Shelley Wyant is a teacher, director and performer. She has worked as an actor in New York and regionally. The Mask has been Ms. Wyant's special teaching tool and since 1981 and she has offered workshops and residencies in both neutral and character mask at many universities and conservatories such as Yale, Brown, Smith, NYU, Lincoln Center Institute and Bard College.

Ms. Wyant is a founding member of Actor's and Writers of Olivebridge, NY. In 1990, she founded MaskWork Unlimited whose critically acclaimed works using masks and giant puppets have been performed in the Hudson Valley, New York City and internationally. She holds an MFA in directing from Brooklyn College and a BA from Brandeis University.

In 2010, Ms. Wyant went to Bucharest, Romania as a Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar teaching neutral and character mask at The National University Of Theatre and Film I.L.Caragiale. Also in 2010 Ms. Wyant began her association with Jana Sanskriti in West Bengal, India. She is a trustee of The Stone Ridge Library as well as president of The Stone Ridge Library Foundation.