Sheila Rinear, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, and teacher has had work commissioned, developed and produced throughout the United States but especially in Texas where The Public Theatre of San Antonio, The Classic Theatre, and The Magik Theatre have been her artistic homes.

Bufflehead Bay was a Finalist in the Los Angeles Screen Craft's 2021 Stage Play Contest. Bound By Truth was a 2020 Finalist in the Screen Craft Stage Play Competition. Foreigner in My Home received a recent production at NJ Rep. More than 60 of her plays have been produced. She’s also been commissioned 8 times by the City of San Antonio to write and produce Social Justice performance pieces for Luminaria, the Annual Celebration of the Arts.

She recently finished her first TYA musical, The Princess and the Peanut Allergy as well as the libretto and lyrics for an opera, Committed During Covid.

Since the pandemic shut down, and through The Public Theater of San Antonio, Sheila has produced 12 ZOOM readings of 12 new scripts by local and national playwrights. Attendance at these readings has totaled over 1,000.

Leicester Bay Theatricals just published a volume entitled: 5 Plays by Sheila Rinear available on Amazon.

Rinear served The Dramatists Guild as Regional Rep for Austin-San Antonio for 7 years and now serves on The Creative Advisory Council of The Public Theater of San Antonio. She is a proud member of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over 40 whose goal is inclusion in the theater. She is represented by The Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency. For more: www.sheilarinear.com