VICKIE PATIK
As
a triple threat singer/actress/dancer, Vickie Patik appeared several seasons in
Ed Lester’s Los Angeles Civic Light Opera in The Sound of Music, Gigi
and Sugar. She toured
the country in numerous musical productions and landed on Broadway as the
standby for Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, playing the role opposite
Ian Richardson many times. During her early career she experienced the thrill of
working with such legendary theatrical personalities as Alan Lerner and Fritz
Loewe, Jule Styne, Robert Morse and Alfred Drake, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Josh
Logan, Marvin Hamlisch, Charles Strouse, Joe Stein, Martin Charnin and Ron
Field.
Then acting on a childhood ambition to "Bard,"
Patik learned to write screenplays. She
won the Emmy, Writers Guild, Humanitas and Christopher Awards for her first
produced script, Do You Remember Love, an original story starring Joanne
Woodward and the late Richard Kiley as a couple who confront Alzheimer’s
disease with love and laughter. The
critically acclaimed telefilm took six Emmy nominations in 1985, winning a
second and third statuette in the best actress and movie categories on its way
to amassing one of the most impressive caches of awards in TV movie history: the
George Foster Peabody, the D. W. Griffith, Silver Nymph, Golden Globe and
several foreign accolades.
Her television adaptation of the book Murphy's Boy
followed, starring Marsha Mason, Ron Silver and Kiefer Sutherland as two doctors
helping an emotionally doomed teenager unravel the mystery of his elective
mutism, and earned her a second Writers Guild nomination.
Silent Cries, adapted from the book Guests of the Emperor,
starring Gena Rowlands and Annabeth Gish, won her the Writers Guild and
Christopher Awards for the second time each.
Ms. Patik has written and produced six more telefilms,
including A Case For Life, starring Valerie Bertinelli and Mel Harris as
sisters struggling to “agree to disagree” about abortion. For this script
she was honored as a finalist for the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award for depicting
positive attitudes toward sexuality.
With her film, Now Or Never, Ms. Patik made her film directing debut
through a grant from the prestigious Directing Workshop for Women at The
American Film Institute. The comedy
short about a psychologist facing his fears won a Certificate of Merit at the
Houston Film Festival in 1995 and was honored with an exhibition in the 1999
Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Vickie Patik has been honored as a YWCA Woman of
Achievement and was selected as the charter Alumnus of the Year by her high
school alma mater, Bishop Amat in