Bio
Current Projects and Music Gigs
Understudy for Proteus and Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
September 5: Brainwash Cafe, San Francisco (with Bill Rupell)
October 14: Gay And Lesbian Artists presents Billy’s Showcase, San Jose
December 2010: Peter in Babes In Arms at 42nd Street Moon
January 2011: Samuel Pepys in Compleat Female Stage Beauty at City Lights Theatre Company
Biography
A native of Palo Alto, CA, Jonathan Shue is a professional actor, musician, singer/songwriter, composer, director, and teaching artist. He received his B.A. in Theater from University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theatre, Film & Television and also studied abroad at the University of Birmingham, UK Drama Department under Bella Merlin.
Regional theatre credits include Jaques De Boys, Sir Oliver Martext, Musician and Lord in As You Like It at San Jose Repertory Theatre, artistic director Rick Lombardo’s inaugural production nominated in 2010 for 6 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards; and Chester, Lewis Payne, John Hay and others in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas at TheatreWorks. Other Bay Area professional theatre credits include Simon Bliss in Hay Fever at The Pear Avenue Theatre and Scripps in the Bay Area Premiere of The History Boys at New Conservatory Theatre Center. Along with his classmates at UCLA, Jonathan co-founded Three Chairs Theatre Company in Los Angeles where he collaborated on a world-premier production, TAPE 39, at EdgeFest LA in 2005.
Jonathan has also toured extensively and taught for California Theatre Center, beginning when he was a teenager when he toured to New Zealand, Fiji and the Cook Islands in a production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. As a professional actor, teacher and director, Jonathan has appeared in over 16 productions for both adults and children at CTC, including Albert Moyo in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day, Mouse/Cat/Baby Bear in Goodnight Moon, Huck Finn in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Brer Fox in Tales of Brer Rabbit, to name a few. For CTC Summer Rep he has played Cornelius in The Matchmaker, Faber in Liberty Inn, Adam in Rough Crossing and Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest.
As a teaching artist and director, he has directed K-12 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 and The Comedy of Errors. He teaches acting, movement, voice, improvisation and Shakespeare.
Jonathan is a multi-instrumentalist musician, comfortable at the helm of many a stringed instrument, including guitar, bass, cello, violin, piano, ukulele and banjo. He has performed original music in Los Angeles at B.B. King’s Blues Club, the famed singer-songwriter venue Room 5, Tangier, The Mint and The Joint. He has also composed music for productions at Three Chairs Theatre Company in Los Angeles and Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, CA. His CD Chasing Hurricanes can be found on CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon. You can view his myspace page for music updates.
Jonathan continues to merge his favorite art forms, theatre and music. Look for his new album due out next year.
View theatre resume.
Art loves chance. He who errs willingly is the artist. – Aristotle