here!!! - Faerie Escape Atlanta

June 15-17,2012
www.faeatlanta.com

Table of Contents
Welcome to Faerie Escape: Atlanta........ 1
Program Book Credits............................. 1
Escape Planners....................................... 1
Court Times............................................ 1
Workshops............................................... 2
Our Story................................................. 2
Gaming.................................................... 2
Court Functions...................................... 3
The Summer Court (Presenters)............. 5
Performers............................................... 12
The Fae Maketplace................................. 13
Map.......................................... Back Cover
Welcome to the Escape!
Welcome to the third annual Faerie Escape! We’ve had
otherworldly fun with the first two, and now we’re taking
the enchantment even beyond the Escape with a showing
of Stardust at the Plaza Theater, a continuing series of Faerie
Escape meetups around Atlanta, and even a collection
of short stories in Mercury Retrograde Press’ 2012 Faerie
Escape Chapbook. Thus the theme for this year’s Escape:
Spreading the Magic.
As we noted at the first Escape, the Fae present us with the
opportunity to fly beyond
the mundane, to stretch our wings and reach for distant
points of brilliance. Creatures from Faerie inspire our art,
our dance, our prose, our music, our poetry, and even the
way we interact with the world. This year we plan to take
that inspiration well beyond this weekend and help it escape
out into the world itself, whether it be through our
stories, our art, or even the unique ways we live our lives.
We know many of you will have a favorite part of the Escape,
be it the marketplace with its many glittering attractions,
the workshops where you lose yourself in creation,
the discussions that will open you to new ways of seeing
our world, or some unexpected encounter with another
member of the Escape. Whatever it is you find most appealing,
we hope you’ll give other aspects a try as well, and
be ready to continue them well beyond here.
Have fun spreading the magic!
Program Book Credits
Editors: Andrew Greenberg, Bryan Thompson
Design and Typography: Bryan Thompson
Guest Bios: Themselves
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Dedicated to Ror, Sable, and others
who will be with us always.
©2012 HDI, LLC
Escape Planners
Director: Andrew Greenberg
Fae Marketplace: Renee Newsom
Faerie Ball: Jsin Secretroom
Registration: Abigail Joslin
Web Mistress: Emilie Elliott
Troll-in-Chief: IK
Crafting Team: Anya Martin, Eve
Storyteller Extrodinaire: Carrie Anne Hunt
Lord of the Games: Ted Skirvin
Volunteers: Too many to name, but not to appreciate
and celebrate. These are the hard-working brownies who
really make the Escape possible. Thank them if you see
them or, if you are afraid thanking brownies makes them
disappear, give them a huge hug or a drink to show your
appreciation instead.
Court Times
Friday, June 15
Gathering of the Summer Court, 7 – 10 pm
Saturday, June 16
Registration: 9 am – 6 pm
Fae Marketplace: 10 am – 6 pm
Costume Contest & Faerie Ball: 7 pm – midnight
Sunday, June 17
Registration: 9 am – noon
Fae Marketplace: 10 am – 4 pm
Closing of the Court: 4 pm

Workshops
The Escape offers you numerous opportunities to express
yourself creatively, and we hope you will take advantage of
our workshops to try your hand at wing making, dance,
costuming, mask making, faerie house creation, and art.
Some of these workshops, like wing making, mask making
and faerie house creation, require more than a few
bits and pieces, and we are collecting a materials fee to
reimburse our presenters who supplied these. More information
about this can be found at the registration desk.
In addition, we have crafting nooks in the workshop
rooms where you can create as you see fit. The workshops
have precedence, so please work quietly or
come back later if they need the space. Volunteers
should be available to answer your
questions about these creation stations,
but if you have any doubts, ask for more
information at the registration desk. There
are trash cans available, so please clean up
when you are done, and let our volunteers or
the hotel staff know if the trash cans get full.
Our Story
The Mythic Imagination Institute, one of
the Escape’s sponsors, has long promoted
the fact that “Every life is a story, and a story
can change the world.” The entire Escape
is filled with stories, but we hope you will join us
for some of the key ones. Expect the story to start at
the Gathering of the Court Friday night, continue in
the Grand Ball Saturday night, and conclude at the
Closing of the Court.
Gaming
The Chardonnay room is open all weekend for gaming.
Feel free to stop by as you please to try out any games that
are there or bring your own. In addition, we have a sneak
preview of Hi-Rez Studios upcoming mythology-based
massively multiplayer game SMITE and some scheduled
games as well.
