Becky & Kate: Works in Progress

KELLY ANN FORD is a writer, director and producer of short films, web series and music videos, featuring established talent, such as Chris Ellis (The Dark Knight Rises, Catch Me If You Can, Armageddon) and Andrea Gabriel (The Twilight Saga, Lost), whose music video, Clever Girl, has reached over 1.5 million hits on YouTube. Also a veteran stage director, Ms. Ford has helmed numerous acclaimed stage productions and world premieres, with several awards and nominations, including Winner of the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre, and an NAACP nominee for Best Director.

A native of Huntsville, Alabama, AMY HEIDISH earned a BFA in Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts at Florida State University. After moving to Los Angeles, she became a member of Playwrights 6, a theatre company in Los Angeles managed by playwrights and dedicated to developing, producing and promoting high quality works by LA dramatists.
During her tenure at P6, Heidish wrote and produced her first full-length play entitled Dead Girl’s Diary in spring 2002, which was staged at The Actors Lab in Hollywood. Her second full-length play, The Big Ever After, was a co-production between P6 and The ARK Theatre Company and was chosen as an LA Weekly Critic’s Pick of the Week in March 2005. In 2009, her third full-length play Say Goodbye Toto, a second co-production with Playwrights 6 and The ARK Theatre Company, was rated four out of five stars by Goldstar.com members. SAY GOODBYE TOTO was published in the fall of 2011 by Contemporary Drama Service, and has received several productions across the nation.
Heidish’s feature film credits include 2 MILLION STUPID WOMEN (official selection of the Cinequest Film Festival in 2009, debuted on DVD in November of 2010) , A STAR FOR CHRISTMAS (Ion Network, December 2012) and THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU, (VOD, 2015)

RICHARD TATUM began directing while at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Center, but once in Los Angeles, he found his way to venerable Theatre West, where he directed experimental projects such as Rock Song and The Unusual Prospects.
He was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of the Ark Theatre Company; there he directed critically acclaimed productions of The Country Wife, The London Cuckolds, On the Verge, Good, and Hazard County, and world premieres of The Big Ever After, Sounds of Silence, Gaining Ground and the one-act Barrage. Also around Los Angeles he’s directed May 39th, The Insidious Impact of Anton and The Girl Who Would Be King with the multiple-award nominated Absolute Theatre (where he is the
Artistic Director), The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Lyric Theater, Group: A Musical with the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble, and staged readings at the prestigious Slamdance on Stage and Blank Theatre Company, where he is also a frequent director for the Young Playwrights Festival.  In other media, he directed the shorts Sock Puppet, Health & Disorder (Official Selection, Los Angeles Cinema of Hollywood Film Festival and Shorties Festival), Rent Control, The Other Side of the Desk (Official Selection, Trinity International Film Festival and Village of Brewster International Film Festival), episodes of the web series Becky & Kate: Works In Progress, Support Group, The N.U.T. System, The Stalker Chronicles, plus the comedy CD Bushwa!, as well as several radio commercials and plays for radio.  Richard is also a multi-award nominated actor, whose 30-year career spans stage, film, TV, and commercials.  As a voiceover artist he’s been heard on a wide variety of projects, from the cartoons Grungy McGee (Disney), Static Shock (Warners), and As Told By Ginger (Nick) to a galaxy of interactive games including Disney Infinity 3.0, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Grand Theft Auto V, Ocean Star V, Saints Row 2, Destroy All Humans 2, Spyro: Year of the Dragon, and is (in fact!) the Skylander named Countdown. He is a frequent guest instructor at USC, UCLA, Syracuse University and the vocal coach for the Shoutcasting team at Riot Games. He is a proud graduate of Oberlin College, Directors Lab West ’11, The Second City’s directing program, and is a member of the SDC, SAG-AFTRA, and Actors Equity.