Diane Sherry-Case
Writer/Director

Sherry-Case has arrived at directing after a long and varied show business career. As an actress, she appeared in over 60 television shows and did films with many renowned directors, including Roger Vadim, Richard Donner, George Roy Hill, and Woody Allen, among others. Diane credits the years she spent studying under the late, legendary acting teacher Peggy Feury, as well as her extensive work in theatre with writer-directors such as Horton Foote, Lee Breuer and John Steppling for illuminating the way she deals with storytelling. In-depth explorations into the literature of the theater inspired her to begin writing fiction. Her short fiction has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies, including American Fiction, Best Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Strictly Fiction, Caffeine, The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South and Unnatural Disasters: Recent Writings from the Golden State. The jump from writing short stories to writing a novel (and adapting that as a screenplay) seemed natural to Diane and the desire to interpret her own material in film seemed to be the next logical step. She first adapted her short story Valentine's Day into a film she made for under $1000. Next, she was accepted into the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women based on the script adapted from the thrice published story, Spa-tel. Sherry-Case looks forward to directing more of her own work.