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Dr. Phil Smith has written more than 100 plays for companies including St Petersburg State Comedy Theatre, Opera North and Perpetual Motion, and he is dramaturg with TNT (Munich)]. He creates site-specific performances in South Devon beach huts, lidos, tea shops and other unconventional settings, mis-guides in National Trust properties, and counter-tours and drifts in city streets. He is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth and a visiting lecturer at the University of Exeter. John Schott is a noted photographer, filmmaker and academic. In 2003 he was Executive Producer of the three-part national PBS series, American Photography: A Century of Images, with an accompanying book authored by Vicki Goldberg and Rob Silberman. Since 1979 he has been a Professor at Carleton College in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies. Tony Whitehead is a celebrated ornithologist with a passion for the sounds of birds and how people can be encouraged to connect to nature through listening to and learning the “language” of wildlife.