Josie de Guzman, handpicked by Leonard Bernstein for the role of Maria in the 1980 Broadway revival of West Side Story, is a versatile and critically acclaimed actor/singer. She has…

Melissa Suhr performs with the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera Orchestras, Masterworks Chorus, and Grand Teton Music Festival. A graduate of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music with a…

Mark Bly is a Distinguished Professor of Theater at the University of Houston, where he teaches Playwriting and Dramaturgy. He has dramaturged over 70 productions at major regional theatres and…

Music director and pianist Larry Yurman music-directed and conducted the Broadway production of Grey Gardens.  His numerous credits include Broadway, Off Broadway, and regional theater. He has completed a recording…

Katie Oxford is a Houston-based writer for CultureMap. She was twice a juried poet in the Houston Poetry Festival. Recently, one of her poems was honored at the Jambalaya Writers'…

Joan Neuhaus Schaan is the executive director of Kickstart Kids, a nonprofit martial arts organization. Schaan was perviously  a fellow in homeland security and terrorism at the Baker Institute, Rice…

Richard M. Donovan worked in the timber and real estate industry, and, as time passed, has volunteered more and more of his time to preserve the habitat and way of…

Patsy Cravens (1936-2022) was a native Houstonian, photographer, artist, writer, and film producer. She wrote Leavin’ a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas (University of Texas Press, 2006), and her photographs…

Michelangelo Sabatino, is a professor of architecture of Illinois Institute of Technology. He was previously assistant professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston. He was…

Mena Mark Hanna is the founding dean and professor of musicology and composition at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. He received his Ph.D. from Merton College, Oxford, where he studied…