Jane Shepard

Horse Films
Actor, Filmmaker, Playwright, Producer and Screenwriter

Boulder, Colorado

Member Since:
November 2014

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About Jane

Wrote the screenplay for the Showtime original movie FREAK CITY, subsequently nominated for a Writer's Guild Award. Have worked on independent films & in Hollywood; as well as written, directed & produced three award-winning short films (narrative).
* For stage, over 25 productions of my plays in New York & around the country; two compilations of my plays in print, including a popular collection of my short works KICKASS PLAYS FOR WOMEN, published by Samuel French. Most recently wrote & directed DUDE, IT'S BOULDER, a history of the town which enjoyed a sold-out run in e-Town Hall last December. Currently founding a production company to write & direct features here in Colorado.
* As an actor, graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival & as a member of the Denver Center Theater Company for several seasons before going on to Equity work in L.A. and New York. Experience in film, television & stage.

Unique traits: Ride Unicycle / Motorcycle • Especially enjoy cross-gender roles •. Ride Horseback (saddle or no saddle) • Love working with animals & kids •. Physically strong. •. Large array of accents, limps, twitches, & seizures. •. Can stutter in a Scottish Brogue. • Professional cartoonist & muralist

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 8"

Weight:
180

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Badges

Photos

Off-Broadway premiere of 3 Shepard Play
2016, producers Ethikos Theater

Credits

Earning the Day (2015)
Film by Jane Shepard (Comedy) Writer/Director/Producer Y'know how we all have those self-critical inner voices? Well, Edna has lots of them, only hers exist physically! So Edna is followed by a drill sergeant, a nutritionist, a question elf and a passel of negative negators. A whimsical comedy with a meaningful underbelly, looking at the nature of self-criticism and how we can step away from them.
Nine (2000)
Film by Horse Films, Jane Shepard director (Drama) Writer/Director/Producer Two women held against their will and the mind games they play to keep one another alive. This 40-minute featurette features two powerful performances in a nail-biting story about the emotional/pyschological cost of surviving atrocity.
Freak City (1999)
TV Movie by Showtime (Drama) Screenwriter The friendship between five people in a care center for the disabled. When a cynical young woman with Multiple Sclerosis is put in a care center against her will, she finds it is her emotional blocks, not her physical ones, that stand in her away. Writer's Guild Award Nomination for screenplay.
Awesome Lotus (1983)
Film Actress

Awards

Writers Guild Award (nomination) FREAK CITY, 2000
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, in Playwrighting and Screenwriting
Jane Chambers Award for Playwrighting, for COMMENCING
Sloan Foundation Fellowship, for THE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO THE BRAIN
The Roberts Chesley Playwrighting Award, Best Emerging Playwright
The Berrilla Kerr Award for Playwrighting
The Writer's Guild Foundation Fellowship
The Frank Pisco Playwrighting Award for New Plays, for THREE TO GET READY
Award of Merit, Awareness Film Festival, for EARNING THE DAY
Award of Merit, Women Filmmmakers, for EARNING THE DAY
Honorable Mention Award, Rochester Film Festival, for NINE