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Travis Beck - PsychoShack Haunted House
Travis started his entertainment career designing light shows and props for Atlanta nightclubs. This in turn led into an art degree in photography and video; eventually doing photo makeovers for celebrity clients, winning many photography awards. Travis always has had an interest in haunts, doing infra-red ghost hunting photo excursions all over the world and designing digital works of art. Travis worked with Six Flags Theme Parks for several years as makeup director and show director for Fright Fest; implementing over 100 actors inside and around the parks.

Heading into the age of digital medium, Travis used his knowledge to design sound, video, and lighting for several shows on the Food Network and PBS; which has led to the production design and stage management of some big name recording artists. His work with Anita Baker's 2006 Christmas Tour won many accolades, as did his production managment of the very successful 100 show-4 season Super Chef's LIVE! national tour for Simon Malls. After years of planning, Travis and partners opened PsychoShack Haunted House in 2007; just outside of Atlanta. He brings knowledge of lighting, photography, video, sound design, production design, and stage management to make every project memorable. He has been working hard on PsychoShack Haunted House for 2008 and season 2 has a lot of big surprises for anyone who ventures in.

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Big City Burlesque
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James Cawley - Star Trek: New Voyages
James Cawley is the executive producer of "Star Trek: New Voyages" and also performs the role of Captain James T. Kirk. James first visited Dragon*Con last year and proved to be a highly popular guest. His web-based fan films for "Star Trek: New Voyages" boast 30 million downloads per episode and "CBS This Morning" recently featured the cast and crew on their program. Check out www.startreknewvoyages.com for more info.

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Freddy Clements - Jacksonville State University
Freddy Clements is currently a Professor of Drama/Faculty Costume Designer at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville Alabama. He holds a BA in English/Theatre from Emory & Henry College, VA 84 and an MFA in Costume design from Virginia Commonwealth University, VA 88. He has designed costumes for various theaters including Wayside Theatre in Middletown VA, CPCC in Charlotte NC, Converse college department of music Spartenburg SC, Barter Theatre in Abington Va and Theatre In The Square in Marietta, GA. On the University level he has taught courses in costume design, costume construction, stage make-up and advanced stage make-up.
You can contact Mr. Clements at jsudesigner@aol.com.

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Pamela Cole - Costumier
Pamela Cole worked in the costume industry in the Chicago area all through high school and during college. She is a graduate of Goodman Theatre in Chicago with a costumier degree, where as she is a degreed designer and builder of costumes. One of the foremost authorities in period pieces in the southeast, Pamela has been designing costumes in the Atlanta area for over 35 years, serving major dance companies, opera houses, theatres, and reenactors in all time periods. Mrs. Cole is currently working with the Capitol City Opera Company on the production of "Don Pasquale." With an impressive and lengthy work resume, Pamela Cole has been judging costume contests for Dragon Con and various costuming guilds and conventions for years.

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The Crossed Swords
Nicole Harsch and Mike Sakuta are the Crossed Swords. For over 20 years, their Crossed Swords Stage Combat Shows have been seen across the continental U.S. and Canada at renaissance festivals and science fiction conventions and, of course, previous Dragon*Cons. Recently, they've been hired to swordfight in such interesting locations as Honolulu, Hawaii; Blackpool, England; Paris, France; Berlin, Germany; and Moscow, Russia.

They also teach stage combat and have been fight directors for renaissance festivals and many historical plays including Hamlet, Cyrano, Camelot, Caesar & Cleopatra, Robin Hood, Romeo & Juliet, and I Hate Hamlet.. For more details, please visit their bio on the Dragon*Con Site.

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Cruxshadows
Always a crowd pleaser, Jessica and the girls with the Cruxshadows Fairies have long been Costume Track favorites and good friends as well. Join us this year as we invite the Cruxshadow, Rogue, Jessica, and their fairies back to discuss costuming for Goth and production events. Visit www.cruxshadows.com.

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Kathleen O'Shea David - No Strings Attached
Kathleen O'Shea David started working with puppets when she was 2 and over 40 years later she is still "wiggling dolls" for fun and profit. Along the way she picked up a few more skills and careers. She has done just about everything from cancer research to rock and roll. Some of her favorite jobs have been in puppetry, theater and publishing.

"Negima". She is a book editor, the owner of No String Attached (Custom Puppets, Masks, and Dolls), and mother to Caroline David. Her costumes have won awards at various science fiction conventions both for performance and workmanship. Her puppets are in collections all over the world. Current projects include a puppet show based on two short stories by Neil Gaiman, making her Fairy Grandmother dolls, finishing up her novel, and creating the other puppets that keep running round her head screaming, "Make me real!" Check out her web blot at: http://kathodavid.malibulist.com

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Corissa Gaulin - PsychoShack Haunted House
Corissa Gaulin is on fo the owners of PsychoShack Haunted House in Douglasville, Georgia. After graduating from the Art Institute of Atlanta her interests in makeup, special effects and costuming took her in the direction of the haunted attraction industry. After serving as show director for Six Flags Fright Fest Haunted Houses she took the big plunge into ownership of her own commercial haunt.

She is a self taught prosthetic and mask maker. After several seasons of making props and appliances for her show she has become a hands on expert in the creation of life castings and original special effects sculptures. Visit www.psychoshack.com for a closer look.

