Mike Armstrong has written film, television, newspaper columns, speeches and, early in his career, horoscopes.  Since his days at MTV he has worked with a wide range of talent, from Carol Burnett to Denis Leary, Steven Wright, Penn and Teller and Julia Louis Dreyfus.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three daughters, who aren’t impressed with any of it, including an Oscar winning short film.

David Felton has spent his life experimenting with new forms of journalism and television writing.  At the Los Angeles Times he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work covering the first Watts uprising and wrote a three-act play documenting the Summer of Love. At Rolling Stone Magazine his five-part study of Charles Manson, including a pre-trial interview, won the National Magazine Award.  He edited Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  Felton produced and wrote “MTV: the Reagan Years” for public television and helped develop the Beavis and Butt-Head show for MTV.  He is the author of Mindfuckers: a Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America.

Jim Turner has been an actor and performer for the past 40 years. Besides a few dozen films (Bewitched, St. Elmo’s Fire, Lost Boys, The Right Stuff, The Ref, etc.) and many TV appearances (Granite Flats, Larry Sanders, Parenthood, Roseanne, Big Bang Theory, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, and 7 years on HBO’s Arli$$). He’s made a dent in the world of alternative comedy with Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater, 2 Headed Dog, Girly Magazine Party, Clowntown City Limits, and a half dozen solo shows. Dixon Place is his home away from home and he’s performed there on and off for the past 28 years.