Original Creative Team

Joshua Rivedal (Playwright) is the creator and founder of Changing Minds: A Mental Health Based Curriculum and The i’Mpossible Project. He is trained in human capital management with an emphasis in coaching from NYU, and is also trained in QPR, ASIST, and the teacher’s edition of emotional intelligence at Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence. He has spoken about suicide prevention, mental health, diversity, and storytelling across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia. He currently serves on the advisory board of Docz, a startup peer-to-peer mental health app. He wrote and developed the one-man play, Kicking My Blue Genes in The Butt (KMBB), which paired with suicide prevention education, has toured extensively throughout the world. His memoir The Gospel According to Josh: A 28-Year Gentile Bar Mitzvah, based on KMBB, is on The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s recommended reading list.

His second book, The i’Mpossible Project: Volume 1—Reengaging with Life, Creating a New You, debuted #1 in its category on Amazon in January 2016. A second volume of The i’Mpossible Project--Changing Minds, Breaking Stigma, Achieving the Impossible is set for release in November 2017. His Changing Minds curriculum was developed at The College of New Jersey, The University of Texas at Arlington, and Forest Hills High School in Queens, NY. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, children, a cat, a hamster, two bunnies, and a guinea pig named Harriet. 

http://www.iampossibleproject.com

Camilla Ross is the president, producer, actor within in the company of the Emerson Theater Collaborative. Our mission is to serve youth, under-represented communities and artists with an emphasis on diversity, by producing innovative and thought-provoking theater both in southeastern Connecticut and Sedona, Arizona.  I've been on a quest to create ART from a performers' perspective. To support playwrights whose vision is to change the world by telling a story. To see the ALL and not just the ONE. As we come into our 14th year as a company the Emerson Theater Collaborative continues its mission of allowing people to experience the human condition live, upfront and personal. By bringing you theatrical works that can change or alter the human condition is of grave importance. We must not wait! 

I served my country (In the Navy) knowing full well that the problems we continue to face are the same problems we have faced for 100’s of years. hoping and praying that one day we would wake up and fix that which plagues our nation. Hatred serves no purpose except that it continues its path of destruction. Love serves everyone because it heals the wounds that are buried deep within one’s soul. 

Ben Sweetland said - “We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.” - 

Lighting Designer -  Jon Capozzoli