Saturday, June 16, 1 pm
Join us at Faerie Haven, a card game from Mushroom Circle
Games. Each player tries to build havens using Heroes
and Items. The other players use events and attacks to destroy
the havens of opponents. The player with the most
points at the end of the game wins. The “personages” featured
in the game come from Arthurian, Celtic, Roman,
Nordic and Greek mythology as well as Faerie lore.
Sunday, June 17, 11 am
The Queen of Air and Darkness
This introductory RPG set in the late Middle Ages sends
the characters off to recover a lost child, stolen by the
Queen of Air and Darkness. Expect a lively, fast-paced
game good for players of any (or no) experience levels.
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Court Functions
Fae Marketplace
Vintage Room
Saturday
Vendor Access 6:00AM
OPENS - 10:00AM
CLOSES - 6:00PM
Sunday
OPENS - 10:00AM
CLOSES - 4:00PM
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Friday
Opening of the Court
Zinfandel Room - 7:00PM
Performances and stories, as well as a movie offering from
Lisa Stock. The Opening of the Court is free and open to
everyone. This is a chance for all our attendees to meet
one another, so invite everyone to come and bring their
friends.
Saturday
Fairy Tales, Myth
and Psychology
Blanc de Blanc Room - 10:30AM
Court: Andrew Greenberg (m), Honora Foah, Dea Mozingo, Ted
Friedman, Bill Bridges, Eugie Foster
What is the deep attraction of fairy tales and what do they
mean to us? What role do these ancient stories play in our
psyche, and why? Subtitle: Grimm, Campbell and Jung
Walk into a Bar …
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Costuming Workshop
Rosé Room - 10:30AM
Court: Anya Martin
Faerie Writing
Workshop
Blanc de Blanc Room - 12:00PM
Court: Barbara Friend Ish
Join author and editor Barbara Friend Ish in writing a
Faerie-inspired short story. In this hands-on workshop,
we’ll discuss Faerie character types and story elements and
then develop our own Fae-inspired short stories. Workshop
participants are invited to read from their stories
at the Mercury Retrograde Salon Saturday evening, and
finished stories will be included in the 2012 Faerie Escape
Chapbook.
Wing Making
Workshop
Rosé Room - 12:00PM
Court: Brenda Jarvis of A Temptation of Faeries
Come grow your own wings and let your imagination
soar! Learn basic wing construction techniques then fly
out in wings of your own design. Children welcome with
accompanying adult. Adhesives, hot glue, paint and glitter
will be available. All supplies provided. Each fae flies out
with their creation. Sign up and join the fun!
Wing Rentals
Flying in without your wings for the ball? Need to grow a
bigger set of wings quickly? No worries! A Temptation of
Faeries from Ollure rents wings. See us in the marketplace
for details.
Fae in All Their Guises
Blanc de Blanc Room - 1:30PM
Court: Honora Foah (m), IK the Troll, Eugie Foster, Dea Mozingo,
Bill Bridges
The fae is just one term for these beings. What names,
forms and meaning do they take around the world? What

similarities do they share in appearance and actions, in
their style and substance?
Second Skins II
Blanc de Blanc Room - 3:00PM
Court: IK the Troll (m), Carrie Anne Hunt, Lisa Stock, Charlotte
Babb, assorted Faebles and Trolls
One of the most popular panels from 2010, we revisit
and build upon the role of costumes and identity. Why
are so many people choosing alternate appearances and
personas? What psychological and cultural work is accomplished
by fantasy costume in both childhood and adulthood?
How can you get more out of yours?
Mask Making
Workshop
Rosé Room - 3:00PM
Explore the basics of crafting leather masks with artisan,
Angela R. Sasser, of Angelic Shades Studio. Learn what
tools you need to get started, where to purchase leather,
and how versatile leather can be. Finally, Angela will give a
step-by-step of crafting a simple mask from start to finish.
Wee Folk,
Little Green Men
and Abductions
Blanc de Blanc Room - 4:30PM
Court: Bill Bridges (m), Honora Foah, Ted Friedman
Tales of alien abductions and visits to faerie land have
surprisingly much in common. Why are fairy and UFO
abductions so similar, and what do they tell us about ourselves
and the world(s) around us?
