Contributors

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Jack James Busa

Jack Jack is a co-founder and performer in The Muses, the wildly successful international DJ performance duo based in NYC. In addition to his work in The Muses, Jack is the frontman of glam rock band UNI, opening for acts such as The Flaming Lips, The Dandy Warhols, Starcrawler and The Claypool Lennon Delirium. As an actor, he has appeared in the  FOX series GOTHAM.  For his work as the lead actor in the feature film  MISTER SISTER, Jack was nominated for Best Actor at the 10th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival and the film won Best NYC Film. Jack is a graduate of Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. 


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Leslie Cidale

Leslie is a co-founder and producer at Twenty-Two Twenty-Two Media. She produced the comedy short, Sleepover, which was an Official Selection of Women Texas Film Festival and Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. She also produced the successful crowd-funder for the film Babydoll, as well as the film itself, which will be released in 2024. She has a degree in Political Science from Texas A&M University, is a licensed Realtor, a former co-owner of Pano, an interior design showroom in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Susan Busa Leshner

Susan is the writer/director of the audio drama podcast The American Immortal and the writer and host of The Wild Wild Death. In addition to her podcast work, she  has written for and optioned screenplays to NBC, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, Highway 101, and Go Dog! Creative. Her comedy short, Sleepover, was a festival selection at the Women Texas Film Festival and Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. In 2019, Susan  won the Sundance Co//ab ‘Pitch Perfect’ contest for her screenplay Babydoll.  She has written and directed nine youth musicals, including Welcome to Camp Katchikootee, A School for Superheroes and The Wicker Street War. A former James A. Michener Fellow in Screenwriting, Susan is a co-founder of Twenty-Two Twenty-Two Media and an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Film at Texas State University.