Kasey Arnold-Ince:  

Life What have I been up to since leaving Pioneer? Well I went off to Stanford, where I majored in Drama. While there, I attended the overseas campus in Britain, located in a manor house called Clivedon (now a pricey 4-star hotel!) I also traveled throughout Europe, visiting Greece, Italy, Spain, and France. After graduation, I moved to San Francisco, where I worked at a short-lived theater magazine, and then at the One Act Theatre Company. At OATCO and other theatres, I directed and acted while working at various jobs in the corporate world. Also while there I met and married an actor. (What was I thinking?) Later, I attended the American Film Institute. Unfortunately, this meant moving to Los Angeles (yikes!) After film school, I worked at the LA County Museum of Art, where I went from computerphobe to computerphile, as transformation that later proved lucrative. Ultimately, I did a brief stint as a film freelancer, which was cut short by my pregnancy. (I tend to vomit a lot, a significant hiring disincentive.) However, my son Max was born in 1987, ending my frantic trips to the bathroom. In my new capacity as Hollywood Mom, I went on Jeopardy (defeated by a future 5 time winner, but I won a trip); worked at Tri-Star, Disney, Sony, Columbia; and occasionally returned to freelancing. I kept at it for several years, working on television series (Designing Women, Peaceable Kingdom) and features. Eventually I wrote an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, for which I still receive residuals (the gift that keeps on giving!). By the early 90s, I was exhausted by Hollywood, my marriage was deteriorating, I hated LA, and everyone I met in the Industry was miserable and unhappy. So my husband and I separated, I moved back to Palo Alto, and started working in Silicon Valley, where I could spend all day playing with a PC and get paid for it. For ...Expand for more