Beth Brickell, President

Writer/producer/director Beth Brickell began her film career as an actress, training in New York with Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, and membership at the legendary Actors Studio. She performed in leading roles in over 25 stage productions in and out of the city, including "Thurber Carnival" with Jean Stapleton, "Room Service" with Bill Macy, and "Take Her, She's Mine" with Walter Pidgeon.

Moving to Hollywood, she starred for two seasons in the popular CBS-TV family series, "Gentle Ben", with Dennis Weaver.  Subsequently she appeared in some 100 TV shows and movies, receiving Emmy consideration for guest roles on "Bonanza" and "Hawaii 5-0".  She starred or co-starred in motion pictures, including POSSE with Kirk Douglas and Bruce Dern, DEATH GAME with Sondra Locke and Seymour Cassell, and THE ONLY WAY HOME with Bo Hopkins.

While teaching film acting part time at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York and Los Angeles, Ms. Brickell developed an interest in directing.  She put aside her acting career to accept a Director Fellowship at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles from which she graduated with an MFA in film directing.

She has written, produced and/or directed a dozen dramatic films and TV programs.

Two half-hour television dramas, A RAINY DAY, starring Mariette Hartley, Tracey Gold, and Collin Wilcox, and SUMMER'S END, starring Bill Vint and Jennifer Miller, won a total of 23 film festival and television awards and were broadcast on Showtime, A&E, Nickelodeon and PBS.

MR. CHRISTMAS, a one-hour family movie starring Jace McLean, Jen Celene Little, Ireland Rose Maddox and Abigail Kinslow, won "Best Family Film" at the Moondance Film Festival in Hollywood, and an "Award of Excellence" from the Film Advisory Board in Los Angeles.  The movie has been broadcast on PBS and HBO.

Additional film and television projects include directing assignments for the CBS series "Knots Landing", a short film LITTLE BOY BLUE, starring Chynna Phillips and Robert Walden, and an educational film, TO TELL THE TRUTH.  She developed the story for a CBS movie "A Family Matter", and a four-part series for PBS, "Susan B.", about Susan B. Anthony and the women's suffrage movement.

Ms. Brickell also has a background in newspaper writing that has resulted most notably in an 18-article front-page investigative series for the Pulitzer Prize winning Arkansas Gazette.  The series, entitled "Mystery at Camden," uncovered a motive for the 1957 disappearance of attorney Maud Crawford, a one-time associate of U.S. Senator John L. McClellan in Camden, Arkansas - an unsolved crime to this day.

Ms. Brickell's civic activities have included Chair of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) Women's Steering Committee, member of the DGA Special Projects Committee, Board of Directors for Women in Film, Emmy Awards Panel for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Actors Studio-West Executive Steering Committee, Project Selection committee for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the Screening Committee for the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.  She is an honoree of the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame and the Southwest Film & Theatre Association Hall of Fame in Texas.

Ms. Brickell divides her time between Los Angeles and Little Rock.