Shirley has just finished a pilot for an edgy teen drama series for the ABC network and the story for a major feature film for Madrid based Lolafilms.

Shirley's latest romantic comedy, Seducing Mr. Maclean, was for Caravel Pictures. Her other recent credits are a quirky Outback comedy entitled, Split, for award winning Launch Pictures, the action-adventure film The Marine for WWE Films starring John Cena and a feature based on the internationally successful television series The Saddle Club for Crawfords Productions.

The film John Henry, which she wrote for Walt Disney Pictures, won international film festivals and was a finalist in its category for the Academy Awards.

She has also developed projects for Disney such as Sundiata and Wagadu. She wrote the chart topping American Legends starring James Earl Jones, the short feature The Cat, starring Julie Andrews and two titles in Disney's Enchanted Tales' video series Follow Your Dreams.

Other feature credits include Disney's mega-million dollar Dinosaur. For Real, a hip-hop love story for New Millennium Studios and the urban comedy How to Make Your Man Behave which was later released internationally as Two Can Play That Game. Her screen adaptation of the opera Aida was the source material for Elton John's successful Broadway production of the same name.

Recently, in television, she wrote teleplays for The Saddle Club and the award winning Mortified for the ACTF that aired on Disney, the BBC and the ABC. Shirley recently developed her own series, Hard Wired, for the same company. Previously, she scripted The Lena Horne Story for Sony Pictures and ABC with Janet Jackson attached to star. She then went on to prepare The Gladys Knight Story for TV. Her work on the Disney feature Home on the Range, starring Cuba Gooding, Judi Dench and Roseanne Barr was released in 2004. Her work on Disney's Meet The Robinsons was released in 2007.

Shirley's TV movies include BET's thriller Incognito, TNT's Passing Glory -- a Magic Johnson/Quincy Jones production starring Andre Braugher; USA's family drama Colour of Rage for Wilshire Court and Misha, a holocaust drama for ABC.

Her other writing credits include the teen drama Hothouse Flowers and developing TV movies for Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Fox Television and NBC. She created series for Proctor and Gamble, Hanna Barbera and Crawford's Australia. She has written for sitcoms such as What's Happenin' Now, Charles in Charge and Designing Women. Her episode for Facts of Life was a Humanitas nominee. Her sassy stage comedy Lullaby Eve has been produced in New York, Los Angeles and Sydney and has been adapted for the screen.

Shirley has lectured on screenwriting in the U.S.& Australia and is slated to hold master classes in Abu Dhabi later this year. She is a member of the Queensland Screen Industry Council and the Queensland College of Art Industry Advisory Board. She has been a teaching fellow at the Bond University Centre for Film and Television and a mentor for the NSW Film and Television Office.