“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
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Vin Shambry is a Published writer, Acclaimed storyteller, International actor, And Director. Artists Rep, where he is a Resident Artist. His previous Artists Rep productions include A Civil War Christmas, (I Am Still) the Duchess of Malfi and Superior Donuts, for which he won a 2011 Portland Drammy Award for lead actor. He has performed with Oregon Children’s Theatre, Staged!, Portland Opera and CoHo Productions. Before returning home to Portland, Vin performed on Broadway as Tom Collins in Rent and John in Miss Saigon, and toured nationally with Rent, Miss Saigon, Honk and Big River. Vin was recently voted Portland’s Best Actor by Willamette Weekly reader’s poll (2016), has won three Portland Drammys (2011) and an Audelco Award for Best Actor in a Play for Black Man Rising (2006). Vin has a BFA in Musical Theatre from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC (2005). Vin is an accomplished writer and acclaimed live storyteller whose work can be heard on The Moth podcast and PDX Back Fence. He is also working on a collection of short stories about his childhood.
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My impact
Is to inspire audience members to connect with the “human-ness” of one another in our society. By theatrically sharing my personal story of joy and heartache and shame and family (that centers around rainy Oregon), I hope to infuse an air of curiosity into my audiences. Perhaps the next time they encounter a homeless youth, a survivor of domestic violence, or a black teenage boy, they’ll remember my story and see them with curiosity as a whole, a complex person much like themselves.
Is to inspire audience members to connect with the “human-ness” of one another in our society. By theatrically sharing my personal story of joy and heartache and shame and family (that centers around rainy Oregon), I hope to infuse an air of curiosity into my audiences. Perhaps the next time they encounter a homeless youth, a survivor of domestic violence, or a black teenage boy, they’ll remember my story and see them with curiosity as a whole, a complex person much like themselves.
