FACULTY T - V
Scott Teems is a writer-director born and raised in Lilburn, Georgia. His feature directorial debut, That Evening Sun, won the Grand Jury Award at the Atlanta Film Festival, a Special Jury Award at the SXSW Film Festival, and Audience Awards at the SXSW, Nashville, and Sarasota Film Festivals. His screenplay for the film previously won the Emerging Narrative Screenplay Award at the IFP Market. Additional writing and directing credits include the award-winning short film, A Death in the Woods, as well as several other short films that have screened at film festivals across North America. Scott is also a successful commercial director, helming popular viral video campaigns for corporations such as IBM, Cisco, KB Home and Disney. Scott presently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and children.
TJ Teems, the child of a military family, grew up in big cities and small towns across the United States, as well as the Philippines. After graduating from high school in Houston, Texas, she attended Baylor University, where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Math Education. She received a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Liberty University and has continued postgraduate study in Theology and Reality Therapy. After college, TJ taught middle school math in Texas and Georgia before joining the staff of Young Life. After moving to New York City, she was part of the Leadership Development Team of the Haven, an artists’ ministry. TJ presently lives with her husband, writer-director (and Act One alumni) Scott Teems, and their children in Pasadena, CA.
John Tinker started in television as a staff writer on St. Elsewhere in 1982. He was an Executive Producer/Writer for L.A. Law, Chicago Hope, The Practice, and The Book of Daniel, among others. He co-created the series Judging Amy and has received multiple Emmy nominations as well as an Emmy award for Best Writing on a Drama Series.
Michael Van Dyck has been a TV/Feature Literary agent since 1990, currently with Paradigm. Michael and Paradigm have been responsible for packaging some of the most critically acclaimed and highest rated drama and comedy series on television including Dexter, 24, Desperate Housewives, Rescue Me, and Two and a Half Men – as well as the Disney sensation High School Musical and the hit NBC reality series Last Comic Standing. Through the course of his career, Michael has packaged and sold numerous series, long form, and feature projects, as well as staffed over 100 writers, producers, and directors. Michael is a member of Bel Air Presbyterian Church and is on the faculty of ACT ONE. He is involved with the outreach ministries KEY MEN and PREMISE. His abbreviated testimony, entitled “Free Fall,” is written up by Jim and Karen Covell’s book The Day I Met God.
Alex Van Fleet is the International Sales and Distribution Coordinator at GK Films. A Norfolk, Virginia, native, Alex and his missionary parents called Kenya home for most of his formative years. After a return to the States for high school, he studied Art at Houghton College in New York and began to consider a different kind of mission field during a semester in Hollywood at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center and an internship at Warner Bros. Studios. Inspired by the late Bob Briner’s book, Roaring Lambs, to become a Christian of influence in the entertainment business, Alex finished his degree and returned to Hollywood, where he graduated from the Act One Executive Program and launched his entertainment industry career.