Shipman is the author of How to Become an Actor in Television Commercials (1975).
In 1981, Shipman was host of Contemporary Health Issues, a series consisting of 30 half-hour episodes that could be used by students to earn credits at participating colleges and universities. The series' topics included death, sexuality, drugs, cardiovascular disease, alcoholism, and cancer.
Shipman was married to Donald Merrill Bremer, who died in 2015. They lived in Hawaii.
