PERFORMING Shellen has been onstageas both a singer/songwriter and an actorfor years, both in and out of New York City. She and her songs have been featured on radio (Woodys Children on WQXR-FM, a one-hour special on WBAI-FM, and various shows on WABC, WOR, and WEVD-FM), cable television, and in Milos Formans first American film, TAKING OFF. Her most recent performance as a singer/songwriter was at a benefit for the P.S. 75 Afterschool Program with Elliot Meyers, OP3 (original members of October Project), and Cynthia Nixon. Click here to read some sample lyrics and hear a few mp3 song files. MOTHER/CHILD, her one-woman musical, was called by WBAI-FM: a dynamite show about the joys, agonies, conflicts, and concerns of combining new parenthood, person-hood, and artist-hood.? Click here to read more press quotes and pieces written about Shellen. Other performing credits include stage (most recently Andria Lauries THE AWAKENING produced by Six Figures Theater Company, screen (including principle roles in the films GREEN CARD and TAKING OFF), and television. Click here for photos and info on performances. PLAYWRITING Her play, IMPERFECT FLOWERS, played to rave reviews in Omaha, Nebraska, as part of SNAP!Fest (a night when acting and lights and music and a glorious script all come together into something bordering on magic,?Omaha World-Herald.) The first act of the play, a one-act entitled ANTHESIS, also received raves in L.A. when it played at the West Coast Ensemble. Other plays and musicals have been performed in productions and staged readings at the Public Theatre, Henry Street Settlement, Manhattan Class Company, and many other venues. Click here for more info on plays. DIRECTING Shellen has directed numerous plays, musicals, and cabaret acts in productions, workshops, and readings, most recently THE WAY I SEE IT with TONY SCHATZ at DONT TELL MAMA; OH, BABY! at Dannys Skylight Room and Roses Turn; the first New York reading of SEASON TO SEASON, a new play by Richard Rashke, at the Common Basis Theatre; and REAL at the Trilogy Theater, a one-man show written by and starring Norman Siopis. Click here for more directing info. COACHING As a vocal and acting coach, she teaches professionals for stage, screen, and recordings, and has taught and performed at a number of colleges and professional and private schools, most notably Bennington College, her alma mater, where she was a guest artist in the Black Music Division for Bill Dixon. She has coached actors in starring roles on soap operas, national tours, and a number of boys for the role of Gavroche in LES MISERABLES on Broadway and on tour. Click here for more coaching info. ARTICLES, POEMS, and the MONDAY MORNING QUOTE Her philosophical musings on artistry as a means of understanding ourselves and living more deeply, truly, and meaningfully have been read by thousands in seven cover pieces for Backstage, the Performing Arts Weekly. Click here for Backstage articles. Each December she writes a poem for the new year, usually illustrating it as well. Click here for New Year Poems. She also writes a weekly piece called the Monday Morning Quote?which goes out on the internet first thing each Monday to an ever-increasing list of subscribers. Click here to read quote pieces and/or to subscribe. Shellen is a member of most writers?and performers?unions and served as Co-President of the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media with Elsa Rael, her longtime collaborator and friend. google hotmail shellen lubin shellenlubin writing directing acting actor director coaching voice vocal coaching singing singer songs quotes monday morning quotes library morningside heights new york newyork manhattan music art poems poem poetry winter new year plays play theatre theater stage songwriter radio cable television Bondrov google hotmail shellen lubin shellenlubin writing directing acting actor director coaching voice vocal coaching singing singer songs quotes monday morning quotes library morningside heights new york newyork manhattan music art poems poem poetry winter new year plays play theatre theater stage songwriter radio cable television Bondrov google hotmail shellen lubin shellenlubin writing directing acting actor director coaching voice vocal coaching singing singer songs quotes monday morning quotes library morningside heights new york newyork manhattan music art poems poem poetry winter new year plays play theatre theater stage songwriter radio cable television Bondrov google hotmail shellen lubin shellenlubin writing directing acting actor director coaching voice vocal coaching singing singer songs quotes monday morning quotes library morningside heights new york newyork manhattan music art poems poem poetry winter new year plays play theatre theater stage songwriter radio cable television Bondrov google hotmail shellen lubin shellenlubin writing directing acting actor director coaching voice vocal coaching singing singer songs quotes monday morning quotes library morningside heights new york newyork manhattan music art poems poem poetry winter new year plays play theatre theater stage songwriter radio cable television Bondrov