Our Artistic Director:
Claudia Belleau Grace is a poet/playmaker, writer and producer with more than twenty years of experience in varied media.  Her background as a journalist has provided the documentary thread that her production work in film has sustained dramatically. She holds an M.A. in English: Creative Writing from Brown University with a concentration in Poetry and a minor in Performance Studies.  She has done production with Rites & Reason Theater, Providence, where she was invited into the company by founder George H. Bass, and Bristol Community College where she was poet-in-residence and residency project coordinator.  She conducts workshops in her original Write for Life process and is the author of Write for Life:  The Workbook and The Other Side of Where I Used to Live (poetry/poetic drama). She has served as a Professor of English Literature and Writing and done ESL instruction and translation for the maritime industry. 

Our Treasurer and Mariner/Artist:
Captain Thomas A. Grace is a licensed marine operator and sailor with more than twenty years experience in the field.  His background includes sailing tall ships, ship restoration and outfitting, tugboats, and more.  He has been a visual artist for more than twenty years, earning kudos for his designs.  His photographs and DVD cam have been an essential part of our award-winning documentary work.
He is also an experienced, certified instructor of maritime courses and a Captain of 500 Ton/Mate of 1600 Ton Vessels, Near Coastal, Sail or Towing.  He has taught and certified hundreds of  mariners both in the United States and the Caribbean.