Vickie is a gifted and talented author, playwright, poet, newsletter editor, and musical director. Her artistic career spans over three decades. She has directed and produced numerous stage plays throughout the United States and internationally also. To facilitate her gifts and to assist other actors and playwrights to “soar to their destiny” by displaying their talents, Vickie has established her own talent production agency called Soaring High Productions.

 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

PUBLISHED AUTHOR:  (2005) Vickie wrote and published a motivational self-help guide entitled The Art of Forgiving. This literary piece is her personal chronicle of her triumph and victory, over the heartache of divorce, through the power of forgiveness. The Art Of Forgiving is written in the colloquial voice, sprinkled with lessons learned that are thought provoking yet sprinkled with light moments of humor. As commented by one of her readers “once I started reading it I didn’t want to put it down,…” As a result of her writing and oratorical skills, Vickie was presented the 2006 Voices of Women award by the Prince William County, Virginia chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Delta Education foundation. In addition, she was featured as the “Author of the Month” on Heaven 1580 am Authors’ Corner.

POET:   Vickie’s love for poetry began at the age of nine years old. As an only child, poetry became a vehicle of expressing childhood “growing pains” in the small town of Sugarland, Texas. Her first published poem, Reflections, was published in the The International Library of Poetry compilation entitled The Drifting Sands, in Owing Mills, Md.

PLAYWRIGHT:   Ms. Evans has proven to be a prolific playwright. She has written, directed, and produced several stage plays in several states in the United States. to include Kentucky, Tennessee, Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. She also produced a play entitled The Verdict, in Worms, West Germany. Listed below is a sampling of Vickie’s work:

CHRISTIANS DON’T ACT LIKE THAT:   (1992) illustrates the characteristics that should NOT be displayed in the house of worship. Casts includes the money-stealing deacon who uses the money for his material gain; the “holier than thou” evangelist who abuses her husband yet worship the loudest at church; the womanizing Pastor who flirts with and entices innocent teenage girls; the loving husband and father who has an alternative lifestyle who eventually inflicts his devoted wife with HIV/AIDS; the millionaire couple (banker/doctor) who turn up their nose at those beneath their class and uses their money to gain respect; and finally, the gossiping mother of the church who spreads everyone’s business all over town.

 THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS:  (2002) A modern day “Scrooge” depiction of a young teenager who dislikes Christmas because her parents can’t afford to give her the most popular gifts (cell phone, IPod, etc) like her classmates. Then an angel of the Lord appears and takes her on a journey that shows her how much love, care, and sacrifice her relatives (an aunt with arthritis and an uncle with a bad back) put into hand-making and carving her gifts. This revelation opens her eyes to the “True Meaning of Christmas”.

 THE GIFT:  (2005) A modern day depiction of the biblical narrative of the “Good Samaritan”. Bishop Wright, a renown evangelist and teacher, is invited to be the guest speaker at a local church’s annual Christmas revival. The catch is no one at the church has actually seen Bishop Wright (including the Pastor); they have only heard about his miraculous works of healing and deliverance. When the Bishop arrives in town, he is mugged by some local thugs and left for dead. Members of the church encounter Bishop Wright as they walk home from the Christmas planning meeting. They ignore his cry for help and reprimands him for begging for assistance. However, the local castaways (homeless man, bag lady, wayward teen) feed him and offer him a sleeping bag for the night. It goes to prove that some gifts come in unexpected packages.

 A CHANGE IS GONNA COME:   (2006) This heart-wrenching dramatization exposes domestic and emotional abuse from the least likely place…the pulpit of the church. Bishop James Sills is a well-educated, a well-liked, and a well-to-do Pastor of a thriving church who is concealing a “Mr. Hyde” personality of violence against his lovely wife, Lisa Sills. His secret could produce a deadly consequence.

As a playwright, Vickie believes this is her season to take her powerful and enlightening message of healing, spiritual benevolence (The Gift) and sacrilegious domestic violence awareness (A Change Is Gonna Come) to the public.