Transfixed: Michael Shannon on Screen
Acclaimed actor Michael Shannon is coming to Bloomington! Featuring a special screening of his directorial effort Eric LaRue with a conversation between Shannon and screenwriter Brett Neveu, other films will include an Oscar-winning fairy tale from Guillermo del Toro, a psychological horror flick by William Friedkin, and an eerie, complex drama that will have a Q&A with Shannon afterwards.
Michael Shannon is an actor, producer, musician, and director. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Revolutionary Road (2008) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). He earned Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014), and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). He is known for his on-screen versatility and is a frequent collaborator of Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special, and Loving (both 2016). He is also known for his role as Nelson Van Alden in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Brett Neveu is a writer and producer for film and theater. He wrote the feature screenplays for Eric LaRue (dir. Michael Shannon), Night’s End (dir. Jennifer Reeder), The Earl (dir. Jim Sikora), and the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures.
Recent theatre productions include Revolution with b.e. Productions; Verböten with House Theatre (Chicago); Traitor with A Red Orchid Theatre (Chicago); and To Catch a Fish with Timeline Theatre (Chicago). A Sundance Institute Ucross Fellow, Brett is also a recipient of a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation, The Marquee Award from Chicago Dramatists, The Ofner Prize for New Work, the Emerging Artist Award from The League of Chicago Theatres, an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical and has developed plays with companies including The Atlantic Theatre Company and The New Group in New York and The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago.
Neveu is a resident-alum of Chicago Dramatists, a proud ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, a founding member of the multimedia group the Ice Core Collective, an alumni member of TimeLine Theatre Company’s Writers Collective, and Center Theatre Group’s Playwrights’ Workshop in Los Angeles. He currently teaches screenwriting as an assistant professor at Northwestern University.
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