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SHANNON
MANNING
AFTRA Hair:
Blond Resume & headshot in PDF View larger headshot (or hires for print) |
TELEVISION AND RADIO
| Flight of the Conchords | Featured extra | HBO |
| Late Night with Conan O’Brien view video | Principal (Cheese, Antiwar Girl Gone Wild, etc.) | NBC |
| Upright Citizens Brigade | Principal (Chef, Pirate, Rioter) | Comedy Central |
| Onion Radio News | Character Voiceover | The Onion |
| Christmas Coup Comedy Players | Character Voiceover | WBAI Radio |
FILM
| Gears view video | Social worker/Voiceover | Channel 102 |
| Compilation view video | Lynn | Terry Jinn dir |
| Jacob’s Wives | Allison | Maureen McCormack dir. |
| Chrome Dome | Secretary | Armando Diaz dir. |
| The Day’s Last Peace Bear view video | Baggage Handler | Shannon Manning dir. |
| Ladyland view video | Executive, Voiceover | Shannon Manning dir. |
THEATER, IMPROV, STANDUP
| Shoot the Messenger | Performer | Ace of Clubs/NY |
| Armando Diaz Experience | Improv Performer | Magnet Theater/NY |
| Beauty Love Truth | Creator/Performer | Magnet Theater, UCB, PIT, Parkside /NY |
| The Mosaic NYC | Improv dir. by Christina Gausas | Magnet Theater, UCB Theater, UNDER St. Marks |
| Downtown Opry | Character host for monthly music show | Luna Lounge/NY |
| Red All Over | Creator/Performer | Parkside Lounge/NY |
| Drinkytown | Founder/Booker/Host | Parkside Lounge/NY |
| Dead Dads | Writer/Performer/Director | UCB Theater & Solo Arts/NY & Blue Rider/Chicago |
| Robot TV | Improv dir. by Matt Walsh | UCB Theater/NY |
| Eating It, NY - 60 in 60 | Accordion Nihilists music/comedy | North Six/NY |
| Pencil sketch show view video | Writer/Performer: Hillary Clinton, more | Solo Arts Group & UCB Theater/NY |
| UCB Harold Night | Resident Improv Ensembles | Solo Arts Group/NY |
| Cinco de Bob | Resident Improv Ensemble | ImprovOlympic/Chicago |
| Hamlet | Gertrude | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Leftovers | Writer/Performer | Blue Rider Theater/Chicago |
EDUCATION
| The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Performance Art, Video, Photography |
| University of Chicago | BA-History, Dean's List |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Acting, MA-Theater |
| Blue Rider Theater, | Acting, Donna Blue Lachmann/Chicago |
| San Francisco School of Circus Arts | Flying trapeze |
| IMPROV- In
Chicago: Second City & ImprovOlympic; In NY: UCBT, Armando Diaz Studios, Magnet Theater |
Del Close, Don DePollo, Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Armando Diaz, Rachel Hamilton, Dave Pasquesi, TJ Jagodowski |
OTHER EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
| Magnet Theater Co-founder improv school and venue |
| Pipe Up! Founder and editor of politics, culture, and humor magazine |
| Leche Magica: Co-founder and screening host of video collective |
| Skills: Drive stick, automatic & large trucks, horseback, motorcycle, swim, French & Spanish fluency, teleprompter |
photo by Lynn Borowitz