Shelah Marie is a performer, writer and arts educator from Hollywood, Florida. Shelah studied theater and performance at Florida State University, where she received dual BA degrees in Theater and Mass Media Studies. She became involved with the only primarily African-American performance group at FSU, called The Black Actor’s Guild. The group became a way to perform rudimentary social-theatre experiments to see where boundaries lie in the spectator-actor relationship and what it means to culturally identify with a certain group.

During her time in Tallahassee, Shelah also performed in various productions with FSU’s School of Theatre and The Film School. Shelah was fortunate enough to be awarded The International Programs Scholarship and The DaVita Foundation Scholarship to study at The London Theatre Academy and then to work and teach creative dramatics to children in Hohenfels, Germany. After graduating from FSU, Shelah worked as an Assistant Stage Manager at an award-winning South Florida theater company, Mosaic Theatre. During this time, she also worked for the Arts & Culture Center as a Drama Specialist as part of their summer children’s programming.

Currently, Shelah is in Brooklyn teaching, performing and trying to put one foot in front of the other.