Catharine Charlesworth is an avid lover of books, the web, and other inventive outlets for the written word. She has studied communication at the University of Toronto while working as a bookseller, and is currently employed in online advertising in downtown Toronto.
David Churchill is a critic and author residing outside of Toronto. Seemingly born with a pen in his hand, David has been writing professionally for over 30 years. Most recently, he writes feature and informational copy for Vintages, the Liquor Board of Ontario's (LCBO) fine wine and spirits division. His first novel The Empire of Death (2010) was just published. For more information, go to http://www.wordplaysalon.com.
Mark Clamen is a lifelong television enthusiast. He lives in Toronto, where he often lectures on television, film, and popular culture. This past winter, Mark gave an eight-part lecture series on The Art of Television, at the Miles Nadal JCC in Toronto.
John Corcelli is a producer, director and writer who recently directed a production of Arthur Miller's play, The Price.
Kevin Courrier is a freelance writer/broadcaster, film critic and author (Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Zappa, Randy Newman's American Dreams, 33 1/3 Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of The Beatles Utopian Dream). Courrier teaches part-time film courses to seniors through the LIFE Institute at Ryerson University in Toronto and other venues. His forthcoming book is Reflections in the Hall of Mirrors: American Movies and the Politics of Idealism.
Andrew Dupuis is a devoted cinephile and graduate of Brock University's Film Studies program with an extensive background in Canadian and popular cinema. He is currently working on his first book.
Susan Green is a film critic and arts journalist from Burlington, Vermont. She is the co-author, with Randee Dawn, of Law & Order Special Victims Unit: The Unofficial Companion.
Deirdre Kelly is a journalist, author and internationally recognized dance critic. She has written for Dance Magazine in New York and the Dance Gazette in London (official magazine of the Royal Academy of Dance) and is a contributor to the International Dictionary of Ballet (St. James Press). She was the award-winning dance critic for Canada's The Globe and Mail and is currently the newspaper's Style reporter. She is the author of the national best-seller, Paris Times Eight (Greystone Books/Douglas & McIntyre), a Paris-inspired memoir with a chapter featuring Rudolph Nureyev. Her next book is a revealing account of the ballerina, past and present. Married with two children, she lives in Toronto.
David Kidney has reviewed for Green Man Review and Sleeping Hedgehog. He published the Rylander Quarterly (a Ry Cooder-based newsletter) for 8 years before turning it into a blog, at http://rylander-rylander.blogspot.com/. He works at McMaster University as Director of Learning Space Development, and lives in Dundas with his wife.
Shlomo Schwartzberg is a film critic, arts journalist, film programmer and instructor who teaches film courses through the LIFE Institute at Ryerson University.
Amanda Shubert is a founding editor of
Full Stop, an online journal of literature and culture. She works at the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Mari-Beth Slade is a marketer for an accounting firm in Halifax. She enjoys hearing new ideas and challenging assumptions. When not hard at work, she appreciates sharing food, wine and conversations with her family and friends.
Steve Vineberg is Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches theatre and film. He also writes for The Threepenny Review, The Boston Phoenix and The Christian Century and is the author of three books: Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style; No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade; and High Comedy in American Movies.
Laura Warner is a librarian, researcher, mother, and worrier living in Toronto. She graduated from Dalhousie University with graduate degrees in library and information management and public administration.
Andrew Dupuis is a devoted cinephile and graduate of Brock University's Film Studies program with an extensive background in Canadian and popular cinema. He is currently working on his first book.
Shlomo Schwartzberg is a film critic, arts journalist, film programmer and instructor who teaches film courses through the LIFE Institute at Ryerson University.
