Shelley Cooper (she/her)

Composer, Writer, Performer, and Producer

Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

Shelley Cooperis an 2 time Off-Broadway Award Winning Solo Actor/Playwright, Associate Professor of Musical Theatre and Movement at Augustana College in IL and is no stranger to LA Theatre Community! Her one woman shows La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas was featured in Hollywood Fringe 2021 (Pick of the Fringe and nominee for Best Solo Show), Solofest, LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Orlando Fringe (Best Individual Performance in a Drama) and Off-Broadway at United Solofest on Theatre Row (Best One Woman Show). Jenny Lind Presents P.T. Barnum was featured in HFF24 has been an official selection for Solofest, Fort Worth Fringe, Orlando Fringe FestN4, LA Women’s Theatre Festival, made its European debut in Austria, and United Solo Fest with an extension (Off Broadway). Jenny Lind has won Best Biographical Show (United Solo Off Broadway), Best Biographical Show (LA Hidden Gem), and Best of Asylum (HFF24). Her most recent solo show, Rag Doll on a Bomb Site had it’s world premiere at the Goethe Institute in Bangkok through an Artists Residency Grant at Mahidol Univerisity and made its domestic debut at Hollywood Fringe 2025 with a rave in the Hollywood Reporter and a Nominee for Best Dance and Physical Theatre Show. You can stream the soundtrack to Rag Doll on a Bombsite on all streaming platforms!