The Nebraska State Poet, Matt Mason, serves as our sherpa guide through a pantheon of poets: Scott Woods, Aliyah American Horse, Denise Duhamel, Deb Carpenter-Nolting, Sean Patrick Mulroy, Nicholle Laffer & Mighty Mike McGee.

Reggie Watts a comedian, beatboxer, and musician who specializes in improvised musical sets created using only his voice, a keyboard, and a looping machine. Watts led the house band for The Late Late Show with James Corden.

Christine Toy Johnson is a Tony-honored, Obie, Rosetta LeNoire, JACL, and Asian American Arts Alliance award-winning writer, actor, director, filmmaker and advocate for inclusion. Christine was a cast member of the first National Tour of the musical Come From Away.

A professor of product design, a department head in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota and Author of the new book Sparking Creativity.

A Seattle-based dance mom, YMCA member and PTA President that also happens to be a tremendously funny nationally touring comedienne that works to capacity crowds at theaters, churches and conferences.

An artist and cartoonist that has been a contributor to the New Yorker “Daily Shouts” feature since 2018 and the creator of the syndicated online series The Worried Well.

A prolific playwright with eight published and produced plays including Greetings!, Miracle on South Division Street and the Over the Tavern trilogy, with well over three hundred productions to date. The Irish adaptation, Over the Pub, broke the box office record at Cork Arts Theatre in Ireland.

A columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News with over 500 columns to his name. Formerly the host of McIntyre in the Morning and Red Eye Radio and the author of the new novel Frank’s Shadow.

An award-winning humor writer whose work appears in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, BuzzFeed and The Wall Street Journal. Wendi is the author of the humorous memoir I’m Wearing Tunics Now and Ginger Mancino, Kid Comedian.

An award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, curator and author of How Creativity Rules the World.

New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning TV writer from Seinfeld, Ellen and The New Adventures of Old Christine.

An Emmy Award-winning producer for the HBO documentary George Carlin’s American Dream, the head monologue writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and the author of The History of Stand-Up.

An award-winning solo show artist and nationally-recognized writing coach with experience off-Broadway at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Moth and The Groundlings.

An Austin musical marvel, multi-instrumentalist and producer who performs and inspires with his unique abilities on guitar, cello, vocals and beatbox.

Creative story lead and writer for immersive experiences and brand narrative whose work includes Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and National Geographic Base Camp. Listen Now

A writer of television, plays, books and cartoons including SpongeBob SquarePants, CatDog & Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten. Listen Now

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A Golden Globe Award-winning TV writer and executive producer for The Kominsky Method, Mike & Molly and the co-creator of Bob Hearts Abishola.

A five-time Emmy Award winning actor, writer and host of John McGivern’s Main Streets whose personal stories remind us we all share a universal human experience. Listen Now

A former network executive, who oversaw emerging artists for HBO, HBO Max and Turner, transformed to a full-time author, writer and producer under her Edwardian Pictures banner. Listen Now