Facing the Sun

Janice Lynn Mather is a Bahamian writer with an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She has been a collector of interesting jobs: journalist, conversationalist, performance poet, and professional finger-wagger. Currently, she lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she hunches over her computer, grows vegetables, dabbles at the beach, reads in the sun, grumbles at the rain, and, most of all, writes.

Chrystal Bethell studied acting at The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, where she obtained a Masters of Fine Arts. She has since performed on stages throughout the United States and can be seen on various advertising campaigns and heard narrating audiobooks. An island girl born and raised in the Bahamas, she enjoys being with nature, writing, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

Adenrele Ojo is an experienced audiobook narrator and actor. A self-described theater brat, she spent many late nights as a young child falling asleep on theatre chairs as her dad directed and her mother performed. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Philadelphia, she received her bachelor of arts in theater from Hunter College in New York.

Robin Eller is an accomplished actress, dance educator, and voice artist who has appeared on stage and television and in films and commercials. The narrator of several audiobooks, she speaks fluent Italian and has performed with prominent musicians, including James Brown, with whom she traveled the world as a dancer.

York Whitaker began her acting training at the age of eleven as a student at Ronald Edmonds Learning Center's Academy of Performing Arts. She later studied at the world-renowned Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.