Independent Writers' Caucus
Sheila Rinear
Marta Praeger at Robert A. Freeman Dramatic Agency
mprfda@gmail.com
Sheila Rinear is a playwright, screenwriter, teacher, mom, end-hunger advocate, women-in-theater activist, clothe-the-migrants worker, and beach-walking devotee. She's received grants, commissions, and awards for her work resulting in development, productions, publication, and readings nationally. She turned her attention to screenplays during the pandemic and has placed in many competitions and has had four projects on the now-defunct Coverfly Red List.Â
Honors & Awards
Finalist in ISA & Script Pipeline's The Great Pitch Competition for Feature, We Ourselves, 2026
Finalist, ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest and on the Red List from 2020 to 2025, Bound By Truth
Semifinalist, Stage 32 Feature Drama, 2025
Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member
Female, 55+
WE OURSELVES
Historical Drama Feature
During the 1916 Easter Rising, a naïve but fearless Irish farm girl accepts help from the rising Sinn Féin rebels to rescue her wrongfully imprisoned lover, framed by a treacherous British gun-runner desperate to bury his own crimes. Inspired by true events.
SONS OF TREASON
Historical Drama Feature
In 1347 England, a desperate young King Edward III hunts a stolen treasury to save his failing realm...until he learns the treasure is not gold but a hidden half-brother raised, by the mother they share, to kill him.
BUFFLEHEAD BAY
Contemporary Dark-Comedy Stage Play
After a superstorm destroys her hometown and kills her alcoholic father, a determined woman must overcome deep-seated family trauma and bureaucratic red tape to spearhead the community's restoration, discovering that the home she once fled is the only place she can rebuild herself.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History
Female, 55+
unrepped