Faerie Makeup
Workshop
Rosé Room - 4:30PM
Mercury Retrograde
Salon
Mercury Retrograde Suite - 5:30PM
Join Mercury Retrograde Press editors, staff, and friends
for merriment and mythic munchies. The evening’s entertainments
will include readings from the participants
at the Faerie Writing Workshop, recitations from Strunk
& White’s Elements of Style by Mercury Retrograde
editor Anna Branscome, and a performance of the Big
Books Rap by A Dark Fable.
Grand Ball
Blanc de Blanc &
RoséRoom - 7:00PM
With the Costume Contest & various Amazing Performances.
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Sunday
The Art of the Fae
Blanc de Blanc Room - 10:30AM
Court: Lisa Stock (m), Lindsay Archer, Tammy Pryce, John
Bridges
How do we bring the most ephemeral of creatures to life
on paper and canvas, sculpture, et all?
Fairy Tales of Hollywood
Blanc de Blanc Room - 12:00PM
Court: Ted Friedman (m), Lisa Stock (m), Carrie Anne Hunt,
Charlotte Babb
It seems like fairy tales surround us again, in books, on
TV and in movies. Why have fairy tales taken over pop
culture? What are storytellers and scriptwriters drawing
from these powerful tales that make their own work
better? Most important, are any of these new adaptations
any good?
Children’s Literature
Workshop
Rosé Room - 12:00PM
The Future
of Faerie Fiction
Rosé Room - 1:00PM
Court: Barbara Friend Ish (m), Charlotte Babb
We’ve seen an explosion in literature about faeries and
fairy tales, and there is no sign of it stopping. What are
the next big things in writing about fairy tales, the fae and
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Elemental Dance
Workshop
Blanc de Blanc Room - 1:30PM
Creator Rights
Blanc de Blanc Room - 3:00PM
Court: Courtney Lytle, Blake Sorensen
Those who would guide the fae into our realm have concerns
beyond the ravenous appetites of trolls. Copyrights,
legal protections, fan fictions, tributes, satire and the like
may seem beyond the notice of the faerie courts, but not
of human ones. Join Emory adjunct law professor Courtney
Perry and intellectual property attorney Blake Sorensen
for this wide-ranging discussion of rights you may
not even know you have. Suitable for both legal novices
and the experienced.
Faerie House Workshop
Rosé Room - 3:00PM
Court: Candace Apple
Entice the faeries into your world with a mystical magical
faerie cottage created from gourds, mosses, stones, fungi,
Candace Apple
Founder and owner of
the Phoenix & Dragon
Book store in Sandy
Springs since 1987, over
the years Phoenix &
Dragon Book store has
evolved into a community
center with over 30
classes, book sign ings and
special events a month on
topics rang ing from metaphysics
to spirituality,
holistic health and personal growth. Candace works with
the Voyager Tarot Cards which reflect her love of archetypal
symbol ism. Candace’s favorite place in the store is
the enchanted land of faeries and the woods and garden
surrounding the store where faeries and wildlife
abound. Candace enjoys working with customers
twigs, nuts and dried flowers. Let your imagination take
wing as you design and build a faerie house fit for a faerie
queen. Children welcome with an accompanying adult,
hot glue guns are involved. All supplies provided. If a
child is coming with an adult and they are making one
faerie house, the child is free. We ask that you get separate
tickets if each is making a faerie house or if there is more
than one child per adult and they are making a house
each. Workshop preference is one child per adult.
Closing Ceremonies
Blanc de Blanc Room - 4:00PM
The Summer Court
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with hands on learning about the world of crystals and
gemstones and classes including her ever popular Faerie
House Creations.
Lindsay Archer From an early age, Lindsay
declared that she was going
to be an artist. After
seeing her grandfather’s
regret at not pursuing his
talent, she vowed to use
her gift. In elementary
school she made copies
of her early work with her
father’s xerox copier and
sold them for change to buy ice cream. During her high
school years she continued her entrepreneurial endeavors
by scultping figurines, painting T-Shirts, and painting
items to sell at Pow Wows.

In 1999 Lindsay graduated with honors from The Art
Institute of Atlanta and returned to her hometown
in search of work, where she worked for an advertising
company known as Third Wave Digital until she took a
teaching position at Macon Technical College where she
taught art and originated their 3D program.
After observing successful artists, Lindsay took the leap to
professional full time artist in the fall of 2003. Traveling
to conventions around the country selling and promoting
her artwork along with the work of other artists, Lindsay
emerged on the fantasy/scifi scene. In 2004 Lindsay was
one of Larry Elmore’s first art camp students, and with
what she learned it took her artwork to the next level.
