Cynthia M. Gayton
Director and Co-Producer
Cynthia M. Gayton was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She moved to Washington, DC to attend college and later to Arlington, Virginia where she has lived for several years. Since coming to the area, she has steeped herself in the region’s history and has supported that interest with legal and academic practice. Over time, Cynthia extended that interest into the arts. Her annual pilgrimage to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia resulted in a steampunk art gallery, called Steam at Harpers Ferry, that featured regional artists. The gallery was also an opportunity to talk about Harpers Ferry history and continue research and writing with a specific concentration on little known people, places and events, resulting in a few short stories and a completed novel. She decided to pivot the gallery to screen writing and publication to leverage her continuing research. The Rabbit Hole History documentary project, in collaboration with Bot Studios, combines local history with documentary storytelling.
T. Jason Edwards
Co-Producer and Editor
For over ten years, Jason has been a professional scenic artist, graphic artist, visual artist and video artist. With Bot Studios, he has provided regional video and video editing services. He was the Resident Artist at Steam at Harper’s Ferry, where he created in-house graphics and assisted with producing quarterly exhibits. While working in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, he has been associated with some of the most well-known organizations in the performing arts industry, including The Shakespeare Theater, Washington National Opera, and the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company where several sets on which he painted won the prestigious Helen Hayes Award. He is a graduate of University North Carolina School of the Arts, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Jason also participated in scenic artist apprenticeship programs at the Skylight Opera Theater, Goodspeed Opera House, Santa Fe Opera and Cobalt Studios. He is currently the host of the WERA 96.7 FM radio show, ArtBox DMV and the owner of Bot Studios.
C. Clark Gayton, Jr.
Musical Director and Composer
You would be hard-pressed to identify a musician as comfortable with classical music as he is with jazz, indie rock, folk and reggae. You would be equally hard-pressed to identify a musician who can rock with Levon Helm (formerly of The Band) on weekends, fly to Istanbul for a command performance, pack the house weekly in New York at nublu, make recording sessions, wax eloquent about music history and the fundamentals of musicianship, tour with friends in support of their fledgling bands, and still find the wherewithal to record a big band piece from scratch in the remaining spare time … unless you happen to know Clark Gayton. He has a total of four Grammy awards as a member of Levon Helm (2!), Sting & Shaggy, and Sturgill Simpson organizations. Keep up with him on his blog called The Sacbut Section.
You can listen to the soundtrack Clark put together here.
