Sheila Lynch Rinear
Playwright, Screenwriter and Producer
San Antonio, Texas
July 2015
5 days ago
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About Sheila
Playwright, screenwriter, end-hunger advocate and women-in-theater activist, beach-walking devotée Sheila Rinear has received grants, commissions, and awards for her work resulting in development, productions, publication, and readings nationally.
SCREENPLAYS:
SONS OF TREASON: (Historical feature) Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Drama Competition Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival.
WE OURSELVES: (Historical feature) Semifinalist in Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer and CURRENTLY Semifinalist in STAGE 32’S 5th ANNUAL FEATURE DRAMA SCREENWRITING COMPETION.
STAGE PLAYS (FULL-LENGTH):
BOUND BY TRUTH: ( Full-length historical stage script) Finalist, ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition and currently stands at #7 on the Red List. Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Stage Play competition.
BUFFLEHEAD BAY: (Full-length contemporary dark-comedy) Finalist, ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition and spent a year on the Red List.
THE PRINCESS AND THE PEANUT ALLERGY: (TYA Musical developed by The Magik Theater of San Antonio) Finalist in the Anna Zornia Playwriting competition
SO, WHEN ARE YOU LEAVING? (Full-length comedy) selected for New Works Virtual Festival fund-raiser for The Actors Fund; featured staged-reading at The Kayenta Arts Festival, UT; staged readings at The Public Theater of San Antonio; and, at Cape May Stage, NJ; and a production in Boerne, TX
Merry Gentlemen: (Full-length dramedy), commissioned and developed by The Public Theater of San Antonio; produced by The Overtime Theatre, inspired by Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Deities: Full-length female-driven historical drama, workshopped at The University of Oklahoma; featured script in Texas Playwrights Festival.
Foreigner in My Home: Female-driven stage drama; produced by the Off-Broadway theatre company, NJ REP.
8 separate grants from the City of San Antonio resulted in Sheila’s writing 8 new social justice performance pieces including A Hunger; Beyond Walls; Do I Look Like Anyone!? All 8 pieces received full productions in Luminaria, the city’s annual International Arts Festival.
Served as Austin-San Antonio Regional Rep for The Dramatists Guild of America. Member of The Dramatists Guild; Playwrights Center; Script Works; HONOR ROLL!
Representation: Marta Praeger at The Robert Freedman Dramatic Agency; mprfda@
Unique traits: -I can speak French (helps when watching Call My Agent) -I'm told I'm funny. [?]
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Sons of Treason Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical A treasonous plot instigated by England’s Queen Mother pits her two sons mortally against each other. Wagering she’d be the only one left to wear the crown of both England and France, the Queen hadn’t foreseen that her treachery would start the Hundred Years War. Based on author's play, Calais. Genre Notes: Battles and adventure abound as does romance.
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We Ourselves Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical During the Irish Rising (1916), a naïve Irish Farm Girl witnesses her fiancé's wrongful imprisonment by her country's oppressor, the British Crown. To free her lover, she finds her courage, joins with an Irish Rebel group [Sinn Féin] and becomes a significant force in Ireland's war for independence.
Awards
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Top 20 Red List - February 2021- present with 2 different scripts
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WE OURSELVES rec'd Semi-Finalist in Stage 32's 5th Annual Feature Competition
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