Sam Duncan is Lecturer in Education in the Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She has previously taught adult literacy, English as a foreign language and poetry, film and drama on adult return to study programmes.Cass Foster, Professor Emeritus of Theatre, continues to be actively involved in the theatre as an educator, director and playwright. Having written a series of Sixty-Minute Shakespeare plays, the standing joke at his long Passover Seders was How about a Sixty-Minute Seder this year? It occurred to Cass that others might appreciate a condensed version as well.
Judith HaLevy has served as Rabbi of the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue since 1996. She holds advanced degrees in International Relations from both Rutgers University and Columbia University and was ordained in 1992. She has been a member of the executive committee of the Los Angeles Board of Rabbis since 2002 and was installed as president of the Board of Rabbis of Los Angeles in May 2011. She is known throughout the Los Angeles area as a gifted teacher and speaker.