shellen lubin - COMPOSER, DIRECTOR, Lyricist, playwright
she/her/hers
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SHELLEN LUBIN's plays and musicals have been performed in productions and staged readings at the Public Theatre, Henry St. Settlement, MCC, AJT, and many other venues.
She is currently working on a new play about Sarah Bernhardt, and completing lyrics for two musicals based on Elsa Rael's award-winning children's books with Elsa Rael (book) and Matthew Gandolfo (music). She and her songs have been featured in cabaret (most recently the Metropolitan Room in NYC and Stage 773 in Chicago), on radio (Woody's Children on WQXR-FM and a one-hour special on WBAI-FM), cable television, and in Milos Forman's 1st American film, TAKING OFF. Shellen has directed numerous plays, musicals, and cabaret acts in productions, workshops, and readings, recently DOOR OPENS WALK THRU by Susan Merson at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre; the 28th-31st Annual Bistro Awards for Sherry Eaker; and Lainie Kazan in a concert reading of BELLE BARTH: IF I EMBARRASS YOU, TELL YOUR FRIENDS by Koch/Levinson/Kalt at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, CA. She coaches voice and acting privately and at a number of colleges and professional and private schools. Her philosophical musings on artistry as a means of understanding ourselves and living more deeply, truly, and meaningfully have been read by thousands in six cover pieces for Backstage, the Performing Arts Weekly. She also writes a weekly think piece called the “Monday Morning Quote” (www.mondaymorningquote.com). As an advocate for women in the arts, she is the Co-President of the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition and VP of Programming for the League of Professional Theatre Women, She is a member of most unions and guilds in our industry, and an elected member of the National Theatre Conference. AFFILIATIONS
Dramatist's Guild SDC AEA NTC (National Theatre Conference) LPTW SAG-AFTRA 
BETWEEN PRETTY PLACES by Susan Merson, music and lyrics by Shellen Lubin, directed by Shellen Lubin at Pacific Repertory Theatre, Venice, CA
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