Doug Nunn has worked as a school teacher, comic/improviser, cook, truck driver, construction worker, warehouseman, environmental activist, and podcaster. He has been doing improvisational theatre since 1980 and has coached improv since the late '80s, working with actors and drama students in the western US and Europe, most extensively in Germany and Britain. He has produced improv and comedy shows from Mendocino to L.A. to London, has coached the Improv Club at Mendocino High School in Northern California since 2000, and published Show Ab, Handbuch für Teen Theater with Impuls Verlag in Germany. He has been a member of Hit and Run Theater since 1979 and worked as one half of the comedy team, Burns (Tracy) and Nunn from 1985-94. Nunn has worked in cartoons as an animator on the Simpsons film (2007) and as a scriptwriter; his cartoon Copzilla was an award winner in the 1998 World Animation Festival. Along with Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, he has produced the podcast SnapSessions! http: //www.thesnapsessions.com/ since 2018, featuring interviews with creative people, political commentary, and deep dives into media. He has done more than 50 presentations for Al Gore's Climate Reality Project since 2018. Doug lives with his lovely wife, Christine Samas on the Mendocino Coast. Jolly Old Elf--The Art of Santa H. Claus is his first fictional picture book.