Shaun D Landry Storyteller. Actor. Improviser.

Shaun D Landry

Biography

Shaun 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 is also the founder of The San Francisco Improv Alliance and producer of The San Francisco Improv Festival. She is one of the founding members of Storytellers Unplugged. Shaun is also on the Board of Directors of The Next Stage Theater.

Shaun’s has been seen doing Improv and Sketch with the National Touring Company of The Second City, The Second City Children’s Theatre, Child’s Play Touring Theatre Company, Geese Theatre Company and Playback theatre Midwest. She can be seen in the movie Read You Like A Book with Danny Glover, Karen Black and Tony Amendola as Marcia.

Ms. Landry enjoys sharing the knowledge of theatre and improvisation through teaching workshops, panel discussions and working at conferences and Universities across the country. These include: Northwestern, Stanford and Oberlin. She has also taught intensives at festivals and theatre venues throughout the United States and abroad including The Funny Women’s Improv Fest, The Big Stinkin Improv Festival, The Yesand New York Improv Festival, The Toronto Improv Festival, The Amsterdam International Improv Festival, Bay Area Theatresports and The US Improv Festival K.C.

Shaun has done Commercials and Industrials for Visa, Lane Bryant, Whirlpool and Corporations across the country. From West Coast Editor for Yesand.com, to various dissertations on theatre and Improvisation, Shaun’s active contribution to theatre is featured with Oui Be Negroes in the book Whose Improv Is it Anyway..Beyond the Second City” by Amy Seeham.

Nickname

  • Shaun

Relationship

  • Hans Summers since 1991. Performing with him since 1986

Family

  • Hans Summers - Married since 1991. Performing since 1986
    Beverly Landry - Mother
    Angel Landry - Sister
    Lisa Landry - Sister
    Ronald Landry - Brother
    Alan Landry - Brother
    Ron Miller - Uncle
    Mary Miller - Aunt
    Shirley Miller - Aunt

    12 nieces and nephews, one great Niece and an infinite amount of half sisters and brothers that have fallen out of the sky since 2006.

Causes I Support

  • The Alzheimer's Foundation, NAACP, Breast Cancer Foundation, Gilda's Club.

Agents

  • The SFIA

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