The writing room

Plays that take the scenic route.

Shauna writes across tone and form: playful old-time radio mysteries, intimate drama, and character-driven new work.

01Vintage-style Mrs. Meddlesome production poster

1940s-style radio mystery

The Advantageous Adventures of Mrs. Meddlesome: The Curse of the Tomb

ComicFamily friendlyEnsemble

Amateur sleuth Helen Meddlesome and her niece Catherine Uptight find murder and mayhem waiting in Cairo.

Produced at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival · 2023
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1940s-style radio mystery

The Advantageous Adventures of Mrs. Meddlesome: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

ComicFamily friendlyEnsemble

The first Mrs. Meddlesome episode sends its unstoppable amateur detective into another cheerfully perilous case.

Produced at The Box · 2022
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Contemporary drama

Trip

DarkIntimateSerious

A darker turn from Brand’s body of work, created for audiences drawn to emotionally direct new theatre.

Produced at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival · 2022
04The Kitchen Sink production artwork by Cordelia Brand

New play

The Kitchen Sink

ContemporaryCharacter driven

A new work developed through Utah’s local playwriting community and presented in a public reading series.

Wasatch Theatre Company new play reading · 2023