Emerson Collins

Cynthia Sanders

Chelsea Manasseri

Chris Skinner

Del Shores

Del Shores has built a career spanning film, television, and theatre. The Recipe Box marks his twelfth play. His work has been produced thousands of times worldwide, with four of his plays adapted for the screen, and is published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals. Shores has directed his own plays, films, and television work since 1996, and in recent years has expanded his theatre directing to include Jiggs Burgess’ The Red Suitcase (The Broadwater, Los Angeles), Wounded (Off-Broadway, Soho Playhouse), and Patty Pell & Laurie Pell Grigsby’s Momma Won’t Die (Bryant Hall, Dallas). He is the writer, director, and producer of the films Sordid Lives, Blues for Willadean, Southern Baptist Sissies, and A Very Sordid Wedding. He also wrote and executive produced the MGM feature Daddy’s Dyin’…Who’s Got the Will? On television, Shores created, wrote, directed, and executive produced Sordid Lives: The Series for LOGO, served as writer and executive producer for the final three seasons of Showtime’s Queer as Folk, and wrote and produced for Dharma & Greg and Ned & Stacey. He has directed Octavia Spencer, Olivia Newton-John, Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, Leslie Jordan, Bonnie Bedelia, Rue McClanahan, Dale Dickey, Beth Grant, Emerson Collins, and comedy icons Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Mapa, Margaret Cho, and Caroline Rhea. Shores is co-founder and president of The Del Shores Foundation, championing new Southern LGBTQ+ storytellers. He is the proud father of Rebecca and Caroline, and Grandpa Del to Bear Alexander Thrush.