A Very Sordid Wedding
World Premiere
Assistant Director
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Emerson assistant directed the world premiere stage adaptation of A Very Sordid Wedding. It was adapted by Del Shores from their film and produced by Uptown Players in Dallas at the Kalita Humphreys Theatre. Emerson also reprised his role of "Billy Joe Dobson" from the film.
Available online from
Breaking Glass Pictures
Del Shores: My Sordid Life
Del Shores: Sordid Confessions
Six Characters in Search of an Play
Director - stage & film
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Emerson directed the world premiere of Del Shores' most recent, and most personal, one-man show Six Characters in Search of an Author in October 2017 at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs, CA. The show toured more than 40 cities in 2018 as was nominated for BroadwayWorld awards in Palm Springs and Los Angeles, including Best Director for Emerson. It won Scenie Awards in Los Angeles and was named to multiple "Best of" lists for its run in Dallas. Emerson directed the film version, filmed at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles, touring film festivals in 2019. WINNER of the AUDIENCE AWARD for NARRATIVE FEATURE from Out At The Movies LGBT Film Festival, Runner Up BEST COMEDY AUDIENCE AWARD at Out On Film Int'l Film Festival in Atlanta and the SHAWN A MOORE PRIZE for Texas Filmmaking from QCinema Fort Worth International LGBT Film Festival.
Del Shores: My Sordid Life
Del Shores: Sordid Confessions
Del Shores: Naked. Sordid. Reality.
Director/Producer
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Del Shores has worked for thirty years as a writer, director and producer in film, television and theatre. Recently, he has taken to the road and to the stage touring to over 160 venues with three standup comedy tours. Emerson directed and produced the live DVD tapings for all three shows. Del Shores: My Sordid Life was filmed in Los Angeles. Del Shores: Sordid Confessions and Del Shores: Naked. Sordid. Reality. were both filmed in Dallas at the Rose Room at S4.
Del Shores: My Sordid Life
Del Shores shares the real-life stories that have inspired his writing. Yes, there was a man with two wooden legs, but did his grandmother trip over them and die while having a sordid affair? Did his mother really ask, “What exactly do you do… when you’re gay?” (Sordid Lives) Were prayers really answered and a matching vein found in a vein bank in Baton Rouge to replace his Uncle Humpty’s collapsed one? (Southern Baptist Sissies) What relative really shot a policeman in the saliva gland and shoulder? (Trailer Trash Housewife) What was his aunt’s reaction to seeing herself as the multi-married bar-singer Evalita in Daddy’s Dyin? Truth and fiction are finally separated and the result is absolute, side-splitting hilarity!
Del Shores: Sordid Confessions
Whether he's recalling details of his "slut" years or calling out the a**holes and b*tches he's worked with, there is no subject off-limits. "Del says what most people think. He has no censor - on or offstage. Audiences love him because of his ‘bless-their-hearts’ Texas charm," explains Caroline Rhea. "I got off Paxil and I don't give a shit anymore," Shores warns.
Del Shores: Naked. Sordid. Reality.
Del shares more sordid stories about his Texas family, reads letters he's written to the haters (including Newt Gingrich and Kirk Cameron), acts out scenes from your favorite reality shows (including Hoarders and The Real Housewives of Orange County) and yes, he addresses his new, unexpected, single life.