Pit Pinegar is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and essayist.  She is a teaching artist with the Bushnell Performing Arts Center, Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc., and The Center for Creative Youth.  For eight years she directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival's urban outreach program. Ms. Pinegar has three volumes of poetry, Nine Years Between Two Poems, The Possibilities of Empty Space, and the Physics of Transmigration for which she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  Her Broadside Miniatures (tm) (combinations of poems and photographs) have been exhibited at The Shaw Cramer Gallery, Vineyard Haven, MA, The Norfolk, Artisan's Guild, The Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT, the Buttonwood Tree Galley in Middletown, CT, The Magpie Gallery in Lewisburg, PA and the Gallery of the Performing Arts, Hartford, CT. 

Deborah Goffe is a performer, choreographer, dance educator and video artist.  Having earned her MFA in dance from California Institute of the Arts, the Hartford native founded and serves as Artistic Director of Scapegoat Garden, a creative engine rooted in collaboration. Scapegoat Garden's repertory has been selected for performance in festivals and venues throughout the region including: the Bushnell's Belding Theater, Trinity College's Austin Arts Center, the Carol Autorino Center at Saint Joseph College, Hartford's Charter Oak Cultural Center , the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Truro Center for the Arts in Provincetown, White Mountain Dance Festival at Springfield College and New York City's Raw Material Performance Series, Artist's of Tomorrow Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival and 92nd Street Y.  From 1996 to 1999, Deborah co-founded and directed an intergenerational ensemble of performers, designers, writers and visual artists who created multimedia, collaborative works. During those same years, Deborah was a member of the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble and has now returned to the ensemble as a performer and movement teacher and most recently a video director and editor for Starting Over. Additionally, she has performed in works by Rebecca Lazier, Doug Varone, Milton Myers, Ruth Barnes and was a member of Velvet Lemons under the direction of Karen Bacon.  Deborah currently teaches dance in a number of institutions including The Academy, Hartford Conservatory and Trinity College.

Patrick McCullough is an award-winning filmmaker.  One of Patrick's  recent projects was producing and acting in the independent film, Beautiful Kid, with Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Angela's Ashes. Variety cited Beautiful Kid for it's, "astonishing integrity." The film won the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards at the Method Fest in Burbank, California, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble Cast, and both, the Maverick Award for Best Low Budget Film, and Best Feature, competing against films with budgets over 50 times higher.  Patrick began his filmmaking career producing and directing several educational films including the Cine Golden Eagle Award-Winning, Sara's Diary, a teen suicide prevention film, and Abusive Relationships: Crossing The Line.  His screenplay, Broham was a finalist in the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Program, and he was nominated for Best Short at the Movies on a Shoestring Festival, for his film, A Dream Come True.  He has served as a Blue Ribbon Panel Judge for the Daytime Emmy Awards (Judging Writing and Directing in Children's Movies) and on the nominating committee for the SAG Awards (Outstanding TV Series).  Patrick is an Artist/instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (GHAA), teaching Screenwriting and Film Production.  He runs summer film camps and after-school programs for youth in towns throughout Connecticut through his company, Filmmakers Ink.