SHANNON HARVEY is a co-founder of Messenger Theatre Co. along with Emily Davis and Agathe David-Weill. She was the design director for Persephone, creating the masks and puppets. She also designed the puppets and masks for the company’s production of The Golden Apple: For the Fairest, performed at the Kraine Theater, May 2003. Additional Messenger Theatre projects include designing a street performance with puppets for the Lysistrata Project, an international act of theatrical dissent against the war in Iraq, and a short Punch and Judy style puppet play titled The Enemy.

Shannon is a mixed media artist whose work has focused on interactive story-based painting, installation, and public art. She strives to combine elements of ritual and storytelling in her work, as she believes them to be powerful forms of communication. Often inspired by characters from mythology, she strives to find the connections between our basic human experiences and these larger than life stories.

Currently, Shannon makes her home in Vancouver Canada where she exhibits her work and is involved with various groups to promote arts and culture in the city. She’s the founder of Monkey100, a business that combines art and activism using the t-shirt as a mobile canvas. ( www.mky100.com) Though no longer living in NYC, Shannon continues to collaborate on Messenger Theatre projects long distance via Skype, email, phone and mental telepathy.