George Frein, Ph.D. is the Director of the National Chautauqua Tour, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota, and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. He is a 14 year Chautauqua veteran, having portrayed Father De Smet, Henry Adams, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain. He will serve as Project Director, Chautauqua moderator, and Mark Twain scholar.

Lynn Miller, Ph.D. is Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has presented her Chautauqua characters around the country in week-long and solo programs since 1993; they include Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Mabel Dodge, and Katherine Anne Porter. In this project she will serve as the Katherine Anne Porter scholar and will also serve as the moderator on some evenings.

John Anderson, Ph.D. is Professor of Performance Studies at Emerson College in Boston. He has appeared with the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa in 1994, 1995, and 1998. He has also presented his characters Henry James, Washington Irving, and William Faulkner at book festivals and academic conferences around the country. In this Chautauqua he will serve as the William Faulkner scholar and as moderator on some evenings.

Dorothy Prince, M.A. is a graduate of Emerson College, Boston and has M. A. degrees from Emerson and Columbia University in New York. Having taught at Emerson College, she is now an independent scholar who presents her characters, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Phillis Wheatley, and Zora Neale Hurston at Chautauquas and as solo performances around the country. She will serve as the Zora Neale Hurston scholar for this project. She will also present Phillis Wheatley at the Phillis Wheatley Community Center, Greenville.

Joseph Flora, Ph.D. is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is past President of the Thomas Wolfe Society. Presently, he is serving as Chair of the Thomas Wolfe Centennial Celebration on the Chapel Hill campus. He is one of the editors of Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary, editor of Fifty Southern Writers, and the author of books on Hemingway, Vardis Fisher, and Frederick Manfred. He has also published essays about Thomas Wolfe.