She is one of the busiest writers of awards shows in Hollywood, New York and the UK.
She frequently works punching up screenplays and writing special material, comedy and song lyrics for performers. Shelly has doctored scripts or written special material for such artists as Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Sharon Stone, Cybill Shepherd, Liza Minnelli, Jeffrey Tambor, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Earl Jones, Eva Longoria, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Connolly, Samuel L Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Norman Lear, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Yoko Ono.