Jane Atkins is a native of northwest Florida and grew up roaming the sandbars of the Apalachicola River.  Her adult life has been spent in theatre and film.  As an actress, she has performed with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville and the London Young Vic as well as in films and on TV.  As a writer, she has scripted over 300 hours of television which have been produced and aired around the world.  She was awarded an Emmy as a member of the writing staff of the NBC series ‘Santa Barbara’ and recently completed work on a project for Sony International which was filmed in Moscow.  She is a member of the Writers’ Guild of American and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.  In her spare time, she has served as Director of Playmaking for the Virginia Avenue Project in Los Angeles, teaching creative writing to at-risk kids.