Shawn Sides is a co-producing artistic director of Rude Mechanicals alongside fellow actress (and also fellow artistic director in the same troupe) Lana Lesley (incidentally, both Sides and Lesley also appeared in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.) She is also an American voice actress notable for the work she did for ADV Films now-defunct Monster Island Studio in Austin, Texas from 1998 through 2005.