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model

artist

Shawnee is currently taking part in a workshop project, The Master and Margarita

In April 2025, Shawnee will play Jessica in an upcoming production of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth

Shawnee Pearl Badger is an actor (SAG-AFTRA), writer, internationally published model, and artist living in Los Angeles, CA. Theatre credits: Laura in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (The Main Theatre/Dir: Luck Hari); Catherine in Proof by David Auburn (The Main Theatre/Dir: James Castle Stevens); Corie, in Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon (The Main Theatre/Dir: Patrick T. Rogers); Louise in The Underpants by Steve Martin (The Main Theatre/Dir: Marlowe Weisman); Death in Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (CalArts/Dir: Damian D. Lewis); Eurydice in Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (The Main Theatre/Dir: Luck Hari); Polly in The Gingerbread Lady by Neil Simon (The Main Theatre/Dir: Brad Sergi). Education: BFA in Acting with a minor in Creative Writing from California Institute of the the Arts (CalArts).

Other current projects include a short film, The Climb, which she is writing and will star in, shooting early 2025; additionally Shawnee is revising a one act play she wrote based on true events and her childhood passion of saving oak trees, titled Treesitter. Her work was selected as a finalist in the 33rd Annual Pittsburgh New Works Festival in 2024.