Introduce Yourself : I wear many hats : ) by Veleka Gray

Hello, fellow creatives! I'm an award-winning producer, screenwriter, director, actress, and acting coach and a member of Women in Film and Television and of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences where I have been a finalist judge for the national Emmy Awards since 1972. As an actress, I shared the stage or screen with scores of luminaries, including Sigourney Weaver, Keir Dullea, Ted Danson, Dana Delany, Elliot Gould, Jack Cassidy, Madeline Kahn, Fred Gwynne, and JoBeth Williams. I've been coaching actors for the past twenty years in New York, San Francisco, at the College of DuPage in Chicago, and, since 2000, all over Louisiana. I produce films with my students as cast and crew, and I'm currently in post-production for my sixth and seventh films, both SAG New Media features and titled "Blood Relatives" and "Connections" respectively. My SAG pilot titled "Making The Grade" that I wrote and directed was screened at last year's Mississippi International Film Festival and is an Official Selection as Best Film at the Tournament of Films Festival. I'm also honored to be an Official Selection as Best Director. Hope to be working with many of you one of these days!