Shelley Mitchell

She is best known for her critically acclaimed adaptation of Talking with Angels: Budapest 1943, the true story of Gitta Mallasz.

She also attended Emerson College, Circle in the Square Theater School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from New York University.

Mitchell first performed Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943 on September 19, 2001, at the Milagro Theater in New York City.

Shelley Mitchell began teaching acting in 1986, after attending a UNESCO conference in Venice, Italy called Science and the Boundaries of Knowledge: the Prologue of our Cultural Past.

Inspired by the message of the conference, she began teaching dramatic art techniques in Venice and eventually added classes in Treviso, Vicenza and Trieste.