Sheldon Shaw
Sheldon Shaw
Height: 5’9”
Eyes: D. Brown
Hair: Black
Weight: 185
Biography
FILM ACTING
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SAG Eligible
Homecoming Prof. Hill Hadley Eugene Ashe Dir. – Image Entertainment
Across The Universe Football Player Julie Taymor Dir. – Sony Pictures
Games People Play Contestant James Whitney Dir.– Fire Island Pictures
Fuse James Patterson Eric Espeut III Dir.– Vision 1st Media
Hush Concerned Man Eric Espeut III Dir.– Vision 1st Media
Theater Acting
Sunday In the Park with George Boatman/Greenberg Dr. Valerie Joyce, DIR.
Chrysalis Mr. Brandt/Worm Ed Sobel, DIR.
House of Desire Don Pedro James Ijames DIR.
Curtains Randy Father Peter Donohue, DIR.
Do You Feel Anger Jordan Margo O’Moore, DIR.
White Tanner James Ijames, Writer/DIR.
International Stud ED Anthony Hillanbrand DIR.
33 Variations Mike Kate Ross Kline DIR
The Last Saint On Sugar Hill Jos Rooted Theater Company
The Haircut Frank Producers Club
American Celebration Langston Hughes Michael Leland Dir. Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Karaoke Show Dragon Boy Diane Paulus Dir. Jordan Roth Pr.
The Tempest Boatswain/Caliban Alex Kelly Dir. Pulse Ensemble Thr.
Mulatto's Dilemma Mr. Bynum Juliette Fairley Dir. American Thr. of Actor's
Breakroom Musa Rachel Egenes Dir. Manhattan Thr. Source
Women of Manhattan Duke Curt Whipple Dir. Walnut Street Theater
Revolution Row L.T. Maddox Aaron D. Haber dir. Sande ShurinTheater
The Glass House Stranger Destiny Lilly Dir. American Thr. of Actors
The Emperor Jones Witch Doctor Opera Works 78th St. Theater Lab
Wishful Thinking John Bower Poetry Club One Act Award Winner!
WRITINGS
Writing
Plays:
“Clair”, 96 pg. 6W,6M, Drama
-A woman, “Clair”, is visited by a spirit who helps her deal with her broken family.
*Second rounder of Austin Playwriting/Screenwriting competition.
*Finalist in The Isle of Shoals’ 2020 Lance Hewitt Playwriting competition
“Baby Starbucks”, 15 pages 2W, Drama
-While a woman is visiting a Starbucks, her baby is abducted.
*Winner of the “Playwrights on Parade Competition” in North Carolina.
*Chosen by The Rooted Theater Company in Brooklyn, NYC.
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-A white college student brings her black African boyfriend home to meet her parents. The parents live and run a trailer park in East Texas.
*Part of the JAGfest residency and play reading series.
*Quarterfinalist of the Screencraft Playwriting Contest
"Jailbirds", 42 pg. 2M Comedy
-Two African American men, one Jewish and the other a non-believer Struggle with their differences when meeting on their first day of Jail.
*Chosen as part of the Chain Theater Company One Act Festival
*Chosen as part of Emerging Artists Theater Company's New Works Festival
*Chosen as part of The Urban Downtown Festival
Pilot:
“Glen”, 2016, 61 pg.
-An African-American man working as a nurse’s aide at a hospice gains the power to heal
people.
*Selected as part of 2023 The Culver City Film Festival
*Winner of “Black Screenplays Matter Competition”
*Finalist of the 2018 New York Screenwriting Competition
*Quarterfinalist of the “American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition”
Feature Films:
“ Brotherhood ”, 107 pg.
-An ex. Aryan Nation leader tries to make amends for his racist past by helping an
African American woman finds her missing brother.
“ Gigolo”, 86 pg.
-An African American young man sleeps with suburban women to pay for college.
Short Films:
“ Null and Void”, 21 pg.,
-A young man tries to make amends with his dying gay father.
“ Help!”, Produced 2013, 6 pg. Dir. By Martin Riofrio
-A young man tries to get out of the grips of drug addiction
Training & Workshops
Villanova University: MA in Theater
The William Esper Studio: Two-year program
The Independent Studio: Greg Zittel
Roz Colman Williams: Audition Technique
The Shakespeare Gym: Andrew Goldberg
The Actors Center: Curt Owens
Plaza 7Commercial Tech: Jimmy Carr
BA, Temple University