Matt Smith graduated from Brown University with a degree in theater and was immediately made aware of just how poor an economic decision that was. His films have screened at festivals around the world including Telluride, Sitges, L’Étrange, New Zealand, San Francisco, Slamdance, Nightmares and Filmquest. His latest film, “The Altruist”, won best overall short at Nightmares, the Jury Award for best film at GenreBlast and the audience award for best midnight short at The Florida Film Festival. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Jen is a Portland-based director, screenwriter, and film and video instructor whose love of horror films began when she was 8 years old and her aunt showed her Pumpkinhead. She has a degree in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University, a Certificate in Performance from American Conservatory Theatre, and a degree in Video Production from Portland Community College. She worked as a stage actress in the Pacific Northwest for ten years before she transitioned to writing and directing films. Her film "Jean" was going to screen in London, but there was a pandemic.
Nevin Millan, lead actor & producer for "The Ferryman", is a multi-ethnic chameleon with storytelling irons in acting, writing (plays, screenplays, poetry & prose), and filmmaking. He appears in screen and stage productions worldwide while developing an array of projects through his production company. Nevin currently lives eco-consciously in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
Theoddra Monstar is a creative weirdo who enjoys bringing smiles to people faces through bizarre puppets and music. They are also the creator of The Subterrestrial Society comic, and the co-creator of Trash People from the Dump Productions with their partner Lora Friess (Aunt Gore). You can find them on YouTube at youtube.com/trashpeople and on their other socials @theomonstar
Lora Friess (Aunt Gore) is a fashion driven artist who enjoys the silly and the macabre. She is co-creator of Trash People from the Dump Productions with her partner Theo “Monstar” Friess and the creator of Horror Movie Cocktails with Aunt Gore on their YouTube channel youtube.com/trashpeople and you can also follow her on her other socials @auntgore
Originally from Oakland, California, actor Jerry Weatherford is now planted firmly in Los Angeles. Prior to landing the lead role of Wilmore Jefferson in A Whole Snack, Jerry was a veteran of the Bay Area Theater with roles ranging from Shakespeare to musical comedy.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, and Buffalo, NY, Davey Robertson caught the filmmaking bug in high school, strongly influenced by the works of David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, and Lasse Halstrom. His passion for the poetic has led him throughout his career to seek out the strange, artistic and unconventional. So, it’s no surprise he was seduced by the weird world of H.P. Lovecraft while shooting and editing “The Call of Cthulhu” and “The Whisperer in Darkness” with The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
An original Monster Kid, Ian McDowell grew up in Fayetteville, NC, where he watched Shock Theater hosted by Dr. Paul Bearer (of later Creature Features fame), lived for the semi-annual new issue of Castle of Frankenstein, and borrowed masks and books from his neighbor Tom Savini
Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Boneset & Feathers, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Invention of Ghosts. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vastarien, Tor's Nightfire, Black Static, The Dark, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, and LampLight, among others.
Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She’s a Shirley Jackson Award nominee and her short fiction can be found in various print and online publications including: FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, and PseudoPod. Her debut middle grade Southern Gothic novel Root Magic is available now from Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins.