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

Sheldon Shaw

Height: 5’9”

Eyes: D. Brown

Hair: Black

Weight: 180

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

Writings

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.

"CNTL+ALT(RIGHT)DEL"

-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