Andrew Shaver is an actor, director, broadcaster, and the songwriter behind Clever Hopes, whose latest single, Holding On, went to #1 on the CBC Music Top 20  in December 2025 and was the tenth most voted for song of the year in the CBC Music Year End Countdown.  What a world.

He has acted on stages of all sizes across North America, including the Stratford Festival, The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, PS 122 in NYC, the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, and The Ed Mirvish in Toronto. He has amassed over 50 TV/Film credits, acting in projects that include, Star Trek Discovery, Reign, Anne with an E, Arrival, I’m Not There, The Glass Castle, and 300.

He hosts a nationally syndicated weekly new music radio show and accompanying interview podcast, both, called When We Wake with Andrew Shaver and was host the originating host of the Night Shift on Go Rock in Lunenburg, NS. 

He has directed everything from site-specific immersive theatre, to Shakespeare, to commercial touring shows. His production of Grease for Just For Laughs sold over 100,000 tickets. He is helming a multi-disciplinary concert entitled Letters to the Future, which premieres in Glasgow, January 31, 2026 and then heads to the Southbank Centre in London the following week.

He was Realization Director for RedStorm, a Ubisoft Studio, leading teams across multiple studios responsible for all cinematic  aspects of Assassin’s Creed NexusVR. He also worked as a cinematic designer building scenes in the Unity engine for Side Quest now on Apple TV+.

You can find him on Instagram as THEandrewshaver, was obviously a little late to the game.  

Wanna get in touch? andrew@theandrewshaver.com

One of Canada’s best directors. Shaver is tops. MONTREAL GAZETTE

In one of his career’s strangest turns, he once officiated an art wedding, in French, between Jean Paul Gauthier (yes, that, JPG) and artist Kent Monkman at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.

Have a look.