Atticus Shaffer

Atticus Ronald Shaffer resides in, and is a native of, California. Being home-schooled as a child, Atticus was exposed to a myriad of mediums and genres of art by his mother, ranging from extensive museum exhibits to discovering the joy of reading storybooks out loud in character voices. When he was 7, after completing a year long run of fund-raising work for Shriner's Hospital in Los Angeles, information for a talent manager was found, who he went to meet about potentially signing on for voice over work. His mother thought he had a cute voice, and thought he could potentially be a book on tape reader, or cartoon character. After meeting with the manager, who wanted to sign Atticus on for both theatrical and voice over work, his career snowballed, as he quickly landed multiple theatrical TV, commercial, and movie roles in succession. Not the least of which was his role in the original pilot for ABC's The Middle, which he would be invited back to reprise two years later. Despite the long hours dedicated to working on the hit sitcom, Atticus also managed to create a voice over and animation resume that's a mile long, with roles on Disney's The Lion Guard and Frankenweenie, Netflix's Harvey Street Kids, and Amazon Prime's Pete the Cat, among many others. As Atticus became an adult, he has fed his hunger for learning by studying all of the departments that go in to TV and movie production. He has made several award winning short films, and was invited to be a student in the Warner Bros. Director's Workshop; an intensive film school like vetting process that equips professionals with the real world know-how of sitting in the director's chair, and simultaneously vetting them to be qualified to direct Warner Bros. television projects. He graduated the program with honors. While he still has a desire to continue acting, both theatrically and in voice over/animation, he has a great passion now for directing, writing, and producing. It is his hope to now create a new section of his resume riddled with numerous projects bearing his name on the director card. Atticus is an unapologetic nerd, and enjoys his time when he is not working writing, reading, watching good TV shows/movies, listening to his favorite music, gaming, studying topics of interest, and learning to speak Polish, his ancestral language. He has also developed a couple of side careers; one centered on gaming on the live stream platform Twitch, the other of content creation for his channel on YouTube, AtticusShafferVlog.