Judith Anne Barton, the author of THE ANGEL CONNECTION is a novelist, playwright, journalist, actress, producer, educator and certified yoga teacher.
Several years ago she
re-located from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to focus on her lifelong passions:
creativity and family. Her multi-faceted career, launched on the cusp of Feminism,
found her competing in the male dominated world of television broadcast
journalism and trying to raise two sons as a single mother. From singing
waitress balancing a tray and a song cue
to high powered career woman trying to balance the demands of work and
motherhood, Judi has developed a unique voice that speaks to the choices women
make and the consequences of those choices.
For more than a decade, Judi
was an award-winning reporter, anchor, producer, writer, and show host at the
NBC television affiliate in Philadelphia. Her credits include such programs as
EYEWITNESS NEWS, EVENING/P.M. MAGAZINE,
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, THE MORNING
SHOW, PEOPLE ARE TALKING, GOOD MORNING
NEW YORK and one of the earliest
feminist Public Affairs shows, FEELIN’ FREE. She subsequently wrote, produced
and hosted video programs for Donald Trump, QVC, and various Arts and medical
institutions.
Judi is the co-author of The
Best Letter Book Ever, book and CD-ROM. She is a published poet.
Judi has taught acting, playwriting,
and on-camera technique, both privately and as a teaching artist for the
Institute for the Arts in Education, a satellite program of The Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts in New York. She has designed Arts seminars for
teachers as well as students.
In the nineties, Judi moved
to Bucks County, Pennsylvania where she discovered her twin Muses: the
magnificent countryside and the legacies of the artists who preceded her there.
With her mentor, the late JP Miller, author of classic THE DAYS AND WINE AND
ROSES, she began to focus on playwrighting and novel writing, and the story of
The Angel Connection was born. Currently
she has completed four plays, four screenplays, a pilot, three novels, and a
novella.
Her first play OPENING NIGHT
received its World Premiere at Philadelphia’s Lantern Theatre Company, and was
subsequently a finalist in the Sundance Film Lab competition
Judi
graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York,
where she studied with teaching legends Sandy Meisner and William Esper. Since
relocating to Los Angeles, she has appeared in such films as THE HOAX, BECAUSE
I SAID SO, and ASSASSIN’S RUN. Her television appearances include GREY’S
ANATOMY, THE GHOST WHISPERER, COLD CASE, MONK, DIRT, THE CAPE, IT’S ALWAYS
SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA and several Hallmark movies, including ACES ‘EIGHTS and
JACK’S FAMILY VACATION. Her most recent film, ADOPTING TERROR, opposite Sean
Astin premiered on LIFETIME.
She has performed in regional
theatre on both coasts. In Los Angeles she appeared as Nina in COLUMBUS DAY,
and in Bucks County Pennsylvania, the musical, QUILTERS; as Pearl Buck in the
one-woman show, ONE GREAT HEART, and numerous roles in the Philadelphia
professional theatre community.
Her follow up novella murder
mystery called to HOW THE PROPERTY LIES. Judi considers herself a
“Pennsylvania” writer, drawing on mystical bucolic Bucks County for inspiration
Her sons, William Wheeler and
Thomas Wheeler are screenwriters in Los Angeles. William is an international
fellow/mentor for the Sundance Film Lab whose most recent film is THE RELUCTANT
FUNDAMENTALIST. Thomas is the writer of
Dreamworks Animation’s PUSS IN BOOTS, and is currently at work on PUSS IN BOOTS
II.
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