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Joe Norman Shaw was born in Anderson, Indiana, in 1957 to Norman and Mary Shaw. In 1966, he relocated to Elgin, Illinois, where he began acting at Kimball Jr. High School. In 1972, the family moved to Scarborough, the east end of Toronto, where Joe continued performing in plays and dramatic monologues and participated on the wrestling team at West Hill Collegiate Institute. After graduating from the Drama Department at the University of Guelph in 1981, Joe returned to Toronto to advance his career. His early work focused on theater, including an apprenticeship at The Shaw Festival in 1985 and two seasons with the Stratford Festival from 1987 to 1990. While in Toronto, Joe took part in numerous productions of new and innovative plays such as "The Dressing Gown" (Buddies in Bad Times), "As Is" (Toronto Free Theatre), "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love" (Crows Theatre), and the Fringe Festival hit "I Slept with Tony Trouble: The Confessions of a Hollywood Hustler," which later toured London and the Edinburgh Festival. In 1991, he moved to Vancouver, where he expanded his work in film and television and began teaching acting and stage directing. His directorial debut was "The Zoo Story" at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. In 1994, he settled in Calgary, continuing his acting career on stage with productions like "Twelve Angry Men" at Vertigo Theatre, as well as in film and TV projects primarily filmed in Alberta. Joe is the Co-Founder and Director of Company of Rogues Actors Studio and Rogueswest in Vancouver, and serves as Artistic Director of Rogues Theatre. He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Calgary, where he has also worked as an instructor. Currently, he is the Director of Drama at St. Mary's University and served as an instructor for 15 years in the Department of Theatre at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
