Shannon works in project development with production partner and longtime friend Taye Diggs. They have created content in partnership with BET, TBS, ABC, WeTV, Hulu and they had a development agreement with The CW Network. While under the CW umbrella Stoeke and Diggs created and Executive Produced two Musical Variety Shows: The Black Pack We Three Kings and Excellence featuring Taye Diggs, Ne-Yo, Erick Bellinger, Tank, Amber Riley, Sevyn Streeter and Jordin Sparks. They also created an 8 Episode podcast series called Hot and Fathered, which examined the many faces of fatherhood.
Shannon is a Los Angeles based Producer, Acting Teacher/Coach, Writer/Consultant and Collaborative Storyteller.
The Black Pack 2 Specials on CW “We Three Kings’ and “Excellence”
Additional Executive Producer credit:
Back in the Groove streaming on Hulu.
Shannon served as the Host-Consultant/ Writer for the 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards network broadcasts (CW and TBS)
and as a consultant for the 2018 ABC Network Broadcast of the opening ceremony of The Special Olympics.
ABC broadcast of the Special Olympics Opening ceremony
Taye Diggs and Shannon co-wrote a children’s book for Baskin Robbins featuring branded characters called The Festival of Creatures. As a writing duo they have another children’s project in the works with Feiwel and Friends an Imprint of Macmillan Publishers.
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In collaboration with Andrew Palermo, Stoeke co-authored the book for the musical Nickel Mines. Nickel Mines won the Social Impact Award at the New York Musical Festival and had its first professional production at ACT of Connecticut in 2022. The work had it’s inception at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
What critics have said:
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ACT of Connecticut has struck gold with NICKEL MINES”
“A successful entry is “Nickel Mines,” a chamber musical that hauntingly navigates a thorny matter…While unbearably sad - but also beautiful…the show is not mawkish or manipulative. ”