Sheila Rinear

Playwright Sheila Rinear has received grants, commissions, and awards for her work resulting in development, productions, publication, and readings nationally.
Bound by Truth (Full-length, commissioned by Access to Art; developed by The Classic Theatre of San Antonio; Finalist in Screen Craft’s 2020 international competition; 2nd Rounder in Austin Film Festival); The Princess and the Peanut Allergy (TYA Musical developed by The Magik Theater of San Antonio); So, When Are You Leaving? (Full-length, selected for New Works Virtual Festival fund-raiser for The Actors Fund, October 2020; featured staged-reading at The Kayenta Arts Festival, UT; staged readings at The Public Theater of San Antonio; and, at Cape May Stage, NJ); Merry Gentlemen (Full-length, commissioned and developed by The Public Theater of San Antonio; produced by The Overtime Theatre); Deities (Full-length, workshopped at The University of Oklahoma; featured script in Texas Playwrights Festival, Alpine, TX); Pray for Us, They Sent Jim Cantore! (One-act featured in Shake-Smash Festival, AZ); Rumblings (developed at National Playwrights Symposium, Cape May, NJ; produced in Script Works’ Out of Ink Festival, Austin, TX).
8 separate grants from the City of San Antonio resulted in Rinear’s writing 8 new social justice performance pieces including A Hunger; Beyond Walls; Do I Look Like Anyone!? All 8 pieces received productions in Luminaria, the city’s annual contemporary Arts Festival.
Leicester Bay Theatricals has published several of Rinear’s plays including the very recent publication of a volume in their Playwrights on the Page Series, Five Plays by Sheila Rinear.
She is the Co-Founder of Public Potentials (playwrights’ group at The Public Theater of San Antonio); she served as Producer of 12 Zoom script readings by The Public since March; and, she serves as Ambassador to San Antonio for The Dramatists Guild of America.
Representation: Marta Praeger at The Robert Freedman Dramatic Agency; mprfda@