Deb Margolin, playwright, actor, and founding member of Split Britches Theater Co., has authored numerous plays, including Imagining Madoff (Helen Hayes/Charles Macarthur Award nominee for Outstanding New Play), Turquoise, That Old Perplexity, and Bringing the Fishermen Home, plus 11 solo plays she’s toured extensively. Her recent multi-character play about social unrest, this is not a time of peace, goes up in NYC this coming February. Deb received an OBIE for Sustained Excellence of Performance; Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award; Kesselring Playwriting Prize. Deb’s a professor in the Theater & Performance Studies Program, and lives in New Jersey, which she denies.

Jim Turner, performance artist, writer, actor, and stand-up comedian, is best known as Randee of the Redwoods on MTV; Kirby Carlisle in HBO’s comedy series Arli$$ for 7 seasons ; and as Larry in Bewitched. Turner has appeared multiple times as a guest on The George Lucas Talk Show, most notably w/fellow Arli$$ cast members Robert Wuhl and Michael Boatman. Turner is a founding member of the Los Angeles-based comedy group 2 Headed Dog with Mark Fite, Dave (Gruber) Allen & Craig Anton. Jim co-founded and is a long-time member of the comedy troupe Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre. Additional film & television credits are way too numerous to list here (22 films, 28 TV series & appearances) – so check out his Wikipedia page, or ask him!