Shawn Sides

Shawn Sides is a founder and a Co-Producing Artistic Director of Rude Mechs in Austin, TX, where she has co-conceived, co-adapted, and directed a new work every year, give or take, since 1996. Shawn is an Alpert Hedgebrook Prize recipient and was included with her fellow Rudes into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in 2010. She is also a 2015 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award recipient.