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Micki Shelton

MICKI SHELTON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Micki Shelton was born in New Jersey and grew up in Scottsdale, ArizonA. She received her B.A. in Santa Barbara, CA and her Master's Degree from Chapman University in Orange, CA. Micki (whose other name is S. Michele McFadden) studied playwriting with John Glore (1992-1994) at South Coast Repertory where four of her short plays were produced as part of SCR's summer series: Performance of New Works. In 1994, Circles was chosen as one of six plays for the Second Annual AsHLAnd New Plays Festival. Circles was produced by City Lights Theatre Company in San Jose, CA, in 1998. Between 1997 and 1999, four of her short plays were included in the Carmel Performing Arts Festival and she has had four plays in Arizona Women's Theatre's Pandora Festival (2007-2009). Now living in Prescott, Arizona, Micki is an active member of the Northern Arizona Arts community. Along with playwright Charissa Menefee, she co-founded "Tomorrow's Theater Tonight," a monthly series of works-in-progress. Micki is past Board President of Arizona Classical Theatre (2004-2006) and served for five years (2002-2006) on the management team of the MAD Linguist, Prescott's spoken word Arts venue. In 2003, Arizona Classical Theatre produced her play Amici and Scottsdale's Theatre Artists Studio is producing Medea's Ghost in February, 2010. Fred and Mary, her quasi-historical play about hotelier Fred Harvey and his chief architect and designer Mary Jane Colter is currently being presented script-in-hand across Northern Arizona in preparation for Arizona's Centennial Celebration in 2012.

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         All the Glory         Amici         Cheap Food and Sex         Circles         Elkhorn Slough         Fred and Mary: An Unconventional Romance         God's Tears         Lunch at McDonald's         Medea's Ghost         Source, The

All the Glory

Synopsis:
Not only is the Angel Bob's earthly charge difficult; his assignments feel insignificant. Gabriel gets to announce a virgin birth for Chrissakes! It's time to go into God's office and complain.

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Casting is basically unisex; God may be played by A female; the Angel Bob may be the Angel Jane; secretary may be male or female; even the Archangel Michael may be female

1st Produced:
Theatre Artists Studio, Scottsdale, Arizona    2008

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Genre:
comedy Ten min

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4

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Amici

Synopsis:
What happens when one woman keeps returning to the same restaurant, sometimes with one man, sometimes with another? the circumspect waiter may keep it to himself, but he can't help but notice. Samantha knows she loves Amici Trattoria, but she can't seem to decide between her husband and her mentor. If only choosing a lover were as easy as choosing a restaurant!

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1st Produced:
Arizona Classical Theatre, Prescott, Arizona    2003

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Genre:
Romantic Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cheap Food and Sex

Synopsis:
Who better to observe and reflect one's foibles and frailties than one's children-especially when the foibles involve a grown woman carrying a baby doll for her inner child therapy, or a man aping the Great White Hunter to recover his lost masculinity? At a McDonald's somewhere in the Arizona desert, a chance encounter between the mother-son and father-daughter pairs of Mars and Garth and Frank and Serena is the catalytic catapult for comedy. Vegetarian Garth, with his flower-child mother, and faux-macho Frank, with his trendy NYC daughter, Serena, may seem like oil and water, but love has a way of mixing opposites. these modern-age misfits discover in one another and themselves truths they could not have found separately. the by-product of their intermingling is plenty of laughter and wincing smiles as we enjoy watching their offbeat therapies converge.

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Chosen As part of the Pandora Festival, the play is yet to have A full production.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  1

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Circles

Synopsis:
When six women gather at a male friend's Northern California beach house to celebrate Emily's 50th, Emily's sister Jo becomes the fly in the aromatherapy oil.

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1st Produced:
City Lights Theatre Company, San Jose, California    1998

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Elkhorn Slough

Synopsis:
When Claire's car breaks down on Highway 1, near Elkhorn Slough, Kelly confronts her sister about their last episode together there. But the attack by the goose was not the most Dramatic thing that ever happened there, says Claire. It was that time with Seamus.

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1st Produced:
City Lights Theatre Company, San Jose, California    2001

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Genre:
comedy Ten min

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Fred and Mary: An Unconventional Romance

Synopsis:
Spanning the years 1876 through 1958, the quasi-historical play centers on the life of Mary Jane Colter who designed Phantom Ranch, Hopi House, and six other buildings at the Grand Canyon, along with a host of other buildings; and her relationship with Fred Harvey, who, along with his prim waitresses, dubbed "the Harvey Girls," have been credited with civilizing the West. Together, their reverence for and promotion of Indian art and culture laid the groundwork for what the Southwest is today.

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Double casting brings the cast down to 7: 2 women, 5 men; written in 2008, the plays has had readings throughout Arizona, but no production yet.

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Genre:
Historical comic Drama

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Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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God's Tears

Synopsis:
How does a mother deal with the loss of a child? As seemingly fragile Peg Warren emerges from a courtroom, she is confronted by a cacophony of reporters' voices, but the brash reporter who interviews her finds he is the weaker of the two.

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1st Produced:
City Lights Theatre Company, San Jose, California    1999

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Genre:
Drama Ten Min

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lunch at McDonald's

Synopsis:
A vegetarian teenager encounters more than he bargained for when his mom pursues a political agenda at McDonald's.

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1st Produced:
El Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano, California    1994

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Genre:
comedy Ten min

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  1

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Medea's Ghost

Synopsis:
Convicted of the most unforgivable of crimes, Mary is haunted by the media circus surrounding her case and, surreally, by three ghosts of Greek tragedy. A Mexican immigrant named Teresa finds herself inexorably drawn to Mary by fate and circumstance, and visits her in prison. their emotional journey toward personal redemption lays bare the darkest territories of the human soul, where only grace dares give its light.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Artists Studio, Scottsdale, Arizona    2010

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Source, The

Synopsis:
the $@%* hits the fan when A & R rep Sal Danzer prepares to cancel a contract with jazz pianist Cecil Thomas.

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading at the Marsh, San Francisco, California    2000

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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