Director / Producer


Film & Video Productions

SHADOW BOUND (web series)
Created by filmmaker, Nathan Shelton
Executive Produced by showrunner, Nathan Shelton, with Kevin Keppy, Dan Smiley, & Matt Lathrom
MEAD (feature film)
Starring Robert Picardo & Patton Oswalt with Patrick Warburton
Adapted for the Screen/ Animated & Directed by J. Allen Williams
Nathan Shelton – Producer
The Town in the Middle of Nowhere (feature film)
Starring Rachael Edlow, Kate Pennington, & Mickey Stone
Nathan Shelton – Producer
Director of Photography – Travis Prow
DANCE Motherf***r (Music Video)
Official SCUM OF THE EARTH Music Video
Director/Producer – Chris Canote
Co-Producer/Conceptualization & SFX/Makeup Design – Nathan Shelton

Audio Productions

Frightmare Theatre (podcast)
A fully produced horror anthology audio-drama series from creator/showrunner, Nathan Shelton & ARCANE.
Time to turn down the lights and turn up the TERROR with The Frightmare Theatre Podcast!
FTP Presents: YELL FIRE (serial audio-book)
From the producers of The Frightmare Theatre Podcast, comes YELL FIRE, a serial horror novel by Jeremy Shelton.  
Produced & Narrated by Nathan Shelton
Featuring Original Music by Bryan Arata
Life, Love, & Existential Dread (discussion podcast)
Bryan Arata is a film composer based in Los Angeles. Nathan Shelton is an actor, writer, and director living in Chicago. The two have had a friendship spanning over 20 years, since their early days of artistic collaboration in Southwest Missouri. After years apart working through their own fair share of trials & errors, the two decided to reconnect on a regular basis to check-in, learn, laugh, inspire, and discover what it is that makes them push forward in the crazy world of entertainment as they navigate life, love, and… existential dread!
Produced by Nathan Shelton

Stage Productions

NICK DEAR’S FRANKENSTEIN (2018)

Produced & Directed by Nathan Shelton (with set design & SFX/Makeup Effects by Nathan Shelton as well)

THE ELEPHANT MAN (2018)

Produced & Directed by Nathan Shelton (set conceptual designs by Nathan Shelton as well)

Richard O’Brien’s THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2017)

Produced & Directed by Nathan Shelton (with conceptual set design/fabrication & video sequences by Nathan Shelton)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: UNdead on Stage! (2012)

Adapted for the Stage, Conceptualized, Produced, & Directed by NATHAN SHELTON. Performed at the historic Vandivort Center Theatre. Featuring Original Music by Bryan Arata.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2010)

Produced, Conceptualized/Designed & Directed by Nathan Shelton (with Springfield Contemporary Theatre @ the historic Vandivort Center Theater)

BUG (2009)

Produced, Designed & Directed by Nathan Shelton @ the historic Vandivort Center Theater.

EVIL DEAD: The Musical (2009)

Produced & Directed by Nathan Shelton with SCT (with additional set design & stage effects/sfx makeup by Nathan Shelton)

DRACULA (2008)

Produced & Directed by Nathan Shelton with SCT (additional set design/stage effects/sfx makeup Design by Nathan Shelton)

MISERY (2008)

Directed by Nathan Shelton for The Springfield Little Theatre at the historic Landers Theater (stage & makeup effects by Nathan Shelton)

DRACULA (2005)

Conceptualized/Designed, Produced & Directed by Nathan Shelton with SCT (stage & makeup effects by Nathan Shelton) This production marks the beginning of what would become Nathan’s producing company, ARCANE, and featured a complete underscore by Los Angeles composer, Bryan Arata.