ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jon Koons has written everything from genre fiction, to magic cereal packets, to scripts. His writings appear as books and audiobooks, as well as in anthologies, magazines, and periodicals. His children’s picture book, A Confused Hanukkah is currently in development in Hollywood as an animated musical feature called A Very Confused Holiday. His recent novels, Willoughby’s Time & Space App and its sequel, Who Kidnapped Willoughby? have been getting great reviews! Jon is Associate Editor for Weird Tales Magazine, as well as a regular contributor of short fiction and book reviews. Jon narrates and performs on numerous audiobooks, including his unique unabridged tour de force, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Dubbed “Renaissance Man” by the media, and oft known as “The JestMaster,” Jon has appeared as an actor and singer On and Off Broadway, in Feature Films, on Television and in Commercials, and is Artistic Director and Producer for The Open Book Theatre Company in NYC.

MANAGING DIRECTOR
Terry Kaye is a professional actress, singer and writer who has performed across the United States, Canada and Europe in theatre, television and film.
In addition to starring in several independent films, her theatre credits include the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof starring Theodore Bikel, the European tour of Evita, and numerous regional and touring productions. Terry was one of the first American exchange students to attend the Moscow Art Theatre College, and also studied at the prestigious National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center.
Terry has sung backup for Jessica Simpson, and has performed sold-out cabarets at New York City’s Don’t Tell Mama and LA’s Gardenia. She also enjoys bringing down the house with the classic rock cover band Rapid Response.
Terry takes after both of her parents, Marvin and Saralee Kaye, founders of The Open Book, as an “incorrigible punster.” She recently discovered that she is in fact bilingual: she speaks dog. As such, she and her first-adopted pup Belle collaborated on their first book: Dog Only Knows: The Word of Dog. Terry is proud to have served as Belle’s translator and typist.

MANAGING DIRECTOR
Robert Carroll is an actor, author, and circus performer. He has appeared everywhere and done everything, from Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park in New York City, to the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, to The Celtic Arts Theatre in LA. His one man show Cross Country played Off-Broadway at the Theatre Lab to enthusiastic audiences. He has played character roles on Law and Order SUV and other television shows.
After college, where he majored in English Literature and minored in Biochemistry, Robert Carroll was stricken with a hard case of wanderlust. For close to three years he worked his way around the States and points beyond, and eventually found gainful employment as a street acrobat, fire juggler, slack rope walker and lived, worked, or just passed through every state (except Alaska). He even lived in a tree house in Hawaii. A natural storyteller, with a great love of the written and spoken word, the stories that Rob collected from these life experiences prompted him to put pen to paper, and he has authored the first two novels in his Celtic Cross Canticle series, American Canticle and Blue Bayou, with more in the works.