“Not only is Shonn Wiley one of the small handful of true triple threat performers in the city, but he is one of an even smaller group that can hold an audience in the palm of his hand for an entire one-person musical." An actor, Shonn “brings enormous warmth, commitment, and sensitivity to a role that needs it. He succeeds brilliantly. As an actor, singer, and dancer, he manages to be charming and riveting at the same time.”

 

Shonn started 2008 off wonderfully with his unexpected debut as the title character in Candide at New York City Opera. That same month he filmed a scene opposite Isla Fisher in the up-coming Disney movie, Confessions of a Shopaholic. Shonn was then seen as the “impossibly patient lover” Tom Trainor in City Center Encores! No, No, Nanette. In October, Shonn will begin rehearsals for the new off-Broadway musical My Vaudeville Man at The York Theatre. The show was originally seen last year in the New York Music Theatre Festival, titled Mud Donahue & Son.  Shonn will reprise the role of Jack Donahue and also serve as co-choreographer. For more information and to hear songs from the up-coming album visit www.myvaudevilleman.com

2006 and 2007 proved very busy for Shonn as he wrapped filming on the teen-slasher movie Redhook (2009), Co-Starred in Stairway to Paradise opposite Kristen Chenoweth for City Center Encores!,  starred as the male lead in the upcoming movie Tiny Dancer (2009), and helped develop the conspiracy web-series titled Code Name:.

In the summer of 2005, he co-starred in the musical Ragtime as Younger Brother at the Paper Mill Playhouse. After a successful run Shonn then originated the title role in the one-man musical The View From Here by composer/lyricst Timothy Huang. The show is described as such:  A nameless novelist arrives in New York intent on getting his first book published.  As he recounts his daily misadventures in a series of letters to his girl back home, we see through his eyes the colorful eccentric, vibrant and wildly bizarre characters that make up his new life, and the tragic events that make up his old one. The View From Here received many festival citations and a subsequent cast album was produced. 

In 2001, Shonn made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award Winning Revival of 42nd Sreet.  He was a proud member of the original cast and the understudy of the juvenile lead Billy Lawlor.  A role he performed numerous times.  Shonn was then asked to star in a groundbreaking production of 42nd Street in Moscow. He was the first American actor to perform in an English speaking musical in Russia.

 

He returned to Broadway in 2004 orginating the role of "Dr. Jack Seward" in Dracula The Musical at the Belasco Theater.  During that same time Shonn made his television debut on CBS's Guiding Light in a recurring role as "Young Josh Lewis".

 Shonn resides in New York City with his beautiful wife, actress Meredith Patterson.

  

Shonn Eric Wiley was born on May 18^th in the small mid-western town of Adrian, Michigan. Growing up the older of two kids, Shonn excelled in sports as well as theater.  His father Herb, a tap dancer himself, enrolled Shonn in dance classes at the tender age of five. From the very first class, Shonn’s love for performing was evident.  While most fathers and sons were playing catch on the front lawn, Shonn and his dad were watching old movie musicals and trading steps.