Up Next… april 2025
premiering may 2025 in detroit
viewings in the Us through 2025
viewings in The netherlands in september 2025
Just coming from… Fiddler on the roof
with shenandoah summer music theatre
Just coming from… Working at Farmers Alley Theatre
Photo by Jennifer Cox
Biography
Shannon is a singer, music theater artist, musician, actor, teaching artist, and writer. Currently residing in Chicago and Kalamazoo, she performs at venues across the country with a goal of working in all 50. Favorite roles include Emma Goldman in Ragtime at SSMT, Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at HSRT, and Clara Gordon in Paradise Lost with The Agency Theater. Films include the award-winning Coming Up for Air. She is also a soloist with various churches around Chicago. A passionate teaching artist and alumna actor/teacher with the Missoula Children’s Theatre, Shannon has taught at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Play In A Book, and Columbia College’s Project Aim. She has adapted four musicals for youth theater and has also written two play adaptations for young audiences. She has a BA from Butler University and an MM in vocal performance from the University of Massachusetts. She is also an alumna of Columbia College’s Teaching Artist Development Cohort of 2015. She is an Equity Membership Candidate.