Kim Breden is the founder and executive muse of Be Mused Productions, specializing in educational entertainment. Be Mused Children’s Theatre Company has offered musical theater workshops for children, preschool through teen in Westchester and Dutchess Counties. In addition to directing and producing these workshops, Kim provides music programs celebrating Broadway’s greatest hits, for museums, libraries, and nearly 50 Senior Residences in the tri-state area. Kim is a volunteer teaching artist and facilitator with Rehabilitation through the Arts (RTA). For the past 16 years, she has directed full musical productions and workshops in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State.
Lee Ann Brown is an educator, plus the author of many poetry collections and collaborations including Polyverse, The Sleep That Changed Everything, Other Archer, In the Laurels, Caught, Crowns of Charlotte, The Sleep That Changed Everything, and Polyverse, and O You Nameless and Unnamed Ridges, a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer. Recent journal and anthology publications include poems in Fence Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Bathhouse. threefold, diSONARE, Queenzenglish.Mp3: Poetry | Philosophy | Performativity, Three Fold and Hot Pink. Recent essays include pieces on Julie Ezelle Patton in The Chicago Review, on Harryette Mullen in Georgina Colby's Her Silver-tongued Companion: Reading Harryette Mullen for the Edinburgh Foundations on Avant-Garde Writing Series (University of Edinburgh Press) and a lyric essay in Stephanie Anderson's Women in Independent Publishing:A History of Unsung Innovators, 1953-1989 (University of New Mexico Press). Lee Ann Brown edits and publishes Tender Buttons Press, curates and performs at poetry happenings at Torn Page and many other venues and currently teaches poetry at St. John's University in New York City.
Greg Canada is the assistant dean of admissions at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Greg is a lecturer on the philosophy of law for Indian University’s Hutton Honors program. Mr. Canada earned a BA in history and philosophy from Virginia Wesleyan College, summa cum laude, an MA in philosophy from Boston College, and a graduate certificate in higher education administration from Harvard University.
Alison Clancy is a multivalent artist contributing to the worlds of music, dance, film and multimedia projects in collaboration with NYC’s major cultural institutions. As a performer Clancy dances in eighteen rotating productions at The Metropolitan Opera, originating roles in collaboration with the luminary directors and choreographers of our time. Clancy made dance history originating the longest Principal Dance Solo in the company’s history (12 minutes), summoning a holographic lightning storm for Wagner’s Der Fliegende Hollander. Beyond The Met, Alison’s danced for Zvi Gotheiner, Shen Wei, Sonya Tayeh, Ryan Heffington, Baz Luhrmann and more. As a creative director Clancy combines original music, choreography and design to create poignant reflections of our tender human psyches and contradictory paradoxes. Her work is presented by theaters, galleries, museums, and nightclubs all over the US and Europe. As a recording artist she is signed to Independent Project Records and Kate Hyman management, with music featured in the soundtracks of many films.
Joe George has worked in education, theater, music, television, voice-over, and film for over 25 years. Joe is a founding member of the theater/dance troupe Witness Relocation, which toured in the U.S. and internationally. He has performed in just about everything from Shakespeare, Commedia, Greek tragedy, rock musicals, downtown, and contemporary modern theater. He has been committed to creating new theatrical styles of performance that challenge what’s possible in the theater. He holds an M.F.A. from Harvard University and Moscow Art Theater School.
Greta Gertler Gold is a composer, lyricist, performer and producer based in NYC. Originally raised in Australia she is an Award-winning, hit songwriter whose work has been produced at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, Sydney Opera House and more. 
Jennifer Gilchrist is a veteran New Yorker who now resides in Metro Detroit. She taught literature courses at Hunter College and has published articles in Twentieth-Century Literature and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. In addition to her instruction at JASA, she is the review editor of Supernatural Studies: A Journal of Art, Culture, and Media. With a specialty in modernist narrative, she received her Ph.D. in twentieth-century American and British literature from Fordham University in the Bronx.
Leora Harpaz is an emeritus professor of constitutional law at Western New England University School of Law as well as founder of the annual Supreme Court Conference where she has been a speaker for over 20 years. Since receiving emeritus status, she has been an instructor in several senior learner programs and taught undergraduate law courses in the political science department at Hunter College. She received her B.A. from Stony Brook University and has law degrees from both Boston University and New York University.
