LEE ERIC SHACKLEFORD is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and creator of audio fiction. A special passion for history has led him to write plays about Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. duBois, novelist Walker Percy, Christian martyr Anne Askew, and escaped WWII prisoner of war Alvin Vogtle.
The science fiction audio drama serial Relativity — which Shackleford created, scripted, and starred in — garnered thousands of fans around the world and numerous awards, including a nomination for the Hugo Award, science fiction’s highest honor.
Many of his other creative works are showcased on his website shacklefordfreelance.com.
Shackleford teaches screenwriting and playwriting for his alma mater, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre. He also teaches a popular “Introduction to Cinema” course, attracting more than 100 students each semester.
As a Unitarian Universalist, Lee Shackleford is proud to be part of a faith group that defied the Nazis and protected Jews and other endangered Europeans in the 1930s and 1940s.