Shellina Hefner is a San Diego based theater artist whose work connects storytelling, community voices, and social justice. She discovered theater while studying English literature in college, when exposure to verbatim theatre and works like The Vagina Monologues inspired her to change her major. When transitioning into professional theatre, she first worked on documentary theatre and human trafficking awareness pieces, building her love for theatre for social change. Since then, she has written and directed pieces connected to homelessness, environmental awareness, and protest, developing a practice rooted in bringing community members’ own words and experiences to the stage and connecting hundreds of artists. Shellina has also developed work for and with young artists and audiences. Her long-term goal is to continue to grow with arts organizations that connects activism with art-making and support new work responding to the world around it.
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