Vicki Caroline Cheatwood

Playwright and screenwriter Vicki Caroline Cheatwood has been produced Off-Off-Broadway and throughout the United States. In 2002 her screenplay "Air" (Escopa Films) won the Special Jury Gold Award at Worldfest Film Festival, and in 2005, the dark comedy feature "10:10" was a finalist in the Austin Film Festival. She's been a finalist for several national playwriting honors, including the Heideman Award ("The Risen Chris", Actors Theater of Louisville), The Julie Harris Playwright Award ("An Hour South"), and the Eileen Heckart Drama Award ("Manicures & Monuments"). Current front-burner projects include the feature film script "The Road Goes On Forever", based on the hit song by Texas legend Robert Earl Keen (Caliber Media Company, Beverly Hills, CA), and "Break", set to film in New York in August 2008.

Vicki's theater home is Kitchen Dog Theater [www.kitchendogtheater.org] . She's a core member of Austin Script Works [www.scriptworks.org] , and a member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights [http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/] , and The Dramatists Guild. She and her family attend Northaven United Methodist Church [www.northaven.org] , a reconciling congregation that believes in the separation between church and hate.