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Vanessa Shealy

VANESSA SHEALY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Originally from Oklahoma City, Vanessa Shealy completed her MFA in Theater Performance from the University of Georgia before landing in New York City, where she currently lives with her husband and partner, Rick Younger, and their son, the Youngest Younger. As a playwright, Vanessa's full length plays include Tea in the Afternoon, American Drum Circle, and One, Two, Whatever you do...Her short plays include A Captive Audience,Cataracts, Let Me Take Care of You and a short solo play, Naked. Productions and readings include such NYC theaters as The Abingdon Theater, The Actors Studio, Emerging Artists Theater, Sola Voce Festival, Estrogrenius, Queens Theater in the Park, South Street Theater, FringeNYC, Project Y and ESPA Drills at 59E59 Theatrers. Vanessa is a member of the Dramatists Guild and an Active member in the Playwright/Director Workshop at The Actors Studio, NYC. Her other writing credits include the original comedic short film, Whistle and Snap, which screened at six film festivals, including the Montreal Black Film Festival and can be seen on Mentat.tv. Her web series, Post Racial Shorts, recently screened at the Roxbury Film Festival. She is a contributing writer and performer for the live sketch comedy shows The Rick Younger Show and The Jumpoff both of which are ongoing in New York City. A television spec script of hers was recently selected for a script review by the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship. She is currently working with artist Leah Lovise on a new comic book called Couri Vine which will be released in the Fall of 2013. As an actor, Vanessa has appeared onstage in over 30 professional productions, in independent films, on television and in national commercials. She is a winner of the Kennedy Center ACTF Classical Acting Award and a proud member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. Vanessa and her husband Rick founded Younger Child Productions in 2006. In additional to their two FringeNYC productions, Younger Child Productions credits include the feature length documentary film, Souled Out Comedy, winner of the Audience Choice Award at The Friar's Club Comedy Film Festival, NYC, The Rick Younger Show, an ongoing live music and comedy show, and Post Racial Shorts, a comedic series of web sketches about race in American.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2016)

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         American Drum Circle         Captive Audience, A         Cataracts         Detention #15: Dear Jane         Inside Information         Let Me Take Care of You         Naked         One, Two, Whatever you do . . .         Tea in the Afternoon

American Drum Circle

Synopsis:
A fast moving love story about family fraud and personal failure in a time when "Y2K" meant imminent fear and the internet promised eternal hope.

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2010 Espa*Drills Reading Series At 59E59 Theatre, NY     2010

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2 act play 120 min

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Captive Audience, A

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short play

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Cataracts

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short play

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Detention #15: Dear Jane

Synopsis:
A full-length play about the life and death of Jane. Each scene is written by a different writer.

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Scene 1 by Eboni Booth; Scene 2 by Talaura Harms; Scene 3 by Rebecca Poulson; Scene 4 by Karina Richardson-Colon; Scene 5 by Vanessa Shealy

1st Produced:
Jimmy's No. 43, NY     30 Nov 2012

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Genre:
one act 60 min

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Inside Information

Synopsis:
Rick and Vanessa are in an interracial marriage, raising a biracial child in a so-called "post-racial" America. A comical look at "Inside Information" about race from two people who can't escape it.

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written and performed by Vanessa Shealy and Rick Younger

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Emerging Artists Theatre's New Works Series

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Genre:
comedy

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Let Me Take Care of You

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Naked

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short play

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One, Two, Whatever you do . . .

Synopsis:
It's hard being a former child star. Tell one teensy fib and it goes viral! But this play will save my name, so if Angela L. Wilcox has to highjack Mother Goose? So be it. Owen's life depends on it!.

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1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival At New York Theater Workshop's 4th Street Theater     01 Aug 2011

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Younger Child Productions

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Genre:
1h 30m Comedy Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  2 gender neutral

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Tea in the Afternoon

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Family secrets send 28 year old Elizabeth on a journey to New York to meet an eccentric great aunt. their relationship evolves from friend to enemy to a delusional sisterhood in which the truth may be forgotten forever.

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Younger Child Productions (with Johnny Belle Productions)

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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama

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