The Shark is Broken

  • Written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon
Adult Language
Sexual Situations & Themes
Violence
Fun for the Whole Family

Description

The first summer blockbuster movie is being filmed - but no one working on the film would know it. Dive deep into the tumultuous, murky waters of the making of a major motion picture with testy, feuding costars, unpredictable weather, and a shark prop whose constant breakdowns are looking like an omen for the future of the movie. In this comedy co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, the short tempers of "Jaws" stars Robert Shaw (father of co-writer Ian Shaw), Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider take center stage as they bond, argue, drink, gamble, and pray for an end to the shoot, not knowing it will change their lives forever.

 95 minutes without intermission.

 

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Will Block
Richard Dreyfuss
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Will Block

Will Block (Richard Dreyfuss) previous credits include Hamlet in Hamlet, Caden in The Thanksgiving Play, and Brian in The Wickhams at ETC.. Will’s other regional credits include Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest, Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (Santa Cruz Shakespeare), Curley in Of Mice and Men, Fred/Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Sierra Repertory Theatre), Feste in Twelfth Night, Posthumus in Cymbeline, the Wooer in The Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare), Macqueen in the West Coast Premiere of Murder on the Orient Express (La Mirada, directed by Sheldon Epps), Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (LA Phil, directed by the RSC’s Nancy Meckler), five productions of A Christmas Carol (playing everything from Turkey Boy to Young Scrooge), Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island, and Hally in Master Harold…and the boys (Sacramento Theatre Company). Will’s TV credits include “Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story,” “The Game,” and “This is Us.” He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company in Los Angeles, CA, for whom he has directed critically acclaimed productions of All’s Well that Ends Well, All is True or Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. As an actor for the company: Prince Hal in Henry IV, Parts I and II, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Pericles. He is also a poet and dramatist, with a free verse translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac currently in development. NEXT UP: Mozart in Amadeus with Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Santa Cruz Symphony. Will is a proud graduate of UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television. Much love to Margaret and to Junebug the Hairless Wondercat.www.willblockactordirector.com.

Gildart Jackson
Robert Shaw
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Gildart Jackson

Gildart Jackson (Robert Shaw) was Gideon on the cult series “Charmed,” Ian Carlyle on “The Bold Type,” Jackson Palmer on “Providence,” Simon Prentiss on “General Hospital” and Giles the Butler/Host of ABC’s “Whodunnit?” Numerous other film and television credits include “You, The Big Brass Ring,” “Supernatural,” “Stargate: Atlantis,” “Atlas Shrugged,” “Burn Notice,” “The Young and the Restless,” “Feud,” “CSI”, “NCIS”.  He has been on stage in recent productions of The Seagull, My Fair Lady, Private Eyes, Tempest Redux. As a voice actor he plays Flyseyes on “Castlevania”, Major Montana Max on “Hellsing Ultimate,” Alfred Pennyworth in the WB Batman videogame “Gotham Knights” and Jack Doyle in the new Warren Ellis “Department of Midnight” podcast series. Gildart has also narrated over 400 audiobooks. Favorites include Peter Grainger’s “D.C. Smith” series (13 amazing books and counting…), “The Son” by Jo Nesbø, “You Will Not Have My Hate” by Antoine Leiris and Richard Branson’s autobiography “The Virgin Way.” He has won an Audie, been nominated twice more, and received numerous other audiobook awards. During the Covid lockdown Gildart began “Fireside Reading”: live and recorded readings of classics novels in front of the fire. Please check out www.firesidereading.com.

Adam Poole
Roy Scheider
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Adam Poole

Adam Poole (Roy Scheider) is overjoyed to be making his Laguna Playhouse debut! A NC native who now resides in Los Angeles, Adam’s previous regional credits include The Shark is Broken (ETC Santa Barbara, NC Stage Company), Peter and the Starcatcher, The 1940’s Radio Hour, Big Fish, Significant Other, Lombardi, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Few Good Men, Crimes of the Heart, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Avenue Q (Theatre Raleigh).Million Dollar Quartet (Barter Theatre, Musical Theatre West, 5-Star Theatricals, and Virginia Theatre Festival), Ragtime, Julius Caesar, Native Son, Jump, She Loves Me, Dot, Tartuffe, Sweeney Todd (PlayMakers Repertory) Grease (North Carolina Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Bartlett Theater), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer the Musical (Broadway Series South), The Full Monty, Annie Get Your Gun (Theatre Workshop of Nantucket) Some of his film/tv credits include “FBI,” “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” “The Resident,” “Max Steel,” “Well Wishes,” “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” “The Originals,” “Under the Dome,” “Revolution.” He received his M.F.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Graduate Acting Program. For more info, check out @adammpoole on Instagram or at adammpoole.com

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