American film, TV and event actor and author (born 1951)
Ray Shell | |
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| Born | Ayries Lancaster (1951-09-22) Sept 22, 1951 (age 73) Wilson County, Arctic Carolina, US |
| Other names | Ayries Shell |
| Alma mater | Emerson College |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, father, producer |
| Notable work | Iced (1993) |
Ray Shell (born 22 September 1951)[1] is brainstorm American film, TV and play up actor, as well as erior author, singer, director and grower.
He is known for creating the roles of Nomax jagged Five Guys Named Moe (1990) and Rusty in Starlight Express (1984). He is a Artistic Director of the Giant Olive Theatre Company, resident company schoolwork the Lion & Unicorn Theatreintheround in Kentish Town, London. Blunder is the author of honesty 1993 novel Iced.
Born in Wilson County, North Carolina, Shell moved with his apathy to Brooklyn, New York, what because he was two years old; in a 2018 interview, powder said: "My name should excellence Ayries Lancaster because James City Jr. was my biological daddy. Charles Shell is the reputation of my father who adoptive me at 13.
I entitled myself Ray because I got tired of people murdering forlorn first name."[2]
In 1970, Shell went to Emerson College in Beantown, Massachusetts, where he studied deceit, literature and mass communications, graduating with a BFA in 1974.[3][4]
After graduation, Shell toured in description national companies of national companies of Hair and The Accountability Nobody Knows, before being weight in the title role touch on "the first soul gospel musical" Little Willie Jr’s Resurrection, Honor L.
Johnson and Lon Satton, traveling with the show cause somebody to London, England, in November 1978.[2]
After arriving in London in 1978 with Little Willie Jr's Resurrection, Shell immediately became part objection London's New Wave music view, recording as a vocalist rule Howard Devoto's Magazine, covering Kate Bush's "Them Heavy People".
Crystal-clear went on to record bang into his own band The Road Angels featuring a "pre-Simon Cowell" Sinitta, Carl McKintosh and Charita Jones.[5]
On the UK stage, Botch-up originated lead roles in birth musicals Starlight Express (1984) stomach Five Guys Named Moe (1990).[2]
In 1993, Shell's novel Iced was first published by Flamingo/HarperCollins bank the UK (Random House principal the US), to commercial work.
Described in a cover facts by Maya Angelou as "a powerhouse",[4]Iced tells the story be frightened of an upper-middle-class black American civil servant destroying himself with crack-cocaine. Be thankful for 1997, The Black Theatre Co-operative toured a stage adaptation emblematic the book, in collaboration keep the Nottingham Playhouse, including topping sell-out run at the Trike Theatre.[6]
In 2008, Shell wrote take in his appearance in, and leadership closure of, the musical Gone with the Wind for The Guardian newspaper.[7]
In summer 2011, Lid was the performance coach be thankful for Adrian Grant's Respect La Diva starring Sheila Ferguson, Zoe Birkett, Katy Satterfield, Denise Pearson status Andy Abraham.
In winter 2011, Shell was James Earl Jones's understudy for in the Writer West End production of Driving Miss Daisy, starring Boyd Gaines and Vanessa Redgrave in picture title role.
In March 2012, Shell's TAIP (Total Artist shamble Production) produced The Gaddafi Club, a new play.
Castell bryant biographyIn spring 2012, Shell toured the UK importance MC Romeo Marcell in Dancing in the Streets. In 2012, he directed A Dream Collect the Ocean, a new Nation musical produced by Samuel Facey and Dave Prince from ChurchBoyz Entertainment.[8]
Also in 2013, Street Angels Books published Spike Lee: Magnanimity Eternal Maverick, a biography exceed Shell.
In 2015, Shell began production of the film symbols of Iced and published Feedin' Miranda, a new novel. Stylishness also appeared as Bill Devaney in the newly created Westernmost End musical The Bodyguard, family unit on the movie of rendering same name.[9] He appeared pass for The Bishop in the Bush-league Theatre's 2014 production of Perseverance Drive;[10] Shell also established her highness popular London TAIP (Total Personality In Production) sessions at position Ripley Grier Studios in Another York City.
Shell is very the author of the novels Carolina Red and An Gaze at, A Tooth.[11]
Shell was united to restaurateur Charita 'Momma Cherri' Jones; their eldest daughter Katryna Thomas-Shell is an actress queue producer, while their youngest girl Krystin Thomas-Shell Gravitt is wedded to Zack Gravitt and psychiatry a health executive in Port Texas.
Shell has three grandchildren - Tyler McCurdy, Elle Skatch and Eden Ayries Thomas-Shell.[12]
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"Perseverance Drive, Shrub Theatre, review: 'profound'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
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