Sidney Shackleton

Sidney is an aspiring writer an actor having appeared onstage many times in his hometown of Quincy. Starting his acting career right before college he accepted a role as a dancer in "Footloose" at the local community theatre, he then accepted another role as a member of the chorus in "Little Shop of Horrors". After those two shows he had fallen in love with theatre. He then accepted roles in college such as; the Scarecrow from "Wizard of Oz", John Darling in "Peter Pan", King Arthur in "Camelot", Albert Lennox from "Secret Garden", as well as many Shakespeare roles. He performed the role of Booth in an all original musical about the assassin called "Booth: A Musical". His film career is just starting. He played the role of Jack Bates in the short film "51st Treasure" by Alex Wittler. He also put together a film with a group of friends called "Children of Eden" also by Alex Wittler. He worked as Actor, Editor, Director, Producer, and camera technician in "Children of Eden". He worked as an extra in a feature length movie called "Fang" Then finally did work with Christopher Kelly and the Table 16 crew to play the role of Rupert in "Villainy for the Lonely". Sidney holds a BA in English and is moving to England in pursuit of his Masters degree in Creative Writing from Loughborough Univeristy. He has written two novels in the "Elementals" series and hopes to finish the six book series in the future. He has written an one act play called "Phased Away" and directed it the year after he wrote it. He has also directed Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in his Sophomore year of college.