Curtis D Shepard is a gifted actor, writer and spoken word artist. As a current resident at The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, he is coming off his second sold out show (in 2024) while still developing a third for worldwide debut at the Playhouse.
He has performed at the Aronoff, The Ensemble
Theatre, The KNOW Theatre, The Cincinnati Children’s Theatre and The Falcon Theatre in
Newport, Kentucky. He also worked as a guest artist at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
He is the founder of the grass roots, non-profit support group for dads, DAAM, http://ourdaamlegacy.org. The primary mission is to Support Moms with More than Money by encouraging absent dads to be present dads, present dads to be good dads, good dads to be great dads and great dads to share their strengths and experiences. Their annual events include Plant with Dads and Legacy Letters, and they are looking to add Yoga with Dads to the list this year.
Curtis worked with the creative minds of The Breath Project and actors from across the country in 2021 to pull together his production of “Get Off Of Me’, which was performed at the first Pacific Northwest Multi Cultural Readers Series & Film Festival in Portland, Oregon as a virtual staged reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fBwQJwIebE&t=17s
In 2022, he toured with his two, one-man shows, ‘UnMasked’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j1X60vbffM&t=13s and ‘Sidewaze Rain’ and co-starred in Greg Stallworth’s stage play, ‘Trapped.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsE3lrA_6_o
Curtis is busy creating new works such as: ‘Ronnie and Vince’, ‘The Kitchen Table’ and, ‘DAAM…the Stage Play’.
He is carving out his own unique way of sharing his gifts through raw, unapologetic storytelling, humor, and spoken word