Waen Shepherd was born in 1971 in Yorkshire, England. He was educated
at Oriel College, part of Oxford University, where he became a member
of the Oxford Revue where he continued to explore his creative talents
as a performer and writer,
Waen is versatile comedy character actor, well known for his musical
characters such as electro-pop artist, Gary Le Strange and surf-rock
legend, Colin Watson. These characters have their own songs and several
albums, which can now be accessed online through tools like Spotify and
also purchased via ITunes. Waen has enjoyed making many radio
recordings at the BBC over the years and he has developed a way to be
able to record broadcast quality music and audio using his own home
studio set up.
Waen has always enjoyed exploring the darker, stranger (and more
interesting) sides of the human psyche through his characterisations,
so it was no surprise when he was asked to consider playing the
geography teacher, Mr Kennedy, in "The Inbetweeners" TV series.
Waen is a gifted composer, writing original incidental music, TV theme
tunes and bespoke pieces for a variety of creative media projects and
production companies, including being series composer for Crackanory and the BBC's ground-breaking comedy series Murder in Successville.
Having scored several award-winning short films, Waen recently composed a feature-length soundtrack for The Ghoul (2014), an Independent British film by Gareth Tunley and Ben Wheatley.
