Biographical Sketches of Principle Personnel Magus (M.) Magnus Festival Coordinator, Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival Magus (“M.”) Magnus moved to the mid-Atlantic region in July of 2003, from New Orleans, Louisiana. His first volume of poetry, Little Puddles, came out in New Orleans in 1993; since then, he has done poetry, prose, and theatrical works in a variety of contexts both in New Orleans and around the D.C.-Baltimore area. His Commedia dell’ Arte–inspired play, Harlequin, Again!: or, H,A! was put on at the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival 2004; earlier works, developed and presented in New Orleans—and touching upon and utilizing elements from poetry—grew out of classical poetic theater traditions: these include Francesca and Paolo in Hell, a one-act play based on a canto in Dante’s Inferno; and Idylls for a Bare Stage, a modern take on the poetic monologue form originated by Theocritus. Magnus is currently working on a book-length poetry project titled, Verb Sap. Recent writings, including pieces from Verb Sap, are either up or upcoming on Your Black Eye, WORD at PEEKreview.net, and fascicle.net; and there’s a chapbook forthcoming from Furniture Press, titled conTrails: 1990 / ‘nuff said. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Manya Magnus, and their two children, Hero and Gryphon.   Adam Good Assistant festival coordinator and curator, Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival Adam Good is a poet and cultural strategist in residence in Alexandria, Virginia. He currently co-curates the In Your Ear poetry series in Washington, DC (details at www.dcpoetry.com), teaches a course on experimental poetics to active seniors, and engages in tactical research for the Group for Radical Recombinance (the GRR), in addition to being a "manny"/babysitter-superhero. He speaks before thinking at www.errationality.com, is a novice in most things, and what he doesn't know could fill many, many books, including, incidentally, the last book you read. Excited _and_ excitable, Adam has, generally, a great deal of fun.   Jennifer Dunn Festival Administrator         Bonnie Jones Curator, Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival Bonnie Jones, a resident of Baltimore Maryland, has done extensive workings with text, sound, and performance, all of which happened after she was born in Seoul, South Korea and adopted by dairy farmers in Lumberton, New Jersey. An experimental musician who tours extensively throughout the United States and, indeed, the world (most notably spending 2004 doing her music and text work in Korea), Ms. Jones has been an ongoing organizer of two annual arts festivals in Baltimore, one for experimental music and one for performance art—The Transmodern Performance Art Festival. Her text and performance work usually overlap and lead to collaborations such as the Performance Thanatology Research Society with Ric Royer and Jackie Milad and others. PTRS is a group of scholars dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Her text work has also resulted in collaborations with Rupert Wondolowski, Megan McShea, Blaster Al Ackerman and John Eaton at the "Megan McShea Literary Workshop 2000". Her sound work is created with opened digital delay pedals and culminates in collaborations with Andy Hayleck in Baltimore, Joe Foster in Korea, and sometimes Bryan Eubanks and Andrew Lafkas in NYC. See: website.   Ric Royer Curator, Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival Ric Royer is a writer and performer currently located in Baltimore where he is a member of The Transmodern Collective, which presents an annual experimental performance festival in the city. Ric also tours regularly as a lecturer for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a group of performers and scholars dedicated to the advancement of higher histrionics since 1999. He has been published in several small-press publications including Blazevox, Pataphysica, Lost and Found Times and Shattered Wig Review. Ric recently finished a masters thesis entitled The Art of Instruction; The Open Score and other Writings on Instruction Art. Many of his words and works can be found on his website, www.ricroyer.com. His work is also well-represented throughout five year of the journal Nerve Lantern, the foremost journal publishing writings exploring the crossover between poetry, performance, and theatre. In April 2006, he presented with PTRS “The Hystery of Heat” in New York at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater.   Lauren Bender Curator, Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival Lauren Bender lives, works, and collaborates in Baltimore, MD. Recent publications have included The Dictionary Poems: Some Bees (New Lights Press), and work has appeared in the most recent Shattered Wig Review. Lauren is the Editor for WORD at PEEKreview.net, a new online-to-print venue exploring intergenre text and poetry. She holds the much-coveted title of Feminine Arbiter of Phrases for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, and provides various bit parts and hysteria during lecture events. She has also recently launched the IPO version of her brand of performative potential: an ongoing collaboration with audience members, by way of true capital investment. Visual work, including collaborations with Baltimore artist S. Denise Tassin, can be found online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurencrainbender, and in-person at Subbasement Studios in Baltimore, in June 2006.