Noël Alumit wrote the award-winning novel Letters to Montgomery Clift and the soon to be published Talking to the Moon. His solo shows have garnered much praised including "One of the Best Productions of the Year" (San Franscisco Bay Guardian) and "Best Bet" (Los Angeles Times).

Shirley Anderson has performed an original staging of Dorothy Parker's Big Blonde over the last 15 years on stages in Chicago, Edinburgh and Los Angeles. Most recently, she performed with Zoo District in Eugene Ionesco's The Submission and The Future Is In Eggs, and also had the pleasure of portraying "True Love of Day #5" in Smart Gals’ Are You Interested? The Twelve Days of Christmas project along the Metro Gold Line. She shows up regularly for writing sessions at wordspace.net and is busy launching a new freelance bookkeeping business.

Chris Davidson, pictured here with his collection of spent propane bottles, lives with his wife and kids in Seal Beach. He writes, teaches, and plays music & makes recordings. At the last Dead Poets Slam, he represented John Berryman.

Evangina—The Love Band
Juli Crockett and Lisa Dee are best friends, late bloomers, and totally goofy. They have made an art form out of humility via humiliation and take great joy in showing people that it's okay to be completely retarded in public. They are best friends, not lesbian lovers. They are very romantic girls, love the d, and like to play their guitars and sing. They are in the band the Evangenitals.

Christopher Goodson received his BFA in acting from Cornish College of the Arts. He then went to co-found Seattle's notorious Piece of Meat Theatre. "Dense as a Wagnerian opera and shocking as a freak show," Piece of Meat was seen in clubs and theaters for ten years. Chris's last play Living in Boxes premiered at The Salvation Theater in L.A. Upcoming performances: Orpheus Crawling at RedCat in August and CBS' Cold Case on May 7th.

Katy Hickman's play, Bright Boy: The Passion of Robert McNamara, runs at the Electric Lodge in Venice through May 7th. Called "idiosyncratically brilliant" by the LA Weekly, it's the show to see when all else bores you. Ms.. Hickman is looking forward to working again this year with the Virginia Avenue Project.

Clam Lynch has written and performed numerous solo shows, most recently the continually evolving Cut The Crap, which ran for a series of sold-out performances at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. He also created Out of the Asses, a one-man show in the annual Flophouse series of performance at Crazy Space, Los Angeles; a run of Saving Private Dancer at the Tamarind Theater and the HBO Workspace; and Happy City, a presentation for the USA Network. Says Jerry Stahl (I, Fatty), “Words can barely describe the laugh-till-you-stain-yourself genius of Clam Lynch, a talent so huge it would take the combined DNA of Andy Kaufman, Lenny Bruce, and Buster Keaton to reconstruct so much as his frontal lobe. Clam is the voice of all our happy nightmares and quite possibly the funniest man alive.”

Amitis Motevalli was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the US with her family in 1977. In her exploration of artwork, she has incorporated a combination of near-eastern aesthetic with a western art education. Her civil rights work includes collaboration with several community organizations such as Community Coalition, the ACLU and Pacifica. She is currently living and working in Los Angeles, exhibiting art and organizing youth on issues of educational justice. Her work is now focused on a collaboration with students in Los Angeles and East Oakland on a multi-media exhibition looking at repressive tactics in local schools.

Maud Simmons was born and raised in New York City, attending The Dalton School, and then The Rhode Island School of Design where she received a degree in painting. She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a diverse career in the visual arts. Simmons has painted everything from props for movies to enormous murals, the largest of which was 75 feet long for the ’84 Olympics held in L.A. Her personal work keeps changing over the years. She likes to say “I’m a binge painter. I’ll paint only fish for 3 years, and then move on to peppers for the next three…and it’ll be martini paintings after that.” Recently she has broken from painting figuratively and is creating work that is purely abstract. “It’s a relief to be free from creating recognizable imagery. I now feel like the sky’s the limit.” She sells through CER Arts in Los Angeles, and is represented by Contemporary Art Resource in Silverlake where she resides with her cat, Alice Cooper.

Vince Waldron: Playwright, director and Emmy-winning writer Vince Waldron is the creator and director of Totally Looped, which is currently playing at Second City/LA. Vince wrote and directed the original stage adaptation of American Splendor, as well as the darkly comic Confessions of a Ladykiller. Vince was a member of the Second City's National Touring Company and the Second City, ETC and is the author of three books, including a definitive study of TV's Dick Van Dyke Show, and Be My Baby, the bestselling autobiography of pop legend Ronnie Spector.

Scott Wannberg is a poet. He likes dark beer and dogs and cats.