Del Shores Net Worth is
$4 Million

Mini Biography

Writer/Director/Producer/Actor/Stand-Up Comedian “Del Shores is certainly a master from the Tx comedy.” LA Times Del Shores offers written, directed and produced successfully across studio room and indie film, network and cable and regional and country wide touring theatre. Shores’ career became popular using the play Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got The Can?) in 1987, which ran 2 yrs, winning many LA theatre honours, including LA Weekly’s Greatest Production and Greatest Composing. The play offers subsequently been stated in over 2,500 theatres world-wide. A movie edition of Daddy’s Dyin’ premiered in 1990 by MGM starring Beau Bridges, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Keith Carradine and Beverly D’Angelo. Shores published the screenplay and professional created the film. Sordid Lives, his 4th play, opened up in LA in 1996 and ran 13 sold-out weeks. The play continued to earn 14 Drama-Logue Theater Honours, including three for Shores for wring, directing and generating. There possess since been over 300 extra stage productions from the play. In 1999, Shores wrote and directed the film version of Sordid Lives starring Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, Olivia Newton-John, Bonnie Bedelia, Leslie Jordan and Beth Give along with a lot of the cast through the play. Opening in mere eight theatres in the united states, the tiny film that could got in almost two million dollars in its limited discharge. The film became a cult phenomenon and became the longest working film in the annals of Hand Springs with an archive ninety-six weeks. The film won many festival awards including Ideal Film at the brand new York Individual Film & Video Celebration, Atlanta Homosexual & Lesbian International Film Celebration, Austin Homosexual & Lesbian International Film Celebration, South Seaside Film Celebration, Memphis International Film Celebration and the NORTH PARK International Film Celebration and won a complete of thirteen “Viewers Awards.” In 2002 Twentieth Hundred years Fox released the Dvd movie/Video, which includes now marketed over 300,000 products. His play Southern Baptist Sissies implemented, and it enjoyed a ten-month sold-out work in LA in 2000. Revived in 2002, Sissies got another six month sold-out operate. Shores received the LA Regular, Robby and Maddy for Greatest Direction as well as the Backstage Western world Garland, Robby and Maddy for Greatest Composing. The play was also granted the exclusive GLAAD Award for Exceptional Production of the entire year. In 2003, The Tests and Tribulations of the Trailer Garbage Housewife became Shores’ most critically acclaimed play. After a six-month sold-out operate in LA, Shores received the LA Episode Critics Circle’s Ted Schmitt Honor for Best Globe Premiere of a superb New Play. The Group also granted the play Greatest Production and Greatest Lead Overall performance to Beth Give. Trials also received five Back again Stage Western Garland Honours, two NAACP Honours, an LA Stage Alliance Ovation and three LA Regular Awards. In 2006, Shores revived three of his takes on (Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies, The Tests and Tribulations of the Trailer Garbage Housewife) in LA before taking to the street for an effective six city nationwide tour, starring Delta Burke and Leslie Jordan, which played in 1000-1700 chair houses. Sordid Lives: The Series, a tv series prequel towards the film, premiered in Viacom’s Logo design network in 2008 starring Olivia Newton-John, Rue McClanahan, Leslie Jordan, Beth Offer, Caroline Rhea and several of the initial stage and film ensemble. Shores created, had written, directed and professional created all twelve shows. The series became LOGO’s biggest strike to time, and was distributed internationally through IMG world-wide in syndication in seventeen countries. Furthermore to Sordid Lives: The Series, in tv Shores has written and produced for most displays including Dharma and Greg as well as the last three seasons from the ground-breaking Showtime series Queer as Folk. He also had written, directed and created the Showtime film The Wilde Women, starring Olivia Newton-John and Swoosie Kurtz. In ’09 2009, Shores hit the street and played 34 cities to sold-out homes along with his one-man display Del Shores: My Sordid Life. The Dvd and blu-ray was filmed and released in 2012 by Breaking Cup Photos. He also performed stand-up with numerous Sordid Lives celebrities including Rue McClanahan, Caroline Rhea and Leslie Jordan inside a Sordid Affair, playing huge theatres in Dallas, Atlanta, Feet. Lauderdale and Raleigh aswell as four evenings at Comix in NEW YORK. The world premiere of Shores’ newest play, Yellowish, opened June 11, 2010 to rave reviews and ran six sold-out months. Yellow adopted in the unequaled footsteps of Shores’ six earlier globe premiere productions which have work collectively for over eight years and received over a hundred Los Angeles theater awards. The creation swept various LA theatre honours including Best Globe Premiere, Best Creation, Best Path for Del Shores himself (LA Drama Critics Group, Backstage Garland, LA Every week, Broadway Globe.) The play became Shores’ seventh Samuel France published play and performed to sold-out homes for Uptown Players in Dallas on the historic Kalita Humpheys. He also aimed the Dallas creation. Shores wrote, directed and produced the film edition of his play The Studies and Tribulations of the Trailer Garbage Housewife with the complete original stage ensemble: Beth Offer (Sordid Lives, Small Miss Sunshine, Zero Country For Aged Guys) Octavia Spencer (Oscar, Golden World, SAG Award Champion “Minnie” in THE ASSISTANCE), Dale Dickey (Heart Award Winner, Ideal Supporting Celebrity Winter’s Bone tissue), David Steen (Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained) and top 10 Billboard dance musician Debby Vacation. The film adaption is certainly entitled Blues For Willadean and premiered in go for theatres in past due 2012. It really is available these days on iTunes and additional pay per look at services. In the summertime of 2011, Shores took to the street again, offering out his new stand-up show Del Shores: Sordid Confessions in 40 cities. Shores came back to his house state of Tx in January of 2012 to film the display at the popular Rose Space in Dallas. Breaking Cup Photos released the Dvd and blu-ray to rave evaluations. His stand-up profession continuing to explode and he released his third nationwide tour in 2012 with Del Shores: Nude.Sordid.Fact which he performed over 50 times in that case was filmed The Rose Space. His 4th stand-up tour Del Sores: SINgularly Sordid addresses his abrupt solitary existence in his fifties, along with an increase of stories, politics rants and his signatory P.S. F.U. words. Shores film of his play Southern Baptist Sissies stormed the film festival circuit in 2013 and won 10 major honours, including many for Shores. The film superstars Emerson Collins, Willam Belli, Matthew Scott Montgomery, Luke Stratte-McClure, Newell Alexander, Rosemary Alexander, Bobbie Eakes, Ann Walker, Dale Dickey and Leslie Jordan. Shores returned to performing in 2013, co-starring in the separate feature Cry. Shores offers completed principal picture taking in Winnipeg and Dallas for the ultimate section of his Sordid Lives franchise – AN EXTREMELY Sordid Wedding ceremony. The film superstars lots of the Sordid veterans including Bonnie Bedelia, Leslie Jordan, Caroline Rhea, Dale Dickey and Ann Walker with cameos by Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Mapa and Carole Make. The story increases the people sixteen years, posing the issue: What goes on when relationship equality comes marching into Winters, Tx.” The film will end up being released early 2017. Del is represented by Bradley Glenn on the Kaplan-Stahler Agency being a writer-director, by Linda McAlister Skill as an professional and it is managed by Michael Warwick for personal performances. His publisher for most of his plays is normally Samuel French, Inc.

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