OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM (FANDOM)
COLYN DE GRAAFF
FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Colyn De Graaff is a communications director, intercultural advisor, and designer living in Canada. He launched Cold Open Stories with the goal of merging Warhammer's setting with the presentation of old time radio, and to tackle the stigma behind fan fiction and give amateur authors a place to explore non-canon stories.
EBONY GARY
EDITOR - WARHAMMER 40,000
Ebony Gary is a scientist and Warhammer lover. When she isn't writing scientific manuscripts, she's reading, watching, and writing sci-fi and horror. She loves wine, crochet, chaos, and laboratory mice. You can find her @NickyinBrooklyn on instagram, twitter, and tiktok. And on the Warhammer YouTube channel she shares with her loyalist husband
JACK SHELTON
PUBLISHING EDITOR - WARHAMMER 40,000
Jack Shelton is a Primary School Teacher in the UK. He is an avid reader, especially of fantasy and science-fiction, and has been a fan of all things Warhammer since he wandered into a Games Workshop store as a young boy.
JOY SNOW
EDITOR - WARHAMMER 40,000
Joy Snow is a small town girl from Ohio who turned to science fiction and fantasy to escape the drudgery of daily life. Years later, that desire for escapism has blossomed into a full blown addiction to the genre, full bookshelf, a batch of very expensive painted plastic, and a head full of historical knowledge for worlds that don't exist except in stories.
JOYCE CH'NG
EDITOR - ORIGINALS
Joyce Ch'ng / Chng (Chill) lives in Singapore. Her fiction has appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future. Joyce also co-edited THE SEA IS OURS: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia with Jaymee Goh. Her RPG experience started with Demon: The Descent (Onyx Path). She writes about werewolves in Singapore and werewolf clan wars in space.
Geneviève Laprise
COMMUNITY LEAD
Geneviève is a Canadian military wife and mother of three children. Her fascination with Warhammer first began when she stumbled across an online role play for the setting. She has successfully published many short stories in multiple literary magazines. Since then, she has interviewed many Black Library authors and is an admin on the Warhammer Homebrew Discord Server.
COLLABORATORS
Noah Miller
Cover Artist
Noah Miller is Noah Miller is a writer/director/animator from Los Angeles CA. He wrangles artificial intelligences, and creates custom art for the social media promotions of Cold Open Stories fanfiction releases.
ROBERT RENATO HACK
COMPOSER
Robert Renato Hack is a composer and sound designer living in Hungary. He creates soundscapes and original music for COLD OPEN STORIES and produces unofficial Warhammer 40,000 music for other creators to use in their videos (upon request). You can find more of his work at https://www.robertrenato.com/officio-audiorum/
STEPHEN RHODES
SCRIPTWRITER, EDITOR
Stephen Rhodes is a professional scriptwriter and narrative designer with almost a decade of experience producing high quality scripts and written content. He has worked on numerous AAA tiles for studios including Ubisoft, DONTNOD, CD Projeckt RED, Deep Silver, and Traveller's Tales.
Jonathan Ojeda
Pathios Productions
Jonathan Ojeda is a musician, writer and audio engineer. His love for Warhammer40k began with the infamous Dawn of War during his high school years. Shortly after, he joined the US Army where he began Pathios Productions stationed at Ft. Stewart GA in early 2012 with just a guitar, mic and laptop. Throughout the years in his service he continued to write and develop audio dramas, it wasn’t until around 2018 that he decided to write stories based in the grand universe of Warhammer40k. Now he continues to write stories based in the lore helping others gain a foothold in the craft of audio dramas/narrations.
ORNIRIS TERENSI
COVER ARTIST
Orniris Terensi is an illustrator, concept artist, and sculptor of fantasy and science fiction and lives in Barcelona, Spain. As a huge fan of the Warhammer universe, he enjoys creating new pieces from characters to environments from the rich and grimdark world. His talent can be seen in the many covers of our audio dramas and narrative fiction.
PREVIOUS TEAMMATES
THIEN 'THOMAS' NGUYEN
PUBLISHING EDITOR
Thomas Nguyen is a journalist and freelance writer living in the United States. He got his first taste of tabletop gaming playing D&D in the 3rd grade, and has been woefully addicted to the hobby every since.
STEPHEN ABDALLAH
EDITOR - WARHAMMER 40,000
Stephen Abdallah is a filmmaker based in Sydney, Australia. He is a long time Warhammer fan and a maniacal terrain and diorama tinkerer. Primarily a visual person, it wasn’t until hearing Cold Open Stories’ 'However Small, However Hidden' that the full possibilities of audio drama were revealed. He attributes his love of miniatures to his Grandfather’s train sets, and his love of English and editing to his Grandmother’s firm threats that he should finish his homework.
LUKE CARTWRIGHT
EDITOR - WARHAMMER 40,000
Luke Cartwright is a long-serving technical writer who needed a break from reality. He found that break in the wargaming hobby and enjoys tabletop games of all sorts.
TIM MCGRADY
EDITOR - WARHAMMER 40,000
Tim McGrady, a.k.a. TauMan, has been for over twenty years a professional technical writer, in the medical and manufacturing industries. He has been playing WH40K since 2005, when his son convinced him to buy the Battle for Macragge starter set. The thoughtless act of buying himself a set of metal Tau Pathfinders has since led him down the path of writing WH40K lore fiction in 2012. Since 2015, he has worked on the Expanded Tau Lexicon on the Advanced Tau Tactica website, and in 2020, he joined the Cold Open Stories staff as an editor.