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Shannon Eubanks is a 40-year film, TV and theater actress and stage director, who's enjoying a career playing the antitheses of the typical "lady next door." Lucky enough to catch the last great wave of classical repertory in the U.S., she's often played eight different characters a week in companies from Alaska to Florida, including years with Los Angeles' Shakespeare Society of America under the artistic directorship of DeVeren Bookwalter, alongside talents like Annie Potts, John Savage, and William Frankfather. It was an era in the 70's when performing arts immediately preceded sports on the local TV news in L.A., and Shannon was lucky enough early in her career to draw the attention of the top industry publications, among them VARIETY : "Eubanks is wonderful...amazingly crisp yet able to bring off delicate nuance", THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: "Eubanks excels...further establishing herself as one of L.A. theatre's finest performers", and the L.A.TIMES: "Shannon Eubanks is back to direct a taut, vigorous and vital production, riddled with wit and spattered with blood". Shannon's path in performing arts started with a dare. She was a pre-med student when a classmate challenged her to audition for a role at the college theater with a revered director. Eubanks took the dare and was cast in her first production of Chekhov, as Sonja in UNCLE VANYA, after which she pursued a dual major in both pre-med and theatre arts. In the end it was a faculty adviser that helped tip the scales in favor of acting, suggesting to Shannon that she would be able to explore many varied interests through the performing arts, whereas medicine would be an intense focus on a singular discipline. Her repertory experience - the gift of inhabiting creations of Shakespeare, Ibsen, Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, and other greats - which is so hard to come by for today's American professionals, has led to her ability to disappear into personalities as diverse as the elegant frost of doyenne Amanda Cathcart in NBC's Margaret Mitchell: A Burning Passion, the hilariously unsuccessful sexual repression of moral crusader Helen Hunter in ABC Family's comedy Pop Rocks, or the melancholy grace of Ann Alden Forbes on ABC's daytime serial Loving, which prompted a New York Times review to call her "the cream of the crop...Eubanks is smashing as Roger's betrayed and bitter wife Ann". Vamp fans may know her opposite the wonderful cast of the CW's The Originals, as the eerie, smoky-voiced witch Bastianna Natale. Now living in Atlanta, Shannon is profoundly grateful to be able to cycle back and forth from camera to stage and back again. What began as a career choice has become a life path, with the singular mission of telling the truth about the human condition - one story at a time.

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12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards; City Springs Theatre Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards; at Springer Opera House Leads Best Ensemble Performance!


The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards; at Springer Opera House Leads Best Ensemble Performance!


The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards; City Springs Theatre Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

First Stats Released For The BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards; City Springs' WEST SIDE STORY Leads Best Musical


The first live standings have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

BWW Review: BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY at Theatrical Outfit Keeps Us Guessing


Theatrical Outfit’s production of Ken Ludwig’s BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY (directed by Shannon Eubanks) is a fast-pace and humorous play that takes audiences from England’s Baker Street to the haunted Dartmoor.

Theatrical Outfit Presents Ken Ludwig's BASKERVILLE: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery


Theatrical Outfit returns to the stage this holiday season with Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. from November 17 – December 19, 2021.

Photo Flash: Georgia Ensemble Theatre Presents NIGHT MUST FALL


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), the professional North Fulton theatre company, continues its 27th season this October-November with Night Must Fall, a chilling experience just in time for the spooky season of the year. The production will be directed by Shannon Eubanks and run October 24th through November 10th, 2019, at the company's home in the Roswell Cultural Arts Center.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre Gets Spooky with NIGHT MUST FALL


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), the professional North Fulton theatre company, continues its 27th season this October-November with Night Must Fall, a chilling experience just in time for the spooky season of the year. The production will be directed by Shannon Eubanks and run October 24th through November 10th, 2019, at the company's home in the Roswell Cultural Arts Center.

Essential Theatre Presents 21st Annual Play Festival


Essential Theatre is presenting its 21st Festival with the world premieres of three plays and four staged reading all by Georgia playwrights. "Slaying Holofernes", by Emily McClain, directed by Peter Hardy, opens Friday, July 26, 2019 at 8pm at the West End Performing Arts Center. "Baby Shower for the Antichrist", by Ben Thorpe, directed by Shannon Eubanks, opens Friday, August 2, 2019 at 8pm at the same venue.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre Announces 27th Season


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) Co-Founder and Producing Artistic Director Anita Allen-Farley has tonight announced the 27th season of the professional theatre company at opening night of Bullets Over Broadway The Musical.

