The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife

Shores enjoyed critical and commercial success with his darkest play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife. It ran for six sold-out months in 2003 at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, winning the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s Ted Schmitt Award for World Premiere of an Outstanding New Play. The Circle also awarded the play Best Production and Beth Grant Best Lead Performance. The show also won five Back Stage West Garland Awards, two NAACP Awards, an Ovation Award, and three L.A. Weekly Awards.