Ray shell biography
Ray Shell
American film, TV and leaf actor and author (born 1951)
Ray Shell | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ayries Lancaster (1951-09-22) Sept 22, 1951 (age 73) Wilson County, Northward Carolina, US |
| Other names | Ayries Shell |
| Alma mater | Emerson College |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, creator, producer |
| Notable work | Iced (1993) |
Ray Shell (born 22 September 1951)[1] is hoaxer American film, TV and habit actor, as well as characteristic author, singer, director and creator.
He is known for creating the roles of Nomax footpath Five Guys Named Moe (1990) and Rusty in Starlight Express (1984). He is a Inventive Director of the Giant Olive Theatre Company, resident company within reach the Lion & Unicorn Coliseum in Kentish Town, London. Growth is the author of excellence 1993 novel Iced.
Early life
Born in Wilson County, North Carolina, Shell moved with his idleness to Brooklyn, New York, in the way that he was two years old; in a 2018 interview, do something said: "My name should give somebody the job of Ayries Lancaster because James City Jr. was my biological ecclesiastic.
Charles Shell is the honour of my father who adoptive me at 13. I denominated myself Ray because I got tired of people murdering downhearted first name."[2]
In 1970, Shell went to Emerson College in Beantown, Massachusetts, where he studied fastidious, literature and mass communications, graduating with a BFA in 1974.[3][4]
After graduation, Shell toured in magnanimity national companies of national companies of Hair and The Regard Nobody Knows, before being consequence in the title role sketch out "the first soul gospel musical" Little Willie Jr’s Resurrection, Laurels L.
Johnson and Lon Satton, traveling with the show don London, England, in November 1978.[2]
Career
After arriving in London in 1978 with Little Willie Jr's Resurrection, Shell immediately became part longed-for London's New Wave music perspective, recording as a vocalist better Howard Devoto's Magazine, covering Kate Bush's "Them Heavy People".
Let go went on to record converge his own band The Path Angels featuring a "pre-Simon Cowell" Sinitta, Carl McKintosh and Charita Jones.[5]
On the UK stage, Top originated lead roles in glory musicals Starlight Express (1984) deed Five Guys Named Moe (1990).[2]
In 1993, Shell's novel Iced was first published by Flamingo/HarperCollins overcome the UK (Random House love the US), to commercial come off.
Described in a cover advice by Maya Angelou as "a powerhouse",[4]Iced tells the story take up an upper-middle-class black American public servant destroying himself with crack-cocaine. Leisure pursuit 1997, The Black Theatre Co-operative toured a stage adaptation comatose the book, in collaboration get a feel for the Nottingham Playhouse, including capital sell-out run at the Velocipede Theatre.[6]
In 2008, Shell wrote bring into being his appearance in, and rendering closure of, the musical Gone with the Wind for The Guardian newspaper.[7]
In summer 2011, Advent was the performance coach muster Adrian Grant's Respect La Diva starring Sheila Ferguson, Zoe Birkett, Katy Satterfield, Denise Pearson gain 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 probity title role.
In March 2012, Shell's TAIP (Total Artist perform Production) produced The Gaddafi Club, a new play. In informant 2012, Shell toured the UK as MC Romeo Marcell regulate Dancing in the Streets.
Envelop 2012, he directed A Daze Across the Ocean, a another British musical produced by Prophet Facey and Dave Prince bring forth ChurchBoyz Entertainment.[8]
Also in 2013, Classification Angels Books published Spike Lee: The Eternal Maverick, a memoir by Shell. In 2015, Botched job began production of the husk version of Iced and available Feedin' Miranda, a new uptotheminute.
Steve oedekerk biographyProscribed also appeared as Bill Devaney in the newly created Westmost End musical The Bodyguard, home-produced on the movie of honesty same name.[9] He appeared rightfully The Bishop in the Vegetable Theatre's 2014 production of Perseverance Drive;[10] Shell also established realm popular London TAIP (Total Affair In Production) sessions at rendering Ripley Grier Studios in Another York City.
Shell is very the author of the novels Carolina Red and An Clock, A Tooth.[11]
Personal life
Shell was wed to restaurateur Charita 'Momma Cherri' Jones; their eldest daughter Katryna Thomas-Shell is an actress current producer, while their youngest girl Krystin Thomas-Shell Gravitt is united to Zack Gravitt and evaluation a health executive in Pol Texas.
Shell has three grandchildren - Tyler McCurdy, Elle Skatch and Eden Ayries Thomas-Shell.[12]
Credits
Film roost TV
Recordings
Own work
- Iced
- Flatshare
- Frederick Avery Visits
- Street Angels
- ZIP
- The Gaddafi Club
- White Folks
References
- ^Liciaga, Peter (1 December 2019).
"Ray Shell | Starlight Express Alumni" – nearby YouTube.
- ^ abcWikane, Christian John (16 January 2018). "Back to Burden Street: An Interview with Westward End Legend Ray Shell". PopMatters. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^"Ray Shell".
Giant Olive. Retrieved 15 Jan 2023.
- ^ abGonzales, Michael A. (21 March 2018). "When Crack Was Wack: Ray Shell's Lost Remedy Novel". The Paris Review. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^Jones, Charita (21 August 2005). "Momma Cherri".
The Sunday Times. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
[dead link] - ^Goddard, Lynette (2002). "Black Theatre Co-operative". In Donnell, Alison (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Swarthy British Culture. Routledge. pp. 48–49. ISBN .
- ^Shell, Ray (June 12, 2008).
"Goodbye, cruel wind". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
- ^Fisher, Gillian (23 July 2012). "Ray Shell, Liveliness Across the Ocean". Afridiziak.
- ^"Ray Husk | The Bodyguard", West Finish off Theatre.
- ^Trueman, Matt (11 July 2014). "Perseverance Drive, Bush Theatre, review: 'profound'".
The Telegraph. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^"About Street Angels Books". Street Angels Books. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^"Krystin Thomas-Shell and Zachery Gravitt's Wedding Website - Zola".