Howard Shangraw An award-winning actor and director, his professional acting career includes productions off-Broadway, summer stock, feature films, episodic television, daytime soap operas and regional theatre productions for South Coast Repertory Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Laguna Playhouse, Grove Shakespeare Festival, and various equity waiver theatres in the Los Angeles area. Howard’s extensive directing resume includes productions of classical and contemporary repertoire and musicals for professional and community theatres, colleges and high schools. He has directed shows for the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Matrix Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Stella Adler Theatre, Teatro Mediterranean in Barcelona, Spain, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts acting company and Hi-Desert Cultural Center, where he also served as artistic director. Also a playwright and composer, his original musical, The People Versus B. B. Wolfe, was produced by South Coast Repertory and toured Orange County under a special grant from Target stores. As an acting teacher, he has taught acting for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre’s adult and youth Conservatory programs, Hi-Desert Cultural Center, and Idyllwild Arts Academy, where he chaired the theatre department from 2004-2014. He will be directing the new play Eyeless In Colonus, a modern reimagining of the death Oedipus Rex this coming August in Joshua Tree, CA. (Www.windwalkersmedicinewheel.com for tickets)