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Quills: Dan Shelton

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Dan Shelton emerged from a box in 2003 at Tate Britain and won the Creative Minorities award for art. Dan danced with High Spin Dance company and toured in the company production Electric Bouquet. Dan graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2007 with an MA in screen acting. He played the role of ‘The Mariner’ in an adaptation of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner at Hoxton Hall with Lotos Collective, worked with Julia Bardsley on her project Meta family, played in the horror film ‘Seasoning house’, toured with the Olympic torch, and worked in ‘These Associations’ at the Tate Modern. Dan continues to explore his twin passions psychological analysis and vintage motorcycles.

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What is your role in the production?

Monsieur Prouix. He is a lyrical conquistador, a fastidious and calculating artisan with a deep love and desire for the finest things in life, mixing business with pleasure in acquiring and manipulating beautiful things and enjoying money and other vices; sarcastic, fashionista, and professional dandy.

How did you first get involved in theatre? 

When I was a toddler my mother used to take me to see street theatre in Brighton and I used to watch Stomp and other such acts in there early days performing on the streets of Brighton. The company that most inspired me was Ziz Ziz Kaboom a double act that mixed clowning with circus dance and story telling. Mim who was ‘Mimmosa’ is now an friend of mine and still dancing her daughter also a friend is a burlesque circus performer and they together with Voodoo Vaudeville became my first experience of performing in alternative theatre.

What was your first impression of ‘Quills’?

Delicious, scandalous and totally fascinating…