SHANNON DORSEY
- AEA,
- SAG-AFTRA Eligible
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2020 TCG Fox Fellowship Recipient |
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Company Member: Woolly Mammoth Theatre |
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* Nominations and Awards |
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Voice Over/Podcast/Radio | ||
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*Before The Bulldozers |
Imani (Lead) and multiple characters |
Smithsonian Museums |
*2023 Webby Award Nominee and Honoree: AI,Metaverse&Virtual |
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Live Podcast Radio |
Elisha/ Live call |
WKTU NY |
Revelation |
Narrator 5 |
Compagnia de' Colombari |
Podcast Radio |
Sophia |
WISX PHILADELPHIA |
Live Podcast Radio |
Andrea |
WKTU NY |
SHARP Veterans Admin |
Female Soldier |
Rocket Media |
MIGA |
Narrator w/ Sierra Leonian Accent |
Camerwerks |
Radio Voice Work |
Caroline |
WISX PHILADELPHIA |
Radio Voice Work |
Virginia |
WKTU NY |
Radio Voice Work |
Regina |
WKTU NY |
Live Radio Voice Work |
Live call |
KZZP PHOENIX |
Live Radio Voice Work |
Live call |
KXNO IOWA |
Live Radio Voice Work |
ROSEMARIE |
WKTU NY |
Radio Voice Work |
ROSEMARIE |
WKTU NY |
Live Radio Voice Work |
Live call |
KRTR HONOLULU |
Radio Voice Work |
Coleen |
WISX PHILADELPHIA |
Dancer/Choreographer Avail Upon Request | ||
Film/TV | ||
NBC Rockefeller Tree Lighting Party |
Host Stand-in |
NBC |
The Zeke Sanders Story: Slice of Pie |
Anika Cartwright |
Dir: Blake Bynum |
Life on the Rocks |
Keisha |
Pro: Jay Sun/ SE3 |
Master |
Elisheba |
Pro: Regina Hall |
*Dance Party: The Teenarama Story |
Teenarama Teen Dancer |
Pro: Beverly Lindsay- Johnson |
*Emmy Award: Best Cultural Documentary |
NATAS-NCCB |
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Redrum 307 |
Vernell Jones |
Investigation Discovery NY |
Changing the Game |
Nicole |
Dir: Rel Dowdell |
Liberty Road |
Amanda |
Frayed Films |
Matters of Life and Death |
Sophie |
Smithsonian Museums |
US Army Comprehensive Fitness |
PFC Donaldson |
Will Interactive |
NY Theater | ||
Revelation (Upcoming) |
Narrator 5 |
Compagnia de' Colombari |
The Great MacDaddy |
Leionah |
777 Theater |
Hansel and Gretel's Halloween Adventure |
Gretel and Other Puppets |
Swedish Cottage Marionette THT |
The Power of the Trinity |
Ethiopia |
SummerStage Central Park |
The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller |
Breezy |
West End Theater |
Regional Theater | ||
In the Evening by the Moonlight (Workshop) |
Nina Simone |
Arena Stage/ D: Hana S. Sharif |
Clyde's |
Letitia |
Cincy Playhouse/ Tim Douglas |
Gravid Water |
Improvisationalist |
Kennedy Center |
Incendiary (World Premiere) |
Jasmine |
Woolly Mammoth/ D: Monty Cole |
*Aint No Mo |
Passenger #1 |
Baltimore Center Stage |
*Aint No Mo |
Passenger #1 |
Woolly Mammoth/ D:Lili-Anne Br |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes for Outstanding Production |
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*Red Velvet |
Connie |
Shakespeare Theatre |
*Helen Hayes Recommended |
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*Fairview |
Jasmine |
Woolly Mammoth Theatre |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes for Outstanding Supporting Actress |
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*BLKS |
Imani |
Woolly Mammoth Theatre |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes for Outstanding Lead Actress |
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A Christmas Carol |
Mrs. Fred |
Fords Theatre |
*Familiar |
Nyasha |
Woolly Mammoth Theatre |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes for Outstanding Production |
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*Skeleton Crew |
Shanita |
Studio Theatre |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes for Outstanding Ensemble |
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Kiss |
Hadeel |
Woolly Mammoth Theatre |
Sound of the Underground: Hip Hop Theatre Fest: 3 short play |
Ensemble |
Source Theatre |
The Message: Hip Hop Theatre Fest: Ms. Washington |
Ms. Washington |
Anacostia Playhouse |
*An Octoroon |
Minnie |
Woolly Mammoth Theatre |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes Outstanding Supporting Actress |
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All the Way |
Coretta Scott King/ Fannie Lou Hamer |
Arena Stage |
Unexplored Interior (World Premiere) |
Catreen |
Mosaic Theater Company of DC |
Hip Hop Theater Festival |
Ms. Washington |
Anacostia Playhouse |
Safe House (World Premiere) |
Roxie |
Cincy Playhouse /D:Tim Douglas |
Two Trains Running |
Risa |
Round House/ D:Tim Douglas |
Saturday Night/ Sunday Morning (Stage Reading) |
Mabel |
Arena Stage /PW:Katouri Hall |
The Trip To Bountiful |
Thelma |
Cincy Playhouse/ D:Tim Douglas |
A Raisin In The Sun |
Beneatha |
Perseverance Theatre |
Seed (Stage Reading) |
RaShawn |
Arena Stage /D:Niegel Smith |
Stick Fly |
Cheryl |
Everyman Theatre |
Marcus or the Secret of Sweet |
Shaunta |
Studio Theatre /D:Tim Douglas |
In the Red and Brown Water |
