These are some of the people I've been since adolescence – click on image to view it at full size...

As you can see, at various times I've been John Candy, Santa Claus, Wayne Hussey of The Mission, Beach Boy Brian Wilson in his "sandbox" period, theatre directors Peter Hall, Ian Rickson and Polly Teale, and – briefly – Art Garfunkel.

(Yes, you may have noticed one of them isn't actually me, but I used the picture on a photo-I.D. card and nobody ever queried it, so I reckon it deserves a place here...)

Frankly horrifying, isn't it?

As for the rest of it...

Full name:	Terence Ian Shuttleworth
Date of birth:	6th July, 1963
Place of birth:	Belfast
Current residence:	Berlin and Sankt Goarshausen
E-mail:	by clicking here
Marital status:	Divorced
Education:	Queens’ College, Cambridge1983–1990 (doctoral research student 1987–1990) Royal Belfast Academical Institution 1975–1982
Current regular work:	Now retired
Past contributions:
Newspapers:	The Sunday Times Guardian London Evening Standard Observer Independent (also Award/Listings Administrator and judge, Edinburgh Fringe coverage and Independent Theatre Award, 1990–95) Daily Mail Sun Scotsman The Stage
Magazines:	Private Eye Stagebill (New York) magazine Plays & Players (incl. writing and editing Fringe section of 1993 Yearbook) Screen International Broadcast OK! What’s On In London City Life (Manchester) Live Don’t Tell It Voyager Irish Theatre
Broadcast:	BBC Radio 3Nightwaves BBC Radio 4Kaleidoscope
Past regular jobs:
1991–2002:	Editor, Noises Off, daily magazine of National Student Drama Festival
1991–1993:	Editor, Theatre and Books sections, City Limits magazine
1993–1994:	edited a series of books for Campden Publishing
1994–2019:	Financial Times, as theatre, comedy and sometime live music critic, (joint) senior theatre critic 2007–2019, reviewing in London, nationally and internationally
2000–2002:	UK Theatre reviewer for www.divento.com (European arts review/listings Web site run by Vivendi Universal), from its inception to its demise
2004–2005:	Theatre and comedy reviewer for Teletext until the section was abolished
2004–2016:	Editor/publisher of Theatre Record magazine
2015–2019:	The Lady (no, really) as theatre critic
Publications, performance, media:
Books:	The Föhn Directory¸ pamphlet of verse, 1987 (“the only real poet” of my generation – Geoffrey Hill) Ken & Em (unauthorised Branagh/Thompson biography), Headline Books, 1994 Major contributor to Reading The Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion To Buffy & Angel, surprise best-seller, Tauris Parke, 2001 (revised and updated second edn. 2004)
Theatrical:	Some 30 student productions 1984–1990, as actor, director and/or producer Wrote/performed/designed/produced/marketed solo stand-up show Critical Mass ("Comic Genius" –The Independent) on Edinburgh Fringe 1997 (subject of scurrilous Channel Four TV programme in the Critical Condition series, 1998), and double-act Critical Mass II: Return Of The Hack in 1998 Acting/production work on the 24-hour play The Warp by Neil Oram, presented by Ken Campbell, in several of its 1997-2000 manifestations Screen appearances include White Knuckle Ride (short, 1993) and El Efecto Mariposa (The Butterfly Effect) (Fernando Colomo, 1996)
Music:	Founded and continue to run music label Cemental Health Records, issuing some 40 cassette/CD titles since 1982 from roster of more than two dozen artists. Production, engineering, programming, mixing, instrumental, vocal, press and marketing work. Once knocked U2 off the number one spot!
No relation to:	Ian Shuttleworth Ian Shuttleworth Ian Shuttleworth etc.

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