Not long afterward, Lindsay began illustrating for Margaret
Weis Productions, and her artwork was featured
in role-playing such as the Serenity RPG, DragonLance
RPG, Battlestar Galactica RPG, and the Supernatural RPG.
Through the years she has been prolific in both illustration
and her own fantasy artwork.
To learn more about the artist and her work visit www.
lindsayarcher.com. Prints are available through http://
linzarcher.deviantart.com.
Charlotte Babb
Charlotte has been writing
since she was four, making
up stories about fairies in
the back yard and aliens in
the forest. She has studied
the folk stories of many
cultures and wonders what
happened to ours. Where
the stories are for people over 20 who have survived marriage,
divorce, child-raising, education, bankruptcy, and
widowhood? She loves Fractured Fairy Tales and writes
them for your enjoyment.
Bill Bridges
Bill Bridges is a role-playing
game developer and
author. He was one of
the primary White Wolf
original developer (along
with many others who
contributed) to Werewolf:
The Apocalypse from 1992
to 1995. He was extremely
influential in turning the
idea that werewolves could
be something besides cursed humans, and instead be
spiritual warriors defending the environment from inevitable
impending doom.This idea has since been echoed
in some of popular contemporary novel series in which
werewolves can breed new werewolves in addition to creating
new ones by biting them. While previous examples of
this exist, his contributions help broaden the idea of what
a werewolf could be or entail as accepted by the reading
audience. He was a part of the original Mage: The Ascension
design team. He has numerous writing credits encompassing
most of the second edition World of Darkness games,
and helped design the Werewolfcollectible card game,
Rage.
After years with White Wolf, he joined Holistic Design
(HDI) where he co-created Fading Suns with Andrew
Greenberg. Bridge’s most measurable contributions to
the game were his “Alustro’s Journals” a series of Marco
Polo style travel logs featuring the travels of the pilgrim
Alustro and his companions as they moved from one area
to another. He was also the primary author of the War in
the Heaven’s series which revealed the secrets of the Symbiots
and the Vau respectively. Minor literary similarities
can be seen between the pro-environmental Symbiots and
the ‘defenders of Gaia’ among the Garou in Werewolf the
Apocalypse. Another common theme includes the deeper
mysteries implied in the setting over the battle of fate and
free will (in Fading Suns this manifest through the proxy
war the Ananaki fight through Vau influence whereas in
Werewolf: The Apocalypse it shows itself through the conflict
between arch-spirits Wyrm, Weaver and Wyld. His
work for other companies include writing for Chaosium,
and development for the Star Trek: The Next Generation
and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine role-playing games for Last
Unicorn Games. He has also worked on computer games,
notably Emperor of the Fading Suns for Segasoft (based on
the Fading Suns RPG), co-writing scripts for Viacom’s “interactive
horror movie”Dracula Unleashed, and more Star
Trek work on Starfleet Academy for Interplay.
Bridges moved back to White Wolf in 2002, replacing Jess
Heinig as the developer for the revised edition of Mage:
The Ascension, seeing the game he created through
to its conclusion in the Time of Judgment. For the
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new World of Darkness, he worked on the new core rules
and was a designer, author and developer on Mage: The
Awakening. He later moved on line edit Promethean: The
Created, which has won several awards.
Bridges also co-chairs the content committee for the biannual
myth based academic conference and performance
festival, Mythic Journeys.His published novels include The
Silver Crown and The Last Battle, both of which are set in
the Werewolf: The Apocalypse setting.
The Fables
The Fables are a
fantasy-character acting
troupe. They preform
every May at the
Tennessee Renaissance
Festival. They audition
in February and
then train for three months in preparation for the faire in
May. They learn to walk, talk, and act like a fairy. Their
main job at the faire is to entertain guests and make the
magic that is a fairy real for children. They are known for
their love of food, especially cheesecake. During the late
afternoon it is not unusual to find them napping in the
garden. Their director, Esther Cancasci, has been with
the Tennessee Renaissance Festival since 1997 and the
Fairy Director since 2001.
Honora Foah
Honora Foah is the President of Mythic Imagination
Institute and Creative Director of Visioneering International.
A pioneer of multi-disciplinary art, Ms Foah’s New York
based dance theatre company incorporated movement,
voice, music, food, art installation and projection. The
company was a grant recipient from the National Endowment
for the Arts.
