Shirley Jean Tucker is an accomplished Canadian playwright, director, designer, educator, and frequent theatre workshop presenter. Much of her work reflects site-specific history that is intended to celebrate the regional characteristics of Canada.

She has produced or written the following plays since 2000:

• Ratz and Alma
• An Intrigue
• The Queen of the Shuswap
• Your loving, kind and true, Jack Boy-The Sergeant John Wilson Story
• Hey Nurse-I've Gotta Pee
• Sowing Seeds in Danny (A Musical Adaptation Of The Nellie McClung Novel)
• Annie's Solitude
• The Supper Waltz

The Great TransCanada Hike of 1921-The First Transcontinental Foot Race From Halifax To Vancouver Along The Railroad Tracks, a nonfiction book, should be published in 2010.