ShaCage
Theatre
N.I.G.G.E.R.
Grounded
Agnes under the big top
U.G.L.Y.
Romeo + Juliet
Khephra
Khephra
U.G.L.Y.
Eclipsed
SHA CAGE is a renaissance artist who writes, directs and acts in theater and film. She has been called a change-maker and one of the leading artists of her generation. Her work has taken her across the U.S. to Japan, Africa, England, Bosnia and Canada. Her directing credits include 36 Yesses (Cornerstone Theater), Clare Baron’s Dance Nation (Guthrie/UMN), Joselyn Bioh’s School Girls (Arkansas Rep) and (Jungle Theater), Michael Bobbit’s adaptation of Three Little Birds (The Children’s Theater), Benjamin Benne’s Neighbors (MN History Theater), Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody (Guthrie/UMN), Shavunda Horsley’s BITCH (Bedlam Theater), Waterfront’s The Viking and the Gazelle (Mixed Blood Theater) and Buttafly Precinct which she authored (Black Lives/ Black Words Festival). She was seen last on stage as Hermione in Ten Thousand Things Winter’s Tale and Lady Capulet in The Guthrie Theater’s Romeo and Juliet. Recent commissioned poetry and plays she’s written include New Day (Women’s Foundation), Khephra (Open Eye Figure Theater), Hidden Figures (Stages), Butterfly Precinct and Shhh for Cornerstone’s Venice Storytellers. Her published writings appear in Blues Vision, Locker Room Talk, Home and the anthology A Moment of Silence which she edited.
Film credits include: the feature documentary Underbelly that spotlights healing and activism in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, Kiss the Tiger’s Grown Ass Woman, New Neighbors (Sundance), horror short; You’re Home Now, At the Corner of Experimental Doc series, narrative features Jasmine is a Star, 39 Seconds; The John Donaldson Story, The Guthrie Theater’s Dickens Holiday Classic and Ten Thousand Things Handprints. Sha is an ensemble member of Cornerstone Theater Company and the 2021 inaugural Lloyd Richards New Futures Fellow. She has led racial justice & equity work in community through Tru Ruts for the past 20 years and Film work through Black Star Studios. She’s a proud member of the Playwrights’ Center, the Dramatist Guild, Actor’s Equity, SAG, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and holds TCG, McKnight, Doris Duke, Emmy and Ivey awards.
“I’m drawn to roles as an actor that are going to confuse me, frustrate me, make me have to work. Those most people run away from are the ones I run toward. If the journey was like running uphill, I know it’s just gonna make me a better artist.” ~ Shá Cage, 2023, MN Spokesman Recorder