MEGAN BIRDSALL is a Vashon Island/ Seattle, Washington native who spent a year at Cornish College of the Arts before moving to New York City to intern at Dixon Place. While interning, she designed and ran lights and sound for countless productions including favorites Alexandra Beller, Brigde Markland and Karen Bernard. Upon completing her internship, Megan was hired as technical director and technical consultant for Dixon Place; positions she kept until returning to Seattle. She is a founding member of Implied Violence and runs the label Don’t Stop Believin’ Records.

JHEREK BISCHOFF is a Seattle-based composer/musician currently playing in    The Dead Science. Formally, he was a member of The Degenerate Art Ensemble and Xiu Xiu.

SAMANTHA BOSHNACK picked up the trumpet at age ten. She attended Bard College where she studied jazz composition and jazz & classical trumpet. She teaches private trumpet lessons, composes and currently performs with a number of different groups including Reptet, The Monktail Creative Music Concern, and Picoso.

Clarinetist BETH FLEENOR has been surfing genres since arriving in Seattle in 1998. Her bombastically refined sound and organic approach to improvisation have earned her performance opportunities in a variety of settings including nightclubs, concert halls, festivals, recordings, and art installations. In addition to the Qhromatics, a six-piece ensemble performing all new music by multi-instrumentalist Denney Goodhew, Goodhew and Fleenor can also be seen performing in an all improvised duo project called Bling. Fleenor is also in the beginning stages of a new multi-media project with violinist Paris Hurley, and visual/media artists Joe Grey and Gabe Herbertson. She can also be heard performing actively with projects of the Monktail Creative Music Concern including Flops and Non Grata. Fleenor has a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. She is the director of The Frank Agency: Innovative Arts Management, and is one of the collective operators of Gallery 1412.

WING GEE was acknowledged for his technological skill set by Microsoft during high school where he was one of the companys youngest interns. Later he began managing computer networks for the Seattle school district and eventually was solicited as a PC Tech lead for the University of Washington. He has applied his knowledge in several industries; from building and implementing internal-combustion engine control systems to fabricating custom motional control devices for cinema. Collaborating with local filmmakers Wing has designed, engineered, and fabricated motion picture equipment ranging from steadicam rigs to camera cranes.  His credits include Steadicam Operator for Dubbed, Wheedle's Groove, Rivet/Rivulet and Highway. He Assisted Camera on We Go Way Back and Small Matters and and Key Gripped for June & July, Anybuddy Home?, and In Memory of Corrosion. Wing currently continues to work on local films and is a co-founder of the seattle-based grip & lighting rental house, Swingset Film & Audio.

PAM GREGORY graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Dance from Towson State University in 1993, and has been dancing and performing in Seattle for the last twelve years. She was a founding member of Rockhopper Dance in 1997, and with the company had the opportunity to work with local choreographers Michele Miller, Paul D. Mosley, Mark J. Kane and Tom Truss as well as create her own work. Since then she has worked with local choreographers Corrie Befort, Laura Curry, Brian Dawbin, Rob Kitsos, Michele Miller as well as performed extensively with Locate Performance Group, co-directed by Paige Barnes and Pablo Cornejo. Currently, Pam is a member of the d9 Dance Collective and continues to work as a principal artist for Laura Curry.

ALEX SPROUT GUY has been a member of the Degenerate Art Ensemble since 2002, taking a year and a half hiatus in Santa Fe to write music for Wise Fool NM's Circus Luminous.  She also plays with several groups in Seattle, including the Jason Webley quartet.  She'll be touring with bluegrass musician Danny Barnes this winter, playing on a film score for the silent movie, Tramp Tramp Tramp.  She has also created music for several theater productions, including the SCCC production of the Laramie Project, and Strawberry Theater Workshop's productions of This Land:  Woodie Guthrie, and Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.  Alex will be releasing an album of solo work, called Led to Sea, in spring of 2007.

BEN KASULKE is a Seattle based director of photography. He recieved his BS in Cinema Production from Ithaca College following additional study at the Filmová a Televizní Fakulta Akadmie Muzickych Umní, Prague’s National Academy of Film.  Ben's professional experience includes employment as a film archivist with The Image Treasury, programmer with London's Raindance Film Festival, and staff projectionist with Olympia Film Society. While employed as the staff cinematographer for the Seattle based Film Company, he has been fortunate enough to work with award winning filmmakers Guy Maddin and Lynn Shelton. In 2006, he received two awards for his Cinematography on Shelton's "We Go Way Back" from the Slamdance and Torun Film Festivals. Ben was also honored to work with director Linas Phillips on his award winning documentary "Walking To Werner" in 2006. Currently, his work on Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon The Brain!" can be seen on the festival circuit.

ROBB KUNZ (aka Inphaseprod) has been working in the soundfield for 14 years. Recent endeavors involve public, guerrilla audio installations including the large-scale performance, We Are Here to Disrupt, to Disrupt, to Disrupt, to Disrupt! that premiered in Westlake Park. He also did sound design and engineering for the Degenerate Art Ensemble’s new multi-disciplinary piece Cuckoo Crow.

