Shelby Hiatt
PANAMA, a novel. In stores now.
Born in Evansville, Indiana, Shelby Hiatt at16 went to school at Brillantmont in Lausanne, Switzerland, and from there to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where she received a BA degree in Political Science. During the Rollins years she spent a summer studying Spanish at Mexico City College and a summer at Harvard University on a Political Science scholarship. She did graduate work at the Universtiy of Geneva's Ecole d'Interpretes in Switzerland and after that:
New York
- United Nations Office of Public Information
- Member of The Actors Studio
- Broadway Production of "Sign of Affection"
- Off-Broadway adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' "The Sweet Enemy"
Paris
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UNESCO Conference coordinator assistant
Los Angeles
- Shelby wrote on set between run-throughs while playing Jane dawson on General Hospital. A first novel, "Hector's Tapes" sold to Oliver Stone, was greenlit but never filmed.
- She worked as a sketch writer for KTWV radio, The Wave and wrote screenplays for a local independent producer.
- After doing reading and coverage for various Los Angeles production companies she joined the writing staff of "Santa Barbara" at NBC-TV.
Shelby now lives and writes in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles.
Actors Studio days
Joseph Feury
