February 2016
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About Heather
Heather is a genuine military brat, born on an Air Force base in the middle of the California desert. She grew up running around the world on various adventures, but finally settled in Austin, Texas. Heather considers herself a Californian in exile.
Heather is a sucker for the academic life. She's earned triple Bachelor of Arts degrees in Drama, English, Anthropology, plus a Masters in Secondary Education. Heather also holds multiple teaching certifications and currently is employed as an ESOL English teacher.
Heather is a trained actor and experienced theater teacher. She seems to always launch her acting career at the worst possible times and it's a running gag that she gets cast in films that inevitably lose their funding. Heather's been described by colleagues as "'a wonderful and wickedly funny teacher, an excellent actor, and seriously the unluckiest person I know when it comes to casting."
Heather currently is studying graduate-level archaeology via distance learning at the University of Highlands and Islands in Scotland. Her area of focus is mortuary archaeology and she can be found hanging out in creepy graveyards in remote Scottish islands in the summer doing research. Her acting career is currently about as dead as the people she studies, but there's always hope.
A science fiction fan since she was a small child, Heather produced the US premiere of "Stalking John Barrowman the Musical" in 2015 in Austin. Mr. Barrowman himself loaned his voice talents to the show and seemed amused with the whole affair. Besides producing silly musicals, Heather's hobbies include knitting and crochet, freelance editing, playing guitar, traveling, and writing (of course).
Heather's story "Lost and Found TARDIS" was selected for publication in the short-story collection "The Doctor and I" in 2013. Her story "Lorconned" was published in the 2017 sci-fi anthology "An Atlas to Time, Space, and Bonfires."
Heather is currently writing a TV series called "Gwyddion" which will be completed and pitched as soon as her master's dissertation over creepy Scottish graveyards is completed in the fall of 2023. The story follows the adventures of an archaeological survey crew on the remote planet Metla who are trying to figure out what caused the civilization there to vanish. There’s a war raging elsewhere in the galaxy that seems far away, yet events on Metla quickly entangle the unwilling crew in the battle. The key to ending the war once and for all lies in the pasts of two of the crew members, but it is uncertain whether they will be able to act fast enough to stop the war before it’s too late.
Heather is married with one daughter and resides in Pflugerville, Texas with a talkative cat and a neurotic Roomba with a fondness for eating socks. (less)
Unique traits: Mischievous blue eyes
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Gwyddion Sci-fi An archaeological survey crew on the remote planet Metla are investigating to figure out what caused the civilization there to vanish. There’s a war raging elsewhere in the galaxy that seems far away, yet events on Metla quickly entangle the unwilling crew in the battle. The key to ending the war once and for all lies in the pasts of two of the crew members, but it is uncertain whether they will be able to act fast enough to stop the war before it’s too late.
Education
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University of the Highlands and Islands
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Western Illinois University
(2019-2021) -
American Public University System
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Texas State University
(2006-2008) -
University of Dallas
(1997-2001)
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