Josiah Blizzard
@Josiahblizzard
Josiah is a professional photographer, filmmaker, youtuber and freelance artist. he fell in love with movies and filmmaking growing up watching movies with his parents and producing short films throughout high school before heading off to film school during college. It was in college that he developed an understanding of this complicated medium through hundreds of hours of hands on experience and watching films new and old. Josiah’s primary business is “josiah & steph photography, a wedding photography business he runs with his wife, steph. Since the start of his business, he’s photographed over 120 weddings creating visual images and video for his clients. In addition to weddings, he’s created photo + video content for plae, an athletic based company, giving him the chance to work with the los angeles rams, minnesota vikings and the philadelphia eagles. Josiah runs a youtube channel that helps educate other photographers in the wedding photography industry.
John Doyle
@ IronAgeTheatre
John founded Iron Age Theatre (www.ironagetheatre.org) with Randall Wise in 1992 and has been producing theatre with that company since then. He has directed more than 50 professional productions with the Iron Age including the national tour of Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn, which has been performed hundreds of times INTERNATIONALLY. He has shepherded development of more than 20 new plays in the past 10 years and devised in collaboration with the Norristown NAACP and Annual Juneteenth celebration. John graduated from VIllanova with a masters in film and theatre. john has directed with Eastern State Penitentiary, Play, Pie and a Pint, the Philadelphia Dramatists Centre, and the One Minute Play Festival. John is the Artistic Director of The Centre Theater and developed the Independent Voices Festival, The Independent Voices Festival. He founded the process based Kids: Heart of the Arts youth education program. He is a videographer and teaches philosophy and video production.