Henry James William Shields (born 21 August 1988) is an English playwright and actor. Shields grew up in Hastings and his family still live there. He initially studied nursing at university but dropped out after a year and auditioned for drama school, gaining a place at LAMDA. It was while there that he met the collaborators with whom he would go on to form

Mischief Theatre Mischief Theatre is a British theatre company that was founded in 2008 by a group of students from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in West London, and directed by Henry Lewis (playwright), Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shi ...

company. He is best known for starring in the plays ''

The Play That Goes Wrong ''The Play That Goes Wrong'' is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company. The story follows a performance of a murder mystery, where the ill-fated theatre company encounters numerous mishaps. The ...

Peter Pan Goes Wrong ''Peter Pan Goes Wrong'' is a comedy play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of the Mischief Theatre company, creators of '' The Play That Goes Wrong'' (2012). Premise The fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society attempts ...

,'' and '' The Comedy About a Bank Robbery,'' which he also co-wrote along with Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer, as well as the TV adaptation ''

The Goes Wrong Show ''The Goes Wrong Show'' is a British Television comedy, comedy television series created by Henry Lewis (playwright), Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and produced by Mischief Theatre, Mischief Screen and Big Talk Productions, in a ...

''. He has been nominated for three

Olivier Awards The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply The Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognize excellence in West End theatre, professional theatre in London. The awards were originally known as the Society of We ...

for Best New Comedy, winning in 2015 for ''The Play That Goes Wrong.''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shields, Henry 1988 births Living people English male stage actors English male television actors English male dramatists and playwrights 21st-century English male writers 21st-century English dramatists and playwrights 21st-century English male actors Male actors from Hastings Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art People educated at Cranbrook School, Kent Writers from Hastings