After 10 years with the company, Ms Foah began studies
in Waldorf Education helping to found 3 schools. A
Masters degree from the University of North Carolina in
Dance and PhD studies in Education followed.
Ms Foah became Creative Director of Visioneering International
in 1990, designing many projects. Highlights
include chief designer and producer of two World’s Fair
pavilions for the United Nations (Genova, Italy; Taijon,
Korea), work for the Hayden Planetarium, installations
for Fernbank Science Museum and enormous video art
installations for Augusta Children’s Hospital and Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta’s Emory Hospital.
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She has created and collaborated on two notable performance
cycles, Water Murders with playwright Bradford Riley
and her own Recombinant DNA. A collaboration with
artist Amy Landesberg produced a full gallery show at the
Sandler-Hudson gallery in Atlanta.
In 2003, Ms Foah began work on Mythic Journeys, a performance
festival and conference of extraordinary scope.
Bringing together more than 150 presenters, speakers,
artists and performers, Mythic Journeys uses the great archetypal
stories, sacred traditions, folk wisdom and tales
as a ground from which new art in consonance with interdisciplinary
conversation can create a context for contemporary
events. Psychologists, scientists, poets, scholars,
politicians, business people, artists and musicians bring
their expertise and creativity to bear on the experiences
and issues of our time. It is an approach both deeply respectful
and knowledgeable of tradition, and iconoclastic,
recognizing, ‘You cannot solve a problem from the
same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see
the world anew.’ (Albert Einstein) The rich interaction
included many wise hearts and brilliant minds ranging
from poet Coleman Barks to Chief Jake Swamp, from
Deepak Chopra to Joyce Carol Oates, Lorin Hollander to
Sobonfu Some, James Hillman to Chungliang Al Huang.
In 2005, Mythic Journeys was the subject of a two-hour
documentary on National Public Radio.
Mythic Journeys is a production of the Mythic Imagination
Institute which also produces an online magazine, educational
programs, podcasts and other events, most notably
in 2010, Testaments of the Heart in support of the work of
Francesco Lotoro, who has been collecting and recording
music written in the concentration camps of World War
II. Mythic Imagination has also produced The Human Forum
conference for The Alliance for a New Humanity,
of which Ms Foah is an advisory board member. In the
spring of 2010, a feature film about Mythic Journeys was
released.
Mythic Imagination website: http://MythicImagination.
org
Eugie Foster Eugie Foster calls home
a mildly haunted, feyinfested
house in metro
Atlanta that she shares
with her husband, Matthew.
Eugie received the
2009 Nebula Award for
her novelette, “Sinner,
Baker, Fabulist, Priest;
Red Mask, Black Mask,

Gentleman, Beast,” the 2011 Drabblecast People’s Choice
Award for Best Story, and the 2002 Phobos Award. Her
fiction has also been translated into eight languages and
nominated for the Hugo and British Science Fiction Association
awards. Her short story collection, Returning
My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and
Malice, has been used as a textbook at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of California-
Davis. Visit her online at www.EugieFoster.com.
Ted Friedman Ted Friedman is Associate
Professor of Communication
at Georgia State University.
His first book, Electric
Dreams, is a cultural
history of personal computers.
He is currently working
on Jungian approaches to
fantasy, science fiction,
comic books, and politics.
His recent articles can be found at http://tedfriedman.
com, and he tweets at http://twitter.com/tedfriedman.
Corey Frison Through his company,
Labrys Creations, artist Corey
Frison has combined his
devotion to healing energy,
knowledge of the Futhark
runes, tarot, and talent for
jewelry making. Corey’s
fascination with spiritual
and energy healing began in
childhood. This eventually
led to his study of hypnosis
and metaphysical healing
arts and tarot. Corey settled
on jewelry as the medium for sharing his knowledge and
talents. His early jewelry used mainly stone and metal elements,
but then he realized he had a strong connection
to wood. Corey utilizes the energy of natural wood to enhance
his jewelry and rune sets.
Corey has since branched out, no pun intended, to include
spirit boards as well as other wooden items including
boxes. Corey has over 20 years of experience and currently
can be seen in Underground Atlanta at Whispers
of the Oracle. A gifted tarot and palm reader he uses his
unique skills and experience to help those seeking him
out.
