Calvin Ray Shawler, Conservatory Editor
Calvin Ray Shawler (they/them) fell in love with the performing arts from an early age as a means of personal expression and radical imagination. They pursue it unswervingly through music and theatre, writing and directing many full length theatre pieces including Eurydice Tells Orpheus Goodbye (2024), The Transit Trilogy (2024), Mirror Mirror (2023), Wait for Me, Goodbye, Look Up, I Love You (2023), Stitch by Stitch (2022), and [INSERT future HERE] (2022), which garnered a Tri-Valley Innovators Award. They have also written and directed short films “A Beautiful Night” (2023), “Things I Should Probably Throw Out” (2022), and “one step at a time orpheus and eurydice draw closer to the morning sun” (2024), the latter two winning awards at the Las Po Film Festival. Recent onstage roles include Peter in Wolf Play and Baz in A Bright Room Called Day. They are the Bay Area Creative Foundation’s 2023 Creative Youth Award recipient, and their prolific classical composition catalog has acquired awards from United States Open Music Competition, National Guild of Piano Teachers, Music Teachers National Association, and MusicIN Artist Competition. They currently study Music Composition at Oberlin, where they write for the Oberlin Review.