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Marty Gear - International Costumers' Guild
In the 21st century, the future of costuming doesn't lie with the traditional sci-fi conventions and costuming events. Participants in those events are growing old, and it's harder to find the sort of youth and enthusiasm you need to keep any hobby going. That sort of enthusiasm can be found with Marty Gear. Gear and his late wife, Bobbi, were part of costuming before the parents of many of today's costumers were born. Gear has been part of the ICG since before anime conventions were fashionable, and he's tried to bring these notoriously independent events in line with the guild's costuming categories and judging guidelines. We welcome Marty back for his second year and he is sure to bring his wisdom, warmth, and genial nature to our events.
For more information about the ICG, go to www.costume.org

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Cheralyn Lambeth -
Cheralyn Lambeth is a professional prop, costume, and puppet builder/performer whose work includes multiple feature films (The Muppet Christmas Carol, Leatherheads,) TV shows (Dinosaurs!) and various interactive properties (Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.) She also writes nonfiction "ghost story" books with Schiffer Publishing.

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Scott Merrill - Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Travis Scott Merrill does not remember a time in his life where he didn't have a need to create something from something else. Evan as a child he would take apart his toys and turn them into something new. Thankfully, he had a very understanding mother and a father who ran a boyscout camp that started him with wood and leather crafts at a very early age. All this combined with a grandfather who taught him all he needed to have his very own rocket ship in his backyard were two steel drums, a dryer door and his imagination, led him to believe he could build anything with hard work, an active imagination, and an understanding of his tools and materials.

He started Jacksonville State University as an art major and found theater by way of make-up effects. Once in the theatre his art talent flourished, painting murals in the scene shop, sculpting in the prop shop, and various mask making projects. He found his ability to see various shapes and how the could go together clicked with draping and pattern making. And one day realized, he was a theatre professional. It is difficult to tear him away from the costume and props shops. There are so many tools and so many things he can not wait to build. As a costume crafts artisan all his training in art, costumes and props all came together. For his resume, visit: www.crafts4stage.com

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Sharon Morgan - Altered Tyme Corsets
Sharon Morgan is the owner of internationally known Altertyme Corsets and is one the foremost expert on modern corset making. She has made corsets for various independent artists, most recently in Atlanta made independent film Psychopathia Sexualis. She has freelanced at several Atlanta based theatres including the Alliance, and worked for the JSU Opera as the costume designer. She spent three seasons at Tony Award winning Utah Shakespeare Festival as the senior costume tech and wardrobe supervisor. She is currently the Cutter draper, assistant costume shop manager, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Theatre. She has understanding of historical thread tracing, which is a system of graphing to derive a pattern from the original garment without destroying or damaging the garment.
Visit www.altered-tyme.com.

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Chris Mueller - Freelance Costume Designer
Chris is proud to be back for his second year as a costuming track panelist at Dragon Con. Chris is a recent graduate of the MFA Costume Design program at Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently embarking on his new career asa freelance costume designer. As a costume technician Chris has worked in regional theatres across the country as both a cutter/draper and patternamaker, and as a costume craftsperson. As a designer, he has barely scratched the surface with work at nationally acclaimed Hartford Stage Company and Long Wharf Theatres and an award for graduate level costume design from SETC.

Chris has also spent time as an educator, teaching three years of beginning costume construction at VCA, classes in costume crafts, and seminares in kilt-making. He has studied under Tony Nominated Broadway Costume Designer Toni-Leslie James, costume historian Liz Hopper, as well as Freddy Clements, one of his colleagues that is a guest panelist to the Costuming Track.

All that said, Chris still dedicates his love of costuming to Star Wars, Halloween, and all things Sci-Fi.

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Dr. Chris Smirthwaite - The Smile Centre
Dr Chris Smirthwaite is principal dentist at The Smile Centre, a multi-award winning dental practice in Cornwall UK. He has a special interest in cosmetic dentistry and dental implants, and is a regular presenter at national dental conferences. Chris has been a regular visitor to Dragon*Con for several years and has an active interest in role-play gaming and costuming. Chris says, "I spend most of my working day trying to turn beastly smiles in beautiful ones, it makes a great change to come to the 'con, and help turn beauty into The Beast!"

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Audrey Stewart
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Torch -
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Roy Wooley - NETHERWORLD Haunted House
Roy Wooley has been involved in special makeup effects and airbrushing since the age of 15. After receiving an airbrush for Christmas ans seeing "An American Werewolf in London" later that year, Roy was inspired to dive head long into the world of special effects.

Many years later after he moved to Georgia, Roy's two loves combined when he began creating intense makeups for NETHERWORLD Haunted House and using the airbrush as one of his primary tools.

Today Roy does film work for low budget horror films and airbrush body art for fashion shows, parties, and print. Every year from the middle of September through October he helps a team of talented professionals bring the creatures of the NETHERWORLD to life by designing and applying scores of wild monster make-ups every night, fabricating custom creatures, and occasionally donning elaborate costumes of his own design to scare the heck out of the customers! For more information about NETHERWORLD, visit their site at: www.fearworld.com. For more of Mr. Wooley's work, visit his myspace page.

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Lee Cox - Asst Director/Room Mgr
Lee became interested in costuming while in high school. At the time, he was beginning to gain some notoriety as a magician and naturally became interested in expanding his repertoire in clowning. It did not take him very long to realize that clown costumes of good quality and individuality were hand made? so he took to sewing on his mother?s hand-me-down machine. Soon, he was sewing clown costumes for other professional clown performers.

Today, Lee stills sews "special" costumes and attire for his full length evening magic show. He also sews character costumes just for the fun of being someone else.

Lee is most known in the magic community for his comedic legerdemain throughout the southeast as well as Las Vegas NV, and Santa Fe NM. He has also written articles for the Linking Ring (the largest international magic magazine in circulation today,) taught lectures on creating original illusions and comedy, and has won numerous awards for his illusionary work.
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