Intuitive and sincere, Corey will use the tools he has access
to, be it tarot, runes or palmistry, to examine the events
in your life and your current situation so that you can
move forward with confidence. He will help you achieve
a level of clarity so that you can better understand your
intentions and reinforce or, when necessary, redirect your
actions.
Your visit with Corey promises to be enlightening and
empowering.
Andrew Greenberg
Andrew Greenberg, best
known for designing
computer games and roleplaying
games, is lead developer
on the upcoming
Haunted House Tycoon
PC/Mac game and the
Fading Suns: Noble Armada
mobile and tablet
game. Andrew co-created
the “Fading Suns” roleplaying
and computer
games and was the original developer of White Wolf’s
“Vampire: The Masquerade.” He has credits on more than
50 White Wolf products and more than 20 HDI books.
He has also worked on products with other roleplaying
game companies, including “Star Trek Next Generation”
and “Deep Space Nine.” His computer game credits include
Dracula Unleashed, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,
Emperor of the Fading Suns, Warhammer 40K: Final
Liberation, Merchant Prince II, Mall Tycoon, Dungeon
Crawlers, Dungeon Lords, The Virtual World of Kaneva,
Railroad Tycoon Mobile and the Global Agenda
MMO. A fellow with the Mythic Imagination Institute,
Andrew is also president of the Georgia Game Developers
Association and organizer of the Southeast Interactive
Entertainment and Games Expo (SIEGE).
Carrie Anne Hunt
Carrie Anne is an actress
by trade and a faerie by
birth, or at least that’s
what the evidence suggests.
It would, perchance,
explain that basket at the
edge of the woods twentysomething
years ago …
She attended the S.C.
Gov ernor’s School for the
Arts and was a member of
the Trustus Theatre Appren tice Company for two years,
where she got both profes sional training and her first professional
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Since then, she has gone on to perform internation ally
in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival inScotland, study Shakespeare,
and earn her B.A. in Acting fromWinthropUniversity.
Her focus has now shifted to acting for the camera
and the full-time pursuit of a career in film and television.
Favorite stage roles include: Miranda in ‘The Tempest,
Kwan-Yin in Goddess & the Magdalene, and Beth in Sam
Sheppard’s A Lie of the Mind. Film-wise, Carrie Anne is
most proud of her role as Sophy Hopkey in the historical
epic Wesley, which was released on DVD this month! She
can also be seen (soon!) as Serra in the upcoming graphic
novel series, Time of the Faeries: Afterlight.
She hopes to be a part of projects that spark the fires and
stir the waters, so to speak. She feels that we have lost our
‘woods walk’ and would very much like to return a sense
of wonder, journey, and discovery to the world through
her work.
Thrilled to be a guest at Faerie Escape, she wishes you all
a rollicking good time and plenty of heart opening experiences.
Namaste!
IK - King of the Trolls
Bryan Thompson has been an improvisational actor at
Renaissance Festivals for 20
years. He created the character
of IK, King of the Trolls
(for whom he is best well
known), and played him
for 10 years at the Georgia
Renaissance Festival and can
now be seen in the shade of
the Tennessee Renaissance Festival
along with his fabulous
friends, The Faebles!
He has also made guest appearances as IK at the Carolina
Renaissance Festival, Scarborough Faire, and the Louisiana Renaissance
Festival. In addition to that, IK has also made appearances
at the award winning Netherworld Haunted House
and Six Flags over Georgia’s Fright Fest.
Bryan has also played the role of King Richard the Lionheart,
and a couple of other noble characters, and if you’re
shorter than 5’6” he has a usable sword that is taller than
you. In addition to all of this, he has worked as the Entertainment
Director of the Georgia Independence Day Festival,
in which he’s also played John Adams. Bryan’s realm of
expertise is character creation and improv, as well as costume
design and prop construction.
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When not doing all of these silly things, he is a Graphic
Designer and Illustrator.
Joining IK this year are serveral of his Trollish subjects,
including his daughter - Princess Amoanya, Rhianna
the Troll from Scarborough Faire, Rubella the Troll from
the Tennessee Renaissance Festival, Diarrhea the Troll (pronounced
DEE-oh-RYE-ah), and a few other minions such
as Poppa Flopsie.
IK would like to remind everyone that he is not a homestuck
troll, nor are any of his subjects. This should be evident
by the fact that they are present at this convention,
and is not stuck at home. He is , however, an admitted
Brony, and feels no shame for being so.
