DIRECTORS

Victoria Bugbee is an award winning filmmaker, playwright, director and visual artist. Her debut feature film "Out of State-A Gothic Romance" has traveled the world from Mumbai to Dubai winning accolades at indie film festivals. For the past 25 years she worked for various New York film and video companies. She was special projects producer for B Productions, the leading fashion video company creating trend reports, video walls, TV specials "Murphy Brown -25th Anniversary" for Starz, "Vogue -The Making of Fashion's Night Out," (TV Segment) "Wedding March on Madison" for Brides Magazine and GQ Trend Report for MAGIC videowall in Las Vegas. Other companies include Digital Effects, Doros Animation, and National Video Center. Bugbee is the recipient of a commission from Creative Times to write, direct and produce "A Surreal Soap Opera-Toxic Waste Meets Beach Resort" at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting that she used to expand her performance piece "Life & Death With Business In Between" that she staged in an East Village furniture store to a full length musical. RiverArts and Arts Westchester funded her staged reading of her original play "The Gas Station Project" that was performed in OverSeas Autobody in Hastings on Hudson, NY. With three (3) Artist Initiated Grants from The City of Atlanta she wrote, directed and produce "Boxer Shorts in a laundromat, "The Vactation-Worlds of Desperation" staged in an urban parking lot and "Murder at Le Pavillion" staged in the windows of The Javo Gallery. With her first husband Santo Bruno and a handful of other artist they founded The Atlanta Art Workers Coalition as a service organization for visual artists. Currently she is working on adapting her play "The Gas Station Project" to a feature film. Also in the works is updating "A Surreal Soap Opera-Toxic Waste Meets Beach Resort" to reflect the current administrations withdrawal from protecting the environment.