Simone Leitner is an experimental video artist & performer native to New York. She recently graduated with a BA in Film & Electronic Arts from Bard College, where she received the Sidney Peterson Award for excellence in filmmaking for her thesis film Memory Card. In her undergraduate degree she was the co-creator of Office Hours, a satirical advice column, & published video art in Bard Papers. Her recent 3D video works have been shown at Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, & she has been working on refining her storytelling in numerous venues, most recently, NPR’s The Moth.

Emma Horwitz is a writer & dramaturg living in New York City.  Her fiction & humor has been published by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Two Serious Ladies, The Whale Magazine, Lux, Baby Teeth, the-y-magazine & Bard Papers. Production & development of her short plays & performances have been seen with Tiny Rhino, Feast Productions & Fresh Ground Pepper. This February, she will be in residency at Arts Letters and Numbers, in Averill Park, NY.  She currently works as the literary associate at Alchemation, the producing offices of Kevin McCollum; she holds a B.A. in the Written Arts from Bard College.