* Sparkle Television * Advisory Board *

Amy Carlson recently completed Anamorph (2007) with Willem Dafoe and prior to that played ADA Kelly Gaffney alongside Bebe Newirth in Law & Order: Trial By Jury (2005). Her most memorable roles have been of strong women: Katie Owen alongside Tom Berenger in Peacemakers (2003), Alex Taylor in Third Watch (1999), Maggie Pistone in Falcone (1999), and Josie Watts on Another World, which earned her a Daytime Emmy nomination in the category of "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series." Carlson currently resides in New York City with boyfriend Syd Butler, bassist of Les Savy Fav where she also works in the independent music business as part-owner of the independent label Frenchkiss Records. Amy continues to write as well as seek out diverse and unique roles in the film industry.

Tony Carnevale has written for MTV, VH1, Noggin, and National Lampoon. He has also contributed to The Onion and Saturday Night Live, and he created the five-minute TV show competition/festival, Channel 102.

Emily Flake is an illustratrix and the author and artist of a weekly comic strip, Lulu Eightball, which runs in several alternative newsweeklies. Entertainment Weekly gave the 2005 Lulu Eightball book the #1 slot on their Must List. Her new book These Things Ain't Going to Smoke Themselves: A Love/Hate Letter to Cigarettes. More info at eflakeagogo.com.

Angus Johnston is a historian (PhD CUNY 2007) whose writing has appeared in anthologies on the history of student activism and in journals such as Radical History Review and Peace and Change. He has served as an adviser to student activist organizations and lectured on campuses across the country. In addition to his academic work, he is currently collaborating on a biography of the magician and skeptic James Randi.

Angus is the longtime copy-wrangler, bottle-washer, and associate muse of Pipe Up! magazine, and he has worked with Shannon Manning on a variety of improv and video projects as well. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and kids, and maintains an irregular personal blog at http://brooklynite.livejournal.com .

Like WEB DuBois, Angus does not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

Deborah Magocsi is an artist, musician, and filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn. She worked for many years in the film department at Saturday Night Live and has since written, edited, and produced several documentary and feature films. She has also done branding and marketing for numerous products that may be at this moment in your refrigerator, wallet, or hair. You may find out more on her website.

Shannon Manning has made it her life's mission to connect people to each other, and to useful, enlightening, entertaining information, and in all ways to promote good work and good people. (That's the only way to stop the bad people from winning.) She has worked as a weather-maker, animator, baggage handler, web publisher, music manager, big wig corporate financial executive, TV producer, and co-founded and owned the Magnet Theater, a performance venue and school of improvisation. For love, her projects have also included:

Comedy, video, and music impresario and sometimes performer: Drinkytown (variety), Leche Magica (video collective), Beauty Love Truth (improv to live music), Here Be Monsters (variety with Chris Mills and Jon Langford).
Founder & Editor Pipe Up! magazine. Created just before the Iraq war as an attempt to get creative people to write about everything they care about and to embrace political debate, with a spoonful of sugar to make it go down.
Creator of the Dig and Be Dug mailing list (now in its eighth year): weekly listings of performances, events, books, CDs – anything she thought worth digging. Through this she established an incredible amount of goodwill with other performers, writers, producers, and audience, and hopefully even managed to get a few more people to protests!

Chris Mills' last album was hailed by Chicago Sun-Times' Jim Derogatis as "the strongest album of Mills' career, as well as a testament to the communal spirit of Chicago's indie-rock underground." He toured the album, opening for Ben Folds. With Jon Langford and Sally Timms, Chris also founded music and comedy show Here Be Monsters, founded the label Powerless Pop Recorders and has spent time performing the most important job in the world: teaching children. He is currently developing a band and songs specifically for the little ones called Rowland's Ramblin' Family Band and recorded a new album in New York.

Louie Pearlman is an improviser, filmmaker, and teacher originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. For over ten years, he has worked at the much-beloved teen comedy program "The Clown Shop" at Buck's Rock Visual and Performing Arts Camp in New Milford, Connecticut, and is one of the creators and instructors of NYC's Magnet Theater Teen Improv Program. Louie can often be spotted performing at the Magnet Theater with his improv team. Since moving to New York in 2002, he has performed at The Magnet Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade, in The Project at The People's Improv Theater, The Looking Glass Theater, and many other venues, like when he plays the ukulele and sings songs in tiny bars.

Maria Schneider is a writer for The Onion, where she is also the Associate Editor. She is also the creator of the comic strip Pathetic Geek Stories, and has done illustration for America (The Book) and the numerous Onion books.