Shane Portman
Shane Portman graduated from the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University with a BFA in Theatre. After graduation, he moved to Chicago and completed the long form improvisation training program at iO Chicago and was placed on the Harold Team, The Chorus, with whom he performed at the Del Close Marathon.
Shane was a founding member of The Animal Club Sketch Comedy Collective whose live and film sketches were seen around the country for seven years at venues such as Carolines on Broadway, The Austin Film Festival, The San Francisco Sketchfest, Seattle Sketchfest, Chicago Sketchfest, Sketchingham, and The Second City’s Donny’s Skybox.
In Chicago, he co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred with Kirk Mason in the play, The Story of Francis and Wild Gil, A Francis and Wild Gil Story, at the Gorilla Tango Theatre. Centerstage Chicago said Shane and Kirk were “guileless and childlike, charm[ing] the audience as the title characters. [There were] wonderful, near-silent sequences of physical comedy. I couldn’t help grinning at how perfectly it all fit together.”
He lived in New York City for two years where he began performing the Allister stories on stages. While there, he also made short films with folks like Positively 4th Street, the sketch comedy group Krampus and even played a homeless man in Dave Droxler's modern silent film, Silent City.
He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he is the script supervisor for the Emmy Award-winning Tumble Leaf, a stop-motion animated series for preschoolers from Bix Pix Entertainment and Amazon Studios.
He is also happy to be engaged to the love of his life, the talented Ruth Gamble.
He started writing these stories in 2002 (more on that here) and is so thankful to all who have shaped them throughout the years.
He hopes you enjoy them.
Shane was a founding member of The Animal Club Sketch Comedy Collective whose live and film sketches were seen around the country for seven years at venues such as Carolines on Broadway, The Austin Film Festival, The San Francisco Sketchfest, Seattle Sketchfest, Chicago Sketchfest, Sketchingham, and The Second City’s Donny’s Skybox.
In Chicago, he co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred with Kirk Mason in the play, The Story of Francis and Wild Gil, A Francis and Wild Gil Story, at the Gorilla Tango Theatre. Centerstage Chicago said Shane and Kirk were “guileless and childlike, charm[ing] the audience as the title characters. [There were] wonderful, near-silent sequences of physical comedy. I couldn’t help grinning at how perfectly it all fit together.”
He lived in New York City for two years where he began performing the Allister stories on stages. While there, he also made short films with folks like Positively 4th Street, the sketch comedy group Krampus and even played a homeless man in Dave Droxler's modern silent film, Silent City.
He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he is the script supervisor for the Emmy Award-winning Tumble Leaf, a stop-motion animated series for preschoolers from Bix Pix Entertainment and Amazon Studios.
He is also happy to be engaged to the love of his life, the talented Ruth Gamble.
He started writing these stories in 2002 (more on that here) and is so thankful to all who have shaped them throughout the years.
He hopes you enjoy them.