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Shawna Franks
Shawna Franks is an actor, coach and teaching artist. She is a founding member of Facility Theatre where she has appeared in many productions, including the Chicago premiere (directed by dado) of Right Now (Jeff Award for Best Actor in a supporting role), and in Endgame (directed by Yasen Peyankov).
Shawna originated the role of Dottie in Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe, a production which played at The Next Lab in Evanston, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh (Fringe First Award for best ensemble and best new play), the Bush Theatre in London, and the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End.
Other credits include: Grand Concourse, and The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Tail of Miz Martha Washington, Steppenwolf Theatre; White Rabbit Red Rabbit, Interrobang Theatre; Project and The Woman Before, Trap Door Theatre. Most recently, Shawna was seen in the national premiere production of Any Rebellion of Will by S.L. Daniels (directed by Spencer Huffman) at Trap Door Theatre
Shawna Franks is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University. As the founding Artistic Director of Space 55 Theatre Ensemble in Phoenix, she won a Best Actress award and the Best Black Box award from Phoenix New Times. Other Phoenix awards include: The New Times “Big Brain Award”; being named #4 of Phoenix’s “Top 100 Creatives” list, and a nomination for The Arizona Governor’s Arts Award. Shawna is also a founding member of The Feast, a Chicago experimental theatre collective.
