Russell Shaw (actor)
Russell Shaw (born 28 February 1972) is an English stage and film actor from Halifax. On film, he played Horatio in Dick Douglass's 2017 Hamlet and was in Scummy Man, a short film, written and directed by Paul Fraser, starring Stephen Graham, based on the song "When the Sun Goes Down" by the Arctic Monkeys. He spent four years acting with the Bite-Size theatre company, whose short plays, Borys the Rottweiller and Sleepless Nights were broadcast on Sky Arts. Borys the Rottweiller was a solo piece in which Shaw starred as the dog.
On stage, in 2008 he played six characters in Pericles Prince of Tyre at the Goetheanum in Switzerland.[1] He was also Benedick in the Festival Shakespeare Company's 2011 production of Much Ado About Nothing in St Anne's Wells Garden Brighton. In his review, Paul Levy described Shaw as 'a five star intense comic actor who turns to seriousness with ease.'[2]
In 2017, Shaw starred alongside Charly Sommers in Sam Chittenden's 'So You Say'[3] at the Rialto in Brighton and the Tristan Bates Theatre in London. Philippa Hammond wrote that 'Russell Shaw’s Ollie stumbles through the awkward encounter with a clumsy tenderness, an endearing contrast to Charly Sommers’ neat, precise presence as Jennifer.'[4]
In 2018, he was in Peter Gardiner's play Bully Beef, a Brighton Fringe production set inside a British tank stranded between the front lines of the First World War. In Fringe Guru, Richard Stamp said that 'Russell Shaw stands out as the Boer War veteran, ably maintaining a complex balance between military pragmatism, subtle insubordination and remembered hurt.'[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Biography of Shaw on the Mandy Network website
- ↑ Paul Levy, 'Much Ado About Nothing', Fringe Review, 29 May 2011
- ↑ Gill Balfour, 'So You Say', Broadway Baby, 7 May 2017
- ↑ Philippa Hammond review of 'So You Say', Sussex Playwrights, August 2017
- ↑ Richard Stamp, 'Bully Beef', Fringe Guru, 2 June 2018
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