Chelsea was a 2018 Sewanee Writers Conference Playwright Fellow and a Humanitas PlayLA award winner, and her plays have been finalists for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, PlayPenn Conference, Woodward/Newman Drama Award, Reva Shiner Comedy Award, the Ingram New Works Lab, the UNIMA Young Writers Award, the Stanley Drama Award, and a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Seven Devils Conference. Her play Wood Boy Dog Fish, written with and produced by Rogue Artists Ensemble, received its second production in the inaugural season at the Garry Marshall Theatre in 2018. She co-wrote with Lisa Sanaye Dring the acclaimed Ovation Award-wining immersive horror theatre production Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin, also with RAE, which took over a 6-story warehouse. Her postal play/interactive fiction piece Spite & Malice premiered with Post Theatrical in March 2020 under her new story series Slipped Beyond Stories. She co-wrote the immersive pastoral site-specific play Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta with Rogue Artists Ensemble in collaboration with West Hollywood. Her plays have been workshopped and developed with Skylight Theatre Company, Chalk Reperatory, PlaygroundLA, Theatricum Botanicum, Rogue Artists Ensemble, The Road Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre Company, Playwright’s Arena, The Production Company, Coffee and Whiskey Productions (Chicago), Wordsymth Theatre (Houston), The Eclectic Company Theatre, UCSB Department of Theatre, and Brimmer Street Theatre Company. She was a member of the Orchard Project’s 2020 Liveness Lab and CultureHub’s 2022 Writing for Electronic Formats Workshop with Erik Ehn.

She’s currently writing new plays with Moving Arts’s MADLab and The Road’s Under Construction writers groups.

As a screenwriter, Chelsea co-wrote Welcome to the Blumhouse Live, an interactive murder mystery film event for Blumhouse/Amazon Prime by Little Cinema, which was nominated for a 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Program. She co-wrote Cartoonio’s Birthday Bash, the interactive film event for HBO, and The Alienist: Who Killed Alejandro Valdez, the interactive film event for TNT, both also by Little Cinema. Her short film script And She Kept Walking was a semi-finalist for the SHIFT Creative Fund. She co-wrote the short film The Long Way, directed by Michele Santoro, which is currently on the film festival circuit. Most recently she co-wrote with Lisa Sanaye Dring the immersive ghost story narrative app for iOS and Android, Kaidan Project: Alone, produced by Rogue Artists Ensemble. She is currently co-writing the feature film D is for Dog, based on the stage play.