Vickie L. Evans is a best-selling author and an award-winning stage play director.  She is the president of Soaring High Productions, a talent promotion agency whose dual-mission is: 1) to provide self publishing resources and step-by-step consulting for aspiring authors, and 2) to provide opportunities for aspiring performing artists, poets, playwrights, and producers to display their talents via theatrical productions. She has written two books, "The Art of Forgiving" a relationship-building memoir that emphasizes the importance and benefit of forgiving; and her bestselling memoir, "Know Your Worth! (Overcoming the Dragon of Low Self-Esteem), an empowering, tell-all book that is designed to break the cycle of "low self-esteem", through Divine Instruction, life-learned lessons, poetry, and songs. Every young and mature woman should read this book whether for inspiration, revelation, or celebration. She is also a motivational speaker who lends her oratorical skills to high schools, churches, civic groups, non-profit and corporate organizations. Her stage play, "A Change Is Gonna Come" which depicts domestic violence, received 4 awards at the 2009 Velocity Magazine Awards, to include a "Best Director" award for Vickie. She has been the keynote speaker at several women conferences and seminars. Nominated for 2007 Phenomenal Woman, Vickie works tirelessly to make a difference in her community, with a passion for young ladies and women who have experienced love/relationship issues. She has directed and produced numerous stage plays throughout the United States and internationally addressing such critical issues such as domestic violence, rape, homelessness, etc. She made her national debut with her stellar play, "A Change Is Gonna Come" which opened to a sold-out audience. She is an advocate in the campaign to eliminate domestic violence and divorce. Vickie is committed to helping women discover their worth and hope to leave a legacy that will inspire others to be the best they can be!

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PUBLISHED AUTHOR:  (2009) Vickie is an Amazon.com best-selling author.  Her latest book, "Know Your Worth! (Overcoming the Dragon of Low Self-Esteem) ranked 5th in Emotions, 7th in Women Studies, and 7th in Gender Studies on the Amazon.com Bestsellers' List.  Know Your Worth! chronologies her assessment, healing, and triumph over low self-esteem.  She frankly and boldly reveals the struggles of her past, journeying back to her childhood.  Vickie also 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.

PLAYWRIGHT:   (2009) Vickie was awarded "Best Director" for "A Change Is Gonna Come" at the 2009 Velocity Magazine Awards.  Cast members of "A Change Is Gonna Come" received four Velocity Magazine Awards (out of the the six in which the play was nominated).  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 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 nations.