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Pete Guither

Judge Chairperson
2025 Shorts & Features Competition

Pete Guither has been a festival judge since 2011. He is a retired assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University, where he taught arts management, theatre photography, computer graphic design, and entrepreneurship. Pete is the founding artistic director of the performance art company The Living Canvas. He has worked in business and government, on Broadway, as a Fuller Brush salesman, and as a traveling lounge musician. Pete is a theatre photographer, a fine art photographer, a piano player, a drug policy expert, a foodie, and the author of Improbable Anecdotes. He has a Master of Fine Arts in performing arts management from Brooklyn College and a degree in theatre from Cornell College.

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