Although keen on the performing arts as a child, Sheridan did not get the opportunity to begin pursuing them as a career until he was almost 40.
He joined the Royal Navy straight from school & served for just under 8 years before being medically discharged. He had numerous jobs after this including: Night Patrol in H.M. Prison Service, Pool Lifeguard, Taxi Driver, Security Driver, & Football/Cricket Safety Steward. |
Between 2008 & 2010, Sheridan was performing a Mentalism act under the name Nick Knight, but had to take time out following a back injury & a hernia operation.
In 2012 Sheridan helped his cousin Allan, by acting in some amateur productions, which rekindled his interest in performing. The following year, Allan sought advise on marketing his film works & so was advised to build a Production Company, M.D.P., after the completion of Allan's web-series Waterside Season 1. |
Between May 2013 & December 2014 different team members came & went until MDP became dead in the water, but not before a number of amateur short films & a full length feature were shot.
Mass Distortion Production's first outing was the Pilot Episode of the fan made web-series Hitman: Vengeance (2014) & in 2014 the final piece was the full length feature, Remain Humane (2019). The latter has had some additional scenes filmed in 2019, but due to Covid 19 the last couple of scenes are yet to be shot. |
Sheridan enrolled with Derby Academy of Acting in September 2013 for weekly classes & has also attended their workshops on: audition technique & sight reading, actioning the text, & stage combat.
He has also had one to one tuition with the Academy's Director Neale Birch. In 2014, Sheridan became a member of The Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company where he broke his stage cherry; performing the role of Pistol in Henry VI Part II, & then later that year playing Sir Henry Dundas in their production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III. His third stage performance of the year came in December 2015, when Sheridan appeared as Scrooge in Hothouse Theatre's production of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |