Kali Veach is a director originally from the Ozarks of Missouri. She completed her MFA at the University of California, Riverside where she was a chancellor’s distinguished fellow in screenwriting. Her directing work has been supported with grants and appointments by the Max H. Gluck Foundation, UC Riverside’s School of Arts and Humanities, The Long Beach Shakespeare Company, and others. She is drawn to work that explores interpersonal relationships, mental health, sexuality, obsession, the bonds and limits of intimacy, and the varying ways human beings perceive and move through time.

She is developing The Show-Me State, a dark dramedy set in rural Missouri based on her experiences navigating identity and relationships in the aftermath of her brother's onset of schizophrenia.