Episode 36: Shelly Goldstein

SHELLY on YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU3FMI7voYo FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/shelly.goldstein/ INSTAGRAM - GroovyShelly Shelly Goldstein is a writer-performer who has written for every genre of TV, film and stage. She wrote the comedy special WAIT! WAIT! DON’T KILL ME & performed in it with Lily Tomlin, Pete Holmes, & Margaret Cho. She was Script Consultant & lyricist on Liongate’s UK/European series, COLD COURAGE. She wrote the Emmy winning PBS musical special, CHICAGO VOICES. Her lyric, ILLINOIS is sung by the Gay Men’s Choir of Chicago in the film, LINCOLN IS CRYING. She has written (or re-written) for (partial list) Stephen Colbert, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Sharon Stone, Regina King, Tiffany Haddish, Barbra Streisand, Hannah Einbinder, Hugh Jackman, Larry Wilmore, rocker Joe Walsh, Leslie Odom Jr., Jane Fonda, Laurence Fishburne, Kal Penn, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Quincy Jones, and Yoko Ono She is a founding member of the LA Broadway sisterhood, THE FABULOUS CHICKIES. Their online concerts helped raise money for The Actors Fund during the COVID lockdown. Onscreen she appeared in the British drama THE RIDDLE, opposite Sir Derek Jacobi and the Irish horror spoof, ASSAULT OF DARKNESS She recently performed in the 50th anniversary concert of GODSPELL in London, at Le Crazy Coqs. She has performed in West End tributes to Jerry Herman and Kander & Ebb. She directed the London cabaret premiere of MILLIE: A tribute to Millicent Martin. In Hollywood, she has performed in tributes to Stephen Schwartz and Barbra Streisand. She is the go-to writer for events that combine style, humor and substance – having written for such organizations as UNICEF, PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY, Norman Lear’s SENTINEL AWARDS, SMITHSONIAN/MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE, DIVAS SIMPLY SINGING, WRITERS GUILD AWARDS, LAUREUS INT’L SPORTS AWARDS, SHELLY on YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU3FMI7voYoFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/shelly.goldstein/INSTAGRAM - GroovyShelly LOCATION MANAGERS GUILD INT’L, HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES, ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA AWARDS, OUTFEST LEGACY AWARDS, PRODUCER’S GUILD AWARDS, RED DRESS AWARDS, NARAS MusiCARES, PBS and others. She is the winner of the New Yorker magazine’s Cartoon Caption Contest. Her YouTube videos have over 2.5 million views around the world. “The name SHELLY GOLDSTEIN means a fabulous night of entertainment” -- BBC, London “I really liked what you wrote. You got it right!” – Sir Paul McCartney “You are so good, Shelly. You must be Hollywood’s satiric historian. Hilarious!” – Lily Tomlin “Shelly Goldstein is just uncannily talented; so funny,