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Nick Braccia is a Creative Director at G2 in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Earlier in his career, he spent 7 years developing concepts for Masterfoods and P&G clients as part of G2 in New York City. Since 2001, he’s explored his passion for immersive narrative experiences and contributed to the ARGs “Catching the Wish” and “Unnatural Selection” under the direction of author and guru, Dave Szulborski. Recently, Nick directed “No Known Survivors” to support EA’s horror survival title Dead Space and “Vroengard Academy”, promoting the Random House title, Brisingr. These projects were conceived and completed while working for Ian Schafer’s integrated interactive agency, Deep Focus in New York and Los Angeles.

ChristopherR2D2 is a professional script reader, amateur writer-director, and constant imagicallusionist in Los Angeles. His reading experience includes providing coverage for screenplays, manuscripts, TV pilots, treatments, and books for such companies as Gold Circle Films, Josephson Entertainment, Parkway Productions, ScriptShark.com, and (the oh so important) more. He’s the founder of scribbleplay.com, a place to write, where writers across the universe can come together to defeat writer’s block one story at a time. He’s also the blogger behind scriptxray.com, a blog dedicated to exploring the art and craft of screenwriting from the script reader’s perspective. Follow him on Twitter.

Phoebe Harris Elefante was the co-founder and president of Mstrmnd Ltd from 2003 to 2009. She is currently completing a masters in media arts & sciences at Indiana University that synthesizes game development, organizational design, new media, and feminist economics. She is a little uncomfortable with writing about herself in the third person, likes playing devil’s advocate, and makes stuff in all media (even the old hands-on kind).

Ethan Rublee is a computer engineering undergrad at DigiPen Institute of Technology . With a background in film, he has worked on films such his own Body # 82 and Lance Weiler’s Head Trauma. Transitioning to the computer sciences, Ethan is interested in game development as a form of expression and storytelling. Enter DigiPen… Finding himself immersed in the game development community of Redmond, home of Microsoft, Ethan is digging in and learning the way of bits, bytes, ands, ors, ohms, and amps. Ethan considers himself a sailor, filmmaker, programmer, and sudoer. His personal blog is veganrobots.blogspot.com.

Haley Moore is a mild-mannered reporter by day, super spy by night: an Alternate Reality puppetmaster whose game credits include Catching the Wish and Monster Hunters Club, and a news writer and columnist for the Coppell Citizens’ Advocate. When she isn’t sculpting chain-smoking midgets out of polymer clay or plopping pirate hats on unsuspecting passers-by, she writes for Culture Hacker from her Texas home.

Dee Cook was elated to discover the world of interactive storytelling because, at that moment, she finally discovered what she wanted to do when she grew up. A fish out of water with lofty ideals and meta-theorizing, Dee finds herself most at home with her sleeves rolled up and the grease of a good story under her fingernails. In the last several years she has written, designed, and consulted on over a dozen alternate reality games, extended realities, and marketing campaigns, most recently World Without Oil, True Blood, Dead Space, and My Home 2.0. You can find her online at Addlepated.net.

Robert Pratten is an award-winning feature film director, writer & producer that has been fighting the need to return to his marketing consultancy roots since Internet piracy stole his livelihood. Robert has advised international telecoms operators and vendors such as Nokia, Ericsson, Lucent, Telia and Telmex and now divides his time between filmmaking and advising media tech start-ups and producers. Fortunately, he enjoys both. He writes a popular blog on movie production, marketing and distribution at www.zenfilms.com

Peter Katz is an award winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Peter has produced genre films that have screened all over the world from the AFI Fest to the Rome Film Festival. His first picture, Home Sick, starred Bill Moseley from The Devil’s Rejects and Tom Towles from Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer. Next Peter worked with Tobe Hooper (director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist) on Mortuary, which premiered on the Sci Fi Channel. Most recently he was a producer on Pop Skull, a psychological ghost film, that has received great reviews in Variety and numerous film web sites. Currently, Peter is developing projects across various mediums including film, comics, and the web.