Wallace Shawn

 is best known for his character roles in such films as The Princess Bride, Clueless, Star Trek, and Annie Hall as well as his more serious turns in the films My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42th Street, but acting for him is something of a day job. His primary mode of expression is his writing and he is a writer unlike any other.

His plays include What We Did Before Our Moth Days, Grasses of a Thousand Colors, The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Evening at the Talk House, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Marie and Bruce. He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and he scripted and starred in Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov’s play Uncle Vanya. His 2014 film A Master Builder was based on the play by Henrik Ibsen.

The Catastrophic Theatre’s love of Wallace Shawn is well documented by its hit productions of Our Late Night, Marie and Bruce, Evening at the Talk House, and The Designated Mourner, each of which was declared a “can’t miss” production by major critics in Houston. Audiences returned again and again, armed with friends.