Loren Niemi has spent thirty years as a professional storyteller, creating, collecting, performing, and teaching stories to audiences of all ages in urban and rural settings.  He has served as the Humanities Scholar in Residence for Northern Minnesota, the ringmaster and tour manager of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre's Circle of Water Circus, and is one third of BAD JAZZ, a performance art trio with Michael Sommers and Kevin Kling, experimenting with theatrical and storytelling forms.  His work has been called "post-modern," "on the cutting edge of storytelling," "with the dark beauty of language that is not ashamed of poetry."  It is, as storyteller Kate Lutz said, "a sensibility that owes more to the New Yorker than to the Old Farmer's Almanac."

Bill Ratner is one of America's most successful voicover performers.  He is heard on Discovery, History, Smithsonian, movie trailers, computer games, and is the voice of "Flint" on the original G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken, and Family Guy.

An eight-time winner of the The Moth Storytelling Slams, Bill's stories are featured on NPR.  He has taught and told at the National Stortytelling Network Conference, Timpanogos Storytelling Conference, Northeast Storytelling Conference, Northlands Storytelling Converence, and the Los Angeles Unified School District.

He teaches voiceovers for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, SAG-AFTRA, and is a published essayist, short story writer, and co-author of the book, "Secrets of Voiceover Success."  His stories are at http://billratner.com

Jim Stowell is a professional actor, director, playwright and storyteller for over four decades.  He has written and directed twelve full cast plays as well as written and performed eleven one-man plays.  Stowell's work has been compared to or with Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and the Marx Brothers, among others.  "He blends the art of writing and performing into a unique and powerful evening of storytelling.  He knows how to lay one story next to another and thread them together like a string of pearls.  One word describes it all: Bravo!" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)