"If you dream it, you can be it . . . as long as you believe."

Here is Tabitha's ("Tabby's) inspiring story, in her own words:

I was only five years old when I first realized that I wanted to be a movie star after watching E.T. in amazement over Drew Barrymore, I knew that this was going to be my destiny. I moved to Hawaii about two years ago when I had just turned fourteen. I was struggling with school and adapting to my new home. My parents had troubles their whole lives with drugs and the law, so my auntie sent for me to live with her while they tried to get their lives back on track. I was very angry for quite a while at my family for not only having me bounced from home to home, but because this seemed to put a hold on my dream to be an actress.

My auntie, who worked for our local public access station, encouraged me to go and take a few classes about film/television production. She believed this would help me in learning every aspect of the industry. She always said that it was important for me to see that there is a lot of work involved in making TV shows and movies and that the glamorous part is just the stuff we dream of, not the reality of what it takes to make a production.

So, I went down, enrolled in a few classes and within about three months wrote and produced my first Public Service Announcement entitled Just a One Time Thing. This PSA was about how parents' drug abuses affect everyone in the family. I guess it was my way of coping with what was going on in my life at the time. I entered the PSA in the local Hawaii Student Film Festival and ended up winning the highest honor in my category. This really inspired me to do more. With the help of my auntie, my younger cousin and a few of my new friends that I had made in Hawaii, we came up with a concept of a skit show and Tabby Tales TV was born.

<--Back to the Table of Contents