Sheila Rinear

When a tenacious woman reluctantly returns to the home of her youth in order to help her family and community make a come-back from a disastrous storm, she discovers that what needs the most restoration is her own life. Bufflehead Bay asks: how far must we run before reaching the willingness to hear our homeland calling us back to a truer understanding of who we are and what breathes life into that identity.

When a rookie psychiatrist realizes her lifelong close relationship with her brother is disintegrating, she must save herself even if that means she is unable to save him.

When family matriarch Maggie Dunleavy uncharacteristically summons her dysfunctional brood to celebrate the 4th of July with her, her "Lovies" arrive not realizing how many long-nurtured resentments and secrets will erupt in comic fireworks more explosive than the ones they thought they came to see.

A woman teaches her father, a noted Renaissance scholar, how to stand up to the tyrannical King he counsels even though it may cost the father she idolizes his life.[This script is currently listed on Coverfly's Red List of best written history plays at #2.}

This full-length play has a cast of 3 Females, 5 Males, 2 Children (1 Female; 1 Male), and 1 Male or Female to play multiple minor roles.
Setting requirements are a space/light stage with highly selected furniture and set pieces.

In 1555 at the English royal family’s run-down, secluded manor, a bond is forged between two of history’s most powerful women amidst storms of highly charged sexual passion and spiritual ecstasy as each woman tries to save her own life.

Ben Dickens lost his wife, Isabelle, in a car crash on Christmas Eve. That was seven years ago. Since then Ben has focused only on his job, allowing his teenage son Tim to fend for himself. Isabelle appears to both her husband and son urging them to reach out to each other and mend their relationship…and it needs to happen by this soon-to-arrive Christmas when her Spirit must depart from their sphere for eternity.
In this full-length play, heavily inspired by Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ben and Tim Dickens’ paths mystically cross those of various characters who lead Ben and Tim out of their bleak, estrranged lives and into the Spirit of Christmas…with many laughs along the way.

When a couple is awakened in the middle of the night by the National Guard Evacuation Team’s Bullhorn Announcement, a debate about whether or not they should escape the storm’s threat or stay and tough it out brings up some outrageous but basic issues their marriage counselor has been suggesting they take a look at.

Meeting your Birth Mother? Important, but not the most important moment in your life. Getting to see the long-lost child you had to give up, for whatever reason? Important, but… How can these moments compare to the moment when you realize that the parents who have lavished their love and concern over you are not your real mother and father? That is the moment of stunning silence for the child. And for the Birth Mother? The moment when you wish you had not given up your child. What comes between these two moments? Lives lived through wishing/remembering; by hopes and regret; by longing to see… These are the moments that fill this short mono-play. How does it end? That is up to you, because we never see them meet, but we will each bring our own perspective to the events portrayed and their probable, for us, outcome. This is strong, vital theater that leaves us with necessary questions. For through this play we will have examined our lives a little; relived our dreams, hopes, demons; visited the memories of our own families. This docu-drama is perfect for live or online presentation. Easy to stage or capture as an online event.

A recently widowed millionaire has awarded large grants of money to 3 BIPOC Community Leaders to use for their organizations in the metropolis where they all live and work. At their first meeting to discuss distribution, etc. the philanthropic widow suggests that the grant winners also help her appropriate some funding to the other applicants who didn’t win. She has just come in to some unexpected funding herself and figures they’d all like to share the good fortune. Sensing more than micro-aggression in her suggestion, 2 of the winning applicants express their opinion and leave to investigate whether or not it is a “legal ask” for the widow to make. When the widow suggests she’d pay them for their help, they point out that it’s not about money but about the status of being a winner in the eyes of their city. The winning applicant who stays behind reveals that she has done her research and knows that the widow is trying to launder dirty money. She offers a solution that just might keep the widow out of prison.