Rodney Lee Rogers is the co-founder of Pure Theatre. An award winning playwright and screenwriter, his feature film Steaming Milk won runner-up Best Actor and Best Director awards at the 1997 Seattle International Film Festival and was chosen as a "Best of the Fest" of both The Seattle Times and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is a two time winner of the National/LAFF Screenwriting scholarship and received the 2010 Playwriting fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission. His short film Downturn was awarded a South Carolina Film Commission Indie Grant. He has appeared as an actor on Ozark, Reckless, Army Wives, One Tree Hill, and Drop Dead Diva.