Barbara Friend Ish
Writer, publisher, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is Publisher,
Editor-in-Chief, and
Wild-Eyed Visionary for
Mercury Retrograde Press:
a small press dedicated to
unconventional authors
and works that might undeservedly
slip through
the cracks at bigger houses.
Books edited by Barbara
have been covered by Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Locus
Magazine, and print and electronic outlets worldwide.
She has been featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
and Library Journal and has appeared at SF/F conventions
across the southeast, mid-Atlantic, and mountain states.
Barbara’s debut novel, The Shadow of the Sun, appeared in
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Locus and has been
nominated for the 2012 Compton Crook Award. Information
on this and other Mercury Retrograde Press books
is available at www.MercuryRetrogradePress.com.
Barbara lives in a place called Lost Forest, in a purple
house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside.
Current projects include The Heart of the Darkness and
The Lord of the Abyss, the next two novels in The Way of
the Gods series; the electronic version of Fortunes, a Tarotbased
game for The Way of the Gods; an ongoing competition
with her husband to determine who is a bigger geek;
and a search for the perfect bottle of champagne.

Dea Mozingo Ms. Mozingo has a BA in
History; an MA in Historic
Preservation; an MS in Archaeology;
and a planning
certification for historic
and natural resources.
She has been working as a
professional historian and
archaeologist for over 17
years. She has worked in
North America, Central
America, and as far afield
as Egypt. Ms. Mozingo has
authored numerous histories and scientific publications.
As a researcher, her focus is on the development of sociopolitical
organization in prehistoric cultures. A portion
of this research is focused on the myths and legends of
early cultures and their impact on the development of society
and belief systems. Ms. Mozingo has been featured
on CNN and The History Channel. She is also an avid
recreational costumer.
Tammy Pryce Born in Ohio and currently
living in Woodstock
Ga. Tammy has been a
freelance artist for the
past 5 years. Growing up
she was always doing arts
and crafts and anything
creative. She also worked
at Fenton Art Glass Co.
for 5 years as a decorator,
during that time she did hand painting on all types
of glass ware including things such as bells, baskets, and
lamp shades. Several years later her boyfriend found an
old forgotten sketch that had been done for a craft project.
Seeing the talent in her he sent her to an art class with
famed Larry Elmore. Since then she has attended many
of his art classes and continues to grow and develop her
skills. Tammy prefers to work in traditional mediums, her
favorite being pencils; she also likes oil painting and has
dabbled a bit with digital. Tammy has recently discovered
polymer clay and has been making 3D creatures in this
medium.
Angela Sasser Author of the fantasy art
how to book, “Angelic
Visions: Create Fantasy
Art Angels”, indie crafter,
and art marketing blogger,
Angela R. Sasser never
sleeps. She has a weak
spot for masks, magic, and
myths of all kinds. She is
currently working on a
graphic novel retelling of Rapunzel, runs her own Etsy
shop, and works out of an artists’ co-op in Artworks on
the Square based in Fayetteville, Georgia.
For more info, see her website: www.angelicshades.com
Ted Skirvin
Ted Skirvin first was inducted into the world of hobby
gaming in the Autumn of 1979. He was a freshman in
high school and in his first day of French class. The guy
behind him had a strange book with warriors and monsters
on the cover. After asking about it, Ted heard his first
description of Dungeons & Dragons. He searched for info
about the game days later and that began his journey into
the amazing world of hobby gaming: RPGs, miniatures,
board games, card games, etc. He founded three mini-conventions
of his own in the late 80′s and early 90′s. He has
been the Gaming Coordinator for a great little convention
called TimeGate since 2010. And, he was selected to be
Lord of the Games for Faerie Escape.
Blake Sorensen
Blake Sorensen is a registered
patent attorney in the Atlanta
office of Merchant & Gould
with experience in drafting
and prosecuting patent applications,
writing patent opinions,
and trademark registration.
Prior to joining the firm’s
electronics and computer law
practice group, Mr. Sorensen
amassed seven years of industry
experience in user interface
design, statistical analysis software development, online
computer game development and management, and embedded
systems development. He is a member of the Intellectual
Property and Science and Technology Sections of
the American Bar Association and serves on the Virtual
Worlds and Multi-User Online Games, Open Source Software,
and Information Security committees.
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Zachary Steele
Born in Orlando, Florida,
and enslaved in a penal
colony by an oversized
mouse for much of his
childhood, Zachary Steele
considers himself lucky
to be alive, and fortunate
to still be well stocked in
ACME human slingshots.
