Shirley has written for films with a cumulative box office of over half a billion dollars. She has three films slated for production in 2024 - a romantic comedy for Radioactive Pictures, a hip-hop love story for Born Hungry and a courtroom drama for Full Circle Productions. She is also producing a romantic dramedy through her own River Dreaming Entertainment. Writing for Walt Disney Studios, Shirley worked on over two dozen projects ranging from features Dinosaur, Home on the Range and Meet the Robinsons to the Holocaust drama, Misha. The short, John Henry, which she wrote for Disney, won international film festivals and was shortlisted in its category for the Academy Awards. Her screen adaptation of the opera Aida was source material for Elton John’s successful Broadway production. Shirley wrote the Lena Horne Story for Sony Studios and ABC, the BET thriller Incognito, TNT’s Passing Glory for Quincy Jones and the racially charged Colour of Rage for the USA network. Shirley also wrote the romantic drama For Real and the erotic thriller Spirit Lost for Tim Reid’s New Millennium Studios. She also worked on WWE’s The Marine starring John Cena, a wartime romance for Hard Rock Entertainment and co-wrote an adaptation of a Tuscany romance for Intomedia and a Gen Z love story for Radioactive Pictures. Shirley wrote and produced the short film No Means which was an official selection at five international film festivals including festivals in Los Angeles, Melbourne and New York. She also wrote and co-produced the successful anti-bullying music video Free You Be You which was nominated for a Heart of Gold award. Shirley has written for studios in the U.S., Australia, Japan and Spain. She has developed projects for MGM and Sony. Other credits include the urban drama Hothouse Flowers, the TV teen drama Kaleidoscope for Caravel Pictures, the story for thriller Murder on the Reef for Wonderland Media and a book adaptation of romance novel, Seducing Mr. Maclean. Shirley has written for the ABC, the Nine Network plus producers Trish Lake, Matt Carroll and Chris Brown. Shirley has developed projects for Stephen J. Cannell, Fox Television, NBC, Proctor and Gamble, Hanna Barbera, Crawfords and the Australian Children’s Television Fund. Her comedy Lullaby Eve has been staged in N.Y., L.A. and Sydney and has been adapted for the screen for Radioactive Pictures with Rod Hardy to direct.