ERIK BERGSTROM is a stand-up comedian, actor, and voice-over artist known for his thought provoking one-liners, resonant deep voice, and dark personal anecdotes. He’s appeared on the ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’, has a Comedy Central half-hour special, and can be heard frequently on Sirius XM. He can also be seen on stage at comedy clubs throughout New York City, which he calls home.

www.erikbergstrom.com

FLASH ROSENBERG is an “Attention Span for Hire” who draws, photographs, writes, and performs. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, who served as the pioneering Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the NY Public Library. Her FlashThink Cartoons were a weekly web feature for Conde Nast. She is a 3-time, Mainstage Storyteller for The Moth, taught “Perception Studies” for Cooper Union on the NYC Subways.  She was voted “Funniest Person in Philadelphia” for her daily, public radio Flash Moments. Flash Rosenberg Studio is a full-service art, motion picture, merriment, and mischief factory, based in Harlem. She has two turtles and infinite questions.

flashrosenberg.com/

VICTOR VARNADO is a comedian with an extensive background in television, film, and stand-up. He has produced for VH1’s Love and Hip Hop franchise, held senior positions at Comedy Central, TruTV, and The History Channel, and created & starred inComedy Central’s “The Awkward Comedy Show,” which introduced Eric Andre and Hannibal Buress to the world.

Victor’s stand-up credits include appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Adult Swim. He has acted alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eddie Murphy, and Werner Herzog.

As a writer, Victor has contributed to the Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howery film “Bad Trip,” Marvel Comics, VICE, Salon, and co-authored a screenplay with comics legend Stan Lee. He has also directed four feature films. Varnado’s illustrations have been featured in the New Yorker.

www.instagram.com/robotosupremo

ERIC DRYSDALE is a multiple Emmy-winning writer whose credits include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. He also photographed and self-published his own 3-D view master set, “The Man With F.E.E.E.T.,” which was picked as a Best of Comedy by Time out NY in 2011, and later won the National Stereoscopic Association’s Paul Wing Stereo Theater award in 2019. Since 2014, he’s been sharing his world-class collection of vintage amateur-taken 3-d photographs in his “Midcentury Stereopanorama” salons, Featured in the New York Times, Atlas Obscura and WNYC.

www.edrysdale.com

LAURENCE GARTEL, is known to the world as the “FATHER” of Digital Art for over
40-years. His career started working side by side with video guru Nam June Paik at
Media Study/Buffalo in upstate New York. He taught Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga
Computer in order to produce the album cover for Debbie Harry (Blondie). Growing up in New York City during the Punk Rock era he was friends with Stiv Bators, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone, Wendy O. Williams, and exhibited his work with Robert Mapplethorpe. Creating Digital Art before the birth of the personal computer his work has been exhibited with the Museum of Modern Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, Guild Hall, Selby Gallery at Ringling School of Art, Norton Museum of Art, Coral Springs Museum of Art as well as included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History, Bibliothque Nationale Paris and Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, London. Gartel received FotoMentor Lifetime Achievement Award from Palm Beach Photographic in 2009.

www.gartelmuseum.weebly.com

DAVID JUSKOW has appeared on HBO’s Crashing, The Sarah Silverman Show and Men of a Certain Age and done voices for Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated and Community. He has been touring with Sarah Silverman, Jim Gaffigan, Dave Attell and Jeff Ross and is currently the host of the Podcasts and live shows, Juskow in the City, Billy Joel A to Z and The Comedy Cellar Nightly Show.

Juskow is also a Professor of film and television at Montclair State University.

www.instagram.com/davejuskow/

ADAM GREENER has been a longtime storyteller. As a kid, Adam spent most of every 56-minute class period doodling in his spiral-bound, visual wanderings that often landed him in detention, repeatedly writing “| will not…” In his large-scale loose leaf canvases, seemingly torn from the notebook of a distracted grade-schooler, Adam Greener explores the ways in which the youthful imagination processes the chaotic swirl of social and cultural imagery that seeks to shape, stimulate, and confine it all at once. With his series of ink illustrations, created on handmade “notebook” sheets, he taps into his memories of his early visual preoccupations and re-presents them with a witty and subversive not-so grown-up eye.

www.adamgreener.com

PHIL WITTE is a cartoonist, author, and humor writer. His cartoons have appeared in dozens of publications in the U.S. and U.K. Phil’s latest book, cowritten with Rex Hesner, is “Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons.” Phil also wrote two joke books on aging, “What You Don’t Know About Turning 50” and the sequel on turning 60, and has contributed humor pieces to print and online publications. His straight articles and essays have been published in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and other leading newspapers.

www.philwitte.com

JESSE WILLMON is a Filmmaker, Product Designer and Illustrator based in Queens, NY. He lives with his wife, two adorable kids and one generally grumpy cat. During the daylight hours he has made award-winning work for many places including Bloomberg, Girl Scouts, NBC, BBC America, Nickelodeon & Comedy Central. His latest short film is a hand-drawn, stop-motion animation called “It Was Up There” about his parents’ UFO encounter. A hilarious labor of love, “It Was Up There” won many awards including the Judges Award at the Iron Mule Film Festival, the Audience & Silver Awards at the Elgin Film Festival and was featured in the NY International Children’s Film Festival, the Woodstock Film Festival, MidWest WeirdFest, Animation Block Party.

www.itwasupthere.com

SUSANNAH PERLMAN is an artist, curator, comedian, chanteuse, event and theater producer in NYC.  She has produced numerous touring comedy and musical productions that toured all over North America and the Edinburgh Fringe. For the past 10 years she has been the curator and owner of arthouse.nyc, a digital art gallery and collective – curating and exhibiting over 500 artists from around the world. She has produced events for numerous non-profits and arts organizations, including International Center of Photography, Race Forward, Wings WorldQuest, 5 Boro Bike Tour, NYC Marathon, Yale University, United Nations International School, NYFW, Sing A New Light, Red Dot Miami and Global Fund For Widows.During the pandemic, Perlman created The Hero Art Project with ARTHOUSE.NYC to honor healthcare heroes who passed away while battling Covid-19 which has been exhibited on digital kiosks and billboards across NYC, digital billboard boats in Miami, billboards in Las Vegas and So. California and in the windows of the iconic New York Life Building.

SUSIE FELBER is a writer, comedian, host, producer and currently partner at  Big Noyes, a company offering fractional CMO services.  She has produced numerous live events and recently spent nearly a decade working for a French tech company as a global content director. Known for her vast range, she has written and produced for numerous TV networks including Comedy Central, BBC America, truTV, MTV, ABC, and Lifetime Television. She has written for many national magazines including Cosmopolitan and US Weekly. She has also written and produced extensively for online, agencies, startups, video games, and radio. She’s especially proud of appearing multiple times as a hooker on Conan, writing jokes for Car Talk on NPR, and appearing as the voice of the letter “O” on Sesame Street.  

Currently, she hosts and produces a live variety show — The Hawk — and is the creator and EIC of The Weehawken Gazette.