# Tia Shearer Bassett

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## Bio

Tia Shearer Bassett is an actor/creator who specializes in solo shows, children’s theatre, and playful theatre for grownups. She has served as a member of Only Make Believe, performing interactive theatre in children’s hospitals, care facilities and special education programs; an original company member at Arts on the Horizon, creating nonverbal shows for ages 0-6 and earning the title “Buster Keaton for babies;" and a member of Happy Theater, making family-friendly work like the celebrated interactive puppet show, *The Light House.* She also performs self-produced work like a live, poetic Zoom show (*Edward & Christine*) featuring her son’s toys. Acting credits include The Kennedy Center (including two national tours of Mo Willems’ *Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical,* and the world premiere of Idris Goodwin’s *From the Mouths of Monsters*), The Second City, Imagination Stage, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage. She has twice portrayed Matt Damon in *Matt and Ben,* written by Mindy Kaling and fellow Uproar playwright, Brenda Withers. She is an Audio Describer, co-creator of a web-series starring her leopard gecko: “Eugene Cheese Gets It Wrong,” founding producer of The From-Home Fest, a cancer survivor, an NYU Gallatin alum, and an advocate for joy. She is mom to an amazing kid, and married to one of her favorite collaborators, director Matt Bassett.

## Shows

a dream once lost (show slug: a-dream-once-lost)

## Links

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