Meet Chris Mitchell. Musician, educator, and entrepreneur. Chris started out in the small town of Hagan, GA and after attending Georgia Southern University would go on to establish music related businesses based in Statesboro, GA.  Among these are Pladd Dot Music where Chris teaches others and sells his own brand of guitars and amplifiers.

Meet Zoe Kerr. Actress, director, and writer, whose work has been recognized by several film festivals and whose pilot script for "Prey For Us” won second place in the Pilot Category of the Slamdance Screenplay. She also got some attention on social media for her super-creative pitch video for her Seed & Spark campaign for her short film “A Mother.”

Meet Jamie Flanagan. Actor, writer, director and producer, and one of the founders of Respectful Productions, a company committed to making “spirited films, respectfully made.”

Meet Hannah Fierman. An actor, director, and producer, who found early success with the film V/H/S and it’s prequel Siren. She’s also appeared in The Vampire Diaries and Dynasty, along with a seemingly endless slew of other movies and TV shows. In the last few years she’s transitioned into directing and producing.

Meet Raymond Carr, puppeteer and filmmaker who got his start in the early days of Atlanta film before Hollywood set up shop in Georgia. Now he works with the Jim Henson company, Apple TV+, and has worked alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the Netflix series “Eric.”

Meet Tiffany Goode, musician, composer, ethnomusicoligist and actress. Tiffany started playing the trumpet at an early age but spent many years working in television, both on the operational and corporate side before returning to music full time.

Meet Antonio Duke. An actor and playwright based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He is of the program director for The Ife Lab, a digital streaming theatre project dedicated to providing black communities with easily accessible live theatre by highlighting new black solo performing artists.

Meet Frances Chang. Writer, producer, director, graphic designer, who has also done extensive work in the realm of marketing and public relations. Her experience in arts and entertainment has careened from puppetry and professional wrestling to film and theatre.

Meet Val Bodurtha. Comedian and writer, who published a novel at 17 and won a Young Writer's Publication Contest and a Silver Benjamin Franklin Medal. Having caught the comedy bug at a young age, Val did some training in Chicago, and eventually returned to New York where she began to help set up shows for other comedians.

Meet Jay Peterson. An actor, writer, stuntman, and a United States Marine Corp veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. After years working in movies as an armorer, Jay stepped away to focus on acting and eventually wrote a fantasy novel called Renfield Blues: The First Grunt’s Grimoire.

Meet Rob Ward. An actor, choreographer, and writer who has worked in the Twin Cities’ theatre community since 2013. In addition to having recently written a book of poetry, Rob used his skills to channel the turbulent circumstances of the pandemic into an inventive science fiction novel called “Click.”

Meet Alison Young, a former professional flute player and American Public Media host turned professional writer, speaker, and podcaster. Despite many obstacles, Alison has hiked more than 12,000 miles on six different continents, sharing her amazing adventures as The Blissful Hiker to help inspire others on their own journeys.

Meet Bryan Stoops. Comedian, Educator, Podcaster, Martial Artist…and former professional magician!…who launched his comedy career during the middle of the global pandemic. After spending years away from the stage in the classroom and on the mat, Bryan returned to the stage as a comedian and launched a podcast to shine a light on other his fellow comedians.

Meet Jeff Adams, founder of the Icebox Radio Theater, which creates podcasts and live radio theater shows in America’s icebox, International Falls, MN. Twenty years after he first envisioned starting a community theater company, Jeff has produced several ongoing series, such as the Scoop Sisters Mysteries, Frozen Frights, Funny in a Small Town, and Rum Runner Sue…bringing stories of America’s northland to the world.

Meet Billie Jo Konze, co-host of the Scratch Claw Push podcast.

Marc Isaacs is a writer, director, actor, and producer who seems to have never met a gig he couldn’t make interesting. Marc joins us to talk about his lengthy resume and the many roads he’s traveled to get to where he is today.

Eric Robinson is the CFO of Face Off Unlimited and one of the creators of Batsu, a live, improvised Japanese-style game show. The show has become a staple in New York and expanded to Chicago.

Meet Chris Burke, creator of the Mandible Judy: a sci-fi horror podcast that has spawned 2 spinoffs, Under Dead Water and Becalmed. Over a long career, Chris has journeyed from music to sound design all the way to writing, directing, and producing his own podcast series.

Meet Julie Shaer, an actor, director and producer, who found her way back to the creative world after getting lost for a time in corporate America.

Julie has fought her way back to the stage with the help of a group called Sketchworks Comedy, which had to win a lawsuit to show their play “Vape; The Musical” which is a parody of Grease..

Meet Theresa Davis, a poet, author, educator, self-proclaimed “pirate,” and MC of Java Speaks, a live workshop for spoken word artists and musicians. Over a long and impressive career, Theresa has made waves, gaining notice for her talent as well as her activism, while nurturing the next generation of artists and performers.

Meet David Benedict, Diana Lancaster and Kayla Pierre-Louis: three members of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company which is best known for its podcast Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope. Since 1984, the ARTC has set out to create quality audio-drama with their flagship project crystalizing in the form of a faux-radio show set in the zombie apocalypse.

Meet Kodac Harrison, singer, songwriter, and poet who’s been described as a Southern Tom Waits or a Rural Leonard Cohen. Kodac has been releasing for 40 years , but after a life-threatening injury he changed his perspective. And not only did he help his own career but he began to help artists in the Atlanta area as well.