Jonathan Hemingway
Virginia Hey
Jonathan Hemingway is a Game Designer with Gearbox Software who helped to create the First Person Shooter/ RPG hybrid Borderlands. Most notably, he designed and implemented the Skills system for all of the character classes.
Virginia Hey is a well-known Australian actress/model who moved into the world of natural therapies, Meditation teaching and Perfume design and fashion styling for magazines. Virginia has an extensive acting bio and a 37 year track history with the entertainment, fashion, natural health and beauty media in Australia and the UK. As an award nominated Australian actress, Virginia has achieved prominence, recognition and success not only nationally throughout her native Australia , but also around the world. In 1999, Ms. Hey was nominated for “Best Supporting Actress” on television by the 26th Annual Saturn Awards of America.
Before Gearbox Software he was learning his trade at the Guildhall at SMU, where he helped create Candy Crisis (a 2D platformer staring a gingerbread man), Dangerball ‘77 (a multiplayer roller derby combat game), and The Fiona Project (a cooperative shooter set in the cold war).
Heather Henson Heather Henson, the youngest daughter of Jim Henson, is a puppet artist, producer, cheerleader and catalyst that enables her communities to discover the wonder of puppetry and helps expose her puppet peers to a broader audience. Backed by a degree from Rhode Island School of Design and studies at Cal Arts, Heather created IBEX Puppetry, a multi-platform production company that serves as an umbrella to honor the creativity in herself and others. Founded in 2000 and receiving multiple UNIMA Awards since its inception, IBEX Puppetry supports puppet art in the mediums of film, stage, gallery exhibits, workshops, and artist presentations. With her personal art, Heather strives to incorporate her interests in health and healing for the planet by creating visual poetry with full sensory storytelling in order to offer audiences a transformative experience. In addition to her work with IBEX Puppetry, she remains active with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The International Crane Foundation, and The Jim Henson Legacy. Heather Henson’s IBEX Puppetry is an entertainment company dedicated to promoting the fine art of puppetry in all of its mediums. They nurture work for the stage, cinema, and gallery, producing Heather’s own Environmental Spectacles and Sing Along events as well as the work of independent puppet artists as part of the Handmade Puppet Dreams film series, the Puppet Slam Network, and IBEX Presents/Orlando Puppet Festival.
D i a n a T i x i e r H e rald Diana Tixier Herald is the author of several readers’ advisory guides including Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests, Teen Genreflecting 3, and Fluent in Fantasy. She co-authored Fluent in Fantasy: The Next Generation and Strictly Science Fiction with Bonnie Kunzel. She is a regular reviewer of science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal novels for Booklist. She is the series editor for Library Unlimited’s Genreflecting Series of readers’ advisory guides and senior editor for Reader’s Advisor Online. She is well known in the library field where her expertise in science fiction and fantasy for teens and adults have made her books, reviews, and articles standards for helping guide readers to the next book he or she will really enjoy. atlanta, georgia
Miss Hey’s acting career began following a successful modelling career, where she was spotted by casting directors and placed in her big screen debut in Mad Max 2: Road Warrior, in which she portrayed Warrior Woman. Since then, Miss Hey has also appeared in all the top Australian popular TVDramas, and several films including Mussolini, Roar, The Living Daylights, and Signal One. Miss Hey’s last major TV role was playoing one of the 5 lead characters, an Alien Priest Zhaan for 3 years on the award-winning international blockbuster American television series Farscape, USA Sci-Fi channels number one hit show 2001-2004, and now in syndication worldwide.
L a u ra H i ckma n Tracy and Laura Hickman have been collaborating on fantastic works of fiction since their marriage in 1977. Together, Tracy and Laura have written role playing games, screenplays and works of fiction including their first novel in 2004. Laura Hickman is credited as the first female designer of a published Role Playing Game Module. Tracy and Laura wrote and edited the first science fiction movie filmed in space, and a copy of their DNA is currently in orbit on the International Space Station. They are the parents of four children and live in Utah.
Trac y H i ckma n Tracy Hickman, with his wife Laura, began their journey across the ‘Sea of Possibilities’ as the creators of Dragonlance and their voyage continues into new areas with the release of Tracy’s second novel in his Drakis trilogy, his Fireborn: Embers of Atlantis for Fantasy Flight Games and his current work on Wayne of Gotham, a Batman novel for DC Comics. Tracy has over fifty books currently in print in most languages around the world. A record of both Tracy and Laura’s DNA currently orbits on the international space station and he is the writer and editor of the first science-fiction movie actually filmed in space. i
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