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Steve is Moosehead Recipient for 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
For the show titled:
Stevl Shefn and His Translator Fatima
March 25 - April 14
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy
has been invited to Perth and New Zealand International Arts Festivals.
And the Cyprus International Children’s Festival
Based in Adelaide South Australia, Steve performs a unique brand of stand up comedy at traditional stand up clubs around Adelaide as well as character-based comedy for Character Jam at Higher Ground and at various Festivals.
His characters include the gibberish speaking Stevl Shefn accompanied by his translator Fatima (played by Colleen Cross) and Klaus, a 1920s German MC character who is mostly seen leading the Berlin Cabaret a Weimar period cabaret experience. Awards include Best Comedy nominee 2009 Adelaide Fringe, Raw Comedy winner 2003 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
A surreal inconsequentialist to whose logic you just surrender - Simon Farnshaw The Guardian UK
Loopy Woody Allen-esque riffs - UK Metro
There are more good ideas in this 41 minutes than many comics have in a decade - Steve Bennet Chortle Magazine UK
A small gem of humane and gently weird wit - Raymond Chapman-Smith Adelaide Advertiser
His brand of humour creeps up on you and delivers a witty sting in the tail. One of a Kind. - Tania Bawden Adelaide Advertiser
Armed with very random jokes, anecdotes aplenty and musical talent to boot, there is never a dull moment in Stevl’s show. - Katphinn Moo Adelaide Advertiser
If you are a fan of the strange and unhinged you are sure to laugh your head off - Colin Flaherty The Groggy Squirrel
Past shows
Stevl Shefn’s Little Comidy Spots Adelaide Fringe 09 (nominated for Best Comedy at Adelaide Fringe Awards)
Little Comidy Adeventur Adelaide Fringe 08
Little Comidy Projec Adelaide Fringe 07
Little Comidy Show Adelaide Fringe 06
One Step Too Far Melbourne Comedy Festival 05
Comedy Zone Melbourne Comedy Festival 04 (Group show)
Raw Prawns Edinburgh Fringe Festival 03 (Group show)
Some up coming shows:
Stand up
Stevl Shefn and His Translator Fatima
Adelaide Fringe Festival
SA Writers Centre, 187 Rundle Street Adelaide
8.15pm Feb 17-21 & Mar 5-7
$15/13 (preview Feb 17 $10)
Tickets at door or Fringetix
Stephen Sheehan
Age range: 34 - 45
Height: 180cm
Eyes: Blue
Training: Flinders University Drama Centre (BA Hons.) Supplementary clown training at Ecole Philippe Gaulier (France), Shannan Calcutt and Sue Morrison (Canada) and Andrew Cory - Redspoon (Brisbane).
Awards: Adelaide Critics Circle Emerging Artist (1997); Melbourne Fringe Best Solo Performance (1997); Adelaide Theatre Guide Best Actor (2006).
Stage: For SA State Theatre - Waiting For Godot, Drowning in my Ocean of You, Twelfth Night, Macbeth; for Slingsby Productions - Tragical Life of Cheeseboy with tours to regional SA, Sydney, Cleveland, Singapore, Madrid, Bath, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Wellington, Cyprus; for Ladykillers: The Pyjama Girl; for Odd Bodies - The Angel and the Red Priest, Beautiful Words, Time of Ashes; for Patch Theatre -Special Delivery with tours to Sydney, Melbourne & Seoul, Pigs Bears and Billy Goats Gruff with tours to regional SA, NT and QLD, Sydney, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Singapore & New York; for Flying Penguin Productions - Assassins, Translations with tour to Melbourne; for Yashchin Company - I Only Came to Use the Phone; for EHJ Productions - Midsummer Night’s Dream (Melb), Toads Birthday; for Lunist Productions - Go By Night with tours to Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, London, Reykjavik, London (ONT), Vancouver, Victoria (BC); for Mad Love - 1000 Eyes of Doctor Mabuse, Las Meninas; for Living Voice Inc. - Poor Johanna, When I was a Girl I used to Scream and Shout
Film: Shine directed by Scott Hicks; Serenades directed by Mojgan Khadem. Shorts: Azardi directed by Anthony Maras, Doctor By Day directed by Alex Frayne.
Cabaret: Rockin� the Boat, Port Festival; Easy Ryder, Adelaide Cabaret Festival; Berlin Cabaret, Adelaide Cabaret, Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Feast and Melbourne Fringe Festivals; U8 Basketball Semi-finals, Cabaret Fringe Festival.
Director: Punchline by Caleb Lewis, for Local Stages; Artistic Director: Riverland Youth Theatre 1998-2001. Artistic Associate: No Stringe Attached Theatre of Disability 1995-2004; Kneehigh Puppeteers 2002-2007.
Some up coming shows:
Tragical Life of Cheeseboy
The Perth International Arts Festival
Feb 22 - Mar 1
New Zealand International Arts Festival
March 8 - 21
Cyprus International Children’s Festival
April 17 - 24
email - srsheehan@hotmail.com
Agent - Actors Ink
Richard Laidlaw or Jason Walker
12-20 Morney Street
Adelaide 5000
+ 61-8-82315000
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