Shanga Parker

Shanga Parker—Arts Professor, Department of Undergraduate Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU—teaches Acting, primarily Movement for Actors.

Acting: Television: Hunters, Bull, Mr. Robot, Law and Order: SVU, Ironside, In Her Shoes, Leverage. Film: Videola, In Lieu of Flowers, One Last Time, The Obama Effect, Anniversary. NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark, Labyrinth, The Brick, Connelly Theatre. Regional: A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman, Tacoma Actor’s Guild, On The Boards, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory, South Coast Repertory, Rites and Reason, and Festivalul International du Teatru de la Sibiu, Romania. SAG-AFTRA, AEA.

Directing: Iceland University of the Arts: Platonov; NYU: Earth and Sky, En Folkefiende, Polaroid Stories, Time and a Half, Kid Simple, The Story, Pride and Prejudice, Picnic, Rimers of Eldritch, Cloud Nine. Also: Radium Girls at the University of South Carolina, The Miracle Worker at Ball State University, Fool for Love and Art at the Public Theatre of Kentucky. Premiere of Ian Ruskin’s From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks and the stage version of The Life of Thomas Paine. University of Washington: several productions including—The Who's Tommy. Graduate Actor’s Showcases from 2007-11, premieres of Fair Play, Eat the Chicken.

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington, 2006. Education: BA from Brown University, MFA in Acting from U.C. San Diego.