The Shark Is Broken
Josh Tyson (Roy Scheider), Timothy W. Hull (Robert Shaw), and Jonathan Randell Silver (Richard Dreyfuss) / Photos by: Paul Lyden
by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon
Directed by Guy Masteron
Produced by Bill Hanney and North Shore Music Theatre & David Elliott (Executive Producer)
with Timothy W. Hull, Jonathan Randell Silver and Josh Tyson.
Kevin Loreque (u/s Shaw and Scheider), Jacob Louchheim (u/s Dreyfuss).
Arthur Atkinson (Production Stage Manager), Ingrid Pierson (Assistant Stage Manager)
Duncan Henderson (Scenic Design), Rebecca Glick (Costume Design), Jeff Greenberg (Lighting Design), Adam Cork (Sound Design And Original Music), Alex Berg (Additional Sound Design), Nina Dunn (Projection Design)
I met Bill Hanney, the owner of North Shore Music Theatre and Theatre By The Sea not long after I departed the A.D. position at The Cape Playhouse. He had been a co-producer on the Broadway play The Shark is Broken and asked if I wanted to help him produce the show on Martha’s Vineyard in the summer of 2025 where it would coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of JAWS, filmed on the island and released in 1975. I thought it was a great idea and readily agreed!
Co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, the show originally opened on the Edinburgh Fringe, was picked up by Sonia Friedman and taken to the West End and then to Broadway. I knew the director, Guy Masterson, having met him 25 years before, and he was excited about the prospect of taking the show to the Vineyard.
We brought on the original U.K. creative team and cast some brilliant actors from New York and opened it first at North Shore Music Theatre with their amazing production team (where Kevin Hill is Artistic Director). We garnered wonderful reviews.
We have now set our sights to open July 5 at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center - taking the show to the Island where it all began…