Past Performance Oct 5th 2025 Sun 6:00pm
Dramatic Reading
by: Tim West
Directed by: Time West
Produced by: Steve Murdock
PowPAC proudly presents, a staged reading of episode 1 of Shirley & Mrs. Shelley on Sunday, October 5th at 6:00 pm, at the Poway Performing Arts Company at 13250 Poway Road Poway, California. General seating tickets are .
SHIRLEY & MRS SHELLEY Episode 1 is the self-standing pilot to a planned series of stage play installments of a larger narrative for which a dozen shorter tales have been outlined. It’s a new concept in play development, a process which captivates the show’s creator.
Professional horror author and amateur witch Shirley Jackson is trying a spell to cure a case of writer’s block, when she accidentally conjures the spirit of Mary Shelley, author of the pioneering horror novel Frankenstein. Together, the two women set-out to solve the disappearance of a Bennington College co-ed –just as a new dean at the school is looking into Shirley’s husband, a philandering professor who saw the girl last.
Tim West is Director of Playwright’s Saloon, a monthly staged play reading series at Trinity Theatre, 2025-26. West is a 2016-17 Creative Catalyst Fellow who served as Teaching Artist and Director of Community Engagement 2013-21 at Cygnet Theatre, where he is also a Resident Artist. A produced/published playwright as well as a noted award-winning director, his works have been seen locally and in Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, New York City and Kent, UK. He wrote “S&MrsS” for his many actor friends.
Cast:
SHIRLEY & MRS SHELLEY Episode 1
SHIRLEY & MRS SHELLEY Episode 1
Dramatic Reading
by: Tim West
Directed by: Time West
Produced by: Steve Murdock
SHIRLEY & MRS SHELLEY Episode 1 is the self-standing pilot to a planned series of stage play installments of a larger narrative for which a dozen shorter tales have been outlined. It’s a new concept in play development, a process which captivates the show’s creator.
Professional horror author and amateur witch Shirley Jackson is trying a spell to cure a case of writer’s block, when she accidentally conjures the spirit of Mary Shelley, author of the pioneering horror novel Frankenstein. Together, the two women set-out to solve the disappearance of a Bennington College co-ed –just as a new dean at the school is looking into Shirley’s husband, a philandering professor who saw the girl last.
Tim West is Director of Playwright’s Saloon, a monthly staged play reading series at Trinity Theatre, 2025-26. West is a 2016-17 Creative Catalyst Fellow who served as Teaching Artist and Director of Community Engagement 2013-21 at Cygnet Theatre, where he is also a Resident Artist. A produced/published playwright as well as a noted award-winning director, his works have been seen locally and in Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, New York City and Kent, UK. He wrote “S&MrsS” for his many actor friends.
Cast:
Shirley Jackson
Mrs. Shelley
Phoebe
Dean
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Mrs. Shelley
Phoebe
Dean
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Sarah LeClair
Susan Clausen
Hailey Andrews
David Lanni
Steve Murdock
Susan Clausen
Hailey Andrews
David Lanni
Steve Murdock
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