Dykema Mathews - President & CEO
Dykema Mathews, President/CEO
P.G. Production Drama Network, Ltd.
Creator, Writer, Director, Producer, Actor
Plays the Character “Too Sweet”
Dykema Cozine Mathews is a native Detroiter. She has extensive experience as a playwright, director, producer, actor, arranger, lyricist, and soloist. With her prolific creative multi-talents, she has written, directed, and produced over eighteen musical and stage productions. Large corporations like Ford Motor Company have recognized Mathews’ work. In 2001, Ford Motor Company sponsored “The Silent Cry”, a musical production about domestic violence, which performed for 10 years at nearly 15 junior highs, and high schools, and three universities throughout the Detroit Metro area.
Mathews says, although she doesn’t have a degree in the performing arts, that, she has never let that stop her from pursing her dream. Mathews began writing and directing her own stage plays at the age of seven in the neighborhood where she grew up. She has written, directed and produced many original works over the course of 35 years such as: “Mr. Soul Food Scrooge”, “I Am the Christ”, “The Silent Cry”, “African Nubian Wedding”; “Jefferson’s Plantation”; “God Is Watching You”; and “Living a Double Life”, “Protest at the Capital” just to name a few. In July 2006, Mathews decided to created a TV family base Comedy Sitcom which is known as the “Bewick and Mack” Show. Mathews has writing and producing over 21 Episodes. On February 26, 2010, Episode 13 of the “Bewick and Mack” Show was selected for exhibition at the New York Independent International Film Festival in LA; October 2009, Episode 12 of the “Bewick and Mack” show was selected for exhibition in New York and also selected for worldwide marketing; October 2008, Episode 8 of the “Bewick and Mack” won first place at the Philo T. Farnsworth Film Festival for Original Teleplay, Video Award for best Comedy. July 2009 Mathews produced a short film drama for the 48 Hours Film Project Competition titled: “Body Parts”; May 2006, Mathews produced “the Alphabet” a short film drama that was submitted to the Rap-It-Up Competition for BET.
She credits God for her vivid imagination and the gift and ability to communicate through writing, directing, acting, and producing her own work. She also credits her wonderful parents who nurtured and cultivated her earlier years. Mathews says, “She is excited to be launching her first television show”. She states that she has a natural love for Detroit and its citizens and wanted to show that there are still wonderful, good upstanding people who live normal lives in Detroit.
Mathews leads a busy life with three careers as a Secretary at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, President of her own company P. G. Production Drama Network and serving as director of her newest creation the “Bewick and Mack” Comedy Sitcom (a spinoff of her original Musical Stage Production “Mr. Soul Food Scrooge”). Mathews says she would like to bring more of her original work to the film industry. She adds that she is a self-starter, her own motivator and a hard worker who never gave up on her dream to become successful. She states, “I believe there is a rainbow that awaits us all, but first we must endure the storms of life which will either make us or break us before receiving the prize.
