STAGE FRIGHTS - FULL SHOW! (Pts. 1-6)

Creator and host of Gather by the Ghost Light.
Film Credits: Gracie, Don't You Dare, Old Man Slaughter, Sally's Lullaby
TV Credits: Ironheart
Audio Drama Credits: Romeo & Her Sister, Partial Veil, Frightmare Theatre

John Bavoso (he/him/his) is a Washington, DC-based playwright, marketer, and aspiring wrangler of unicorns. He mostly writes plays about women and queer people who are awkwardly attempting (and generally failing) to engage with serious subject matter using only dry wit and impeccably timed combative taunts. John is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, and the recipient of District of Columbia FY18 and FY19 Arts and Humanities Fellowships. His plays have been produced and/or developed in DC, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin; Canada; Japan; South Korea; India; United Arab Emirates; Australia; and the UK.

Animation Credits: Chakra the Invincible, Love & Plutonium
Other writing credits include IDA INVISIBLE (Stage Play)

Co-host and Producer of Gather by the Ghost Light.

FILM CREDITS: Don't You Dare, Fractured, Missing
STAGE CREDITS: Streetcar Named Desire, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Film Credits: Don't You Dare, I Heart Valentine's, Left One Alive, Night to Day, Lilly

Film Credits: Kandee, Waiting for Butterflies

Film Credits: THE GREAT KENTUCKY GOBLIN SPREE

Arelis Rivera is a Puerto Rican actress and singer, currently based in Augusta, GA. Her voiceover work is featured in the podcast Gather by the Ghost Light, where she has played the role of Michelle in "Simon Says", Estelle in "Kingdumb", Lane Hernandez in "Ain’t the Biggest City", among others. Arelis has also participated in several stage shows. One of her most recent and favorite roles is Chiffon in The Augusta Players production of "Little Shop of Horrors". She has also portrayed Deloris VanCartier in Aiken Community Theatre’s production of "Sister Act". Other recent show credits include "Something Rotten", "Young Frankenstein", "Ragtime". She has previously trained and performed with local improv comedy troupe Schrodinger's Cat.

Voice credits: Leo Brawn (Audio Drama Series), Topaz & Stillman (Audio Drama Series), The Rise of Thomas Sumter (Animation), Dead Man's Hand (Videogame)
Film credits: Velvicide, Beacon, Lucky Lou, The Great Kentucky Goblin Spree

Creator and host of Frightmare Theatre Podcast.
Audio Drama Credits: Frightmare Theatre, The Demonic Detective
TV Credits: Chicago Med

Greg Mandryk is a playwright living in Cleveland, Ohio. His work has been produced throughout the United States.

From Los Angeles to the East Coast and back again, Bonnie Marie Williams has been acting for over 25 years on the stage, and in television and film; as a voice actor for clients including Marvel's Avengers STATION, Pokemon, Nintendo Switch, and Spotify, and producing feature films and podcasts. She loves all things Halloween and Batman, and has seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer more times than she can count. When she's not recording in the studio, she's drinking too much coffee, casting and directing voiceover projects, teaching classes to kids and grown-ups, trying out a new recipe or two, talking to ghosts, and watching Star Wars. Save the day with the VO Superhero at www.vosuperhero.com.

Travis Williams is a writer based in Los Angeles.
He is a multi-finalist and 2016 winner of DEATHSCRIBE: The International Festival of Horror Radio Plays with Wildclaw Theatre in Chicago. His short comic Unraveled is published in the horror anthology Tales from the Akermansion with American Gothic Press and Famous Monsters Magazine. Travis’ writings specialize in character driven horror with a Midwestern Gothic twist.

Mike Brannon was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. He fell in love with the theater in high school, then spent the next 30 years raising his kids and working as a computer programmer before finally getting the chance to return to the stage. Over the past 4 years, his short plays have been featured in over 45 productions across the world. He has acted in a handful of projects, directed another 20+ short plays and readings, and helped produce the Triad Playwright Theatre’s 2022 and 2023 short play festivals; Goodly Frame Theater’s groundbreaking Zoom Fest in 2020, and their collaborative monologue project Affairs of the Heart in 2022; and the NC Audio Play Festival (with Creative Greensboro and the Cary Playwrights Forum).

Leah Philbin is a writer from Nottingham, UK. One of her plays, Broke, was included in the 37 Plays Festival at the Theatre Royal Nottingham and my play The Queen of The Sun was recently performed at the Old Electric Theatre in Blackpool. She was recently shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize and was runner up in the UK Power Plays competition. She can usually be found writing in her garden, surrounded by her dog and her many cats.

I connect with my community through art and these connections are often the focus of my work. Whether I’m talking about death over a plein air painting or drawing a cathartic piece about a chicken and a possum having lunch, my art is an ongoing conversation with the world.

Matt is an actor, director, psychologist, and cat dad in Augusta, GA. He has performed locally with Gather by the Ghostlight, The Augusta Players, Le Chat Noir, and The Presidential Dinner Theatre at Fort Eisenhower.