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Justin Hershey is a pianist/composer based in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He has performed at many prestigious venues around Southern California, including The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach and the Queen Mary. As a bandleader, his ensembles have featured local legends Joey Sellers, Ron Stout, Jerry Pinter, Benn Clatworthy, Kendall Kay, and many more. His compositions are wide-ranging in style and influence, often reflecting a variety of interests, including architecture and poetry. In addition, he has maintained a working relationship with local assisted living communities for many years, performing regularly at memory care facilities specializing in the care of individuals with Alzheimer’s and/or dementia.

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Sean Knibb started Knibb Design Corp. in 1995 with-creative, human, experience – as his mantra. His goal was and still is to enhance the way people feel in their environment, from the luxury of Beverly Hills to the The Line Hotel and Locke High School in South Central Los Angeles. Knibb Design blends contemporary art, architecture and landscape while redefining our traditional understanding of outdoor and indoor space, bringing sophistication to everyday objects. Knibb has put together a team to oversee select offerings from the distinct collections to create objects and environments that are sparked from tradition. Our commitment is excellence through design, materials and craftsmanship.

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Ariana Lenarsky is a writer, musician, and tarot reader in Los Angeles.

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Of Lithuanian heritage, composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia, raised in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. Krausas has music composition degrees from the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal, and a doctorate from the Thornton School of Music at USC in Los Angeles, where she is a faculty member in the Composition Department. She is a pre-concert lecturer and interviewer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and serves on the advisory boards of Jacaranda Music and People Inside Electronics. Learn more about Veronika at veronikakrausas.com.

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Jennifer Trotoux is an architectural history and planning professional with over 25 years of experience in the practice of historic preservation. She serves as Director of Collections and Interpretation for the Gamble House, where she is responsible for the presentation, preservation and care of the collections, structures and landscape. Overseeing educational content for their docents and the public, she works with her colleagues as they pursue new avenues of inquiry about the house, its artistic and historic context, and the work of its architects, Greene & Greene.

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Sam Hirschfelder has fulfilled many roles within the music industry, from writing music for film and TV to musical directing and performing at some of the biggest international music festivals and popular late night shows in the US and Europe. Sam also co-owns Forager Records, a Los Angeles based reissue label and publishing company (Foraged Sounds) specializing in rare and under-appreciated sounds from the past. More recently, Sam has begun co-managing grammy award winning artist Kimbra. Sam has degrees in both music performance and law from Monash University.

To learn more about Forager Records, click here.

Film Projects: Ascendant | Dance Academy | Infinity Train | Keloid | Markie in Milwaukee | What We Found | The Whistleblower | The Workout

Live Projects: Benjamin Booker | Biig Piig | The Blossom | Chet Faker | Chrome Canyon | Craig Stickland | Dave Harrington | Deb Never | Fractures | Morly | Sharon Van Etten | Weird Al Yankovic | Younger Hunger | Zero 9:36

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Matthew Biancaniello creates adventurous cocktail experiences. He formulates cocktails based on farm-fresh and unique, organic ingredients. Never working off a set cocktail menu, Biancaniello visits at least five different local farmers markets a week to source his ingredients, which inspire his imaginative cocktails. This is the Art of Omakase, honoring how the customer and bartender create a special experience together. To learn more about Matthew, please visit him at Eat Your Drink. You can also purchase his book here.

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Andrew B. Hurvitz is a writer and photographer and currently lives in Van Nuys, CA.

He has been writing short stories for 15 years, and also publishes a photo essay oriented blog, “Here in Van Nuys.”

In 2020, he completed a novel, “Exiles Under the Bridge,” a family saga story about two families in Pasadena, CA in the 1980s.

He is passionate about architecture, fashion, American culture, nature, food, and travel.

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Stephen Fry was born in London in 1957 and educated at Stout’s Hill, Uppingham and Queens’ College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights where he first met Hugh Laurie. He has numerous television appearances to his credit, most notably A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder and QI, and is a regular contributor to radio shows including Just a Minute, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and The News Quiz. Major film roles include Peter in Peter’s Friends (1990) and Oscar Wilde in Wilde (1997).

He is the author of the best-selling novels The Liar, The Hippopotamus, Making History and The Stars’ Tennis Balls, as well as the highly acclaimed autobiography Moab is my Washpot and, in 2005, a well-received guide to writing poetry, The Ode Less Travelled. The second and third instalments of his autobiography, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me, were both bestsellers. His most recent books are the bestselling Mythos and Heroes – unique retellings of the Greek myths.

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Liza Richardson’s career as a radio broadcaster started in Dallas, TX at KNON then KERA. At NPR’s flagship KCRW in Santa Monica, CA, she championed poetry, world music and eclectic sounds from every corner of the universe. Her curated mixtapes present international music, roots, dance, hip hop and jazz, and are on-demand via her Spotify profile. 

Along with her team at Mad Doll Music, Liza has music supervised small screen classics like Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, Leftovers, Watchmen, Hawaii Five-0 and Lovecraft Country. Currently she helms Narcos, Barry, Outer Banks, The Morning Show, The Rookie, Equalizer. In 2003, she was nominated for a Grammy for Y Tu Mama Tambien and 2020 brought an Emmy nod for her work on Watchmen. 

Liza’s credits include the first handful of iPod silhouette spots, films Spenser Confidential, Why Him, A Dog’s Purpose, Lords of Dogtown, Surf’s Up, The Kids Are All Right and quintessential Mexican gem Y Tu Mama Tambien.

Liza is from Phoenix, AZ and holds a BFA in theater and dance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Find her on Instagram @lizarichardson