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"There's no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."-Maya Angelou
I write plays, and collaborate on musicals writing book and lyrics, mentor/script-doctor for young playwrights and turn devised work into scripted narratives. Resume of produced plays & musicals: Play Title- Writing Style- Producing Theater Stepping Stones- playwright- Macha Monkey Theater selected workshop production, Eclectic Theater Festival of New Works full production Sheltered! Confessions of a sheltered kid- playwright- Fair Play Festival of New Works full production Daylight- a new musical about female warriors- playwright- performed at the Taproot Theater Jewell MainStage 78 Minutes- a new musical about the last minutes on earth- co-playwright workshoped at foundry10 This is What They Tell Me- playwrighting mentor- Village Theater Kidstage, Three New Full-Length Devised Plays- facilitator/script writer- conceived with the Village Theater Institute young actors training program and performed at the Jewell Breaking Free- a solo cabaret night of stories of breaking free-playwright- The Public Theater of San Antonio Cabaret Lounge Through the Looking Glass- script mentor- foundry10 The Wisemen- playwright- Horizon Chapel The Day It Rained Forever by Ray Bradbury, adapted by Chelsea LeValley for the Hangar Theater Lab Co. Speak Truth to Power- by Ariel Dorfman, adapted by Chelsea LeValley for the Human Rights course in Yeager Recital Hall Jokes: The Luckiest Saint Patrick's Day Ever- Writer, my fourth grade self- Harman Elementary School Other plays not yet produced: Hannah's Story Meadowlark Other Skills: I adapt Bible stories for the stage and in a contemporary way. I write for adults and youth. I have some adaptations for the Hobbit and plenty of devised pieces we've made in the room and performed. I write poetry: https://rainymorningscl.wordpress.com My poem "I Am A Nazi Youth" from the perspective of a young person in the holocaust was published in a youth journal Up Next: Currently writing book and lyrics with composer Tyler Kimmel on An Irish Christmas Story for Taproot Theater Company 
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GalleryDaylight- book/lyrics by Chelsea LeValley, music and additional lyrics by Aaron Norman performed at Taproot Theater Jewell MainStage
photos courtesy of foundry10, photo credit: John John Roque
Sheltered!: Confessions of a Sheltered Kid- play by Chelsea LeValley performed at Theater Puget Sound as part of the Fair Play Festival
Breaking Free- A Solo Cabaret produced by the Public Theater of San Antonio
Stepping Stones- a new play. produced by the Eclectic Theater Company in the new play festival and produced as a workshop staged reading with Mancha Monkey
Hannah's Story, a play not yet produced.
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Collaborating with composer friend Michael Nutting and getting lost in our storyboard of sticky notes is joyous, while working on 78 minutes
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facilitating devising
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