Philip Shepherd - Actor - Co-Producer

Since 1969 Philip Shepherd has worked as an actor, director, teacher and writer.  His interest in world theatre has often taken him abroad.  In his teens he traveled to India and Japan to study Kathakali and Noh respectively.  In London, England he was a founding member of the Play Room and also performed with Tavistock Repertory Theatre.  In New York he has performed with Linda Mussmann's Time and Space Limited Theatre, and also toured Switzerland and Poland with them.  He trained intensively with director Ho Ying Fung, and took his one-man show, Shades, to Hong Kong.  He also trained in Denmark with Eugenio Barba's company, and played the lead in Steven Rumbelow's Dr. Faustus in Chicago and Toronto.  For the past fifteen years he has been a director of Toronto's Phyzikal Theatre, a company dedicated to the creation of shows that combine classic principles of theatre with avant-garde theatricality.  His own playscripts have been performed in Canada, the USA and Hong Kong, and he has written for CBC television.  He recently co-starred in Strange Justice, a feature film with Mandy Patinkin, Delroy Lindo and Lou Gossette Jr.