GAGE CASS WOODLE Co-Founder Gage is a native New Yorker and the offspring of two predominant psychiatrists. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Marymount Manhattan College with a communications degree focused on film-making. His background is in adolescent crisis counseling, but he has also been working in the entertainment business for over 10 years. As a counselor, Gage spent years working in institutions guiding troubled youth towards better lives. As an actor, writer and producer, he spent years on screen and behind the scenes creating fantasy lives. Gage was an at-risk youth himself. At an early age, he made a lot of bad decisions that eventually caught up with him and led to his being taken away from his family and friends. It was during these years that Gage was lucky enough to meet a mentor who gave him the gift of artistic expression. That mentor saw something in him and gave him a chance to fall in love with art, creativity, and all the beautiful elements of the human experience that those two things can shed light on. For the first time in his life, Gage was passionate about something, and that changed everything. Finding artistic expression and a mentor who invested in him was the turning point for Gage, and very realistically saved his life. His dream of creating a community where the worlds of crisis intervention and artistic expression could coexist and strengthen one another led to the development of Mythic Bridge, a place where at-risk storytellers can get the support and knowledge to realize their dreams.