Adam W. Griswold of North Reading, Massachusetts (he/him) has been active in the New England film scene for over a decade. Passionate about storytelling since childhood, he studied fil production at Emerson College in Boston and started working on local independent productions soon afterward. In 2011, he began producing films under the banner of Smoking Bottle Entertainment and in the years since, he's written, directed, and starred in more than a dozen films, from small-scale shorts to ambitious features like the "Space People" saga and "The Other Christmas Show". In 2022, Adam came out as gender fluid and now sometimes goes by Jessica Griswold (she/her).