Lee Kessler
Lee Kessler is a television actress, screenwriter, playwright, stage director, and e-commerce business owner. Her career in Hollywood and New York spans 40+ years and includes dozens of guest-starring roles in episodic TV, mini-series, and movies-of-the-week. She had reoccurring roles in the series Hill Street Blues and Matlock, and was submitted for Emmy nominations twice for her starring roles in the movie Collision Course, and the ABC special, Which Mother Is Mine? She co-starred with Peter O’Toole in the movie Creator.
Lee became the first actress in the world authorized to portray the legendary diarist Anais Nin when her play, “Anais Nin—The Paris Years,” was produced in New York and Los Angeles, with a subsequent tour on the West Coast. She also directed the West Coast premiere of A.R. Gurney’s “Who Killed Richard Cory?”
Since the publication of her series of suspense novels, White King and the Doctor, White King Rising, White King and the Battle of America: The Endgame, and White King and the Seat at the Table she has made numerous radio and TV appearances discussing the books’ relevance to the events we have all witnessed and experienced in the first two decades of the new Millennium and has spoken often at book signings and private readings in New York and Los Angeles.
In 2008 she was inducted into the Dazzling Daughters of the American Revolution—becoming one of only 121 women in American history to be selected for this prestigious group which includes luminaries Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Clara Barton.
In 2014 Lee was chosen by the Secretary of the Air Force to participate in the Air War College/National Security Forum—to engage with top US and Foreign Military officers in strategic analysis and discussions focusing on national and international security issues.
She launched the Blog “Incoming Tomatoes” in 2018, where she does unique political commentary. Many of those articles have been republished by such news outlets as CNSNews.com, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s “The Tenpenny Report,” “The Stand Up America US Foundation” and “Not On Our Watch”
For more information and access to Lee Kessler’s fiction, visit whitekingrising.com. For her political blog, “Incoming Tomatoes”, visit www.leekessler.net
During the development of her entertainment industry career, Lee also became a successful entrepreneur, and today owns an Internet business that operates throughout the United States. In conjunction with that business, she has, for almost 40 years, done business presentations that would today number into the thousands, and has spoken at business seminars in the US and foreign countries to thousands of businessmen and women.
Frequent subjects of her presentations are:
Her past honors and listings in addition to the Dazzling Daughters of the DAR include:
She also owns Montana Tutoring, a licensee of Applied Scholastics International. Lee delivers lectures to parents, teachers, students, and employers on why people have trouble learning, and how to fix it—with the goal of lowering dropout rates, increasing retention and productivity, and developing a life-long ability to learn.
Currently, she resides in Montana.
To schedule Lee for an interview or speaking engagement, contact Eileen Batson: eileenbatson@gmail.com