Ben Anderson, CPA
Treasurer, Debate Moderator

Ben Anderson’s life work has been combining the Dionysian Mysteries with accounting.
 

Meredith Boyd
Program Director

Meredith Boyd wants you to believe that she believes public discourse is essential to the survival of an open society. But really she just likes to argue.
 

L.B. Deyo
President

L.B. Deyo is the author of Invisible Frontier: Exploring the tunnels, ruins & rooftops of hidden New York, co-founder of Jinx multimedia, and editor of Jinx magazine. Contact him at lb@jinxmd.com.

 

Buzz Moran
Chairman

Buzz Moran is the co-founder and Managing Director of the Dionysium. Moran has worked with the Salvage Vanguard Theater since 1996. He has made audio recordings of many SVT projects, including MotherBone and The Cry Pitch Carrolls as well as performing sound design duties for several productions. Currently Buzz performs live dialogue and sound effects for his Foleyvision show at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. He manages his company, Shamrock Records, for which he has produced albums like Golden Arm Trio’s Why the Sea is Salt and The Transgressors’ self-titled CD. He won the B. Iden Payne award for sound design in 2002 for SVT's Intergalactic Nemesis Redux.
 

Mike O'Connor
Program Director

Mike O'Connor is a Ph.D. candidate and Assistant Instructor in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he plans to soon finish a dissertation on democratic capitalism in the United States. He is also an Instructor of Philosophy at Austin Community College. At different times, Mike has written a political column for the Daily Texan and movie reviews for Hybrid Magazine. He is also a singer-songwriter of the sensitive acoustic variety, which means that as long as Buzz Moran can draw a breath, Mike will never perform on the Dionysium stage.

Mike is always on the lookout for potentially interesting debates and/or debaters, as well as people with expertise in unusual areas who might want to give a lecture. If you've got any ideas, contact him at mike@dionysium.com.
 

Graham Reynolds
Maestro

Graham Reynolds is an Austin, Texas based composer and musician. His two main projects are Golden Arm Trio (eclectic power-jazz) and Golden Hornet Project (composed music for classical ensembles). He does music for theater, dance, and film and has played across the United States and Europe. Golden Arm Trio has released two full-length CDs and Golden Hornet Project has a 20 CDR Box Set. Graham’s work includes 3 symphonies, countless string quartets and other chamber music, an opera, and more. His two instruments are piano and drums.