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Non-MX Articles: John Shea (4/09 Obie Award presenter)

Excerpt from Theater Mania 4/25/09: John Shea

Daniel Breaker, Gavin Creel, Anne Hathaway, Martha Plimpton, et al. Set for 2009 Obie Awards
By: Dan Bacalzo · Apr 25, 2009 · New York

Daniel Breaker and Martha Plimpton will co-host the 2009 Obie Awards, which will be presented at Webster Hall on May 18.

The awards, which honor work Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, are structured with informal categories that change annually. Unlike most theater awards, there are no nominations, and the judges may give several Obies in each category, and may even invent new categories to reward artistic merit.

Presenters for the ceremony will include Anne Hathaway. Brian d'Arcy James, Gavin Creel, Karen Olivo, John Shea, Kate Mulgrew, and Marc Kudisch.

© Theater Mania

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John Shea recently finished shooting Marilyn Agrelo’s An Invisible Sign of My Own with Jessica Alba and Sonia Braga; Scott Dacko’s political thriller The Insurgents is currently in release. He appeared in Costa-Gavras’s 1982 Academy Award-winning Missing, which won the Palme D’Or at Cannes. Other film credits include Hussy opposite Helen Mirren; Windy City opposite Kate Capshaw; the French thriller Lune de Miel (Honeymoon) opposite Nathalie Baye; Alan Alda’s romantic comedy A New Life; Disney’s comedy Honey, I Blew Up the Baby; Stealing Home with Jodie Foster; Uri Barbash’s Israeli epic Unsettled Land; and the Sundance indie film The Adventures of Sebastian Cole. He made his Broadway debut in Isaac B. Singer’s Yentl, garnering the Theatre World Award for Most Promising Actor. Among his many theater credits since are Arthur Kopit’s End of the World, directed on Broadway by Hal Prince; MTC’s production of Steven Poliakoff’s American Day (Drama Desk nomination as Best Actor); Peter Parnell’s The Sorrows of Stephen at the Public; the West End production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart; and A.R. Gurney’s Off-Broadway hit The Dining Room. On TV, Shea most recently starred in Mutant X (Gemini Award nomination, Best Actor). He currently appears on Gossip Girl. He won an Emmy Award for his role in the miniseries Baby M.