Joe Norman Shaw

Joe Norman Shaw is an actor, director and acting teacher who was born in Anderson, Indiana, and took up acting at Kimball Jr. High School after his family moved to Elgin, Illinois. He graduated in 1981 from the University of Guelph's drama department and returned to Toronto, where he apprenticed at The Shaw Festival and spent two seasons at the Stratford Festival. His stage work included The Dressing Gown and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, and the Fringe hit I Slept with Tony Trouble: The Confessions of a Hollywood Hustler toured to London and the Edinburgh Festival. After moving to Vancouver in 1991 he worked increasingly in film and television, directed The Zoo Story and taught acting and directing. He settled in Calgary in 1994, acted at Vertigo Theatre, co-founded Company of Rogues Actors Studio, was artistic director of Rogues Theatre, and taught at the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University and St. Mary's University.