(she/her/hers) is a playwright, librettist and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Shelby’s writing spans the divide between comedy and drama, fantasy and reality, and past and present. Her work explores themes of fat liberation, feminism, and mental illness from small villages in Medieval England to public school classrooms in the present-day. Her dramatic writing has been performed at New York Live Arts, Primary Stages, Pittsburgh New Works Festival (Runner-Up: Best LabWorks Production), and Dixon Place.
1385, the pilot she co-wrote, was selected as a second rounder for Austin Film Festival in 2021.
Currently, Shelby is co-writing the book of the musical Salem, which is in development with Blair Russell Productions.
She holds a B.A. in Writing for the Stage from Marymount Manhattan...
(she/her/hers) is a playwright, librettist and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Shelby’s writing spans the divide between comedy and drama, fantasy and reality, and past and present. Her work explores themes of fat liberation, feminism, and mental illness from small villages in Medieval England to public school classrooms in the present-day. Her dramatic writing has been performed at New York Live Arts, Primary Stages, Pittsburgh New Works Festival (Runner-Up: Best LabWorks Production), and Dixon Place.
1385, the pilot she co-wrote, was selected as a second rounder for Austin Film Festival in 2021.
Currently, Shelby is co-writing the book of the musical Salem, which is in development with Blair Russell Productions.
She holds a B.A. in Writing for the Stage from Marymount Manhattan College.