Meet Shana Wride!

Shana Wride in the role of Nanny/Kate/Principal

Shana Wride was last seen at Diversionary when she directed Boys and Girls in Early 2014.  In addition to directing at Diversionary, Shana has appeared in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler and Next Fall. She was recently seen as Beatrice in Intrepid Shakespeare’s production of Much Ado About Nothing. Other acting credits include: Faded Glory and Broken Glass (North Coast Repertory Theatre); Private Lives (Cygnet Theatre–San Diego Critic’s Circle Craig Noel Award); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival, Los Angeles); Indoor/Outdoor (The Colony Theatre); Macbeth, Fen, Wooden Breeks, Measure for Measure (Open Fist Theatre); Women Who Steal, A Christmas Carol, Suds, Working, Six Women with Brain Death (San Diego Repertory Theatre); Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Love’s Labor’s Lost (Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Heidi Chronicles and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Gaslamp Quarter Theatre); New, Shadowy Waters, No Time Like the Present (Sledgehammer Theatre).

Additional Directing credits include: Walter Cronkite is Dead (San Diego Repertory Theatre);  Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins (Diversionary Theatre); Or (Moxie Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Compass Theatre); Mistakes Were Made and coming up in the spring of 2015, The Whale (Cygnet Theatre).

While living in Los Angeles, she co-hosted the nationally syndicated radio show, “Women Aloud” with actor/comedienne Mo Gaffney.