HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, author and critic. He has written screenplays for a number of studios and television networks, including Disney, Sony, New Line, ABC, NBC and CBS, and his stage plays and musicals have been produced in theaters around the country and abroad, and have won numerous awards. His television script, Foggy Bottom, based on his childhood in Washington, was honored at the 2005 Slamdance Festival. Mr. Hilsman has been a regular theater and television critic for Daily Variety. He has written, produced and directed several independent films and television series, including DEADLY EMBRACE, SNOW WITHOUT NAME and BENEATH THE EYES OF GOD.

Mr. Hilsman has also been an active participant in the national political scene and, most recently, a candidate for Congress in California. He has written hundreds of articles and op-eds for national newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Magazine, Variety, Hemispheres and The National Law Journal. He has also written a number of books on media and politics, including The New Electronic Media and the upcoming Pitching New America. He is a recipient of the Apex Award for Excellence in Journalism.

He has also been a consultant to a variety of corporations, non-profits and governmental organizations, including Vulcan Ventures, Idealab!, The Kennedy Space Center, The National Museum of Patriotism, The Inventors Hall of Fame, Unocal, Mead Data Central, International Data Corporation, Harcourt Brace Publishers, Nomura Securities and other media and entertainment companies. He has taught playwriting and screenwriting at UCLA and is the founder of the Pasadena Writers Workshop. He is a past President of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, a judge of the PEN West Literary Awards and he has recently helped to organize a series of “Intentional Conversations” for business, civic and arts leaders throughout Southern California.

Mr. Hilsman grew up in Washington, DC, where his father was an Assistant Secretary of State and advisor to JFK. He has been active in politics ever since, and has worked with various national figures, including President Bill Clinton and Senator Joe Lieberman. He was an advisor to several Congressional campaigns in California, a delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention and ran for the Congressional seat held by Republican David Dreier, Chairman of the House Rules Committee in 2006. Hilsman is also a director of the Hope Street Group, a non-partisan policy organization of business professionals devoted to Opportunity Economics and a member of the Pacific Council on World Affairs.

Mr. Hilsman is married to painter, Nancy Kay Turner, has one child and lives in Pasadena.

TREVOR ANTHONY’s broad background spans the performance arts, as well as new and traditional media content and technology development.

He most recently served as a member of Paul Allen’s Vulcan Productions team. The group’s projects include the Emmy Award-winning RX for Survival (PBS), Strange Days on Planet Earth (National Geographic), & Peabody Award-winning Black Sky: The Race for Space (Discovery Channel); feature films including the Academy Award-nominated Far From Heaven & the recent Lions Gate release, Hard Candy; and multimedia projects including the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.

In addition to creative projects, he has produced a wide range of Web and software-based products, including the Movie Magic brand of production management tools.

Anthony began his career on the New York and regional stage, starring in the original production of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,” (voted one of the ten best plays of 1997 by Time, Newsday, The New York Post, The Advocate and The New York Times). He has appeared in venues including the Chelsea Playhouse, West Bank Café, Yale Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Caldwell Theatre and Beverly Hills Playhouse in roles ranging from Hamlet to Lucky in “Waiting for Godot.” His writing has been produced in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

He is a graduate of Duke University and the Yale School of Drama.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Kimberly, and son, Dashiell.