Shona Tucker

Tucker was born in Louisville Kentucky, where she began acting at the Louisville Youth Performing Arts School. While still in high school, she began her long relationship with Actors Theatre of Louisville as assistant to Paul Owen, the resident scenic designer as an intern on The Louisville Zoo 2. She has returned to perform at Actors Theatre in five different plays.

A Fulbright Scholar, a Schomburg Fellow, and an Audelco Award winner,[1] she earned a BS from Northwestern University and MFA in Acting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.[2] She has served as Associate Professor of Drama at Vassar College from 2008 to the present.[3]

She was a company member at Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 2005 to 2008, acting in such plays as Fences,[4][5] A Midsummer Night's Dream,[6] Gem of the Ocean,[7] and Bus Stop.[8]

Her Off-Broadway theatre credits include productions at New York Theatre Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab, The Public Theater, Circle in the Square, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.

She played the role of Rita in the world premiere of the award-winning play Eclipsed at Yale Repertory Theatre.[9] She also created the roles of Sherry and Dr. Toros in Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog's Mary Jane, also at Yale Repertory Theatre.[10][11] She created the roles of Angela and Angie in the world premiere of Tough Titty at Williamstown Theatre Festival.[12]

Her feature film credits include: James Franco's King Cobra (2016), Keane (2004), Preaching to the Choir (2005) and Boys on the Side (1995) with Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker.

Tucker has played roles in a number of television series including New York Undercover (recurring), Queens Supreme, Law & Order, and Third Watch. She has also acted in several TV movies and shorts.

• Shona Tucker at the Internet Broadway Database
• Shona Tucker on IMDb