Writer

Angela’s first manuscript became the movie “Tumbleweeds.” She then received outstanding reviews for adapting Kaye Gibbon’s novel Charms for the Easy Life, for Showtime starring Gena Rowlands. Angela went on to write many screenplays and her memoir, Finding Angela Shelton is mandatory in many Women’s Studies Programs.  Angela has written screenplays and teleplays, published a memoir, written workbooks on dealing with trauma and spoken worldwide.   (downloads are in the Ejunkie store)

Angela is writing a new movie and a new book.

After booking the lead role in Gavin O’Connor’s first film, “Comfortably Numb”, Angela teamed up with Gavin and the pair adapted Angela’s first novel into the film Tumbleweeds.
The film won the filmmaker’s trophy at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and brought the lead actress, Janet McTeer, an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win. Angela began writing screen and teleplays and received outstanding reviews for her adaptation of Kaye Gibbon’s novel Charms for the Easy Life for Showtime starring Gena Rowlands and Mimi Rogers.

The piece is capably adapted by writer Angela Shelton (“Tumbleweeds”), who does a particularly strong job of spreading out the narrative markers; for example, the easy-life that Charlie Kate receives at the beginning comes back at just the right moment, and the sporadic appearances of the town’s conventional and hapless doctor (Wayne Robson) build up to a well-designed climax.
Steven Oxman, Variety

…The real charm here isn’t the rabbit’s food but the work of Angela Shelton, who turned the historic novel by Kaye Gibbons into a witty and engaging teleplay filled with sparkle, the right amount of sentimentality and some truly memorable performances. Hollywood Reporter

Angela made her directing debut by traveling America interviewing other Angela Sheltons in an effort to survey random women. Her multi-award winning film Searching for Angela Shelton surprised her and the world when it put a spotlight on sexual abuse and domestic violence and started a grassroots movement of healing for abuse survivors worldwide.

SEARCHING FOR ANGELA SHELTON

Angela Shelton’s first memoir, Finding Angela Shelton, that cover her life growing up as well as how making her documentary Searching for Angela Shelton changed her life forever.  It is a groundbreaking, heartbreaking, joyous and sad, miraculous and a one-of-a-kind read. Ellen Bass, author of Courage to Heal, says, “Though she takes on serious issues, Angela Shelton is joyous, irreverent, funny, and feisty.”

Angela wrote a healing workbook called the Warrior Workbook. It is used by therapists and support groups nationwide.

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