Becky is a self-taught front-end web developer, and had a vision for a new and engaging COFOH website. At COFOH you can find her working the Photo Ops and Merchandising booth and helping out wherever she is needed. In her free time, she enjoys building LEGO sets, working conventions as a Colorado Ghostbuster, as well as having a wide range of interests like fountain pens and journaling and enjoying everything life has to offer. She keeps busy with projects nearly all the time, her current project (other than the site) is to build her first LEGO modular Sit-complex. She is also starting to plan out a Mandolorian costume. All the things!

Brenda has been doing event management/coordination for over 10 years encompassing pop culture, horror, and roller derby events. She is a frequent traveler but the mountains are her home. She is active as a community volunteer co-chair, connecting volunteers with their local community nonprofits. She also aspires to one day become a LEGO Master.

Jenn has 8 years of experience as a volunteer manager, connecting people with the hobbies they love. She is a colorado transplant and have lived here for 2 years. When she's not coordinating amazing volunteers, she's indulging in thriller movies that keep her on the edge of her seat or you can catch her on the roller derby track, calling penalties like a boss!

Chris Rocco has been a horror nerd since he was about 5 years old and his grandmother started showing him the classics. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Demon Wind (I will hear zero sass about Demon Wind, that movie is a treasure). Since then he’s had weird ideas about appropriate media (What do you MEAN Salo isn’t a date movie?!?) and is grateful to have found you all who are apparently just as weird to accept him.

After hanging out with COFOH for a few years he is now proud to assume the role of Head of Programming and curate the best panels, workshops and events we can to keep our little con growing. It’s ok folks, this is also what he does in his day job.

Ashley is a lifelong horror fan from Louisiana. She’s been working in digital marketing and social media for nearly a decade, and has a passion for helping small and local businesses. She attended COFOH’s first year, volunteered during the second year, and has been involved in their social media ever since.

Ashley is a huge road trip enthusiast and has a ritual where she must watch a horror movie every time she stays in a hotel. When she’s not on the road, Ashley can be found reading, writing, or gaming.

Hello, horror enthusiasts! I am thrilled to be leading the street team for the Colorado Festival of Horror, bringing you the most spine-chilling and thrilling event of the year. With my extensive background in marketing and promotions, I have had the privilege of working with renowned brands such as Jägermeister, Camel, Grey Goose, and Corozon. As a lead marketing brand ambassador for companies like Walter Productions, I have engaged with thousands of people, enhancing their experiences at music festivals like Bonnaroo and EDC.

For the past few years, I have been a dedicated member of the Colorado Festival of Horror family, spearheading the street team efforts. With my expertise in marketing and promotions, I am committed to spreading the word about this incredible event and creating a buzz that will send shivers down your spine. From strategic planning to executing innovative campaigns, I ensure that horror enthusiasts from all walks of life are captivated by the festival's offerings.

Art Zamarripa is a Paralegal and Nebraska native who lives in Colorado and Nebraska. With a love of all things Horror since the age of 4... His passion for the genre shows with his dedication to highlight local, new and LGBTQ+ talent/content.

Colleen Cole has been cosplaying for 10 years. With a BA in Theatre, Colleen naturally fell in love with the creativity and love for characters cosplayers portray. She loves working with a variety of materials to create screen/book/art accurate cosplays as well as creating her own versions through genderbent and crossplay creations. Colleen is also a published comic creator, model, and clothing designer. She's happy to share her expertise, tips and tricks, and passion for cosplay with new cosplayers.

Comic book maker, screenwriter, filmmaker, and All America Boy.

At a young age Andrew saw the Disney classics "Something Wicked this Way Comes", and "Watcher in the Woods". Both movies awakened his interest in the dark, scary, and macabre and wanted more, and scarier and darker. Once that door was unlocked and in the peak of the “slasher” era of horror films and propelled by his amazement of the craft of practical effects, Andrew fell in love with film but specifically the horror genre.

A 25-year veteran of the Security industry, Andrew has worked from Coast to Coast as executive protection detail and coordinator, bodyguard, bail bondsman, bounty hunter and Private Investigator. Working on cases alongside local and federal agencies. Ranging from civil/custody, missing persons, and murder. Andrew has also worked for such organizations as the Mrs. America foundation and the DNC as well as some of Colorado’s largest developers and charities.

But the position he is most happy with is being apart of the COFOH staff bringing an amazing weekend of fun and scares to the Centennial State.

Chris & Krisha are both Native to Colorado and have been working together as a team Tattooing and Piercing since 1994. Owners of Phantom 8 Tattoo & Body Piercing since 1998. Chris is an Oil Painter as well as a full time Tattoo Artist. Active in many facets of their Community & Industry.

Chris appears on 2 episodes of Travel Channel’s “Making Monsters”/ Distortions Unlimited’s reality show. Season 2, tattooing a featured sculptor and Season 3, as a sculptor himself. Chris’ first job was working for Distortions Unlimited when he was 13 years old!