He currently lives in Atlanta,
Georgia, where he
feeds his cat mouse-shaped
food, and offers her mouse toys regularly, in order to keep
her vigilant.
He has been featured on NPR, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Publisher’s Weekly, Baby Got Books, and Shelf Awareness.
He is the author of Anointed: The Passion of Timmy Christ,
CEO and Flutter: An Epic of Mass Distraction and was nominated
for the 2010 Sidewise award for Alternate Fiction.
He is diligently at work on The Storyteller, a young adult
fantasy series, while telling the story behind the series on
the blog Who is the Storyteller?.
Lisa Stock
Lisa Stock is a filmmaker,
writer, actress and producer
working in the mythic
arts. She pulls her stories
from a varied background
in theater, film, and anthropology,
and several
years work at numerous
cultural institutions,
among them: the American
Museum of Natural
History, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Her work delves deep into our human nature, our “personal
mythologies” – what we embrace and allow to happen
– choices that lift us out of the darkness and those
that might not sit well with our conscience. Her stories
bring those inner tendencies to life visually through tales
incorporating myth and magic realism – everything from
the Odyssey to Shakespeare’s Midsummer Nights Dream.
Based in New York City, she’s had five plays produced
Off-Broadway, appeared on stage opposite Oscar winner
F. Murray Abraham. Her short film “The Silent Nick
and Nora” (a magic realist film noir) played in festivals
in Cannes, London, New York, Japan and Israel. Lisa’s
work has also crossed paths with best-selling au-
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thors: Neil Gaiman, Julie Powell, Terri Windling,
and currently Patrick Rothfuss. She is in development on
the feature film Titania (a retelling of the Armless Maiden),
and is in post-production on The Weeping Woman
a shadow puppet film collaboration with Connie Toebe
based on the Mexican legend. Her web series “Whom
Gods Destroy” which will bring together Persephone,
Penelope, and Psyche as they work through their mythic
cycles to reclaim their true identities – premieres June 1st.
Her off-screen life is spent in the world of flamenco and
cakes. Come visit her online at: www.InByTheEye.com
Torchy Taboo Torchy Taboo, aka
Eva-Colleen Warren,
has been noted
and celebrated for
her costume designs
worldwide.
She has created
exquisite pieces for
brides, festival-goers and award-winning performers for
over 20 years. She apprenticed under notable theatrical
and historical Atlanta designer Nina Sands of Opulent
Creations. Many of her techniques and signature styles
have become standards for stage personalities from London
to Los Angeles and New York City.

The Performers
Sarah Kelly Kerr
Sarah has a BFA in
Dance Performance
from the University
of South Florida. She
has exquisite ballet
and modern technique,
but beyond
that she is an evocative
performer capable
of moving an audience
to tears. Her
kindness of spirit
and unwavering hard
work have become
a cornerstone of
the Rule of 3 dance
company. In addition
to dancing with
Ro3, Sarah teaches ballet, tap, jazz, and modern, along
with Zumba. She recently ran a Zumba marathon to raise
money for the Northside Hospital Cancer Care Program
and her classes can be found through Zumba with Sarah
Kelly Kerr https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zumbawith-Sarah-Kelly-Kerr/312060965482815.
Jena Michele Kovash
Jena is the organizational
backbone of
Ro3 Dance and single-handedly
makes
sure no tiny detail
goes unnoticed or
unpolished. She ensures
we continually
refine our training
and sets a impressive
physical bar(re) for
technique. She’s also
a fabulous character
actress and comedienne,
doing extensive
research on every
role, which brings a captivating depth to her portrayals.
Don’t let the arch look in her picture fool you though.
While she may have the skills of a diva, she’s a beautifully
giving performer. She has a BFA in Dance from Florida
State University and teaches dance throughout the Atlanta
area, as well as performing with Griffin Ballet.
Kristyn McGeehan
Kristyn McGeehan
is the director for
Rule of 3 Dance.
She has set works for
Brooks & Company
Dance, Troy University,
the Decatur
Arts Festival, and
the MAD Festival.
The majority of her
work is modern or
classical, often drawing
from her background
in literature
and psychology. She
feels very blessed to
work with all of these
fantastic dancers. In
addition to being a
choreographer, she
teaches dance at Good Moves, works as a massage therapist,
and keeps up with her very cool twin sons.
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