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Storyteller
"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Upcoming...
WEDNESDAY 08/19
Eros Unbound: Erotic Reading Series in Collaboration with The List
@ The Red Pavilion | Bushwick
8:45pm
Tickets
THURSDAY 08/20
Laughing Buddha Comedy Quarter Finals
@The Buddha Room / near Madison Sq Garden
9pm
FRIDAY 08/21
Kweedom: LGBTQ Stand Up Comedy
@ Pete's Candy Shop | Williamsburg
7pm
Comedian
Stand Up Comic, Sketch Actor, Improviser
Shane Allen is a Brooklyn based stand-up comedian, originally from Flint, Michigan. His comedy is disarming, intimate, and shameless. He's like that one friend you can bring home for the holidays, that somehow charms the whole family with his wholesome raunch and candor.
CREDITS: Stand Up| Regular Greenwich Village and Broadway Comedy Club, Village Underground, St Marks Comedy Club, Laughing Buddha, UG Comedy, Queer Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Club, Westside Comedy Club Sketch & Improv | Fever Dream Boogie Manja at the Second City, Musical improv troupe Petting Zoo, various theaters. Off-the-Cuff improv Troupe, various theaters, Creative Zone, various theaters, Positive Force Players a Planned Parenthood sponsored performance troupe touring statewide high schools
Actor
SAG/ AEA
Rep. Ingber & Associates
CREDITS: Film & TV| Various commercials, Big Country Blues (best actor LA Web), The Letter
(*Winner* Art with Impact, Sunscreen Film Fest, Lousiville's International) Law and Order CI, Miss Connected (NY Shorts Fest, LA Shorts Fest), Selfish Ones (best ensemble WDFF) , The Fugitive Chronicles for A&E. Theatre| Building Pain with Origin theater (best actor nom), Short stuff 7 at the Barrow Group, Adults Only with Core Artists Ensemble, The Hungry Ghosts at TBG theater (play extended), Pucker Up and Blow (best overall show *NY Fringe Encore), The Three Sisters Brontë (workshop) at the Rubicon Theater, Acting mentor for university students at Quinnipiac University
TRAINING: The Barrow Group: Master Class with Seth Barrish, Lee Brock
The New York Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts
Writer
CREDITS: Eros Unbound: monthly erotic reading series at The Red Pavilion with a rotating cast of sex workers, actors, and artists: *Steve Buscemi, John Waters, Gina Gershon, Griffin Dunne, Heidi Gardner: The Gayest Burger, Sexorcism, The Streets Could Claim Him, Kink and other Existential Questions, Morning Wood, Fly on the Wall, Beginner's Mind, Take Me to Church, Wild at Heart, Justice for 69, This Little Piggy Stayed Home. ----->
Read about the show: "Sex as a language of honesty, not shame." - The Village Voice
Screenwriting with Kumquat Kelly (Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, New Filmmakers New York), Bodies Are Weird (post production), and A Day at the Park.
Playwriting with the Core Artists Ensemble via the off-broadway theater company the Barrow Group: House of Tarts, Sidekicks, Top of the Morning.
TRAINING: One Man Show Class with Seth Barrish, Playwriting with Arlene Hutton, Writing for TV with John Yearley, Writing for Film K. Lorrel Manning
Filmmaker
Writer/ Producer
Kumquat Kelly Writer/ Director/ Producer
(Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, New Filmmakers New York) Bodies are Weird Writer/ Producer (Post Production) A Day at the Park Writer, Producer Brother or Sister Director (Winner of the Barrow Group 48hr Film Fest)
