Buster Maxwell, a show-off at an early age, has worked in several performance categories including cabaret, nightclubs, radio, film, stand-up comedy and street theater. The Pittsburgh-based pseudonymous actor specializes in silent comedy and has developed a prescient Charlie Chaplin imitation. His company, Industrial Strength Comedy, has produced over a dozen "comedy concertos" along with special training, sales and marketing videos for corporate clients.
Deirdre O'Malley began her video career in 1987 as associate producer for a San Francisco real estate show. She quickly moved on to become an essential part of East End Productions. In this capacity, she was responsible for coordinating live technical shows for corporate clients. She joined Mondo Media in 1990 as Chief Operating Officer, with the purpose of designing and executing high-end interactive multimedia applications. She helped engineer the spinoff of Mechadaus and the development of both Critical Path and the new Daedalus Encounter.
Prior to producing, co-designing and co-writing Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, John Antinori performed similar duties for Bloodnet: A Cyberpunk Gothic. He also played essential parts in the development of Challenge of the Five Realms, Guardians of Infinity, To Save Kennedy, and Twilight's Ransom. He lives in Pittsburgh and has a background in English literature.
Bob Gale is best known for writing the three "Back to the Future" movies, but he's more than just a time-tripping dude. The Missouri native has maintained an interest in film since seeing Disney animated films, at which point he tried his own hand at this particular art. He's worked in Hollywood since the 1970s and once earned the admiration of his peers by refusing to sign a seven-year exclusive writing contract (and thereby sacrificing the production of one of his first scripts). Along with partner Bob Zemeckis, Gale went on to work with Hollywood luminaries Steven Spielberg and John Milius. His involvement in Mr. Payback is the result of a long-standing desire to explore new cinematic boundaries.
Drew Pictures was named after Drew Huffman, not the other way around. The company was founded in 1991 to create high quality video graphics and animations for corporate clients. The company shipped the award winning Iron Helix title the following year, which became one of the first games to break out of the computer games realm and into the mass consumer market. Huffman has an engineering degree from the University of Maryland.
John Sage, now Starwave's director of marketing, has worked at both Apple and Microsoft. At the former, he focused on creating hardware and software solutions for the preschool market. At the latter, he held supervisory positions in the Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office, and Intercontinental Marketing divisions. He has attended both Harvard and Stanford Universities.
