Profile
Ethnicity
Samoan
Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Height
185 cm
Age Range
34–44
Career Highlights
Shadon is a television, theatre and film actor who is best-known on screen for playing the role of Matiu Thompson on renowned Kiwi soap Shortland Street.Other television credits include appearances in Power Rangers, Spartacus and Find Me a Māori Bride. Shadon has extensive experience in theatre, having worked locally and internationally with youth based theatre projects. He helped set up the theatre collective Polynesian Laboratory, where he co-directed their maiden production LeTonu: The Decision. His own stage credits include lead roles in Red Leaps Theatre’s production of The Arrival, Sui Moa’s play No Man’s Land, and more recently Auckland Theatre Company’s The Seagull.
Feature Film.
2022 | Darkest Light | Dr Taumata (Supporting) | SnowForge Films Dir. Floris Van Gaalen |
Film Film.
2021 | Shut Eye | Doctor Jacobs (Supporting) | Lumin Productions Dir. Thomas Levesque |
Short Film.
2009 | High Risk Team | Student Doctor | Dir. Jason Stutter |
2008 | Shopping for One | Shopping Assistant / Zombie King | Altiplano Productions |
2007 | Levy and Mia | (Lead) | NZ Film School |
Short Film.
2007 | Consequence | (Lead) | NZ Film School |
2007 | Kissing Butterflies | (Lead) | NZ Film School |
Television.
2023 | Double Parked | Fireman (Guest) | Dir. Chris Parker |
2023 | My Life Is Murder S3 | Setu (Guest) | Dir. Various |
2022 | Rurangi S2 | Andy (Guest ) | Dir. Max Curry |
2022 | Toi Time Season 1 - 3 | Wolfy (Supporting) | |
2019 | Shortland Street | Matiu Thompson (Supporting Guest) | South Pacific Pictures Dir. Various |
2015 | Find Me a Maori Bride | Stan Leota | Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions |
2012 | Spartacus | Male Slave | Pacific Renaissance Spartacus Ltd |
2011 | Power Rangers | Vendor | Power Rangers Production Ltd |
2010 | The Investigator | Samuel Kirner | Red Sky Dir. Bryan Bruce |
2009 | M I B - Documentary | Murderer 1 and 2 | Gibson Group |
2007 | Sensing Murder | Murderer 1 | Ninox |
Theatre.
2023 | King Lear | Cornwell | Auckland Theatre Company Dir. Michael Hurst & Ben Henson |
2021 | Ladies Night | Wes (Lead) | Court Theatre Dir. Sam Sneddon |
2020 | The Seagull | Trigotin | Auckland Theatre Company Dir. Eleanor Bishop |
2020 | UPU - NZ Arts Festival | Peformer | Silo Theatre |
2019 | Upu Mai Whetu | Dir. Teuila Grace | |
2018 | The Arrival | Red Leap | Brisbane Arts Festival |
2018 | The Arrival Role | The Traveler (Lead) | Red Leap Dir. Julie Nolan |
2017 | Waiting | (Lead) | Nelson Fringe Dir. Sos & Sha Creative |
2014 | 2080 | Bartholomew | ATC Next Stage Dir. Katie Wolfe |
2014 | Goodbye My Feleni | (Lead) | Hekama Productions Dir. Amelia Reid-Meredith |
2014 | No Man's Land | (Lead) | Tales from the Kava Bowl |
2014 | Sea | Ensemble/Antagonis | Red Leap Theatre Company |
2013 | The Arrival | (Lead) | Red Leap Theatre Company |
2012 | Goodbye My Feleni | Solider | Dir. Chris Malloy |
2012 | The Laramie Project | Multiple | Alacrity Productions |
2012 | The Laramie Project | Multiple | Alacrity Productions |
2011 | Woman's Work | Multiple Characters | K.C Kelly |
2010 | Auckland Playwrights | S.A.S Soldier | The Edge, Auckland Playwrights Dir. Paul Forrester |
2010 | Havoc In The Garden | Davis | Playmarket, Massive Company Dir. Sam Scott |
2010 | His Mother's Son - Leilani Unasa | Stephen | Playmarke Dir. Katrina Chandra |
2010 | Le Tauvaga - Louise Tu'u | Playmarket Dir. Heto Ah Hi | |
2010 | Out At Sea | Tall | Dir. Sebastian Sommers |
2009 | Building Strong Families | Ensemble | Refugee Forum Dir. Leo-Gene Peters |
2009 | Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht | Azdak | Dir. Christian Penny |
2009 | Go Solo | Donald Francis Meredith | Sophie Roberts |
2008 | Anything Goes | Solo / Chorus | Dir. Lyndee-Jane Rutherford, Laughton Patrick |
2008 | Mountain Language - Harold Pinter | The Prisoner | Dir. David Nevell |
2008 | Pakiwaitara | Harbour Board Chorus | Dir. Jade Eriksen, Teina Moetara |
2008 | Party Time - Harold Pinter | Jimmy | Dir. Bill Guest |
2008 | Some Girl(s) - Neil Labute | The Man | Dir. Rachel Moore, Nathaniel lees, Jonathan Hendry |
2008 | The Tempest - Shakespeare | Prospero | Dir. John Bolton |
2007 | His Mother's Son | Stephen | Chicken Head Productions Dir. Katrina Chandra |
Voice.
2012 | Sealord | Saatchi Saatchi Auckland | |
2010 | Skin Deep - Ole Maiava | Radio NZ Dir. Jason Te Kare | |
2009 | O Le Samaria - David Mamea | Radio NZ Dir. Jason Te Kare | |
2008 | Leone - Tusi Tamasese | Radio NZ Dir. Jason Te Kare |
Web Series.
2016 | Awkward Love | TVNZ Dir. Emmett Skilton |
Training.
Stevie Ray Advanced Acting - McGregor Casting - 2019 | |||
Advanced Screen Workshop - Liz Mullane and Rachel Bullock - 2018 | |||
The 'Actor in Process' - Sara Wiseman - 2018 | |||
Self Taped Audition Masterclass - Taking Control - 2017, McSweeney Newman Casting Australia, Dave Newman | |||
Play/Text Workshop - The Actor's Laboratory, Christian Penny - 2011 | |||
Toi Whakaari, NZ Drama School - Bachelor of Performing Arts - Acting - 2009 | |||
Diploma in Stage and Screen - The New Zealand College of Performing Arts - 2006 |