Shaver is a multitalented Canadian performer, songwriter, producer, broadcaster, and director.

He releases music as Clever Hopes. His debut album Artefact was released in January 2022 and was produced by Matthew Barber. His follow-up, New Kind of Familiar, released in May 2024, again, produced by Matthew Barber. Songs from both albums have been added to rotation on CBC Radio 3, CBC Music, several SiriusXM channels, and dozens of other radio stations across North Americana. New Kind of Familiar charted in the top 200 US College Radio Charts and has been nominated for Americana Album of the Year by Music Nova Scotia.

His latest album, produced by Daniel Ledwell, will release in September 2026. Its lead single Holding On hit #1 on the CBC Music Top 20 in December, 2025 and was the 10th Most Voted for Song on The CBC Music Top 20 in all of 2025.

He produces and hosts When We Wake with Andrew Shaver, a syndicated, weekly radio program that celebrates new Canadian indie music. Interviews from the broadcast can be found in podcast form wherever you listen to podcasts. When We Wake was shortlisted in the Coast’s 2023 Best of Halifax: Best Radio Show category, and was named Runner Up in the Outstanding Variety Program at the 2024 National Campus Radio Awards, and was nominated for a Media Arts Award at the 2025 Music Nova Scotia Awards.  It can be heard on 10 stations across the country, from Bonne Bay to Prince George.

He was the Realization Director on NexusVR, a Virtual Reality Assassin’s Creed from Ubisoft. In the role he directed multiple teams across multiple studios responsible for the cinematic aspects of the game.

Andrew is a well respected actor and theatre director, having spent 5 seasons as a member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of the Festival’s Michael Langham Conservatory for Classical Direction. While in Stratford, he produced and hosted the wildly successful Loft Series, and subsequent, Church Series – evenings of live music featuring some of Canada’s brightest musical luminaries, including: Bahamas, Sarah Harmer, Royal Wood, Jill Barber, Justin Rutledge, Noah Reid and Leif Vollebekk.

In 2015, he became the first Anglophone to direct the French language mega-musical for Juste Pour Rire in Montreal. His production of Grease smashed all previous festival box office records and sold over 100,000 tickets, earning le Billet Platinum, as well as the Grand Prix du Festival. 

Shaver was the Artistic Co-Director of the Brooklyn-based international creation ensemble SaBooge Theatre (2000-2007). Deemed “one of North America’s most interesting theatre collectives” by the Irish Times, SaBooge’s highly physical work toured the U.S, Canada and Ireland winning Best Production in the Dublin Fringe and a Talkin’ Broadway Award in NYC,

He was also the Artistic Director of SideMart Theatrical Grocery (2007-2016). Andrew has been nominated for 4 Outstanding Director META Awards, and has won twice – most recently for Greg Kramer’s adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jay Baruchel at the Segal Centre. This production went on to tour the U.S in the fall of 2105 with David Arquette in the lead. Other highlights include the world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s A Woman is a Secret, the World Premiere of Morris Panych’s Gordon, English-language World Premiere of Catherine Anne Toupin’s MOB, the Canadian Premiere of Mark Doherty’s Trad, and the Quebec Premiere of the hit musical Once.

Selected Acting Highlights, Theatre: Controlled Damage (Cherissa Richards, Neptune/NAC); 39 Steps (Eda Holmes, Centaur); What’s in a Name (Jennifer Tarver, Segal); Grease (Andrew Shaver, JPR); Illusions (Andrew Shaver, Crow’s); Noises Off (Jacob Tierney, Segal) 39 Steps (Ravi Jain, Soulpepper); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Rick Miller, Grand Theatre in London), The Seagull (Peter Hinton, Segal Centre); Champs de Mars (Micheline Chevrier, Imago); Cyrano de Bergerac (Donna Feore, Stratford Festival); Macbeth (Des McAnuff, Stratford Festival); Zastrozzi (Jennifer Tarver, Stratford Festival); [boxhead] (Chris Abraham, Crow’s Theatre); Every Day Above Ground (SaBooge Int’l Tour); Speak Easy (SaBooge, Int’l Tour); Fathom (SaBooge, Int’l Tour); Hatched (SaBooge, Int’l Tour); The Tempest (Matthew Tiffin, Segal Centre); Amadeus (Alexandre Marine, Segal Centre

Selected Acting Highlights, T.V/Film: Baby (Jackie Torrens); Sharp Corner (Jason Buxton); Anne with an E (Recurring, CBC/Netflix); Frankie Drake (Guest Star, CBC); Rupture (Guest Star, Radio Canada); Trop (Guest Star, Radio Canada); l’Age Adulte (Recurring, Pixcom); Reign (Recurring), Glass Castle (Destin Daniel Cretton); Arrival (Denis Villeneuve); Dominion (Steven Berstein); Hemlock Grove (Netflix); 300 (Zack Snyder); Whitehouse Down (Roland Emmerich); I’m Not There (Todd Haynes); The Last Kiss (Tony Goldwynn); Les Pieds dans le Vide (Marilou Loup); Cruising Bar 2 (Robert Menard).

He had the great good fortune and pleasure of recording Mordecai Richler’s first novel The Acrobats, as well as Riam Shammaa’s Looks Can Kill, Joshua Knelman’s Firebrand, and Arjun Basu’s The Reeds.

He has delivered keynotes and led workshops at theatre festivals and video game conferences.

He studied at Queen’s University (1995-99) and trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris (1999-01).