Don Shook, past president of the Fort Worth Poetry
Society is a writer, actor, director and producer who has worked with
such stars as Dick Clark, Cybil Shepherd, Debbie Reynolds and Betty
Buckley. Formerly with NBC in New York, he has performed in theatre,
film and television across the country including Carnegie Hall, New
York City and five years as a resident performer at Casa Manana
Musicals in Fort Worth. He was named by Angels Without Wings as the
2009 Senior Poet Laureate of Texas for his poem “This Too Shall
Pass”, and has written five novels and an acting handbook
Entitled “Actors Soup”, self-published in 2014.
