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Del Shores
(December 3, 1957 - living) U.S.A.

Del Shores

Playwright and director

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Born in Winters, texas, Del drove to Los Angeles in 1984 the night he graduated from Baylor University. His intention was to pursue an acting career - which he did - but along the way he got sidetracked and started writing. His plays include Cheatin' (1984), Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got The Will? (1987), Daughters of the Lone Star State (1993) and Sordid Lives (1996). All debuted in Los Angeles and have won various theatre awards.

A movie of Daddy's Dyin' was made by MGM/Propaganda films in 1990 and starred Beverly D'Angelo, Beau Bridges, Tess Harper, Keith Carradine and Judge Reinhold. Del scripted the film as well as executive produced. Del's television credits include Touched by an Angel, Ned and Stacey, Live Shot, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the Beau Bridges series, Maximum Bob.

He has also written TV pilots for every major network. Married for ten years, an with two daughters, Rebecca, and Caroline, in 1995 Del "came out"! He claims Sordid Lives as his "coming out" play. The play ran for a full year in Los Angeles where Del directed and produced, and is now on the boards for a motion picture filmed in McKinney, Texas, with Del scripting and directing.

"Southern Baptist Sissies" is Shores most personal play -- a tragicomedy. It enjoyed a ten-month sold-out run in Los Angeles in 2000 and 2001, then enjoyed a sold-out run at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary Theatre in Dallas.

Del ShoresMost recently, Del enjoyed critical and commercial success with his darkest play, "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife." The play ran for six sold-out months in 2003 at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles. For "Trials" Shores' won the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's Ted Schmitt Award for World Premiere of an Outstanding New Play. The Circle also awarded the play Best Production and Beth Grant Best Lead Performance. "Trials" also won five Back Stage West Garland Awards, two NAACP Awards, Ovation Awards, seven Maddy Awards (including Best Play, Writing, Direction) and three L.A. Weekly Awards.

Currently, Shores is working on a new movie with Mandalay Entertainment and has started preproduction on the film adaptation of his play "Southern Baptist Sissies", which he will direct. He resides in Los Angeles with his husband Jason and his daughters Rebecca and Caroline.

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Website: http://DelShores.net

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