George Frein, PhD began to do Chautauqua in 1986 while teaching in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at University of North Dakota. During summer vacations, he traveled with groups of four or five other scholars to towns all across the Great Plains, doing week-long programs supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and its state partners. George portrayed Henry Adams, Herman Melville, Orson Welles, and Mark Twain. After he retired from the University, George kept doing Chautauqua and added to his cast of characters: John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Seuss, Harry Truman, Carl Jung, Erich Maria Remarque. Now 89, George is ready to retire his characters and is looking for scholars to pick them up and keep them going.

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Charles Everett Pace has undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Texas at Austin (B.A., biology) and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (M.A., American studies: history and anthropology). Charles has worked as a Program Advisor and Student Development Specialist for the Texas Union at The University of Texas as Austin. He has also taught at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Purdue University, and at Centre College in Kentucky. His research area is the anthropology of performance, experience and visual communications. He has performed and conducted workshops in hundreds of cities across the United States, as well as, in London, England. Pace has also conducted performance-based public diplomacy work for the United States Information Agency (USIA) in dozens of cities in nine countries across east, west and southern Africa. 

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Susan Marie Frontczak, Storysmith®, has developed six historical figures for Chautauqua over the last 22 years.  Marie Curie is the most widely traveled, with over 450 audiences to date in 34 of the United States and nine countries abroad to over 60,000 people. Other historical figures include first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, author Mary Shelley, dancer Irene Castle, Civil War nurse and American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, and humorist/author Erma Bombeck. Susan Marie has been coaching youth since 2004 and adults since 2008 to develop their own Living History presentations (including Chautauqua). She authored the Young Chautauqua handbooks for Colorado Humanities and coaches YC throughout her home state.  Her website is http://www.storysmith.org.

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John Dennis Anderson, a native Texan living on Cape Cod, is a performance studies scholar and Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Communication Studies at Emerson College, where he taught for 27 years. His Chautauqua performances include Henry James, William Faulkner, Washington Irving, Robert Frost, Louis Bromfield, Henry Beston, Lynn Riggs, Ernest Hemingway, and Marshall McLuhan. He is currently developing a performance as Christopher Isherwood for the summer of 2022, and he recently appeared in the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. He received the National Communication Association’s Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance in 2013 and Lilla Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies in 2017. He is the author of Student Companion to William Faulkner. His website is jdanderson.org.

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