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DENNIS TRAINOR JR. (Writer & Performer) Dennis is a writer, actor, and multi-media storyteller. As an actor, he has extensive acting credits in Boston and New York, including Henry Wilcox in the regional premiere of Mathew Lopez's The Inheritance at Speakeasy Stage in Boston. Other stage roles roles: Let The Right One In; The Merchant of Venice; Straight White Men; In the Next Room; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia; Picasso at the Lapin Agile; The Pain and the Itch; The Rainmaker; November; The Seagull; Waiting for Godot; The Winter’s Tale; Cellophane; The Black Hole; Loose Ends, Julius Caesar; Macbeth Macbeth; Plug

As a playwright, his previous plays include Plug and I Coulda Been A Kennedy 

As a filmmaker, his on-the-ground documentary on the Occupy movement, American Autumn: an Occudoc garnered critical acclaim.

He was the creator, host, and producer of two nationally syndicated T.V. programs: Acronym T.V. and The Resistance Report.

He was a founding co-Artistic Director of the New York-based Rude Mechanicals Theater Company. Dennis is on the Boston Conservatory at Berklee faculty, where he teaches acting in the B.F.A program. He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater and is a proud Actors' Equity Association member.

Guy Masterson Director & Presenter

Is a UCLA & LAMDA trained actor, director, writer and theatre producer of 40 years. A 32 year veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe, his company, Theatre Tours International has presented over 150 predominantly new works, and associated with several of its biggest hits including 12 Angry Men (2003); One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (2004) with Christian Slater and The Odd Couple (2005) with Bill Bailey.

He produced & directed the Olivier Award winning Morecambe (2009), The Shark Is Broken (2019) which transferred to the West End in 2021 and then Broadway in 2023. He also performed 11 solo works, most notably Under Milk Wood, Animal Farm, Shylock and A Christmas Carol in over 5000 performances globally since 1991. He received The Stage Best Actor Award at EdFringe 2001 for Fern Hill & Other Dylan Thomas, and has received a further 4 nominations for his solo work. He has also directed many other award-winning solos including Justin Butcher’s Scaramouche Jones, Rebecca Vaughan’s Austen’s Women, Pip Utton’s Adolf and Peter Tate’s Picasso: Le Monstre Sacré all of which continue to tour after many years.He is married to Brigitta for 27 years, and father to Indigo and Tallulah.