Vivian Schilling attended the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in Los Angeles and also studied under the legendary Stella Adler before embarking upon a dual career as a screenwriter and film actress. Working both in front and behind the cameras in television and motion pictures, she found herself writing and starring in her own films at the age of twenty-three. Schilling also recently completed the screenplay “Elixir” which she plans to direct. She divides her time between Los Angeles and Fayetteville, Arkansas.