A longtime figure on the Lovecraft scene, Bryan Moore has made an indelible mark with his films and sculptures based on the work on the Old Gent, most notably as the sculptor of the bronze bust of Lovecraft which now permanently resides in the Providence Athenaeum Library, now a pilgrimage for Lovecraft fans, and as the director of the seminal Lovecraft film "Cool Air" (soon to be released in a remastered edition!). He also created the annual Howie Award given to those who excel in promoting Lovecraft's work in the arts at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
Toren Atkinson is the lead singer for the H.P. Lovecraft inspired band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, as played on the video game Rock Band 2. Toren also co-designed and illustrated the award winning tabletop roleplaying game Spaceship Zero, and provided on-screen and voice acting talent to such properties as Stargate: Atlantis, Sword of the Stars (VG), Fort Zombie (VG), and Penny Arcade’s Cardboard Tube Samurai. He is one of the creators and co-hosts of the Caustic Soda podcast.
Warren Banks is co-founder and guitarist for the H.P. Lovecraft inspired band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, as played on the video game Rock Band 2. Warren co-designed and illustrated the award winning tabletop roleplaying game Spaceship Zero with Toren Atkinson. Unlike Toren Atkinson, Warren has no on-screen and voice acting talent or experience. Warren is neither a creator nor co-host of the Caustic Soda podcast but has been fortunate enough to guest host on two separate occasions.
Robert M. Price, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing scholarly articles ands humorous pieces on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1981. His celebrated semi-pro zine Crypt of Cthulhu began as a quarterly fanzine for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association in 1981 and made it to 109 issues. In 1990 he began editing Mythos anthologies for Fedogan & Bremer and Chaosium, Inc. and still does! His fiction has been collected in Blasphemies and Revelations.
OG Lurker, Filmmaker, HPLFF San Pedro (2010-2016)
Kevin Leeson is a Producer, Screenwriter, and Story Editor in the film and television industry. He has produced on projects featuring such diverse talents as Steve Austin, Daniel Stern, Mira Sorvino, Dolph Lundgren, and Toni Braxton. Kevin co-wrote and published a 6-issue limited comic book series “Outnumbered”, and was a contributor to the Shuster Award-adjacent Crime Anthology Graphic Novel “Acts Of Violence”. He is one of the co-hosts of the award-winning podcast “Caustic Soda”, and revels in finding the funny in the macabre inherent in the world around us.
Andrew Migliore is the founder and original director of the annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon. Andrew is also the co-author of Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft published by Night Shade Books and was founder and producer at Lurker Films where he launched The H. P. Lovecraft Collection, The Weird Tale Collection, and The Edgar Allan Poe Collection on DVD. See his past Founder articles at the Daily Lurker https://medium.com/daily-lurker
Ron Hilger is a Northern California native who has organized such Clark Ashton Smith related events as "The CAS Centennial Conference" in 1993 and "The CAS Plaque Dedication" in 2002.
Rion Smith is a bipedal mammal with an unhealthy obsession with Lovecraftian tales and is chained to the insanity of his job in order to pay for his film habit. He is currently trying to relearn what “sleep” means after the recent birth of his a baby girl, and this will be her first of many HP Lovecraft Film Festival attendances.