Sheila Rinear's Resume

DRAMATIC PROJECT TIMELINE AND AWARDS
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Don’t Be Like That (one woman one act play): received a grant and a production in San Antonio’s Luminaria, March 2010.

I Didn’t Sign On For That (10 minute play): Featured in San Antonio Playwrights Festival at San Pedro Playhouse, January 2010.

Professional Development Grant for Technical Assistance from San Antonio’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Fall 2009.

Cries That Bind: (full-length play): Reading at the Dramatists Guild, NYC, November 12, 2009.

Heatwave? Can You Say Hell's Kitchen?: (10 minute play): San Antonio Theatre ASAP, Trinity University, September, 2009.

Cries That Bind: (full-length play): Received a Salon reading by SAT Playwrights, April 2009.

In the Market (one character show): Received a grant and a production in San Antonio's Luminaria, March, 2009.

You're Killing Me Here (one character show): FronteraFest performance at Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX. February 2009.

For Mal to Hide (15 minute play): Featured in San Antonio's Short Play Festival at the San Pedro Playhouse, January, 2009.

Staying In Vegas (10 minute play): Featured in the San Antonio Playwrights' Short Play Festival, January, 2008.

Chasing the Blues (screen play): Honorable Mention in the More Women in Film Screenplay Contest. August 2007

Creative Capital Artists' Retreat: Sheila was competitively selected by Creative Capital to participate, June 2007.

Life Lines (full-length play): Reading at Church Theatre and Bistro, San Antonio. May, 2007.

Deities (full-length play): Featured script in Alpine, Texas Playwrights' Dark Night Reading Festival, March/April, 2007.

Chasing the Blues (full-length play): First Place Winner in San Pedro Playhouse Scriptwriting Contest, 2006. Second reading, December, 2006.

Mission Improbable (stage play): Reading at First Stage, Los Angeles, June, 2006. Judged one of the Best of the Fest in Austin's FronteraFest Fringe Festival, 2006.

Lifelines: Commissioned by *NEISD to write play about suicide prevention. Produced in San Antonio, February, 2005.

Deities (stage play): Reading by Trinity University. May, 2005.

A Day without Palestine and Counter Intelligence( (2 one act plays)): full production by San Antonio College, February 2004.

Calais (screenplay): A quarter-finalist Nicholl 2002; semi-finalist Chesterfield 2002.

Women of Letters (full-length play): A full production by the Firelight Players in San Antonio. Spring, 2001. Won the Alamo Theatre Arts Globe Award for outstanding new script in 2000-2001 Theatre season in San Antonio.

Teachers Lounge and Zero Tolerance (stage plays): Full production by St. Philip's College in San Antonio. Spring 2000.

Chasing the Blues (screenplay): semi-finalist New Century 2000; finalist Austin Film Festival 2000; finalist/First Honorable Mention Texas Film Institute 1999.

Dixie (stage play): full production in *NEISD One Act Play Festival, February 1999.

Literacy Live! Greatest Hits of High School Lit!!A -Educational Outreach Program written and performed in 3 school districts of San Antonio for San Antonio Public Theatre, 1998-1999.

We're Doing Cinderella??!! (stage play): Full production in *NEISD One Act Play Festival, March 1997.

Dancing on Daddy's Shoes (stage play): A Full production in *NEISD One Act Play Festival, March 1996.

We've Got Something to Say! (stage play): Full production in A * NEISD, San Antonio, TX. January 1994.

We've Got Something to Say! (publication) by Encore Performance Publishing, Orem, Utah. April 1994.

We're Doing Cinderella?! by Encore Performance Publishing, Orem, Utah. Summer, 1993.

Smokescreen (stage play): Full production by University of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio, October'92.

Chasing the Blues (script development) for Ensemble Studio Theatre, summer 1995. Finalist, Texas Playwrights Festival (Stages Theatre, Houston)

Oklahoma Framed: Commissioned by Oklahoma State Arts Council to write Centennial play (Summer,1988). Produced by Sooner Theatre, 1989.

Another World Scriptwriter for Proctor and Gamble Soap Opera 1986.

Beauty and B.East (script adaptation of Beauty and the Beast) produced by Mummer's Stage Center Theatre in Oklahoma City.Winter 1986.

Robin Hood Breakin' Loose (script adaptation of Robin Hood) produced by Mummer's Stage Center Theatre in Oklahoma City. 1985.

Watch and Prey: First place for script in Actor's Theater Tulsa Playwriting Contest 1985. Produced by Actor's Theatre. Spring

The Ruse-Key Element, Brand New State, and WarRoom: Received Oklahoma Playwriting Arts Grant from Street Players Theatre (SPT)and produced by SPT throughout Oklahoma and Dallas/Fort Worth: 1985.

EXPERIENCE

Theatre/English Teacher-San Antonio,1990 - 2005 (North East Independent School District Teacher of the Year, 1997; Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award, 1998).

Contributor/Reviewer of West Publishing Co.'s textbook: Exploring Theatre, 1997. *North East Independent School District of San Antonio, Texas

Member of: Dramatists Guild (NYC), Playwrights Center , Austin Script Works, San Antonio Theatre Coalition, Honorary Lifetime Member of Texas PTA