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John Shanahan Age: 42 Age Range: Mid-30s+ Height: 6'3" Weight: 210 Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown w/gray

Theater Experience (most recent first)

With Karen Gibson in "Waiting for the End of the World"

As George Dorr in "The Burn Book"

With Claire Ledder and Mike Legge in "Hotel Faux Pas"

In "Blithe Spirit" with Stacey Erikson

"Blithe Spirit," with Lorna McKenzie (l) and Stacey Erikson

In "Democrazy" with Steve Mulahoo, Diane Mela Souvanna, and Robin Gabrielli

In "Gigahertz of Fire" with Christian T. Potts, Aimee Doherty, and Frank Hughes Jr.

Jack Palmer, Boys Next Door, Mansfield Music & Arts Society (Oct. '05)
Sydney Carlysle Cockerell, The Best of Friends, Medway Players
King Richard the Zero, Shake A Spear, Medway Players
Death, Waiting for the End of the World, Attleboro Community Theater
Charles Condomine, Blithe Spirit, Walpole Footlighters
Felix Findus, A Floor Between Us, Her-Rah Festival (staged reading, excerpt)
Juror #8, 12 Angry Men, Attleboro Community Theater
Tyler Moss, Crossing Delancey, Pawtucket Community Players
John Sterling, Ghost Train, Medway Players
Dr. John Cristow, The Hollow, Walpole Footlighters
Alex Fontenot, Hotel Faux Pas (aka Hotel Pickle), Medway Players
Julian Farrar, The Unexpected Guest, City Nights Dinner Theater
The Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Little Theater of Stoughton
Rochester, Jane Eyre, Whitman Premiere Players
Leslie Arthur, Love, Sex, and the IRS, Whitman Premiere Players
Thornbird Chickenwing III, Murder in the Magnolias, Whitman Premiere Players


Film Experience

George Dorr, The Burn Book, Jodom Pictures (shooting Spring 2005)
Ben Stoping, Got Race?, Entertaining Diversity
Francis O'Rourke, A House Divided, Jodom Pictures
Rodney, Imperfectly, Entertaining Diversity (unfinished)
Randall, Gigahertz of Fire, Digital Beaver Studios


Television Experience

Another Night, Televisuals Productions. (250+ episodes, comedy/variety show)
Morning Breath (pilot), Bacon on a Windowsill Productions

I have also worked in radio, writing and producing comedy bits, mock commercials, and "Anytown Tales," a 16-episode radio soap opera parody that aired on WMSX-AM, Brockton, MA.

Review blurbs

From Blithe Spirit: "Shanahan is very good as a man who seems at peace until Elvira shows up to remind him of the feelings he once had, and her arrival causes him quite a bit of discomfort. At these times, Shanahan is at his comic best. He reminded me of Monty Python's John Cleese."--Patriot Ledger

From 12 Angry Men: "As Juror #8, John Shanahan is superb. His line delivery is on the money and his body language is perfectly married to his lines....Shanahan does not disappoint."--Attleboro Sun Chronicle

"A mark of a good actor is his ability to act when he isn't speaking dialogue, and John has the innate ability to make me laugh with just a raised eyebrow or nonverbal statement." --Mike Amato, director, A House Divided

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