Shannon R. Davis

2018 Phill Killian Directing Fellow
Shannon R. Davis

(she/her/hers)

Assistant Director, Othello; Manahatta

Other Theatres: Directing (World Premieres): Adulting for Beginners (Musical Café/Ashby Stage); Religomania (Exit Theatre/San Francisco Fringe Festival); Mirrors, Smoke & Getting Woke!Monsters, Schemes & Wild Things (Brava Theater Center); Death of a Mime (PianoFight/ShortLived); Hotel Morocco (Salvage Vanguard Theater/Echo Players); The Lady Onstage (assistant director, Playwrights Foundation). Directing: Water is Life (Facebook Research); Shakesbot (Microsoft Research); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (San Anselmo Playhouse); HelenAm I Blue?, An Evening of Poe (University Theatre University of Wisconsin-Madison); The Rover (assistant director, Shotgun Players); others. 

Casting: Shotgun Players; StageWrite; Don’t Even Tripp Productions; Echo Players; others. 

Awards: Native American AO Fellow (UW-Madison); Native Lawton Grant Scholar; Best of Madison: Featured Director (Helen); Charlene M. Wackman Theatre Excellence Award; Helen Hermann Memorial Theatre Excellence Scholarship; Ken Lempart Memorial Scholarship in Directing. 

Teaching: UW-Madison; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; International School of Asia Karuizawa, Japan; others. 

Education: MFA, Directing and Acting (UW-Madison); Moscow Art Theatre USA; BA, Theatre and Vocal Performance (UW-Whitewater). 

www.ShannonRDavis.com