Vickie Patik

With NOW OR NEVER Vickie Patik makes her directing debut through a

grant from The American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women. This new

venture comes after a successful and multi-faceted career first as a musical theater

performer then Emmy-award winning screenwriter.

Ms. Patik began performing at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and sang

and danced her way to Broadway where she understudied and often played Eliza

Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY opposite Ian Richardson.

After ten years in the theater Patik turned to writing screenplays. For her

first produced script, DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE, starring Joanne Woodward

and Richard Kiley, she took an Emmy, Writers Guild Award, Humanitas and

Christopher. The telefilm went on to amass one of the most impressive caches of

awards in TV-movie history: Emmys in outstanding actress and movie categories;

the George Foster Peabody; the D. W. Griffith; Silver Nymph; Golden Globe

nominations and several foreign accolades.

Patik's teleplay for TRAPPED IN SILENCE garnered a second WGA

nomination, and SILENT CRIES won her Writers Guild and Christopher Awards

for the second time each. Patik has written four other produced telefilms, four

original TV pilots and four feature film scripts.

Ms. Patik and screenwriter husband, Walter Halsey Davis, often guest speak

at writers' conferences and classes around the country. They occasionally co-author

screenplays, but boast their finest collaboration is their two children, Jenny and

Jack.