Stephen Shank is a director, actor

Actor

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, writer

Writer

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, set designer and artist

Artist

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 who has worked in theatre

Theatre

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 and television

Television

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. He was born of American parents in Brussels

Brussels

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, Belgium

Belgium

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. He is bilingual in English

English language

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 and French

French language

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He currently lives in Brussels, Belgium.

In July 2011, he will be directing the stage world premiere of Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...

's The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...

in the ruins of the Cistercian  Abbey of Villers-la-Ville

Villers-la-Ville

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, Belgium

Belgium

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. See Villers Abbey

Villers Abbey

Villers Abbey is an ancient Cistercian abbey located near the town of Villers-la-Ville in the Brabant province of Wallonia , one piece of the Wallonia's Major Heritage. Founded in 1146, the abbey was abandoned in 1796...

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Director

Year	Title/Author	Location/Theatre	Notes
2011	Les Miserables Les Misérables Les Misérables , translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims), is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century... , Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....	Butte du Lion Butte du Lion The Lion's Mound is a large conical artificial hill raised on the battlefield of Waterloo to commemorate the location where William II of the Netherlands was knocked from his horse by a musket ball to the shoulder during the battle...  de Waterloo
2011	The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory... , Umberto Eco	Abbey of Villers-la-ville
2005 - 2011	Voilà, Stephen Shank
2007	Passionnément Anna Magdalena, Anna Magdalena Bach
2007	Le Flamand aux longues Oreilles, David Sheinert	Théâtre du Méridien
2006	La Tentation, Hugo Claus	Théâtre du Méridien
2006	La ballade du Grand Macabre, Michel de Ghelderode	Abbey of Villers-la-ville, Théâtre Royal des Galeries, Festival de Théâtre de Spa, Atelier Théâtre Jean Vilar - Aula Magna
2005	Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, Gustave Flaubert	Théâtre du Méridien
2005	La Tempête, William Shakespeare	Théâtre du Méridien
2004	Le Judgement, Barry Collins	Théâtre du Méridien
2003	Le Roi se meurt, Eugène Ionesco	Théâtre du Méridien
2002	Les Misérables, Victor Hugo	Abbey of Villers-la-ville
2002	Le Contrat, Mrozek	Théâtre Le Public
2001	La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas	Abbey of Villers-la-ville
1998	Images de la vie de Saint François d’Assise, Michel de Ghelderode.	Abbey of Villers-la-ville
1998	Mademoiselle Jaïre, Michel de Ghelderode.	Théâtre royal du Parc Théâtre Royal du Parc The Théâtre Royal du Parc is a theatre at 3, Rue de la Loi in Brussels, on the edge of the Parc de Bruxelles facing the Federal Parliament...
1992	Ceci n’est vraiment pas un déjeuner sur l’herbe, Peter Valley

Actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005 - 2011	Voilà	Jacques
2004	Le Jugement	Voukov
2003	Le Roi se meurt	The doctor
2001	Couple ouvert à deux battants	The man
1998	Hernani	Don Ricardo
1998	Angelo Tyrant of Padoue	Homodeï
1997	Adorable Julia	Jean Paul Fernois
1997	La Nonna	Carmelo
1996	Barabbas	Pilate
1996	Boule de Suif	The Lieutenant von Stauffenberg
1995	Pinocchio	The Cricket
1994	Hamlet	Horatio
1993	Verres	Him
1992	Ceci n’est vraiment pas un déjeuner sur l’herbe	The son
1991 -1992	Revelation	John