Shaun Landry
A Native of Chicago Illinois living in Los Angeles, Shaun Landry is the Artistic Director the original African American Improvisational Sketch Comedy Ensemble Oui Be Negroes, She is producer emeterus of The San Francisco Improv Festival and is half of the comedy Duos: of The Irish Mutts and Landry & Summers
Shaun has worked for The Second City Chicago Tour Company & Children's Theater, Geese Theater Company, African American Shakespeare Company and has been in the improvisational festival circuit teaching and performing at The Kansas City Improv Festival, Big Stinkin Improv Festival Austin, The Funny Women's Festival, The Miami Improv Festival, Oberlin Improv Conference, The Chicago Improv Festival, The Amsterdam Improv Festival BATS Improv Comedy Festival and has taught at universities including Stanford and Northwestern.
She can be read in the book "Whose Improv is it Anyway: Beyond the Second City". Her writings can be found on the literary site The Redroom with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and President Barack Obama.
As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, she can be seen in the movies Read You Like a Book with Danny Glover and Karen Black as Marcia and The Oscar Award winning movie Milk with Sean Penn as Gwenn Craig.
She is currently in the upcoming new television show Punch Me Funny on the Punch Television Network.
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Shaun has worked for The Second City Chicago Tour Company & Children's Theater, Geese Theater Company, African American Shakespeare Company and has been in the improvisational festival circuit teaching and performing at The Kansas City Improv Festival, Big Stinkin Improv Festival Austin, The Funny Women's Festival, The Miami Improv Festival, Oberlin Improv Conference, The Chicago Improv Festival, The Amsterdam Improv Festival BATS Improv Comedy Festival and has taught at universities including Stanford and Northwestern.
She can be read in the book "Whose Improv is it Anyway: Beyond the Second City". Her writings can be found on the literary site The Redroom with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and President Barack Obama.
As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, she can be seen in the movies Read You Like a Book with Danny Glover and Karen Black as Marcia and The Oscar Award winning movie Milk with Sean Penn as Gwenn Craig.
She is currently in the upcoming new television show Punch Me Funny on the Punch Television Network.
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Degree in Theatre and Journalism from Columbia College. Second City Chicago Trained. Some School of Hard Knocks but only an undergraduate degreeMotto
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Chris Rock Just Don't Understand My Hair PlightShaun Landry explains what its really like to not have "The Good Hair" -
Once Upon a Time I Did Drama Therapy in PrisonsShaun Landry shares her audition experience with working with the likes of Charles Manson, walking on stilts and fixing car mufflers with tomato cans all for the sake of Drama Therapy.