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Nabil Shaban
born 1953 in Amman, Jordan.

Disabled actor, co-founded with Richard Tomlinson, the Graeae Theatre Company - Britain’s first and currently premier professional national theatre of disabled performers (1980).

As a theatre actor he has played Hamlet (Hamlet 1988), Jesus (Godspel 1887), Haillie Sellassie (The Emperor 1987), Ayatollah Khomeini (Iranian Nights 1989), Angelo (Measure for Measure 1990),
Imagine Drowning by Terry Johnson (1991) and Volpone (Fleshfly 1996), and Argus, a disabled freedom-fighter (D.A.R.E. 1997).
In 1998 he had his debut at the Royal National Theatre, playing the master storyteller, Rashid in Salman Rushdie'sHaroun and the Sea of Stories
BBC Radio drama includes The Ramayana (1994), and Benn Gunn in Treasure Island (1995)
On television he has appeared in Doctor Who (as the Evil Sil 1984 + 1986), Raspberry Ripple (with Faye Dunaway ) (1988), Born of Fire (1989), Deptford Graffiti (1991), Inmates (1992)
. TV documentaries The Skin Horse (sex and disability 1983) and The Fifth Gospel (disability and Christianity 1990). Children of Gaia (Danish television 1998)
Feature Films include City of Joy (1991 with Patrick Swayze), Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein (1992).He can also be seen in Age of Treason (1994), Slave of Dreams (1995).
As play-writer First to Go (1996) This stage-play is concerned with the extermination of disabled people via Nazi Euthanasia Programme. He has since written a screenplay The Inheritance based on his original First to Go play.
As film-maker, produced and directed Arts Council 30 minute short Another World (1995), which is concerned with disabled people’s experiences of haunted institutions, soon to be screened on British television.
First professional film producing and directing commission from the BBC, his independent film company SIRIUS PICTURES produced The Alien Who Lived in the Sheds, 30 minute mix of documentary and drama, screened 24th September 1997.

Alien Autopsy scene from "The Alien Who Lived in the Sheds"

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Now you can WATCH "The Alien Who Lived in the Sheds", on the Net on www.FilmFilm.com

On December 10th 1997, Nabil Shaban was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Surrey (UK), for his revolutionary work within the performing arts, in changing public perceptions of disabled people.

My theatrical agent is Wim Hans of London Management
2/4 Noel Street Soho,
LONDON.,
England, UK.
Tel: (+00 44) 171 287 9000

Links to other sites on the Web

Time Out - London’s weekly listings of entertainment, arts etc guide, also includes what’s on in other major cities around the world
The Internet Movie Database
What's On Stage
The Internet Public Library - online texts
E-Cards, postcards of the Internet - in aid of the World Wildlife Fund
Centre for Alternative Technology (UK) - Europe's foremost Eco-centre
Scientists for Global Responsibility

United Nations Development Program - daily news of the UN’s involvement in international affairs.
New Scientist - articles, daily bulletins from the renowned science weekly magazine.

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