Conner Paulsen

Conner Paulsen is an artist for Live Free. He operates as one half of QUINTOKOS, a musical group including himself and Mike Barkhoff. He discussed the concept for Live Free early on with Barkhoff. He has also been active in efforts from the group, including INFINITE., Doppelgang, Timeline (2013), and more.

Paulsen is confirmed for directing an episode of an upcoming web series in the 2022 slate. He was in talks to direct an episode of Chapters. (Season 3) but got overly busy and had to drop out of his role, which then went to Nakota Conrad. Paulsen initially was part of a group entitled Hip Hop Anonymous, alongside Barkhoff and Jarrod Van Hauen, but it never came to fruition. Nonetheless, an album was complete and remains unreleased.

Notably, Paulsen was there when Barkhoff began to create films, having part in some of Barkhoff's earliest work. He helped Barkhoff craft the script for Timeline (2013) and was supposed to feature in the 2015 variant (see Timeline (2015)) but couldn't due to scheduling conflicts. Nonetheless, he received credit as a creator of the story. He added the element of Harry Young being depressed when unable to catch the group of criminals, something Barkhoff hadn't considered. Barkhoff enjoyed the idea because it added another element to the story.

Paulsen coached Barkhoff during the editing stages of Windfall and was one of few people that knew about the project. During this time period, Van Hauen was overtly busy, so Paulsen watched the film and gave tips on editing prior to its release.

In 2021, Paulsen came up with an idea for a web series and is working on it alongside Barkhoff.