Founder San Franciso Improv Alliance/Executive Director San Francisco Improv Festival
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Actor and Co-Founder at The Irish Mutts
- Owner at The San Francisco Improv Alliance
- Producer and Founder at The San Franisco Improv Festival (Sole Proprietorship)
- Artistic Director & Performer at Oui Be Negroes
- Education
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- Columbia College Chicago
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Shaun Landry’s Summary
She is the founder of The San Francisco Improv Alliance producing improvisational performances, masterclasses and booking improvisational actors for corporate and educational performances and events. She is also the Executive producer and founder of the seven week long San Francisco Improv Festival.
Ms. Landry is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed, and original African American Touring Sketch Comedy and Improvisational Theatre Company Oui Be Negroes. She also performs with The Irish Mutts and her one woman improvised show "FLaKE"
Shaun’s has been seen doing Improv with the National Touring Company of The Second City, The Second City Children’s Theatre, Un-Scripted's Theater's Impossible Film Project, Storytellers Unplugged, ComedySportz San Jose, Child’s Play Touring Theatre Company, Geese Theatre Company and Playback Theater Midwest.
Scripted performances include: Cora in No Place to Be Somebody, The Vagina Monologues, Ariel in The Tempest and Graham in St. Joan of The Stockyards.
Her Film work includes Read You Like A Book with Danny Glover and Karen Black and the movie Milk with Sean Penn. Her ridiculously popular improv spoof "How to Date a Black Woman" can be found on Youtube.
Mrs. Landry has taught at Northwestern, Stanford and Oberlin along with The Chicago, Amsterdam, Toronto, Miami, Orlando, New York and Big Stinkin Austin and Kansas City Improv Festivals
Shaun’s active contribution to theatre has been featured with Oui Be Negroes in the book “Whose Improv Is it Anyway..Beyond the Second City” by Amy Seeham. Her personal writings can be found on www.redroom.com along with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Maya Angelou and Barack Obama.
"And besides she isn't bad on the optic nerves." - Hans Summers, Kaiser
Shaun Landry’s Specialties:
Theater, Production, Administrative, Educational Instructor,
Shaun Landry’s Experience
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Actor and Co-Founder
The Irish Mutts
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Shaun Landry and Kevin McShane team up for the well-received improv duo The Irish Mutts. With combined historical oppression of over 500 plus years, McShane and Landry bring biting and satirical improv comedy to stages nationally.
Based from suggestions from the audience, the Irish Mutts creates a hilarious tapestry of relationship-based scenes that parodies how we actually deal with one another. Sometimes completely ridiculous in nature, sometimes serious and meaningful…The Irish Mutts always creates something that is recognizable for the audience to laugh at. With all of their work completely improvised, you never know exactly where these Mutts will take you.
The Irish Mutts are available for comedy booking all around the country for theaters performances, festivals and corporate events.
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Owner
The San Francisco Improv Alliance
(Performing Arts industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
The San Francisco Improv Alliance is a production company that not only produces the five year old, seven week long San Francisco Improv Festival, but also produces and supports improvisational performance in the Bay Area and hires actors for improv related film, radio, corporate and educational events through its Talent Pool.
http://www.improvalliance.org -
Producer and Founder
The San Franisco Improv Festival (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
June 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)
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Artistic Director & Performer
Oui Be Negroes
(Entertainment industry)
June 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)
The Original African American Sketch Comedy and Improv Company in the country.
Shaun Landry’s Education
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Columbia College Chicago
B.A. , Theatre and Journalism , 1983 — 1987
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Shaun Landry’s Interests:
Theater, Comedy, Improvisation, Cooking, Website design, Theater Production, Teaching, writing, directing performing
Shaun Landry’s Groups:
SAG
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