JEFFREY MITCHELL has been playing drums since he was twelve years old. He has performed with The Sacramento Mandarins Drum Corps, countless Reno metal bands and improvisational jazz groups, Seattle's experimental theater ensemble Implied Violence, and most recently Dead Bird Movement. Mitchell has also been a percussion consult for EDGE Drumline and the percussion caption head/ composer/ drill coordinator for North Valley High School.

RYAN MITCHELL graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 2004 with a BFA in Theatre and Original Works. While still at Cornish he founded Vertebrae Theatre with Megan Birdsall and Hilary Lynn. He is also a founding member of Implied Violence, and currently the acting Artistic Director of the ensemble. In 2005, he and Sam Mickens founded and began cochairing The Villainaires Academy.

LILY NGUYEN has a BFA in technical theatre from Cornish College of the Arts. She is a current member of Implied Violence. Her background is, foremost, collaborative workings of sound design, audio engineering and field recording for unconventional theatres and individual artists. Lily worked as Assistant Sound Technician at On the Boards.

MANDIE O’CONNELL is a founding and current member of Implied Violence. She also has worked on productions at Cornish College of the Arts under Mame Hunt and John Wilson, with whom she heads up The School of Big Ideas, a bimonthly salon. Mandie also works with Cassandra Sanders, a Chicago playwright, as The Playwrighting Team. 

SEAN PORTER graduated from the University of Washington with a modified degree in Media Production and Design. Over the last eight years Sean has directed, edited, and produced a feature length documentary and several award winning short films.  While studying in the UW's DXARTS experimental film program, he refined his study in cinematography, camera movement and image engineering. Sean photographed several of the UW's leading student work and shortly after graduation was requested by The Film Company to engineer sets and production technology for Guy Maddin's The Brand Upon the Brain! Since then he has worked in Seattle as a cinematographer on independant feature films including We Go Way Back, At the Back of the North Wind, June & July, The Gits, and Dubbed. Sean was asked to help develop curriculum for the UW's summer film production studio. He instructed students on the basics of camera operation, grip and lighting and Directed Photography for the feature film produced during the 2-month program. Currently he is working on the feature film Effi Fox while managing Swingset Film & Audio, a local film production & rental house.

A graduate of the University of Washington's School of Art, APRYL RICHARDS is a multi-media, interdisciplinary artist with studies in design, drawing, painting, sculpture, and film/video. Over the past several years she has pursued an in-depth exploration of narrative, experimental, and installation film and video. Her credits include assistant art director for Canadian experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin's yet to-be-released black & white feature, "Brand Upon the Brain!", as well as art director for Noel Paul's experimental short "Wait for Me". Her own film and video explorations have produced an experimental narrative work titled "Highway". Additional works, "Soft Shoulder" and "The End", are two digital video shorts that were selected for the second annual Seattle Student Film Festival, and "Pure", an experimental video and sound piece that was presented at the University of Washington's new digital video and computer music concert in spring, 2004 at Meany Hall.

POL ROSENTHAL, whose work as a performer encompasses music, acting, and dance, has been honored to work with many groups, including: D.K. Pan's P.A.N., The Infernal Noise Brigade, Joan Laage's Dappin Butoh, The Degenerate Art Ensemble and the ¡TchKung! Arts Collective. Some of that work has been the subject of documentaries for Dutch and Polish National Television. The Stranger, The Seattle Research Institute and Soft Skull Press have all presented his writing. As a storyteller and spoken word artist, Pol's appeared in numerous venues across the U.S. He's also helped plan and implement a slew of guerilla art installations and has gone to jail twice for your trouble.

ELLIE SANDSTROM is originally from Minneapolis where she began her movement training with Minnesota Dance Theater and BalletArts. She has studied various styles of dance technique, improvisation, conditioning, movement analysis and choreography @ many festivals and schools around the country including American Dance Festival, North Carolina School of the Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, Minnesota Center for Arts Education, Zenon Dance Center, University of Minnesota, and Cornish College of the Arts- where she received her BFA. Primarily, she has been working in Seattle with Mary Sheldon Scott/Jarrad Powell Performance as well as LOCUST since 2000, but has also danced with and for many other spectacular movers. In addition to MSS/JPP and LOCUST, she will be working with Mark Haim in the 05/06 season. She teaches Modern Dance Technique @ Velocity Dance Center and is prone to Pilates inspiration.

JESSIE SMITH is an emerging choreographer/performer/filmmaker. She is Artistic Director of Dead Bird Movement as well as a founding/current member of Implied Violence, an experimental theater ensemble. Smith has recently received such prestigious honors as 911 Media Arts Center Artist in Residence, Watermill Center Residency, and The Stranger Genius Award. Smith also works as a freelance dancer and currently performs with Amy O'Neal and Zeke Keeble's company locust.

TAMIN TOTZKE has been performing and creating with the Maureen Whiting Company since 2000.  She teaches yoga around the city, is a massage therapist and is pursuing her interest in ayurvedic medicine.