| Wilder Shaw | |
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Shaw performing at The Purple Onion in San Francisco |
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| Born | Wilder Seth Baer Shaw February 15, 1989 Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Wilder Shaw (born February 15, 1989) is an American comedian, actor, and writer from Los Angeles, California, though he is currently based in San Francisco. He is known for his YouTube sketch comedy troupe Soapbox Comedy, as well as Story Time Corner, and Single.
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Alongside internet series, Shaw is known for his independent comedy film collaborations with Ezra Edmond. One of their early projects, "Spackelton Joes: The Painter With Woes" won the Campus MovieFest 2007 award for best costume, as well as a Golden Tripod, and San Francisco State University's Chocolate Strawberry Award for Filmmaking. A June 2008 short featured a musical improvisational comedy known as "Crayons and Fun: Studio Recordings" - a parody video about a muppet and a bear trying to record a children's music album. He and Edmond are currently in post production of their first feature film Single, which is their directorial debut and Shaw's biggest role to date.
As of July 2011, Shaw has been working on the upcoming Seth Rogen/Barbara Streisand comedy, My Mother's Curse, as both a photo-double for Rogen and a brief appearance as 18 year-old Andy Brewster.
Shaw was born in Los Angeles, California to television writer Rick Shaw and voice actor, Ellie Baer. Since his father worked on the television show The Nanny, Shaw was able to get a small role in one episode as a trick-or-treater. This led him into the film and television world, landing a few roles in television and doing multiple uncredited voiceover work in the video game industry, namely the popular Xbox 360 game, Mass Effect. In 2008 Shaw placed in the top 10 for a national YouTube contest for tickets to the premiere of Get Smart. He came in only as a runner up, though, somewhat ironically was seen at the premiere anyway.
On the side, Shaw does standup comedy in San Francisco and writes for the popular movie blog, The Movie Watch.
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes | |
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| 1993 | America's Funniest People | Himself | ||
| 1995 | Biography | Young Nostradamus | ||
| 1998 | The Nanny | Trick-or-Treater | ||
| 1999 | Kids Choice Awards '99 | Slimer | ||
| 2009 | Funny People | Audience Member | (Uncredited) | |
| 2009 | Single | Kevin | ||
| 2011 | My Mother's Curse | 18 Year-Old Andy |