Del Shores

Delferd Lynn Shores (born December 3, 1957) is an American film director, television writer, producer, playwright, standup comedian, and actor. He has written, directed and produced across studio and independent film, network and cable television and Los Angeles, regional and national touring theatre. He is also known for his LGBTQ+ activism. Shores was born in Winters, TX, the son of a Southern Baptist pastor and a high school drama teacher. Biography The first play Shores wrote was Cheatin which premiered in 1984 in Los Angeles at The MainStage Theatre. He was 26 at the time and also starred in the play as "Clarence Hopkins". He reprised his role at Tiffany's Attic in Kansas City, MO in 1985, where he co-starred with Leslie Jordan, beginning a long professional and close friendship. His second play Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) saw a 1987 premiere in Los Angeles at Theatre/Theater, running twenty-two months. A movie version by the same name was released in 1990 by MGM starring Beau Bridges, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Keith Carradine, Patrika Darbo and Beverly D'Angelo. Shores wrote the screenplay and executive produced the film. As a result of the play's success, he signed a television deal at Warner Brothers and developed television there for four years. Perhaps Shores' best-known play is his fourth, Sordid Lives, premiered at Theatre/Theater in 1996 in Los Angeles. The comedy centered on the Texan Ingram family and touched on LGBT themes. F. Kathleen Foley of The LA Times wrote in her review: "Del Shores' "Sordid Lives" at Theatre/Theater has more laughs than a hunting dog has ticks…. proving himself a master of the Texas comedy."