Grant Shaud

Edward Grant Shaud III was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Anna Barbara (née Dougherty) and Edward Shaud Jr.^[1] His family is Irish Catholic.^[2] He attended Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1979. In 1983, he graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Richmond, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

In 1984, Shaud moved to New York City to begin working in theater. His first acting role in television was as a guest character named Jack on Kate & Allie, who was a college student and director on a local cable channel. In 1988, he began as Miles Silverberg on Murphy Brown. He lived with co-star Jane Leeves before and during her guest stint on the show, in which she concurrently played his girlfriend. He left in 1996 to pursue other projects, with his producer role on the show taken by Lily Tomlin.^[3] On February 26, 2018, it was announced that Shaud would return to a revival series of Murphy Brown with former co-stars Candice Bergen, Faith Ford and Joe Regalbuto.^[4]

In recent years, Shaud has done some voiceover work in animation, most notably the television series Batman: The Animated Series. He had a guest role on The Drew Carey Show as a character named Jack, who believed himself to be the devil. He also played Alex Rosetti on the sitcom Madigan Men, starring Gabriel Byrne.^{[citation needed]}

• Torch Song Trilogy, Broadway, 1986
• Today, I Am a Fountain Pen as Pete Lisanti, Theater 890, 1986
• Writer's Block as David, Atlantic Theater, 2003
• After Ashley as David, Vineyard Theatre, 2005
• Thicker than Water (multiple roles), Ensemble Studio Theatre, 2008
• Relatively Speaking (multiple roles), Brooks Atkinson Theater, 2011

• Grant Shaud at IMDb
• Grant Shaud at the Internet Broadway Database
• Grant Shaud at the Internet Off-Broadway Database