Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).

David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of How Music Works, Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.

Harvey Goldstein (Cr.Photog.) has been in the photographic industry for over four decades, since he and his brother operated Alfa Studio in Middletown, Connecticut.

Harvey served as editor for the American Society of Photographers, the Professional Photographers Association of Massachusetts, and the Maine Professional Photographers Association, and LENS magazine. He was a contributing writer for Rangefinder magazine and AfterCapture and has worked as an editor for Amherst Media since 2013.