It’s a story of hope and forgiveness, of new and old, of love and loss.

Producer/Writer Bios

P.L. Seawright

P.L. Seawright, M.S. with post graduate work in the area of neurology, has 20 years experience, as a speech-language pathologist specializing in neurology, working with people who suffer from multiple levels of Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and other disabilities that impair daily life.  She has teamed up with Best Selling Author and Emmy Winner, Jim Stovall, for her first novel, Behind Locked Doors, to bring to light the taboo subject of what happens when an unexpected tragedy changes not only the life of the victim of traumatic brain injury but all of those around her. 

P.L. Seawright, M.S. followed up her first novel with her second novel, After the Fall. This time teaming up with world renowned neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon, Mihai Dimanescu, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.N.N.S.  She continues to tell story of how Traumatic Brain Injury effects a not only the victim but the doctor who cares for them, and the family who loves them.

Seawright also owns a music company, AXiS Entertainment, founded in 2009.  AXiS works with many genres in band management, tour management and event planning including festivals.  AXiS partnered with AEG LIVE in 2010 to put on the largest rock festival in the Midwest, known as Rocklahoma. This successful relationship continues as 2019 will be AXiS’s 10th anniversary with AEG and Rocklahoma.  The AXiS Entertainment stage at Rocklahoma has grown exponentially attracting bands from around the world including Australia, Brazil, Greece, Canada, Europe and throughout the U.S. 

In 2014, Seawright’s music company teamed up with Sturgis Buffalo Chip, the largest venue of the largest Motorcycle Rally in the U.S., known as Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, to put on 4 stages hosting bands from around the country during the 9 day festival each year in August.

In addition to Seawright’s accomplishments, she volunteers with Tulsa Pop Kids, a nonprofit that promotes children’s literacy through pop culture, along with Salvation Army and food pantries in her home town of Tulsa, Ok. Seawright brings years of experience with TBI patients and a wealth of knowledge about their recovery to BEHIND LOCKED DOORS.

Wendy Garrett

Wendy Garrett has performed center stage cast leading roles in films and television and produced numerous film and live theatrical projects. After graduating from Oklahoma City University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Garrett moved to New York, where she performed on and off Broadway.

Hanging up her dance shoes, Garrett spend the next several years casing for television and feature films; including, LAW & ORDER, BAD COMPANY, THE WAY OF THE GUN and various Hallmark Hall of Fame and Movies of the Week.

Moving to Los Angeles, Garret joined Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) as an Executive Creative Producer, with a portfolio that included Walt Disney World and WDI Blue Sky/Research & Development, through which she developed strategic partnerships with leading entertainment companies, such as Cirque du Soleil.

Garrett’s career highlights include working as Associate Director for the famed, Francis Ford Coppola, on his live cinema project, DISTANT VISION. Garrett currently lives in Tulsa, OK, where she directs, writes and produces fiction and non-fiction projects; including the highly anticipated feature-length documentary, EDDIE, which tells a gritty and compelling human story of famed college basketball coach,Eddie Sutton.

Garrett is the producer of Cinema Eye Honors in New YorkCity, is a member of Women in Film LA and Actor’s Equity Association and brings a wealth of creative, entertainment specific business and production management experience to BEHIND LOCKED DOORS

Our Team

Rick Owens is CEO-Producer of ReelWorks Studios a multifaceted film/video production company in Charlotte, NC; Rick has over 35 years in the entertainment business as a musician, producer, director and entrepreneur. He has been involved in every facet of creative development and production management in the entertainment industry. His resume is a road map to an extraordinary career that includes the best and most respected names in the industry: Universal, Disney, Sony, Fox, Hallmark and ESPN, to name a few.

A few of his more notable projects include: Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius - dramatic feature The Ultimate Gift - dramatic feature (Trilogy of films including "LIfe" and "Legacy" Running The Sahara - feature documentary Hermie and Friends - animated TV series Four Blood Moons -  When We Last Spoke - Feature Film, which has already received the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival. 3 films released in October 2020 to include the feature film, "When We Last Spoke" and documentary "Never Again?"

Eldridge is a graduate of Brevard College in Music / performing arts with advanced studies in theory / composition at UNCC and digital recording at Full Sail School of Recording Arts. He serves on several charitable, civic, and college/university boards

GRETA VALENTI & ROBIN DAVEY, GROW VISION

Greta Valenti & Robin Davey are an award-winning filmmaking duo, whose work through their own multimedia company, GROW VISION, varies from documentary filmmaking and episodic television to narrative films, commercials, and content for brand such as Yum! Brands, Taco Bell, PepsiCo, MTV / Viacom, Interscope Records and more.

Robin’s debut documentary feature, The Canary Effect, garnered critical acclaim, as well as the “Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking” presented to him by Michael Moore at the Traverse City Film Festival and Official Selection at Tribeca Film Festival.

Their latest documentary “The Unbelievable Plight of Mrs. Wright” has earn over 50 Awards and official selections at Film Festivals across the world, and was recently acquired by Gravitas Ventures for worldwide distribution.

For two years, the duo Produced & Directed the TV show “Live From Daryl’s House” with Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates); facilitating the transition of the syndicated TV/web show into a Full HD Surround series for Viacom/MTV Live.

Dr. Mihai D. Dimancescu is a board certified neurosurgeon with a phenomenal professional journey encompassing over 30 years of brain and spine surgery experience. He is one of the founders of Neurological Surgery PC. 

Dr. Dimancescu utilizes his extraordinary expertise to examine and evaluate patients who may require neurosurgery or non-operative management, maintaining a special interest in severe brain injuries and their management. He is acknowledged as a pioneer in introducing multiple innovative surgical techniques to several hospitals in Nassau County, in particular the micro-endoscopic discectomy (MED) of thePicture 10_microendoscopic discectomy lumbar spine.

Jim Stovall , President of the Narrative Television Network, is the best selling author of over 40 books, 8 of which are now movies. He has received an Emmy Award, Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and International Humanitarian of the Year Award, joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Mother Teresa as recipients of this honor.

Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the most extraordinary men of our era.”

Laura Browning Grant - Consulting Producer

Laura Browning Grant has been a Pilates instructor for 16 years receiving her Bachelor degree in Sport Management at North Carolina State University. In March of 2017, Laura received a devastating phone call.  Her husband, Jon, a Navy Seal, stationed at Fort Bragg, NC, serving as a combat medic instructor, was injured in a car wreck. He was seated in the passenger seat when the driver lost control.

Jon Grant suffered from a diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and was bleeding in the brain. By the time Laura received the nurse’s phone call, Jon was unresponsive and had slipped into a coma. A DAI results when the brain impacts back and forth against the skull causing shearing across the brain damaging many areas simultaneously.  Doctors predicted a 10% chance of survival.

Laura refused to sit idle and began to use her training and her faith to work with Jon on a daily basis. Jon with a fighting Navy Seal spirit, began to respond to therapists and Laura’s daily interventions showing progress in recovery each day, waking from his coma.

Jon’s progress is chronicled on Laura’s Instagram with almost one million followers and as many as 4 million views on videos showing Jon’s continued progress. He is still 100 percent dependent and struggles with severe aphasia as he fights to recover to this day.  

Laura has been highly instrumental in Jon’s recovery using not only her training and faith but pulling from her own experience of a concussion as a child.  Just as Laura exhibits undying persistence so did her parents. This experience has allowed Laura to empathize and react to Jon with a unique view and motivation.

Laura is joining the Behind Locked Doors Film team as a consulting producer providing her unique knowledge as a caregiver of someone who has suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury as well as raising awareness worldwide of this much misunderstood injury.