Check out the people who make up DIVERGENCY.
If you want to go down anyone's rabbit hole, click the eyeball on their box—but be warned: it's weird in the rabbit hole.
Matthew Kellen Burgos
Creative Director
Matthew Kellen Burgos is a theater and film director with over 20 years' experience spear-heading collaborative creative endeavors across mediums. BA, UW-LaCrosse; MFA, Florida State University. Former Artistic Director for Vanguard Repertory Company, chair of theater for Mt. San Antonio College, and co-founder of Windmill Arts in Atlanta, GA - Matthew has successfully led and collaborated with artists across disciplines, age and cultural demographics, and genre/style.
Kirin McCrory
Editor-in-Chief
Kirin McCrory is an award-winning polymath with 15+ years' experience on cross-functional teams developing creative, marketing, and academic work. Playwright & creative writer, copywriter, writing consultant, dramaturg, literary manager, video editor, fight choreographer, musician & composer, performer, costume designer, graphic designer. BA, Theater Studies (Emerson College); MFA, Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts (UC Riverside).
Rethink Films
Cody Buesing
Cody Buesing is a multidisciplinary film director with a background in editing, cinematography, and music. He is also the creative director and co-founder of Rethink Films, a full-service creative production company based in Brooklyn, NY.
Ross Kelly
RK Art Direction
Ross Kelly is a comedy writer and performer, as well as scenic / art director - he has been working on film and television sets in Los Angeles for the last decade after training in still photography at the University of Illinois - Carbondale and working in Chicago.
Alex Nelson
Basket Media Co.
Alex Nelson is a visual artist with 15 years of experience across mediums and current owner of Basket Media Co. A former MFA candidate in Painting at NDSU/MSUM, apprentice at Kingman Studios, and studio manager at Sidecar Studios - he is currently a painter of light (cinematography), painter of paint, animator, writer and director.
Mitchell Volk
Mitchell Volk Design
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Mitchell Volk is an art director and designer with 10+ years’ experience crafting thoughtful, strategic, and engaging brand identities. His work features type design, logo creation, brand guidelines, and marketing campaigns while incorporating printmaking, animation, and drawing. BFA Concordia University, Nebraska. MFA University of Iowa.
Ebony Blanding
Writer & Director
Ebony Blanding is a writer and director with deep Southern roots and a passion for telling the stories of Black people navigating the world and internal discoveries. She explores the complexities and possibilities of Blackness and female relationships on screen through narrative, experimental, and documentary film through a vibrant, fantastical lens. Her debut feature film A Mess of Memories was developed during her time as Trilith Institute’s first Emerging Creative in Residence and is the first feature produced with Trilith Institute. Blanding has helmed branded content for Rolling Stone, directed documentaries for major artists, and created multiple award-winning short films, including Levitate Levitate Levitate, which streamed at Atlanta International Airport. A co-founder of the art film house HOUSE OF JUNE, Blanding has shared her work at institutions including Spelman College, Emory University, and Johns Hopkins University. Her films have screened at festivals such as SXSW, Cape Town International Film Festival, and Atlanta Film Society. She is an alumna of the 2021 Blackmagic Collective Future Directors of Studio Features Fellowship and the Atlanta Film Society’s 2017–2019 Filmmaker-in-Residence Program.
Bear von Jena
Professional Nugget
Bear Von Jena is the star of everything. He is the most gorgeous rescue you've ever met, and he knows it. He does not like stepping in puddles. He does like food, and would happily throw over his two loving owners for the smallest morsel of victuals. He's grumbly, he's weird, he's one of a kind—he's Nugget.