Shelley McPherson/Playwright is a New York-based Canadian actor and writer, and the librettist for Seeing Stars, first performed in a concert reading featuring Kelli O’Hara and Jesse Tyler Ferguson at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Seeing Stars, with music and lyrics by the award-winning Breithaupt Brothers, was a finalist at NAMT and the
O’Neill, and received a developmental workshop at The York Theatre Company and a production at NYMF (direction, Jenn Thompson; choreography, Liza Gennaro; music direction, Mark Berman; fight direction, BH Barry). Shelley’s play Exit Zero has had readings at Boomerang Theatre Company and Classical Theatre of Harlem and was a finalist for Ashland New Play Festival and Campfire Theatre Festival. Her play Mommy Baby was chosen for Boomerang’s First Flight Developmental Reading Series (direction, Martha Banta; featuring Keira Naughton, Laurie Wells, Todd Gearhart,
and Molly Carden). Knifeplay received a reading at Boomerang’s First Flight with direction by Jerry Ruiz and a cast including Mary Bacon and Noah Racey. Her one-act plays include Tender Is The Night, The Show Must Go On, and Be Mine, and her play Lady Doc about Emily Stowe, a pioneering Canadian doctor, is included in 365 Women a Year. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA.

M.A.: Northwestern University.