Pamela Dresser  (Director, Shel's Shorts and Show Me the Love!)

Pamela Dresser is an award winning director who's work includes a fifteen minute short film, three half-hour television pilots, several episodes of half-hour television and live theater. 

 Pamela began her career after graduating the USC Fine Arts Department with honors, where she studied drawing, painting and sculpting.  She soon met Thomas Schlamme and teamed up as his assistant, his development executive and ran his production company.  After working with Tommy on projects such as; SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER, TRACEY TAKES ON…, ER LIVE, SPORTS NIGHT, and THE WEST WING PILOT, Pamela received her first directing break.  She shot a non-union, low budget, multi-camera pilot in New York City for MTV called APT 2F.  APT 2F was picked up for 13 episodes and Pamela was invited to direct the entire series. The half-hour comedy was a huge hit on MTV’s “Ten Spot.”

 After shooting a few more projects for Viacom Networks, Pamela returned to Los Angeles.  She made a fifteen-minute short film called, THE KING AND ME, shot on 16mm.  THE KIND AND ME was very popular with film festivals and Pamela was given the prestigious “Best Screenplay” Award by the French Society of Directors and Writers at the Avignon Film Festival.

 Pamela was most fortunate to have directed the short lived, but critically acclaimed, SPORTS NIGHT, for ABC, Disney and Imagine Television. She then was hired to shoot the pilot and episodes of Nickelodeon’s young adult comedy series, NOAH KNOWS BEST in Orlando, Florida.

 Most recently, Pamela has directed live theater such as the Cure Autism Now event, PERVASIVE: AN EVENING OF ONE-ACT PLAYS, that raised over $40,000 in one night for the charity.   Pamela also directs a theater group called, GuerriLA Theater, in Los Angeles.  She still observes Thomas Schlamme, when he is directing and enjoys observing other talented directors as often as possible.

 Pamela looks forward to shooting films and one-hour television very soon.

Mark Harvey Levine (Playwright, Surprise, Show Me the Love!!!)

Mark Harvey Levine has had plays produced in New York and Los Angeles, at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey, and many other theaters in the United States and Canada.

By the end of 2003, he will have had at least 22 productions in 10 different states, including "Scripted" by City Theatre of Miami, Florida; "Surprise" by 12 Miles West Theatre Company in New Jersey; "The Rental" by Brass Tacks Theatre Company in New York; "Superhero" at Cedar Lane Stage in Bethesda, Maryland; "The Kiss" at the Ten By Ten Play Festival in North Carolina, and "Shakespeare Lives!" by The Shelterbelt Theater Company in Omaha, Nebraska.

A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, Mark lives in Los Angeles with his lovely wife, Sara. In September they are expecting the arrival of a very small new roommate.

Uriah Carr (Playwright, Poverty, Show Me the Love!!!)

Uriah Carr knocked around in various writing workshops for years. Finally, a few hard knocks to the head set him on the path to production. Most recently, The Right Place, Earth Mother and Prep School Summer have been staged at the Actor's Workout Studio. Poverty marks his writing debut with GuerriLA Theatre.

Mark Chaet (Playwright, Crossed Wires, Show Me the Love!!!)

Currently working on a screenplay, Mark has written stage plays, screenplays, short fiction, songs and poetry, as well as comic sketches for stage and radio. This is the second time he has had a play produced. He is also an actor with numerous TV, stage and film roles. Last year he started directing, helming plays at Moving Arts and Theater of NOTE. Mark thanks GuerilLA Theater Company for choosing to do his play.

Andrew Leigh and Hillel Michael Elkins (Playwrights, Love and Larceny, Show Me the Love!!!)

Andrew Leigh and Hillel Michael Elkins have written screenplays together for more than six years, and yet they remain friends. Elkins hails from Rochester, New York, while Leigh originated in the fair city of Chicago. "The scene before you appears in a full-length feature screenplay entitled, "Love and Larceny." They assure us that the remainder of the script is even more side-splittingly funny and poignant. It's a romantic comedy about two high-class thieves who decide to quit the business and marry, until one of them is offered the heist of a lifetime -- the Mona Lisa."

Gordy Hoffman (Playwright, Michelangelo's Ass, Show Me the Love!!!)

Gordy Hoffman was raised in Fairport, N.Y. His plays, Bevakasha, A Stab at Fixing, Frozen Cat, Bed Set, Happyland, Tricycles, A Better Weather Blanket, Outdoor MAAN and A Deeper Water have been produced in Chicago, San Diego, New York, Los Angeles and Australia.

His first screenplay, Love Liza, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates, premiered as part of the Dramatic Competition at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Gordy received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance.

He is currently developing a new play for The Labyrinth Theatre in New York and will direct his first feature film, A Coat of Snow, in late 2003.

Rob Anderson (Playwright, The Quiet Ones, Show Me the Love!!!)

Rob Anderson is the Artistic Director and hardhead behind Invictus T.C. - THE THEATRE COMPANY, a new company in Orlando, Florida dedicated to the production of original plays and musicals. Rob has directed over 80 productions, the vast majority being new works, including The Miracle Worker, A Thurber Carnival, Variety Hour, Broad Strokes, This Side Jordan, Solitary, The Ingénue Revue and Grilled Vegetables. His musical, Broad Strokes, was selected as the signature production of the Festival of New Works at the University of Michigan in May of 2003 and he has just been selected for a residency at the Atlantic Center of the Arts to work with noted playwright, Eric Bogosian.