AL RIDENOUR co-produces Krampus Los Angeles events and is the founder of the Los Angeles lodge of the Cacophony Society, a national confederation of art-pranksters serving as inspiration for Palahniuk’s Fight Club. A writer, and animator, Ridenour has also directed the surreal “paramedical theater” and films of The Art of Bleeding. He has lived and studied in Germany where he brushed elbows with the European Krampus.