John Gaspard has directed Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Come Blow Your Horn, Room Service, A Murder Is Announced and You Never Can Tell in the arena, produced the hit Fringe Festival shows Stay Carl Stay and Phyro-Giants!, and productions of A Christmas Carol Feast, It's a Wonderful Life, Sleuth, and An Evening with The Marx Brothers for Actors Theater of Minnesota. He's directed several feature films, including Grown Men, Beyond Bob and Resident Alien, written three books on low-budget film production plus the novel The Ripperologists, and directed Wild West Frontier Fest on Harriet Island in St. Paul. John works as the Creative Director at Martin Bastian Productions.