Photo Flash: A Look At The Springer Opera House's Production Of PERFECT ARRANGEMENT


The 1950s was the golden age of the tv sitcom: I Love Lucy, Dennis the Menace, Leave it to Beaver, the Honeymooners, Ozzie and Harriet and dozens of others. The Fifties was also the era of the infamous Red Scare, a campaign to root out communists in government, entertainment, education and art.

Springer Opera House To Produce Award Winning Comedy By Georgia's Rising Star Playwright, Topher Payne


The 1950s was the golden age of the tv sitcom: I Love Lucy, Dennis the Menace, Leave it to Beaver, the Honeymooners, Ozzie and Harriet and dozens of others.  The Fifties was also the era of the infamous Red Scare, a campaign to root out communists in government, entertainment, education and art.  

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents MORNINGSIDE by Topher Payne


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) is proud to continue the professional theatre's 25th Silver Anniversary Season, exclusively sponsored by The Thoresen Foundation. Co-Founder and Artistic Director Robert J. Farley has chosen five very special productions including three musicals for the season and says, Our 25th Silver Anniversary is going to be one big party all year long. Each show I have selected to celebrate this occasion has been chosen as a tribute to our subscribers, donors, sponsors, and supporters.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre to Premier 5th Work from Award-Winning Atlanta Playwright Topher Payne


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) is proud to continue the professional theatre's 25th Silver Anniversary Season, exclusively sponsored by The Thoresen Foundation. Co-Founder and Artistic Director Robert J. Farley has chosen five very special productions including three musicals for the season and says, Our 25th Silver Anniversary is going to be one big party all year long. Each show I have selected to celebrate this occasion has been chosen as a tribute to our subscribers, donors, sponsors, and supporters.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre Opens Season with ONCE ON THIS ISLAND


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) is proud to announce that its upcoming season will mark the professional theatre's 25th Silver Anniversary, exclusively sponsored by The Thoresen Foundation. Co-Founder and Artistic Director Robert J. Farley has announced a special lineup of shows for this milestone and says, "Our 25th Silver Anniversary is going to be one big party all year long. Each play I have selected to celebrate this occasion has been chosen as a tribute to our subscribers, donors, sponsors, and supporters." 

Georgia Ensemble Theatre Celebrates 25th Silver Anniversary Season in '17/'18


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) Co-Founder and Artistic Director Robert J. Farley has announced a special lineup of shows for the Company's 25th Silver Anniversary Season of professional theatre in North Fulton County.

Photo Flash: Georgia Ensemble Theatre to Premiere Atlanta Playwright Topher Payne's New Comedy


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), North Fulton's only professional theatre company, continues its string of successful comedies from Atlanta playwright Topher Payne with the premiere of Greetings Friend Your Kind Assistance Is Required. The production runs January 5th through 22nd, 2017 at the theatre's home in the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. Veteran Atlanta director and actor Shannon Eubanks will be reunited with playwright Payne to once again direct his latest comedy. Sponsorship for this production is graciously provided by the Robert W. Hagan Family Foundation.

BWW Interview: Playwright Topher Payne Talks GREETINGS FRIEND YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED at Georgia Ensemble Theatre


Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Atlanta playwright Topher Payne about his new show, Greetings Friend Your Kind Assistance is Required, premiering at Georgia Ensemble Theater on January 5 and running through the 22nd. A fun and quirky guy, Topher was a delight to talk to, and I'm looking forward to seeing what kinds of conversations Greetings Friend Your Kind Assistance is Required will spark. Without further ado, Topher Payne!

Georgia Ensemble Theatre to Premiere GREETINGS FRIEND YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED


Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), North Fulton's only professional theatre company, continues its string of successful comedies from Atlanta playwright Topher Payne with the premiere of Greetings Friend Your Kind Assistance Is Required. The production runs January 5th through 22nd, 2017 at the theatre's home in the Roswell Cultural Arts Center.

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