Krisha, Chris and friends promoted the 2008 & 2009 Colorado Tattoo Convention in Downtown Denver at The Sheraton Hotel. This included bringing over 100 tattoo artists & piercers from across the county, bringing in entertainers (ie..Enigma, Handsome Little Devil’s Vaudevillian Group), local DJ’s, photographers, local & regional artisans/designers, local business’, restaurants & magazines into a weekend collaboration of wonder & community 2 years in a row.

Dabbling in Film themselves; they directed & filmed a commercial for YouTube: “The Voodoo Zombies of the Phantom 8.” As well as moving on to direct and produce a short film “The Hatchet Lady Crimes” Filmed in Denver & Morrison.

Always eager to be involved in the community they also helped with the local comic/art convention D.I.N.K. They have participated in Denver Comic-con, and many, many tattoo conventions across the country.

Chris is a lead singer, plays harmonica & has several albums under his belt: Black Tongue, Leadbeater, Bighorn, Lords of Bard Creek.

Amongst many other past endeavors, there will be undoubtedly more to come!

The rev. Jim Norris got his first tattoo the year "Return of the Living Dead" came out. Spent every year since then in bookstores, comic shops, record stores, dive bars and backstage at your favorite shows. Doesn't pay much but the stories are priceless. Currently telling tales Mutiny Info Cafe and Goldfish Circus.

Jack Hanley is a Film Historian, Critic, and Podcaster based in Boulder, Colorado

He is helps program films for several International Film Festivals including the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Boulder International Film Festival. He was the host and co-programmer of the Crested Butte International Film Festival for over a decade.

Jack is the host of several film series (including the Bloody Celluloid Film Series and the Clandestine Campus Cinema Society), founder of the Central and East European Film Festival at CU Boulder, and frequent talk-back host and instructor for the Boedecker Theater's Cinema Program. He recently taught the film analysis workshop course "How To Watch A Movie" at the Dairy Arts Center.

He is a frequent collaborator with the Colorado Festival of Horror, Telluride Horror Show, and Boulder's own arthouse film series Friday Night Weird.

Jack helms the award-winning film websites 20 Questions and A Song Request With Jack Hanley, and Kinophilia. He is one half of Blindspotting: A Film Discovery Podcast with his co-host Scott Aigner and the YouTube film discussion channel Flicker with Jack and Scott. You can follow him at JANELY ON FILM.

When not working on his upcoming documentary with Chris Leising, EVIL CHEESEY RIDES AGAIN, he can occasionally be found in musty academic settings or darkened theaters, savagely ruining films for his friends and family.

Shay Wescott is the resident “queen of the weird” at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder. CO, fundraising for the arts by day and curating the Friday Night Weird weekly cult film series by night. A champion of outsider cinema, Shay uses the series as a platform to celebrate horror that is inventive, transgressive, and gloriously weird.

Shay serves as the Development Manager at the Dairy. A lifelong lover of independent film, she also assists in programming for the Boulder International Film Festival.

She is a frequent collaborator with the Colorado Festival of Horror, the Telluride Horror Show, and the Reel Weird Film Festival.

We’re back for another great COFOH, bringing you all the latest from the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society, the Do You Like Scary Movies horror podcast, the They Did It conspiracy podcast, the Phobophile YouTube channel, Polymath Press, and all our wonderful and creepy projects.

Robert (Bob) Lewis is a Colorado-based author, editor, paranormal investigator, scholar, magician, and more. He holds degrees with Latin honors from the University of Colorado Denver in Biology, English, Mathematics, and Psychology, and a Mas­ter of Education from the University at Buffalo in Science and the Public. A ded­icated polymath, he likes to tell people that his hobby is to collect new hobbies. He’s a member of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society. Additionally, he’s a co-host of the Do You Like Scary Movies horror podcast, host of the Phobophile YouTube channel, worker of wonders at Bob Lewis Magic Bob Lewis Magic, owner and executive editor at Polymath Press and is always looking for more projects to whittle away at what little time he has left for sleep.

In addition to the Case Files of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society series, the second volume of which is premiering at this year’s COFOH, his publications include In the Woods: A Fiction Foundry Anthology and Arithmophobia: An Anthology of Mathematical Horror, both of which are available from Polymath Press.

Bryan Bonner is a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society. For over two decades, Bryan has dedicated himself to the exam­ination of a wide range of paranormal phenomena, including ghosts, poltergeists, psychics, UFOs, conspiracy theories, urban legends, and much more. Setting him­self apart from others in the field, Bryan has always maintained a grounded ap­proach, refraining from running around cemeteries at night and needlessly scar­ing others with imaginative tales. Instead, he meticulously tests bizarre beliefs and practices, conducts experiments and on-site investigations, and even recreates un­usual events, all with the aim of uncovering the truth. Bryan’s work has garnered the respect of believers and skeptics alike, while simultaneously instilling fear in fraudsters and charlatans. He’s also the co-host of the Do You Like Scary Movies horror podcast and the They Did It conspiracy podcast with Jack Hanely.