Joan Tewkesbury
- Producer
- Director
- Actress
Joan Tewkesbury began her career at age ten as a dancer in The
Unfinished Dance. A few years later she appeared as an Ostrich, an
Indian and Mary Martin's flying understudy in Jerome Robbin's Peter
Pan. She attended University of Southern California, became a
choreographer, a theatre director, a script supervisor for Robert
Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller then a writer of feature films,
"Thieves Like Us" and "Nashville" and the director of "Old Boyfriends"
which was presented at "Director's Fortnight" at the Cannes Film
Festival.
She has also written, directed numerous projects for Cable and Network
television: "The Tenth Month," "Acorn People", "Cold Sassy Tree",
"Sudie and Simpson", "Wild Texas Wind", the HBO's series "The
Stranger", "On Promised Land", "Elysian Fields" and was a consulting
producer for the CBS series, "The Guardian".
For the stage she wrote, directed and choreographed "Dance Card" for
the Oregon Ballet theatre, wrote and directed "Jammed" presented at the
Edinburgh Festival and wrote, directed and produced "Retrospective" at
the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York.
Ten years ago she developed a class, "Designed Obstacles, Spontaneous
Response" which she has presented at Art Center, American Film
Institute, Bard College, Chapel Hill, U.C.L.A., N.A.L.I.P. and various
film maker labs and emersions though out the United States, Israel,
Europe and Japan.
She participates as a creative advisor for the Sundance Institute
Native Lab, the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab and
has created a Writers Forum at Los Luceros in Alcalde, New Mexico.
Her work has been honored by the Writers Guild, Humanitas, Golden
Globes, the British Academy Awards, Cable Ace, Academy Awards best
picture nomination for "Nashville" and the Los Angeles Critics award
for best original screenplay.
Unfinished Dance. A few years later she appeared as an Ostrich, an
Indian and Mary Martin's flying understudy in Jerome Robbin's Peter
Pan. She attended University of Southern California, became a
choreographer, a theatre director, a script supervisor for Robert
Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller then a writer of feature films,
"Thieves Like Us" and "Nashville" and the director of "Old Boyfriends"
which was presented at "Director's Fortnight" at the Cannes Film
Festival.
She has also written, directed numerous projects for Cable and Network
television: "The Tenth Month," "Acorn People", "Cold Sassy Tree",
"Sudie and Simpson", "Wild Texas Wind", the HBO's series "The
Stranger", "On Promised Land", "Elysian Fields" and was a consulting
producer for the CBS series, "The Guardian".
For the stage she wrote, directed and choreographed "Dance Card" for
the Oregon Ballet theatre, wrote and directed "Jammed" presented at the
Edinburgh Festival and wrote, directed and produced "Retrospective" at
the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York.
Ten years ago she developed a class, "Designed Obstacles, Spontaneous
Response" which she has presented at Art Center, American Film
Institute, Bard College, Chapel Hill, U.C.L.A., N.A.L.I.P. and various
film maker labs and emersions though out the United States, Israel,
Europe and Japan.
She participates as a creative advisor for the Sundance Institute
Native Lab, the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab and
has created a Writers Forum at Los Luceros in Alcalde, New Mexico.
Her work has been honored by the Writers Guild, Humanitas, Golden
Globes, the British Academy Awards, Cable Ace, Academy Awards best
picture nomination for "Nashville" and the Los Angeles Critics award
for best original screenplay.