Dick Beebe is an award-winning writer, producer and educator who has worked extensively in film, television and theater. He is currently writing and producing a number of film projects, including Offshore, with director Jon Avnet; Stealing America, with director Betty Thomas; Jack America and Dead Boy Variation, with producer Irwin Winkler; and Slut, an adaptation of his original play Androscoggin Fugue, with Dragon Pictures. Beebe’s first solo feature film credit was The House on Haunted Hill, a remake of the 1958 Vincent Price horror classic that ranked number one at the box office for its first two weeks in nationwide release.
Beebe created and produced the syndicated television series Lazarus Man, starring Robert Urich. Among his other television credits are Dead and Alive for ABC; Into the Badlands for the USA Network; and two episodes of HBO’s Prison Stories: Women on the Inside and Only Skin Deep, both of which were nominated for Cable ACE Awards. Beebe also co-wrote the cable film Rocky Marciano, which premiered on Showtime in 1999.
Beebe received a Master’s Degree from the Yale School of Drama, where he twice won the Molly Kazan Prize for Best New Play. His various plays and musicals, including Oh, Cloris!, have been produced all over North America. Beebe has been awarded playwriting grants by both the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts. He has taught stage and screenwriting, history and theory at the University of North Carolina, Yale University and NYU.
