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ALEX DAWSON (writer/director/lead) is full time faculty at Rutgers University, where he teaches creative writing (with a focus on folklore and horror). He is an award-winning playwright/set designer (including an Overall Excellence Award at the NYC Fringe Festival) and the founder/artistic director of Raconteur Ventures: Events for the Adventurous, under whose auspices he has produced numerous site-specific theatrical programs/haunts, including The Wolf of Washington Forge and The Thing at Raritan Landing. He is the owner/creator (with Julian Lance) of the the Rac-On-Tour, a mobile bookstore/cabinet of wonder built on the back of a flatbed farm truck, and he curates/hosts R.O.T. Fest, a bi-monthly vaudevillian variety show that puts writers onstage alongside musicians, puppeteers, and sideshow performers. His many NYC productions include Room to Swing an Ax and Deep in the Jeeps of Georgia.
ARLAN FEILES (composer/lyricist/performer) is an award winning, internationally touring Asbury Park singer/songwriter and music producer mentored by the late great Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame record producer Tom Dowd. He has released six critically acclaimed records, and his music can be heard in many TV programs and movies, including the trailer for the Academy award winning film “The Dallas Buyers Club.” His band is The Brokenhearted. His albums included Razing a Nation, Weeds Kill the Wildflowers, and What Kind of World. Visit him at arlanfeilesmusic.com.
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DAN DIANA (fabricator/puppeteer/Devil) was a Special FX Artist/Prop Fabricator in Hollywood for seven years, working on mostly Marvel movies, like Guardians of the Galaxy & The Avengers. He built the battered Iron Man Helmet in Endgame. Dan studied prosthetic make-up with Tom Savini at The Douglas Education Center in Pennsylvania. Dan currently works for Four Horsemen Studios, where he sculpts/fabricates hyper-detailed, life-size replicas of the various figures that populate their Mythic Legions universe. Diana and Dawson have collaborated on many other projects including Nosferatu: The First Vampyre, a theatrical production inspired by the silent film, and The Thing at Raritan Landing, a theatrical haunt set in colonial New Jersey.
DEVON BORKOWSKI (Daisy Dirt) is an actress, writer, and artist. She is a Ren Faire regular and a trained sword-fighter. She graduated with a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2022. She specializes in surrealist oil paintings and much of her art is inspired by her childhood in the New Jersey Pine Barrens (see ART). She is currently working on a novel called The Blood Ran Red, an indigenous dark fantasy revolving around Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, blood quantum, and ancestral trauma. She previously collaborated with Dawson on The Wolf of Washington Forge (2022) and The Thing at Raritan Landing (2023), theatrical haunts set in colonial New Jersey. Visit here at devonborkart.com.