Benjamin Hochman, a St. Louis native, is an author of four books and sports columnist for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Hochman has written numerous columns and profiles about the St. Louis soccer scene, in addition to pieces on the Cardinals, Blues, Mizzou and SLU. He has won sportswriting honors for his work at The Post-Dispatch, The Denver Post and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. A graduate of the Mizzou School of Journalism, Hochman previously attended Clayton High School (to answer everyone’s inevitable question!). He is married to Angela LaRocca Hochman and they are parents to a bubbly 2 ½-year-old girl. And while Hochman has accomplished some things professionally over the years, his greatest achievement was getting a sandwich named after him at Protzel’s Deli.

Adam is an actor, director, producer and educator based in St. Louis for over a decade. He holds an MFA in directing from Baylor University, and a BFA and teaching certification from Fontbonne University. As an actor, he has performed with over a dozen local professional companies including the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis as part of the Shakespeare in the Streets program in both New World and Blow, Winds. As a founding resident artist of Mustard Seed Theatre he worked in many capacities including helping produce and direct “Bosnian American: The Dance for Life,” a community-engaged project with the Bosnian community of St. Louis. In 2015, Flores acted as a local line producer for the “Every 28 Hour Plays” a collaboration with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the One-Minute Play Festival, and the St. Louis community in response to the Ferguson movement. He began as a theatre educator teaching in the Parkway School district. Later he was Assistant Professor of Theatre at Fontbonne University. He recently also was lead Teaching Artist for the Festival’s Shake 101 teaching residency for the past two years.