Bio

A fourth generation native of California, Jonathan Shue grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley in the Bay Area. An actor, musician and educator, he most recently played the Musician/First Merchant/Officer/Jailer in The Comedy of Errors directed by Danny Scheie at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. For this production, he also served as Composer/Arranger and co-designed a “one-man-band” that he used to musically score the show while simultaneously playing other characters, winning praise from the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News among others. The show then transferred to Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, CA for an extended two-week run.

Jonathan has been a featured soloist at 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco. His other credits include Samuel Pepys in Compleat Female Stage Beauty at City Lights Theatre Company in San Jose; Peter in Babes In Arms and a host of comic characters in Silk Stockings at 42nd Street Moon; Chester, Lewis Payne, and John Hay in the West Coast Premiere of Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas at TheatreWorks; Simon Bliss in Hay Fever at The Pear Avenue Theatre; Jaques De Boys, Sir Oliver Martext, Lord and Musician in As You Like It at San Jose Repertory Theatre (production nominated for 6 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, including best ensemble); and Scripps in the Bay Area Premiere of The History Boys at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

As a company member with California Theatre Center, Jonathan appeared in over 16 productions for both adults and children, including West Coast tours of Cinderella and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day and a tour of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to New Zealand, Fiji and the Cook Islands. Favorite roles include Mouse/Cat/Baby Bear in Goodnight Moon; Huck Finn in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; and Brer Fox in Tales of Brer Rabbit. For CTC Summer Rep he played Cornelius in The Matchmaker; Faber in Liberty Inn; Adam in Rough Crossing and Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Able to plunk out a melody on just about any instrument, Jonathan is most at home on guitar, bass, cello, violin, piano, ukulele and banjo. In Los Angeles, he was a frequent performer at the famed singer-songwriter venue Room 5. His CD of original music, Chasing Hurricanes, can be found on CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon.

For the past six years, Jonathan has taught acting, movement, voice, and Shakespeare to K-12 students in both urban and suburban settings, as well as coaching individual students with singing, monologues and audition technique. He has directed students in productions of The King of the Golden River; The Imaginary Invalid; Romeo & Winifred; Blather, Blarney & Balderdash; The Bremen Town Musicians; As You Like It; Hamlet; Twelfth Night; Henry VI Part 2; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Corialanus and The Comedy of Errors.

Jonathan graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Theater and studied abroad at the University of Birmingham in the UK. He is currently an MFA Acting candidate at the University of Washington, Seattle where he is a Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate acting classes.

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Art loves chance. He who errs willingly is the artist. – Aristotle