Shelley Butler has over forty Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional credits to date and has worked extensively with writers on new plays and musicals. She has directed and developed work across the country for theaters including: Ars Nova, Primary Stages, E.S.T., WP Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Geva, The Old Globe, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Warehouse Theater, New York Stage and Film, PlayPenn, New Dramatists and others. Shelley spent two seasons as artistic associate in charge of new play development for Hartford Stage and three seasons as artistic associate for Great Lakes Theater Festival. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The South Carolina New Play Festival which just completed its second season playing to “sold out” houses operating on a model that allows it to share new work free of charge: southcarolinanewplayfestival.org Upcoming: The world premiere of Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter for Two River Theater. Learn more at Shelleybutler.com