About | Theater for the soul

About the Founder

Sharece M. Sellem

A native of Hartford, CT, Sharece M. Sellem is a playwright, choreographer, director and performing arts instructor based out of New Haven, CT. She was trained by Headlong Performance Institute of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and Yale University’s Practical Approach to Directing Summer Program 2014. Her resume includes performances at Bregamos Community Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Pride Arts Center of Chicago, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Carriage House Theater, Illinois Voices Theatre, Norwich Arts Center, University of California San Diego and more. She is the founder of Vintage Soul Productions LLC.

Recent project:

Director of the New Haven Play Project 2020 for Long Wharf Theatre.

Read the newsletter from the 2019 New Haven Play Project -The Towers Partnership with Long Wharf theatre here.

You can find some of Sharece's plays on New Play Exchange.

She is a member of the Dramatist Guild of America.

Recent virtual performances during the pandemic of 2020:

In This Together, Theatre at Normandale, Normandale Community College on Livestream, Minnesota (The Ghost of America's Past, Choreopoem)

B Street Theatre's New Play Brunch, Sacramento CA (Just Breathe and This Is Not Business As Per Usual)

Scribe Stages "Connections" Virtual Theatre Festival, Los Angeles CA (Just Breathe)

Another Country Productions "A Revolution of Values" Zoom Activists Theatre, Boston MA (This Is Not Business As Per Usual)

Theapps Virtual Salon, Los Angeles CA (Its Over, King Makai)

Creative Co-Lab Lift Ev'ry Voice Play & Spoken Word Festival, Houston TX (Its Over, Queen Mya)