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

Bufflehead Bay recently placed as a Finalist in Screen Craft’s 2021 Stage Drama competition and now sits on Coverfly’s Los Angeles Red List (Full-length, contemporary play); Bound by Truth (Full-length, commissioned by Access to Art; developed by The Classic Theatre of San Antonio; Finalist in Screen Craft’s 2019 Stage Drama competition; 2nd Rounder in Austin Film Festival; and sitting at #2 on Coverfly’s LA Red List of the 20 best- written history plays); The Princess and the Peanut Allergy (TYA Musical developed by The Magik Theater of San Antonio) was a Finalist in the Anna Zorina 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, commissioned and developed by The Public Theatre of San Antonio; produced by The Overtime Theatre); Deities (Full-length, workshopped at The University of Oklahoma; featured script in Texas Playwrights Festival, Alpine, TX); Pray for Us, They Sent Jim Cantore! (One-act featured in Shake-Smash Festival, AZ); Rumblings (developed at National Playwrights Symposium, Cape May, NJ; produced in Script Works’ Out of Ink Festival, Austin, TX).

8 separate grants from the City of San Antonio resulted in Sheila’s writing 8 new social justice performance pieces including A Hunger; Beyond Walls; 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.

In screenwriting:  Sons of Treason (full-length feature historical drama) is currently a semi-finalist in The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards and has been a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowship and a Second Rounder at The Austin Film Festival; Chasing the Blues (full-length feature female-driven comedy) was a finalist at The Austin Film Festival. Her new screenplay, We Ourselves, just placed as a semi-finalist in The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.

Sheila currently serves on the Artistic Advisory Committee of The Public Theatre of San Antonio; is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, PWC, ScriptWorks and HonorRoll!