John Christian Plummer is currently the writer of Mystery 101, the #1-rated mystery movie limited series for Hallmark and was head writer on all 3 seasons of Granite Flats, the cold war spy drama featuring Christopher Lloyd, Parker Posey, Cary Elwes, and Charlie Plummer. He’s worked as a writer and producer for NBC, Fox, Bravo, Comedy Central, TBS, IFC, VH1, MTV, Discovery, and History. John is also a theater director, with a special focus on Shakespeare. His 2008 production of Twelfth Night for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival was the subject of a documentary, Shakespeare on the Hudson, for Channel Thirteen/PBS. His original play, Bastard Nation, was produced by the Dynamo Theatre Lab at Vassar College; his play Rendition in Damascus was produced at the Philipstown Depot Theatre and at the Working Stages Theatre in Los Angeles. We Have Brought Nightmare, a play about New Netherland and the Wappinger War, was the winner of the True North Theatre Project’s River Play Festival Competition. He is a recipient of a prestigious Tanne Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in the arts. He has been a practicing SGI Buddhist for 24 years. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, Maia Guest, sons Charlie and James, and their English bulldogs, Luigi and Luna.

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Allison Hiroto is an actor, musician, and voice-over artist. Her voice-over work ranges from commercials to audiobooks, and she is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and Audie nominee. As an actor, Allison is a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company, Loco 7 Dance Puppet Theatre, Yara Arts Group, and NYU's First Look Theatre Company. She has performed all over the world, including London, Taipei, Toronto, Bogota, Zagreb, and the Venice Biennale. Allison is also a grant recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement Award.