One Man Two Guvnors

Howard Shangraw

Howard Shangraw

An award-winning actor and director, his professional acting career includes productions off-Broadway, summer stock, feature films, episodic television, day-time soap operas and regional theatre productions for South Coast Repertory Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Laguna Playhouse, Grove Shakespeare Festival, and various equity waiver theatres in the Los Angeles area. Howard’s extensive directing resume includes productions of classical and contemporary repertoire and musicals for professional and community theatres, colleges and high schools. He has directed shows for the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Matrix Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Stella Adler Theatre, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts acting company and Hi-Desert Cultural Center, where he also served as artistic director. He directed internationally for Theatre Mediterranean in Barcelona, Spain. Howard won an L.A Drama Critics Award for his production of The Swan by Ferenc Molnar at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California. Also a playwright and composer, his original musical, The People Versus B. B. Wolfe, was produced by South Coast Repertory and toured Orange County under a special grant from Target Stores. As a teaching artist, he has taught Acting, Scene Study, One-Person Show, Mask, Shakespeare, Stage Movement and Techniques for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre’s adult and youth Conservatory programs, Hi-Desert Cultural Center, Musical Theater University, and Idyllwild Arts Academy, where he chaired the theatre department from 2004-2014. Howard also taught Theater Workshops for Teachers for the Palm Springs Unified School District and the Riverside Arts Council. Howard has studied with notable master teachers such as famed Broadway director Jose Quinterro, Sheldon Patinkin, director of Chicago’s Second City, and Kim Stanley, Claude Kipnis, Stella Adler, and Bobby Lewis.