Siren Star Enterprises is currently developing a television adaptation (series ) based on Lorelei's book,
Runway RunAway Screenplay written by Lorelei Shellist and Colin Cox
Lorelei Shellist has traveled the world as an international runway model, muse, author, songwriter and spokeswoman. Shellist brings new meaning to the definition of "super model."
Drawing from her own experiences as a runaway teen who followed her dream to travel the world and become an international couture model. Lorelei's delightful wit and sense of humor, as well as her "perfect fit" measurements, enabled her to serve as a graceful and spirited muse for top designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Yves St. Laurent, Christian LaCroix, Bob Mackie, Geoffrey Beene, Giorgio Armani and more. Her story has been published in best selling book Runway RunAway A Backstage Pass to Fashion, Romance & Rock 'n Roll, soon to be a TV series.
Creator, Producer & Director:
- Lorelei's previous project Skin on Skin A Fashion Film - was created to inspire people to follow their dreams. Skin on Skin - the World Premiere at the La Jolla Fashion Film Festival received four nominations: Best Documentary- Best Editor- Best Music - Best Narration.
- Lorelei's Global Reality TV show: Runway RunAway Undressed™ Travel, Fashion & Culture. Featuring the adventures of history of fashion from countries all over the world with the emphasis being on the world's obsession with fashion and “why people wear what we wear."
Author:
- Lorelei's self penned memoire, "Runway RunAway A Backstage Pass to Fashion, Romance and Rock 'n Roll" has strategically positioned Lorelei to share her life experience and skills as a "Storyteller" "Designer" & "Fashion Icon & Beauty Expert ™"
Host:
- Lorelei Shellist is mercurial as she brings more to the occasion than you can imagine…from the fashionable runways of the world to the rock ’n roll halls of fame, to holding a double Master’s in Spiritual Psychology and Consciousness, Health & Healing, at the University of Santa Monica. Lorelei's mission is to encourage women to have their own voice in they way they present themselves to the world- in service to their own self-image, to help them to become their OWN fashion Icons, and to dress to impress themselves in service to their own success - inside and out.” Experience Old World glamour with a role model and muse as she ignites and unites your audience, bringing an ambience of laughter, language, life and community to help you celebrate your special event! Her intrinsic connection with others has led Lorelei towards counseling Women in Prison and At-Risk Teens, teaching critical “Life Skills.” As a Fashion Icon & Beauty Expert ™ , Lorelei encourages women to attract appropriate attention though Conscious Dressing while having fun expressing themselves with what they wear.
Designer
- Lorelei's fashion line, the RUNWAY RUNAWAY COLLECTION™ features fashions and travel accessories for entrepreneurs, business executives and women on the go.
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Colin Cox - Playwright, Screenwriter
Colin, hailing from Stonehenge, England, started his career as a research biochemist whilst also performing as an actor with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. After teaching biochemistry in Japan, he moved to Los Angeles, returned to his theatre roots, founded the multicultural theatre ensemble Will & Company, and began penning plays and scripts.
- Screen and Television Writer, Colin has written a number of films and pilots, including:
- The Rape of Nanking, for the Chinese Broadcasting Company, addressing the brutal Japanese invasion of China in 1937.
- Finding Samuel Lowe, the story of Jamaican-Chinese, television executive Paula Williams’ search for her grandfather.
- Son of Heaven, with famed Indian director Shekhar Kapur, on the life of the only woman to be Emperor of China.
- 90 Miles, the true story of a young girl’s escape from Cuba to Miami in a small boat.
- Star Girls, the chronicle of how transgender activists Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson incited the Stonewall Riot and started Pride.
- Playwright, Colin has created more than twenty works [including GLAAD and NAACP award-winners] that address issues of social justice. His productions have been presented at more than five hundred colleges, in all fifty of the United States, and his work has been the keynote at such international conferences as the United Nations Association, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, the International Conference of Fulbright Scholars, the National Conference of Justice, and more than thirty national symposiums in America. Also, uniquely, one of Colin’s plays was performed inside the U.S. Mint. Theatre Productions include the award-winning Faces of America trilogy, the Portraits of Courage series : Soul of a Nation, Latinos Shaping A Nation, Nothing Queer About It, Wounded Body & Soul, American Women of Science, and Gam Saan, and A Pebble In My Shoe: The Life and Times of Bishop Spong.
Presently, Colin is developing a television series about the renowned African-American, Shakespearean Ira Aldridge, has just completed a screenplay on Beethoven’s deafness, and is working with international model Lorelei Shellist on a television adaptation of her book Runway Runaway.
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