Artifice

Brandon Ray Olive, storyteller, originally hails from Shreveport, Louisiana. He credits his journey to his child-like curiosity, to his family's loving influence, and his passionate belief in the human potential. All of which has contributed to building his life in accordance... Brandon Ray Olive (now a loving husband to 1 and proud father to 3) is a prolific TV/Film actor, with recent appearances...

Olivia Custodio has her BFA in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University and her Masters in Music from the University of Utah. As a performer, she has appeared in numerous operas, musicals, and plays, and studied improv comedy at The Second City in Chicago. She has begun to dabble in the world of being a playwright and her first short play, Driver’s License, Please, premiered at Plan-B The...

Raised outside of Dallas, Jed was raised on music, singing in the church choir and taking mandatory piano lessons until his mom let him quit. To her surprise, he continued to play piano but replaced classical pieces with classics such as Queen, the Beatles, Billy Joel, etc. After graduating from BYU with a degree in Commercial Music, Jed worked at a number of studios in Utah and spent time in New...

Jen Palmer is a commercial photographer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She specializes in fashion, beauty, and product photography. Her favorite part of being a photographer is creating images that never existed before that moment and working with creative teams. When she’s not taking pictures, Jen loves to spend time with her family, friends, and especially her dog, Bucky. She also loves to trave...

Johnny Worthen is an award-winning, best-selling author of books and stories. A Utah Writer of the Year. Trained in modern literary criticism and cultural studies, he writes upmarket multi-genre fiction, symbolized by his love of tie-dye and good words. “I write what I like to read,” he says. “This guarantees me at least one fan.” Johnny is best known (so far) for his award winning, nationally acc...

Sarah Keele is the illustrator behind all of the Dark City Series board games by Façade Games. They launched their first Kickstarter, a social deception party game in a faux book box called, Salem 1692, back in April of 2015, just in time for Sarah’s graduation from Brigham Young University with a BFA in illustration. Riding the wave of the boom in the tabletop gaming industry, they exceeded their...

Joseph Facer is a multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and producer from Provo, Utah. He developed a love for music early in life and has pursued his passion single-mindedly ever since. Joseph has toured internationally as well as across the United States with various groups and has performed with and recorded such artists as Gladys Knight, Toto, Lea Salonga, Leslie Odom Jr., Lexi Walker, and ma...

As a young girl, Aubrey loved being in the kitchen. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle), she would go crabbing during the summers. These experiences instilled an appreciation and love of fresh seafood. She learned the art of catching, cleaning and cooking - sea-to-table was very real. Driven by passion, Aubrey graduated from the Culinary Arts Institute at UVU. Here she cultivated her ski...

Lance Lowry, a proud Ally and LGBTI advocate, serves as the Executive Director of the LOVELOUD Foundation. He is also featured in the HBO Documentary BELIEVER alongside Dan Reynolds for his work as the organizer of the inaugural LOVELOUD Festival.

After over 10 years in the comedy business, comedian/impressionist Marcus continues to be one the most diverse talents in the industry. From performing stand-up all over the country, writing a developing a musical impression show with his friend and fellow comedian Guy Seidel, hosting and producing his own paranormal-themed web series, “Ghost Hopping”, to being part of 2 successful podcasts, Dirtp...

Yolanda Stange is an actor/producer/casting director who has appeared in over a 100 industrial film, 50 feature films, 15 television shows and 3 national commercials. She has worked along side some of Hollywoods biggest stars like Zac Efron, Danny Glover, Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Moss and many more. In 2015 she opened her own production company Radical Hospitality and casting agency, Stange Casting...

Known for his modern approach to jazz, technical mastery on the kit and high aptitude for rhythm and independence, Steve Lyman is emerging as one of the leading voices on the drums around the globe. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Lyman moved to New York City in 2005 to study at the prestigious New School University. Lyman quickly began working with some of New York's finest musicians under...

Scott Stoddard is a game designer and animator who has worked on over 30 games across his 20 years in the video game industry. He began his career animating video games for Disney and then went on to create Robot Unicorn Attack before joining the team at ChAIR to help create the land mark Infinity Blade series. He is currently working as lead game designer on a project for Epic Games. Scott is dri...

From upended roses to figures whose faces are obscured by gestures of undress, Lindsay Frei’s striking subjects inhabit moments of vulnerability. Bold brushstrokes and exuberant palettes extol a vibrant, unapologetic femininity that simultaneously embraces and undermines conventional Western concepts of beauty. Lindsay’s work has been exhibited nationally since 2000 and featured in publications su...

Marc Cameron is a dynamic individual who had no formal dance training until the age of 21, but had a huge passion and desire to achieve. Using this Passion, Marc went on to qualify as an IDTA Jazz teacher, picking up various other genres of dance along the way. His heart, however, lay firmly in his roots as a Hip-Hop dancer and soon he set about choreographing and pushing the boundaries of his dan...

Rebecca Fenton has been in 'the biz' of fashion design with her own label, Haunted Head Fashion, for more than 20 years. She creates custom, one of a kind or limited edition designs. Rebecca's designs can be described as avant-garde, dramatic, edgy and unique. In 2015 she also started her wedding dress design and alterations company, Rebecca Fenton Bridal, expanding her horizons to the opposite si...

Great art almost feels like magic. It opens our minds to brand new ideas, and teaches us to see ourselves and our world more clearly. Of course, behind all great art—there are artists! And I think that’s where the real magic happens. As we go beneath the art itself to explore how artists do what they do, we see glimpses of the sorts of creativity and resilience that lead to the art that moves our...