Curriculum Vitae

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[Shawn Nacol]
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Plays

(a creative conflict)

~ Production @ 59 East 59th with Rude Mechanicals, January 2010 (New York) ~

2008 Workshop for Rude Mechanicals with Tina Benko & Matt Lawler

2007 Developmental Reading with Tina Benko & Ted Koch @ the New Group (New York)

(a mindbender)

2006 Workshop by MARS Theatricals (Bug, Little Shop of Horrors) (New York)

2005 Reading @ Tribeca Productions with Jason Antoon & Miriam Shor (New York)

2005 Reading @ Playwrights Horizons Studio with Jason Antoon & Miriam Shor (New York)

2004 Reading @ Second Stage with Jason Antoon & Miriam Shor (New York)

Drawing Monsters

(a weird tale)

2005 Reading @ Williamstown Theatre Festival, July 2005 (Williamstown)

2003 Reading @ American Theatre Company (Chicago)

(an extramarital affair)

2005 Workshop (w/ Amy Poehler) @ Tribeca Theatrical Productions (New York)

2004 Developmental Reading (w/ Amy Poehler) @ the New Group (New York)

2003 Wolk Award Finalist Concert Reading @ Abingdon Theatre Company (New York)

2002 Staged Reading @ Stages Repertory Theater (Houston)

2000 Concert Reading (w/ Tony-winner Marian Seldes) @ West Bank Theatre (New York)

1999 Finalist Presentation @ Dramarama Awards Festival (San Francisco)

1998 Staged Reading (w/Tony-winner Frank Woods) @ Playwrights Horizons (New York)

Surfin' Turf (a dismemb-o luau)
	2005 “Best-of” Revival in Atrain(re)plays @ Playwrights Horizons Studio
	2004 Production @ Neighborhood Playhouse for theAtrainplays

(a christmas stalking)

2004 Production @ Playwrights/Actors Contemporary Theatre (New York)

2002 Production @ Herring Run Festival (Middleboro)

2002 Presentation @ Christmas at Ground Zero Festival (Dallas)

2002 Workshop @ 10th Annual Edward Albee Conference (Valdez)

Disorient Express (a train of thought)
	2003 Production @ Neighborhood Playhouse for theAtrainplays

After Ours (a light noir)
	1996 Staged Reading (w/Drama-Desk Nominee Jason Antoon) @ Playwrights Horizons (New York)
	1995 Reading @ Solo Arts Group / Upright Citizens Brigade (New York)

Venus in Fuzz (a hittin’ myth)
	1994 Commission Workshop (w/Multiple Obie-winner Everett Quinton) @ Charles Ludlam Theatre (New York)

The Carnivorous Salon (a comedy without manners)
	1993 Production (Richard Sheppard) @ Canal Theatre (London)
	1993 Commission Workshop @ Lyric Hammersmith Studio (London)

In Process:	~ *Nether Regions* for Lynn Collins & Steve Strait (graphic novel and feature) ~ ~ *Taste Buds* for Cheyenne Jackson (feature) ~ ~ *Wreck Room* for Tina Benko & Colleen Quinlan ~ ~ *Ill Will* for Jason Antoon, Tim McGeever, Ashleigh Atkinston, Derek Lucci, Sarita Choudhury and a veritable horde of talented, beloved, underutilized NY performers ~
Other Plays:	*Club House, Punching Judy, Happy Cage, and Boob Tube*

FILM / TV

*Photo Op*	2009 wrote/directed short film starring Cheyenne Jackson & Tina Benko
*Life Support*	2006 - series bible/pilot treatment for Norah O’Brien @ SciFi Channel
*Trophy Wife*	2004 - screen adaptation of stage play for Rachel Cohen @ Tribeca Productions

Honors

*Club House*	Finalist for the 2004 Heidemann Award @ Actors’ Theatre of Louisville
*Trophy Wife*	2002 Eric Bentley Prize First Place @ the Southwest Conference for New Plays
*Slay Belles*	2002 Best Play & Audience Choice Awards @ 10th Annual Edward Albee Theatre Conference
	...and 2 Lions' Medals from Columbia University for excellence in leadership.

Related Experience

2009	Script doctor on a B'way musical	Inquire for details
2004	Story editor for indie feature	Seagull C.Logic Productions
June 2003	Panelist (invited)	2003 Last Frontier Conference PlayLabs 11th Annual Edward Albee Conference
1999 - present	Teacher (Literature / Dæmonology)	Language Structures Saint Ann’s School
2002	Panelist (w/ Dr. Sidney Berger)	Young Playwrights Festival Kinkaid Theatre Program
1996 - 2000	Program Head	Fifth Grade Shakespeare Project Holy Name School
1991 - 1996	Literary Manager & Assistant to Managing Director	Ridiculous Theatrical Company (Adele Bové/Steve Asher)
1994 - 1996	Properties	Simpatico; The Tempest; etc. NY Shakespeare Festival
Autumn 1994	Assistant to Director Zoe Caldwell	Vita & Virginia Whitehead/Stevens
Spring 1993	Assistant to Director Kay Adshead	The Possibilities Lyric Hammersmith Studio

Education

Columbia College of Columbia University	B.A. with Honors in Comparative Religion ‘92
London Academy of Performing Arts	Post-grad Acting Certificate ‘93 Directing Apprenticeship ’93 - 94
The Kinkaid School	Diploma summa cum laude '88

affiliations:	Dramatists Guild; New England Theatre Council; the New Group; the Ridiculous Theatrical Company; theAtrainplays; and EDNA.
Representation:	Ron Gwiazda, Abrams Artists - 646.486.4600 275 Seventh Avenue - 26th Floor - NYC 10001

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire. You will what you imagine. And last, you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The deadly sins of blinding ambition and success are justified by the even deadlier sin of mediocrity"

S. Pryce

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"Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped produce."

Friederich Nietzsche

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