Shun |
Studio Theatre |
*Synetic's A Midsummer Nights Dream |
Hippolyta/Moth |
STC Harman Hall (DC) |
*Helen Hayes Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble |
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*Synetic's A Midsummer Nights Dream |
Hippolyta/Moth |
Kennedy Center |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble |
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1001 Black Inventions Nat'l Tour |
Gretel/Ayo |
Pin Points Theater |
Herstory: Love, Forever Hip-Hop |
Angela |
DCAC/ Dir: Goldie Patrick |
Sex Signals Nat'l Tour |
Improvisationalist/ Facilitator |
Catharsis Prod/ Dir:Gail Stern |
*Synetic Theatre's "Carmen" |
Ensemble |
Kennedy Center |
*Nominated: Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble |
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Commercial/Print Avail Upon Request | ||
Extensive Staged Reading/Workshop Resume Avail Upon Request | ||
Puppetry Resume Avail Upon Request | ||
TRAINING | ||
Temple University |
BA Theatre and Communications |
Ingram,Garinella, Boylen, Snow |
Temple University |
BA African American Studies |
S. Peterson-Lewis, M.K. Asante |
Temple Univeristy |
Academic Marketing Internship |
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Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
Theater |
Vera J. Katz, Ken Johnson |
Jones Haywood School of Ballet |
Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Modern |
Doris Jones, S. Fortune-Green |
Rosella Hightower International School of Dance |
Cannes, France |
Advance Pointe, |
National Hand Dance Association |
Hand Dance (Swing variation) |
Lawrence Bradford |
Kankouran West African Dance |
Senegalese Dance |
Assane Konte |
Dance within the Latin Diaspora Temple University |
Latin Dance variations |
Lester Tomé |
Synetic Theatre |
Stage Combat, Improvisational movement |
Irina Tsikurishvili |
The Puppet Co |
Puppets: Complex Marionette and Standard |
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Enchantment Theater |
Puppets: Bunraku,Shadow,Mask,Mime& Magic |
Landis Smith |
Kaiser Permanente Theater |
Puppets: Full Body, hand-and-rod |
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SC Marionette Theater |
Long and short string Marionette, shadow |
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DCRCCenter Survivor Advocate |
Advocacy Training |
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Intimacy Training |
Lorraine Ressegger-Slone |
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Physical Characteristics / Measurements |
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Height: 5'6" |
Weight: 137 lbs |
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Voice Modulation, dance- African styles, Dance/Physical Theater, Drawing, Marching Band Aux, Mask and Mime, personal vehicle, physical flexibilty, puppetry- Bunraku, puppetry- hand, puppetry- Marionette, puppetry- rod, puppetry- shadow, Soprano/Alto, Stage Combat, Track and Field, Aerobics, Baseball, Basketball, Baton Twirling, Billiards/Pool Player, Bowling, Boxing, Cheerleading, Combat - Stage, Cycling, Diving, Football, Frisbee, Gymnastics, Jump Rope, Jump Rope - Double Dutch, Kick Boxing, Lifeguard, Pogo Stick, Roller Skating, Rollerblading, Running - General, Running - Long Distance, Running - Sprint, Snorkeling, Snow Skiing - Downhill, Snow Skiing - General, Softball, Swimming - ability - general, Swimming - backstroke, Swimming - breast stroke, Swimming - butterfly, Swimming - diving, Swimming - freestyle, Tennis, Track & Field, Trampoline, Volleyball, Weight Lifting, Yoga, Dance Ballet, Dance Ballroom, Dance Belly, Dance Hip Hop, Dance Jazz, Dance Modern, Dance Salsa, Dance Swing, Dance Tango, Dance Tap, Dancer, Diving, Ear Prompter, Host, Improvisation, Licensed Driver, Medical Equip., Mime, Modeling, Teleprompter, Vocal Range: Alto, Vocal Range: Mezzo Soprano, Vocal Range: Soprano, Vocal Style: Rapper, Voiceover, Whistler, African Accent, American - Boston Accent, American - Cajun Accent, American - Creole Accent, American - Minnesota Accent, American - New England Accent, American - New York Accent, American - Philadelphia Accent, American - Southern Accent, American - Standard/General Accent, American - Texan Accent, British - BBC English Accent, British - Cockney Accent, British - Scouse/Liverpool Accent, British - Yorkshire Accent, Canadian Accent, East-Bosnian Accent, French Accent, Jamaican Accent, Puerto Rican Accent, Russian Accent, South African Accent, Spanish Accent, West Indian Accent
Shannon received dual degrees in Theatre and African American Studies from Temple University. She has trained in many styles of dance, physical theatre, vocalities, puppetry and intimacy work. A Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Member, she received several Helen Hayes Award nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actress, two for Outstanding Supporting Actress and jointly won an Outstanding Ensemble Award. Shannon is recipient of the TCG Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship. shannd.com ig: @cooldiscoshan