Stephen Keep Mills (Writer/Director/Executive Producer) started out as an actor. Graduating from the Yale School of Drama in 1969, he began his professional life with The Guthrie Theatreand performed with many leading regional theatre companies in the US and Canada, appeared in three Broadway productions, and worked on new plays at the Public Theatre in NYC in the time of Joe Papp.
Much of his TV and film work can be found on IMDb by searching for Stephen Keep. Mills began writing, directing, and producing his own plays in 1985, and in 2003, turned one of them, Hotel Lobby, into a digital feature. He is following up that effort bymaking his debut as a film director with A Cigar at the Beach.