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Steven Shaw(1937-2019)

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Steven Shaw
When television writer Phil Winters returns from vacation to find that no one remembers that he ever existed, a mysterious young woman leads him on a darkly comic journey of self-discovery.  Theatrical trailer.
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Steven Shaw was born in Brooklyn, New York where he did things that kids from Brooklyn, New York did. Sports were high among those pursuits with girls coming later but topping the list quickly after puberty. At seventeen he was invited to try out for the Detroit Tigers, a perennial last place team in the fifties. At the end of the tryout Show Business seemed the wiser choice.

In his early twenties, after a brief stint as an unemployed actor, he took over the running of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater's prop department and built it into the largest regional theater prop department of its time. He worked on the premiers of, "Hair", John Guare's "Two Gents", "No Place To Be Somebody", "That Championship Season", (The last two Pulitzer Prize winners,) among other contemporary plays and twenty-six of Shakespeare's works. He stayed with Mr. Papp for nine years performing multiple tasks for the Festival as it grew. He conceived and produced, The Five O'Clock Theater. After leaving the Festival he turned to stage managing on Broadway shows. Among their number were, "The Wiz", "Deathtrap", "Sly Fox", "Sunday in the Park with George, (Another Pulitzer winner) and "Death and the Maiden."

He has served on the Executive Board of The Stage Managers Association, and the Advisory Board of the Broadway Show League a show business league he played in for 36 years. In 2000 he was honored by being named to the All Century All-Star Team.

While stage managing he was able to observe the technique of such directors as, Arthur Penn, Sir Peter Hall, James Lapine and Mike Nichols and study closely the craft of such actors as Robert Preston, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman and George C. Scott. It was during the run of, "Sly Fox", Larry Gelbart's hilarious take on Ben Jonson's, "Volpone", that George C. Scott optioned a script of Shaw's. The script, "Grimby" went on to have a longer life in a series of options than it probably would have had as a film.

In the early eighties he staged the Spanish speaking productions of both, "Deathtrap" and "Amadeus" with Manolo Fabragas in Mexico City. Both productions ran for over eight months in the 1,300 seat Teatro San Rafael.

He has lived in Los Angeles since 1992 with his wife, producer Diana Kerew and continues to play softball despite her many objections.

Trivia Note: He got his first tennis lesson from Butterfly McQueen. It didn't stick.
BornFebruary 2, 1937
DiedMarch 19, 2019(82)
BornFebruary 2, 1937
DiedMarch 19, 2019(82)
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Julianne Moore, Matt Damon, and Oscar Isaac in Suburbicon (2017)
Suburbicon
5.8
  • Doctor Jennings
  • 2017
Jennifer Garner in Alias (2001)
Alias
7.6
TV Series
  • Minister
The Phoenix Program
  • Actor
    American Playhouse (1980)
    American Playhouse
    7.3
    TV Series
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    • Robert W. Evans, Jessica Jade Andres, Michael Andricopoulos, Lillian Solange Beaudoin, and Montgomery Markland in Malibu Road (2021)
      Malibu Road
      4.3
      • Old Wise
      • 2021
    • Devil's Whisper (2019)
      Devil's Whisper
      4.2
      • Bishop
      • 2019
    • Fran Drescher, Peter Bogdanovich, and Lindy Booth in The Creatress (2019)
      The Creatress
      4.3
      • Book Store Owner (uncredited)
      • 2019
    • Marisa Tomei, Jeff Betancourt, Taji Coleman, Mireille Enos, Sakina Jaffrey, Joshua Leonard, Rebecca Lowman, Howard S. Miller, Timothy Olyphant, Bryan Rasmussen, Gabby Sanalitro, Steven Shaw, Adam Tomei, Caroline Foellmer, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Peter Raeburn, Mary Pat Bentel, Dave Hansen, Scott Michael Morgan, Dakota Peterson, Quyen Tran, Brandon Scott, David Call, Veronica Diaz Carranza, Karrie Cox, Blesst Bowden, Dylan Rayner, Arndt-Wulf Peemöller, Kevin Balmore, Emily Robinson, Marcus Cox, Charlie Plummer, Jason Andre Smith, Lon J Fiala, Paris Peterson, Savanna Reggio, and Nik Dodani in Dark Was the Night (2018)
      Dark Was the Night
      5.4
      • Judge Ross
      • 2018
    • Michael Bacall and Maggie Lawson in Spivak (2018)
      Spivak
      5.7
      • Alan (as Steve Shaw)
      • 2018
    • Julianne Moore, Matt Damon, and Oscar Isaac in Suburbicon (2017)
      Suburbicon
      5.8
      • Doctor Jennings
      • 2017
    • Rock in a Hard Place
      4.6
      TV Series
      • Irving
      • 2016
    • Jim O'Heir in Middle Man (2016)
      Middle Man
      5.8
      • Lawyer
      • 2016
    • Melissa George in Heartbeat (2016)
      Heartbeat
      6.7
      TV Series
      • Mr. Cecil
      • 2016
    • Jere Burns, Rashida Jones, Deon Cole, Hayes MacArthur, Andree Vermeulen, and Jagger in Angie Tribeca (2016)
      Angie Tribeca
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Passenger #6
      • 2016
    • Rob Lowe, Marcia Gay Harden, Luis Guzmán, and Boris Kodjoe in Code Black (2015)
      Code Black
      8.0
      TV Series
      • Henry
      • 2015
    • Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
      Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
      8.1
      TV Series
      • Fred Worth
      • 2015
    • When We Were 22
      Short
      • Arthur Kent (Older)
      • 2014
    • Hollow Ship (2014)
      Hollow Ship
      TV Series
      • Computer
      • 2014
    • Katey Sagal, Jason Ritter, Brittany Snow, Rumer Willis, Allison Miller, James Wolk, Anna Schafer, and Ryan Guzman in Always Woodstock (2014)
      Always Woodstock
      5.2
      • Homeless Pete
      • 2014

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    • American Playhouse (1980)
      American Playhouse
      7.3
      TV Series
      • stage manager: for the broadway production
      • 1986

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      • February 2, 1937
      • Brooklyn, New York, USA
    • Died
      • March 19, 2019
      • Burbank, California, USA(undisclosed)
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      • Diana Kerew? - March 19, 2019 (his death, 3 children)

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