Don Shook

Don Shook has been on the Dallas/Ft Worth acting scene for over twenty years. Wearing the many hats of actor, director, producer and author, he has award-winning scripts, television shows, and theatrical productions in his bag of credits. Formerly with NBC in New York, where he also performed at Carnegie Hall in Tom Booth's opera "Gentlemen in Waiting", he announced on air for WNBC and was part of "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. For five years he was a resident performer at Casa Manana Musicals in Ft. Worth and has appeared as an actor in theatres across the country. His "Heritage Park CC" won the Crystal Award in 1988 as The Outstanding Drama on Public Television. Working with such stars as Dick Clark, Cybil Shephard, and Sid Cesar, he has performed in theatre, film and television across the country.

Don's class is quite varied with work on monologues, scene study, improvisation, on-camera work and more. Many of the actors in this class have been selected to perform in the murder mystery dinner shows produced by the US Actors Company.