Bill Hughes is an investigative reporter who serves as program director at CUNY York College’s Journalism Program in Jamaica, Queens. Over a career that has spanned nearly 30 years, he has won numerous awards for exposing police and government corruption. His most notable case, which was featured in an episode of Dateline NBC, involved the exoneration of a man who served more than 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He also serves as a volunteer investigator for The Jeffery Deskovic Foundation for Justice.
Pamela Koehler is an adjunct professor of art and art history at Adelphi University. As a teaching artist, she has presented lectures, talks, and workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Morgan Library, the Whitney, and the Dahesh Museum.
Natan Last published his first crossword puzzle in the New York Times when he was 16, then the youngest constructor to appear in the Times. Last wrote a book of crosswords, Titled Word. He has a B.A. with honors in Economics and Literary Arts from Brown University.
Jane Marsh was the first singer to win the Gold Medal in Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition. Among Verdi, Strauss, and Bel Canto, her repertoire includes the signature Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov heroines. She has appeared as a performer and M.C. in international and U.S. radio and television venues and since 2007, has presented Metropolitan Opera Guild lectures and master classes on Bel Canto, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Mozart, Strauss, and the Russian repertoire. She was awarded the New York Handel Medaille for exceptional contribution to the world of music.
Siobhan Nestor is a Costume Maker for the Soloist Women at the Metropolitan Opera. She received her Master’s of Fine Arts in Costume Production from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Siobhan spent her early career in Broadway costume shops working on shows like Wicked, Young Frankenstein, Spamalot, and Phantom of the Opera. After starting her family, she became the Head of the Men’s Costume Department at New York City Ballet. During the 2020-2021 academic year, Siobhan was an Adjunct Professor of Theater Production and Costuming at Montclair State University. She currently lives in Jersey City with her family. 
Alexander Pichugin Ph.D. is the Director of German languages and literature studies at Rutgers University. Alexander is an assistant teaching professor covering a wide range of topics. Courses include, “Cultural Diversity,” “German Music,” “The Wonderful World of Opera,” “Ecocriticism,” “Knowledge, Language and Cognition,” “Ecocinema,” and “Hitler in Film.” He is the recipient of a 2020 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education.
Lars Rosager danced on Broadway in the original casts of 42nd Street, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, and the 1987 revival of Cabaret, directed by Harold Prince and choreographed by Ron Field. He has taught dance at Circle in the Square, Steps on Broadway, CAP 21, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and is currently on faculty at The American Music and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), where he teaches dance history. Most recently he has staged dances and taught master classes for Nikki Atkin’s The American Dance Machine for the 21st Century. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary’s College of California.
Leo Schaff is an actor, singer, and songwriter. A longtime Bardolator, he also teaches at the 92nd Street Y and was NY1 New Yorker of the Week for his popular Shakespeare classes for seniors throughout the city. He co-wrote “Give Us Hope,” a song performed by the San Francisco Children’s Choir at President Obama’s first Inauguration.
Evan Zes The Kite Runner. National Tour: Clue; Off Broadway: Incident at Vichy at The Signature Theatre; Rent Control (writer/performer) at Soho Playhouse; Arms and The Man at Gingold; Days to Come at The Mint Theatre Company; London Assurance, Freedom of the City, Man and Superman, White Woman Street, Around the World in 80 Days at Irish Repertory Theatre; American Dreams with The Acting Company. International: Rent Control at Elliniko Theatro in Athens, Greece; and Teatro Jaco in Costa Rica; Julie Taymor’s The King Stag at the Barbican London. Regional: Paper Mill, Hartford Stage, The McCarter, The Alley, The Goodman, The Old Globe, Pittsburgh CLO, A.R.T., New York Stage and Film, Cleveland Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Shakespeare Theatre DC, Pittsburgh Public Theater, St. Louis Repertory Theater, Baltimore Centerstage, Berkeley Rep, Lookingglass. TV: Only Murders in the Building, The Blacklist, FBI Most Wanted, The Path. Film: The Street.