Playwright, screenwriter, end-hunger advocate, and women-in-theater activist, Sheila Rinear has received grants, commissions, and awards for her work resulting in development, productions, publication, and readings nationally.

Playwriting:

  • Bufflehead Bay (full-length dark comedy) a Finalist in Screen Craft’s 2021 Stage Drama competition and appeared on Coverfly’s Red List for 2 years.

  • Bound by Truth (full-length historical drama) a Finalist in Screen Craft’s 2019 Stage Drama competition and has been featured on Coverfly’s Red List for the past 5 years; it was a 2nd Rounder in Austin Film Festival.

  • The Princess and the Peanut Allergy (TYA musical) developed by The Magik Theater of San Antonio; a Finalist in the Anna Zornio 2021 Playwriting competition.

  • So, When Are You Leaving? (Full-length comedy) produced by Boerne Community Theatre 2023, selected for New Works Virtual Festival fund-raiser for The Actors Fund, December 2020; featured staged-reading at The Kayenta Arts Festival, UT; staged reading at Cape May Stage, NJ).

  • Merry Gentlemen (Full-length dark holiday comedy) commissioned and developed by The Public Theatre of San Antonio; produced by The Overtime Theatre.

  • Deities (Full-length historical drama) workshopped at The University of Oklahoma; featured script in Texas Playwrights Festival, Alpine, TX.

  • Pray for Us, They Sent Jim Cantore! (One-act comedy) award winner/ featured in Shake-Smash Festival, AZ.

  • 8 separate grants from the City of San Antonio resulted in Sheila’s forming a Collective of Artists (SANCTUARY) and writing 8 new social justice performance pieces including A Hunger; Beyond Walls; and 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 Sheila’s plays including the very recent publication of a volume in their Playwrights on the Page Series, Five Plays by Sheila Rinear.

Screenwriting:

  • Sons of Treason (Full-length feature historical drama) Semi-finalist in 2021 ScreenCraft contest; Semi-
    finalist in the 2024 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards; Second Rounder at The Austin Film
    Festival, 2021.

  • We Ourselves (Full-length feature historical drama) Semi-finalist in 2025 Stage 32 Feature Drama contest;
    Semi-finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, 2024.

Member of The Dramatists Guild of America, PWC, ScriptWorks and HonorRoll!