AWD South is honored to have CAS SIGERS BEEDLES join our Advisory Board! A longtime supporter for AWD, brings a deep breadth of knowledge and experience to this new role within our organization.
She joins Terri Vaughn, Lou Simón and Kristen McGary on the Board, which offers invaluable guidance and connections to the Co-Chairs and Leadership Committee of this AWD branch.
Cas is a professional writer, director, and producer with over 18 years of experience. In 2021, Cas wrote and directed the all-female heist film Scheme Queens, which premiered in the winter of 2022 on BET and aired on Apple and Amazon in the summer of 2023. Her most recent projects are A Mother’s Intuition, a suspense drama she directed, starring Denise Boutte, airing on TVOne and Lifetime, and The Match, a suspense thriller she wrote and directed, starring Brittany S. Hall and Lanre Idewu, airing on AMCs Allblk Fall 2024.
Cas has written and sold over twenty screenplays for various television networks, studios, and production houses.
She has written and produced many of the highest-debut television movies for multiple networks. Some of her television films include Where’s the Love, Girlfriends Getaway 1 & 2, and Welcome to the Family.
Other titles include the NAACP Image Award-nominated Sugar Mommas, Between Sisters, and A Cross to Bear. Her most famous film is the biopic drama When Love Kills, the Falicia Blakely Story. This film was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards, Outstanding Writing and Outstanding TV Feature.
Through Nina Holiday Entertainment, her production company formed in 2008, Cas has had three films released through Viacom. Angrily Ever After, Hip Hop Holiday, and T’was the Chaos before Christmas, one of the highest-rated Christmas films in BET history, and nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award for outstanding writing. In March 2020, Cas had her writer/director debut with the release of her feature film Open, a drama about a couple in an open marriage starring Keith Robinson, Matt Cedeno, and Essence Atkins. Also, in 2020, Cas directed Mediator, a psychological thriller about a missing children’s counselor being haunted by one of her cases. In 2021, Cas penned Sugar Plum Twist, which aired on Hallmark during the holiday of 2021. In 2022, Cas had two projects for Hallmark’s new Mahogany initiative. Gracie Award-winning Unthinkably Good Things and The Holiday Stocking was Mahogany’s first Christmas film.
Cas is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America and the Producer’s Guild. Through Kensington Press Publication, she has authored six fiction novels. Most importantly, she is the mother of two exceptional children, Kingston and Brooklyn Beedles.