Who is behind Styled Vintage?

Styled Vintage (formally The Shakespeare Shoppe), is the brainchild of Australian actor/director, Sally McLean, currently best known for her award-winning web series Shakespeare Republic. Sally has been a graphic and web designer since the internet was a boy and hand coding html was still a thing. She began designing for t-shirts, accessories and homewares back in 2005 and has run a successful side-hustle in the print-on-demand world for over two decades.

Two-time winner of The Beehive Awards’ prestigious Golden Hive Award for web design (founded by Míc Miller) for her site designs for the Gyuto Monks of Tibet and Salmac Productions, alongside fellow alumni such as NORAD’s Official Tracks Santa and official Fleetwood Mac websites, her most recent graphic design accolade was winning “Best Poster” at the 2022 Apulia Web Fest in Italy for her poster design for digital series, Walking Shadows Vol. 2.

Primarily an actor/director, Sally is a graduate of The Actors Institute (London, UK) and has trained with some of the top practitioners working today. Sally’s work behind the camera began with the BBC in London, UK in factual programming before forming her production business Incognita Enterprises under the Honorary Patronage of Academy Award® nominee and multiple BAFTA Award winner, Sir Nigel Hawthorne.

She is Creator/ Director of the multi award-winning web series Shakespeare Republic (winner of the 60th CINE Golden Eagle Award for Best Digital Series, USA), web series Walking Shadows commissioned by HFAS Australia, the award-winning Shakespeare short film Speaking Daggers (Awarded “Highly Commended” Finalist as awarded by the jury, headed by Jury President, Sir Kenneth Branagh at the 2017 SBT Shakespeare Film Festival, UK), commissioned for the inaugural Arts Learning Festival, and award-winning limited series Dark Arcadia, funded by the British Shakespeare Association, Creative Australia, Creative Victoria and the City of Melbourne.

Simple Shakespeare Boxer Shorts by Sally McLean featured in Bustle in 2017
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Bard to the Bone T-shirt by Sally McLean featured in the San Antonio Express-News in 2014
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Shakespeare As You Like It Tote Bag by Sally McLean featured in Bustle in 2016
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As an award-winning actor who has appeared in numerous stage and screen productions in Australia, the UK and USA, Sally’s notable TV acting credits include recurring and lead roles in the BAFTA Award-winning BBC miniseries Bootleg, the ABC/CBBC TV series Worst Year of My Life … Again, Stan series Bad Behaviour and Sony/AMC TV series Preacher, as well as guest roles in Jack Irish, Utopia, Fink, Upper Middle Bogan, Party Tricks, Lowdown, Elephant Princess, Comedy Inc., Full Frontal, Blue Heelers, Tonight Live, The Late Show and more. She has been seen most recently on screen playing “Karen” in the Netflix comedy series Son of a Donkey.

Sally has also been an Advisory Board Member for Melbourne WebFest and the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia, a Jury Member for the AFI/AACTA Awards (Australian Oscars) and ATOM Awards on several occasions as well as the New Jersey Web Fest, NZ Web Fest and NYC Web Fest.

For more information, visit www.sallymclean.com