Jessie Gray, the visionary of Flying Pig Improv in Wichita, Kansas, loves working and playing with people who want to soar. To do that in improv, she creates a safe and fun environment where teachers, attorneys, artists, film-makers, restaurant servers, entrepreneurs, caregivers, performers - literally, everyone, can take risks, explore their own genius, and literally celebrate “mistakes” as they make them. Every game, every scene is an opportunity for gold. And each person in the room makes a huge impact on the experience.

Jessie has more than 40 years of stage experience from coast to coast as an actor, director, producer and choreographer.

A few years ago, she became fascinated with the spontaneous and unscripted world of improv. After intensive study in the San Francisco Bay Area (where she lived for almost 30 years), she began to perform, and then to teach classes, and then to direct and coach improv troupes weekly. She was a regular performing troupe member of Awkward Face at Pan Theater in Oakland, CA, and Flash Mob Musical Improv in San Francisco. She also teaches an annual workshop at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico as part of the summer Creative Arts Festival as well as other improv workshops around the country by request.

A theater alumnae from Wichita State University, she learned from the best: Dr. Richard Welsbacher, Joyce Cavarozzi, Mary Jane Teall, Audrey Needles, and Gina Austin-Fresh among others. She also was a student of improv notables in California’s Bay Area, which include David Alger, David Razowsky, Rachael Hamilton, Tracy Burns, Mick Laugs, and Los Angeles-based Meisner coach, Matt Chait. And now she has brought her vast experience and deep knowledge back to her hometown of Wichita, Kansas, where she has built a new improv home at Flying Pig Improv.

Check out Flying Pig Improv’s classes, workshops, and performance schedule at flyingpigimprov.com.

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Registered Play Therapist Kate Weir (She/Her/Hers) has 13 years of experience working in the counseling profession with children, teens, young adults and families. Kate is certified as a Licensed Professional Counselor- Supervisor (LPC) and a Professional School Counselor (grades K-12), and is a Registered Play Therapist (RPT).

As a play therapist, Kate is passionate about helping her young clients to heal and grow through play. She loves using creative, playful and expressive techniques with her pre-teen and teenage clients as well. Kate also enjoys consulting with parents about child-parent relationships and child development.

Kate is an instructor with Heartland Play, a play therapy training institutes and has also given presentations and conducted workshops for the Missouri Association for Play Therapy and other organizations.

Kate is a member of the American Counseling Association and she is a Past President of the Missouri Association for Play Therapy. She is passionate about and dedicated to obtaining continuing professional development, education, and peer supervision in order to continue to grow as a professional.

Kate cherishes family time with her fun and loving three-year-old son, her amazing husband and her sweet beagle. Kate loves being an aunt and a sister. She enjoys dancing, swimming, traveling, reading, learning and of course, playing!

Kate is also the owner of the Kindred Collective, a comprehensive group mental health practice in Columbia, Missouri. Find her (and them) at kindredcollectivecomo.com/.

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Lionel Friedberg is an Emmy Award-winning film and T.V. producer and writer. Lionel grew up in South Africa and began his career at the first television station in Central Africa in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in 1961. He worked as a Director of Photography on 18 feature films and wrote, produced and directed for National Geographic, PBS and national broadcast and cable networks including the Discovery Channel, A&E and The History Channel. He is also a New York Times bestselling author. He is based in Los Angeles, California.

His book Forever in My Veins: How Film Led Me To The Mysterious World Of The African Shaman from 0 Books, o-books.com, is full of the observations that have taught him that life is far more complex and infinitely stranger than we can imagine. When he was struck by an unexpected life-threatening illness, his efforts to find a way to save his life took him back to Africa, where he encountered the age-old rituals and powerful healing methods of African shamans. Their mysterious ways have much to teach us and are as relevant today as they were in ancient times.

You can find Lionel online at lionelfriedberg.com, on Facebook @LionelFriedbergAuthor, on Twitter @FriedbergLionel, and on Instagram @LionelFriedberg.

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Timothy Carson is the curator of The Liminality Project. In addition to holding a Bachelors degree in Education and Masters degree in Theology, his Doctoral research and dissertation focused on Liminality.

Tim is the author of Liminal Reality and Transformational Power (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2016), editor of the anthology Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2019), and co-author of Crossing Thresholds: A Practical Theology of Liminality (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2021). His current project is editing an anthology on liminality with an international group of writers entitled The Liminal Loop: Twelve Tales of Transformation. It will be released in the late fall of 2021. Tim teaches liminality courses in the Honors College of the University of Missouri.

Following many years serving as a parish pastor, Tim continues to write, edit, blog, facilitate groups and seminars focused on liminality, and work with people making life’s great passages. Tim works with individuals as an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner.
Tim and his wife live in Central Missouri near the banks of the Missouri River and enjoy the arts, cinema, travel, motorcycling, playing Celtic music and exploring every unknown threshold.
Find out more at https://www.theliminalityproject.org/.

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