A. M. Shea
Ph.D. in Educational Theatre, New York University; M.A. in Drama, The Catholic University of America' B.A. in English, Anna Maria College. Professor Emerita (Theatre), Worcester State College. Dean of College of Fellows, New England Theatre Conference. Playwighting—Production History
"The Dirty Irish"—(Ten-Minute) Staged by Barrington Stage Company, Feb. 19-March 5, 2017-Short-...
Ph.D. in Educational Theatre, New York University; M.A. in Drama, The Catholic University of America' B.A. in English, Anna Maria College. Professor Emerita (Theatre), Worcester State College. Dean of College of Fellows, New England Theatre Conference. Playwighting—Production History
"The Dirty Irish"—(Ten-Minute) Staged by Barrington Stage Company, Feb. 19-March 5, 2017-Short-Play Festival: Build a Wall, New Carpa Theatre (Arizona State University), 2011
-Staged reading by Our Voices, Sept. 2016, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
"Best in Class"—(Ten-Minute) Staged by Barrington Stage Company, Feb. 11-18, 2016
"Briar Rose"—(TYA) workshopped by South Eastern Regional Technical High School, as entry in Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild Festival, Feb 27, 2016
"Family Archive"—(One Act Play)—staged by Turtle Lane Theatre, Auburndale, MA 2010; staged by Torrent Theatre (New York City), April 2016.
"Last Word" (Full length) Retitled "The Muse in Autumn"— First prize winner, Newburyport (MA) New Plays Festival, January 2011; read at Kelly Square Yacht Club, Worcester, MA, 2009, and also at Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK 2009; Finalist, Ashland New Play Festival, 2014. Staged reading, InProximity, June 2018, New York City.
"Land’s End Café " (One Act Play), First prize winner, One Act Play Festival on the Mumford, Whitinsville. MA January 2014; staged reading at Curtain Theatre, Columbus, OH, January 2007, (second prize winner); read at Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK, June 2007,
Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins –monodrama, Various bookings, 2009-2016.
"Members Only"--(One Act Play), read at Last Frontier Theatre Conference, June 2006; staged at Boston Actors’ Theatre, August 2007
"Old Friends, New Benefits" – second prize winner, staged at Newburyport (MA)New Play Festival, January 2011;
"With Improvements by the Actors" (Ten-Minute Play), performed at Boston Theatre Marathon April 2004 subsequently produced throughout the summer by Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, MA. Published in Netherlands by Anco Entertainment B. V.
"The M-Pill" (one-act)--read at the 2004 Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez , AK. Staged in workshop by Redfeather Theatre 2005.
"The Servant of Two Masters," by Carlo Goldoni, translated and adapted, produced at Worcester State College, 1979.
"Winter Glory," original children’s play book and lyrics, produced by Worcester Children’s Theatre,1979.
"Perfectly Clear," book and lyrics, translated and adapted from Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes, produced at Worcester State College, 1974. ##