Christopher Connolly
Partner/Concept Artist/Project Coordinator
A forty-four-year veteran of design, Christopher started his career as a designer in the New York fashion industry and was one of the founding partners of a New York-based ad agency. He is currently owner/president of Phoenix Design & Print and Thirty Three Design Solutions, companies that have produced work for Fortune 500 companies as well as the world’s top designers and performers, among them: Jeffery Dietch of Dietch Gallery (NYC), Sotheby's Auction House, Martha Stewart Living, Edun Fashion /Bono and Ali Hewson, Yoko Ono - Coffins Exhibit, to name a few. He is also the Principal Owner of Christopher Connolly & Associates / CCA Properties a real estate development and management firm.

Lawrence C. Connolly
Partner/Writer
A science-fiction/dark-fantasy author, Lawrence’s stories have appeared in many of the genre's top magazines and anthologies, among them Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine and Year’s Best Horror. His screenplay collaboration with Emmy-winner David Slade (of Black Mirror's "Bandersnatch") was recently featured in the anthology-film Nightmare Cinema. His story collection Voices: Tales of Horror was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. Also a spoken-word performer, he has headlined at Fantastic Fiction at KGB, the long-running reading series at New York City’s fabled KGB Bar in the East Village. His stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein premiered at Pittsburgh’s Prime Stage Theatre in 2021.

Jeffrey D. Harris
Illustrator/Graphic Designer/Storyboard Artist
With over thirty years in the graphic arts field, Jeffrey is the creator of the internationally syndicated feature Shortcuts, distributed to more than 450 newspapers worldwide and reaching more than 30 million readers each week. He has produced concept-driven illustrations for an array of clients including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The National Law Review, The National Weather Service, Governing Magazine and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Jonathan Sanger
Creative Consultant
Producer of over fifty films, Jonathan joined Cruise/Wagner Productions (Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's production company) in 1996, where he executive produced Without Limits, Suspect Zero, and Vanilla Sky, as well as supervised production on Mission: Impossible. Other films produced by Jonathan include Flight of the Navigator for Walt Disney Productions, The Doctor and the Devils for Twentieth Century Fox, The Producers, and others. In addition to twenty Academy Award nominations and three wins, he has won a Christopher Award, a BAFTA, a César Award, Scholastic Magazine's Bell Ringer Award, and a Cine Golden Eagle Award CINE.

M. Jones
Creative Consultant
With over twenty-five-years in the film industry, M. J. is currently a partner with Jonathan Sanger at Grand Illusion Films. His recent films include Marshall, staring Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) and Kate Hudson, and Cabrini, a biopic about Mother Francesca Cabrini, which garnered several awards and nominations, including a Septimius Award win for Best European Actress for Cristiana Dell'Anna, and nominations for Best American Film and Best Costume Design.