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 Ronn Shedrick professional career as an actor began in
New York City under the guidance of several directors including Gene
Frankel (director, Broadway production of “THE BLACKS") and Hal DeWindt
(former Director of Training, Negro Ensemble Company).
His television credits include work as a principal player on
Another World and 227 as well as numerous theatrical, commercial and
print assignments. He has
worked on a number of independent and student films. His acting
experience has ranged from, a eighty-year old, Mr. Jesse in Eric
Monte's "If They Come Back", at both the Inner City Cultural Center and
The Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA; residency in Helena, Montana
with The Grandstreet Theatre as both actor and instructor;
Off-Broadway production as Sam Cooke at Crossroads Theatre, New
Brunswick, NJ and he performed the character "Levee" in a special
showcase arrangement of August Wilson's "MaRainey's Black Bottom", with
The American Theatre in Harlem, at Joseph Papp's, Public Theatre, NYC. In 1989, Mr. Shedrick
coproduced "Reaching for the Stars", a fund-raising
event for "Heads Up" organization located in Valencia, California. The
fund-raisers include stars such as Dorian Harwood, Pat Boone, and The
Cast of Married with Children, and Telley Savalas.
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 In
1990 Mr. Shedrick was recruited and landed the position of Director of
Development for the 1991 National Black Theatre Festival, under the
artistic direction of Larry Leon Hamlin's NC Black Repertory Company.
That year the company received over $400,000 in assistant for the
festival. Include in the line up of stars were Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee,
Denzel Washington, Avery Brooks, Esther Rolle, Moses Gunn, Woodie King,
Jr., Beah Richards, Yolanda King, George C. Wolfe and most major black
theatre companies across America.
In 1993, Mr. Shedrick founded New Voices/New Visions, in Kinston, North
Carolina where he had his first summer children theatre camp that
produced, Ossie Davis' "Purlie Victorious". Since then he has produced
and/or directed plays ranging from "Five On The Black Hand Side" and "A
Raisin In The Sun" to "Driving Miss Daisy". Under his artistic direction
New Voices/New Visions has received awards of artistic merit from The
National Endowment for the Arts, through the North Carolina Arts
Council.
In 1997, Mr. Shedrick independently produced "We Need
Love", written by Gregory LeGrand Kerns, a North Carolina School of the
Arts graduate. A production toured Grainger-Hill Performing Arts Center,
Kinston, North Carolina, The Carolina Theatre, Durham, North Carolina,
Vance-Granville, Community College, Henderson, North Carolina, PS Jones
Middle School, Washington, North Carolina, Reeves Auditorium, Methodist
College, Fayetteville, North Carolina and Kenan Auditorium,
UNC-Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina.
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