, Wendy spent the bulk of her childhood starring in commercials with Morris the Cat, Milton the Toaster and Ronald McDonald. After recovering from child stardom, Wendy's first professional writing job was for WGN's Bozo Show. Having nowhere to go but up, Wendy eventually moved to Los Angeles where she somehow landed jobs writing and producing for NBC, Fox, ABC, TV Land, VH1, UPN, Paramount, Buena Vista, Warner Brothers and Carsey-Werner to name a few.

Wendy's cartoons, Sad But True Comix, have been featured in Screen, Factsheet 5, The Chicago Reader, Babble and are currently published in Produced By magazine. The winner of the Lite Beer national comedy search, Wendy has been on the edge of superstardom for years and years. The star of The Wendy Miller Show -- the longest-running imaginary sitcom on television -- Wendy lives in Los Angeles with her husband and a retired circus poodle.

Breaking News! Wendy and her husband are expecting their first child, a girl, due in January 2006. They have not picked out a name and would really not like to hear your suggestions.

DANI KLEIN MODISETT (Hysterical Infertility)
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Dani Klein appeared at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 2002 with her solo show, The Move. As an actress, Dani has made several appearances on Law & Order, and the Broadway stage. She can be seen as Detective Carlson on the upcoming series Windfall for NBC.

Dani also produces and directs, After Birth, an ongoing reading series of original stories about being a parent at M Bar in Hollywood. Dani has also taught comedy at UCLA for six years.

CHERYL MONTELLE (Carousel)
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Cheryl Montelle started as a dancer who sings in New York City, and ended up a mom who writes in Los Angeles. She has performed in musicals on National Tours and off Broadway. Her first professional job as an actress was at La Mamma Etc. and since then she has performed at various other theaters in New York and Los Angeles. She has also worked as a commercial and voice over artist, and was seen in Her Last Chance, a Movie Of The Week for NBC.

Cheryl is a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective and her self-published collection of short stories and poems, My Life And Paul McCartney, was presented through the Collective at the Los Angeles Festival Of Books at UCLA. She was also a featured writer at the St. Louis Jewish Book Fair. Cheryl’s poems and personal essays have been published in Seven Seas Online Magazine, On The Bus, Rattle, and Spillway, She has performed her stories around Los Angeles at various venues, including Village Books, Borders, Jennifer's Cafe, Tasty Words, Girls Night Out, and Melt In Your Mouth. Cheryl will also be seen in the upcoming short film entitled Bunny.

CYNTHIA MOORE (Morgasma)
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Cynthia Moore is in the process of unwinding a big, fat string ball of a creative past. She co-founded the Los Angeles-based reading series, Word-a-Rama. Cynthia has drawers full of published journalism, un-finished fiction, dashed-off poetry, and movie treatments enough to wallpaper her 1,500-square-foot loft. Her pilot, Neverly Hills, is making its own little waves in the vast sea of TV pilots. And her latest feature script, Squeal, is squirming out of its skin to be finished so it can finally hit the desk of those drop-dead gorgeous, talented, astoundingly brilliant people who buy scripts.

JILL MORLEY (My Lesbian Love Letter from Prison [Or So I Thought])
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Jill Morley's critically acclaimed documentary film, STRIPPED, currently runs on the Sundance Channel and won "Best Documentary" at the Women's International Film Festival in Sydney. Theatrically, STRIPPED played at the Tribeca Screening Room in New York City (held over for two weeks) and the Sunset Laemmle in LA. It will be screening at the Anthology Film Archives in December. Currently, Jill has been directing, shooting and editing music videos for Afroman, including one at the Bunny Ranch.

Morley wrote and performed the play True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl, which ran in Manhattan for five years, at San Francisco's "Solo Mio Festival," (along with Eric Bogosion and John Waters), the "Texas Fringe Festival", LA's HBO Workspace, and opened Women's History Month at NYU. True Confessions is published in The Best Women's Plays of 1998. Other works are published in More Women's Monologues For Women, By Women, Millenium Monologues, Young Women's Monologues From Contemporary Plays, and Jill's short story Teaching Rose was recently published in the book, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex Was Wrong.

A contributing writer to The Village Voice, The New York Press, Penthouse, Inside Kung Fu, Shout Magazine and Gear Magazine, Jill co-produced two radio documentaries for "The World" and "This American Life," which aired on NPR. She also worked with Michael Moore as a producer and correspondent for The Awful Truth, Brazilian director Bruno Baretto -- revising the English version of his newest film, and is working on a screenplay Dustin Hoffman encouraged her to write after seeing STRIPPED. Jill currently directs, shoots and edits for hire. She is a tennis pro and has a black belt in Taekwondo, so watch out.

DESPARD MURGATROYD (The Very Idea)
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A published author and award-winning playwright, Despard Murgatroyd has been writing for many unprofitable years. He graduated from Muhlenberg College with an undergraduate degree in Theatre, which is why he writes. Despard's commentaries have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Cincinnati Enquirer, and have garnered him a fair amount of praise, criticism and the odd death threat. And by "odd..." well, they're odd. If you're at all familiar with some of the lesser-known operetti in the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, you'll know that "Despard Murgatroyd" is a pseudonym. Also, if you're at all familiar with some of the lesser-known operetti in the G&S canon, you're a freak.

BRIGID MURRAY (Mrs. Midas)
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Brigid Murray has numerous writing credits which won't be delved into since she chose to write this essay under an alias! She is also a self-taught artist living in New York City. Her most recent show was "Women of Influence" at Lasell College in Newton, MA. She was one of only two non-MFA's participating. After a lifetime of meaningless education, this means a lot. Her lifetime goal is to show at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, arguably the best museum on the face of the earth.

CAROLE MURRAY (McMystic: Reflections of an Unlikely Oracle)
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Carole Murray has been working for over twenty-five years as a metaphysical counselor. An over-achiever, Carole has designed countless Tarot decks and is the most represented artist in the Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol III. She currently enjoys making autobiographical Tarot decks for those whose innate psychic ability can be jogged by using their own symbology.

In 2002, she and her husband, artist Aris Dervis, created the website ServingSpirits.com as an attempt to recapture lost spiritual icons and return them to contemporary consciousness. Carole is awaiting the words "Bidding War!" for her novel, Still Life With Vegetables. She and Chuck Wahrhaftig began Hear After Productions, a service designed to help people organize their musical memoirs.